[Closed] PICs - From My Collection - Monday

Great photos, again! Are those all really 1961? Different enough to not confuse them. 🙂

Nice grouping, John.

John. What a great choice of subjects for a group picture.

Not my personal favorites from back then but one look and you KNEW exactly what you were seeing. Not like the cars of today. AWESOME PICS as usual and a nice study in the differences from the same parent company

A great collection of historical styling. Nice variety.

John, you went to the park today! Thanks for the amazing grouping of my favourite cars from the early '60's. That white metal Belvedere really fits in with the resin NEO's. This is a fantastic trio, expertly captured!

PIX - Long Story - Where my love for '60's Mopars comes from...Nirvana!

One of my best childhood memories was discovering a hobby shop a dozen blocks away from where I lived. The little store in a strip mall, long since bulldozed and replaced by expensive condos, was disposing of a supply of HO scale road racing equipment and train sets.

For 25 cents they had boxed sets of hay bales, fencing, first aid stations, pit row buildings and bleachers. For $3 they had a few Revell building models including the Herald Weekly Newspaper and the Summer Stock Theatre. I think for around $15 I cleaned them out of everything they had.

I quickly built up the Herald and the theatre, placed them on the outskirts of my Aurora Model Motoring race set and proceeded to populate the set itself with the rest of the bounty from my shopping spree.

The Revell kits came in colourful boxes with crisp photos of the buildings. It was in these photos that I discovered that Revell also had issued a number of different 1961 Chrysler models, Chryslers, Imperials, Valiants, Dodges and even Plymouths in a multitude of colours and body styles. How cool , I mean "mint" was that!!??

Unfortunately these cars, like the buildings, had been long discontinued and as this was before the days of eBay, quite unobtainable. Still, the memory of these model Mopars lingered on and as they have been gradually introduced in 1:43, I have been collecting them.

Here are a couple of photos of the Summer Stock theatre, note the cars in the photos and some of the actual models themselves:

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I had that Mopar set as well but no HO trains

They were nicely done back in the day. I am amazed at what is put out in 1/87 scale these days. Thanks for the memories.

I also had that set. I even remember, I was in first grade at a hardware store in Royal Oak Mi.

For some reason, much to my moms surprise, I really wanted them. She pointed out, these models were nowhere near the detail of the model cars or promos that I so loved.
Looking back, I am thinking because it was pre-Hot Wheels and these were the first "new" as in current model year, American cars in that scale.
Match Box, if my memory is correct, made a 58 Cadillac and a 59 Ford station wagon but nothing newer in the American car lines.

Randall, thanks for sharing your memories. I was never aware of these models but I sure would be interested in finding a set as my dad bought a 1961 Dodge Polara four door hardtop in 1961. I loved the style of the car but thought it was about the tinniest thing I had ever seen. Tinny maybe but with it's 383 engine it was certainly the fastest car my dad ever owned.

Great story Randall. I wasn't aware of these selections, but they look cool.

I too cleaned out an old hobby shop before it was dozed for an Interstate.

In my case it was old Dinkies that I mined.

I also remember those Revells but never owned any, having succumbed to metal Matchboxes.

Which one was that, Harv?