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30/12/2019 8:27 am
PICS - What does one do when so few American 1920's cars and trucks in 1:43?
Challenge: I had an early 1930's Packard city scene display. While I could get plenty o' Packards and even a Model A Ford, there wasn't much else available to add colour and context that wasn't out right toy-like and implausible. I had a marvellous Heco 1928 Delhaye that was beautiful and fit in (hard to tell a 1928 Delhaye from a Buick or Nash) but it was so fragile that I dare not remove it from its plinth.
The solution:
1. A Norev 1930 Lancia sedan. This little diecast was 25 bucks, the dark blue was a good colour for the era and it was impossible to distinguish from the many American sedans from the day.photo no longer available
2. A Phanomen Granit from Premium Classixx. Looks like an armoured car, remove the European tags, stick a young Burt Lancaster behind the wheel (Google it) and its ready to go.photo no longer available
3. 1928 Ford Model AA. This Motorkits/Minimarque is a beautiful piece with a pedigree and it looks authentic.photo no longer available
What do you think?
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30/12/2019 10:33 am
This Rio 1926 Fiat 519 could pass for a few 1920's cars as well.
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Rio also made a '28 Lincoln, then there's Esval's recent Cadillacs and Pierce Arrows.
30/12/2019 11:47 am
Could it have been this 1929 Delage Randall?
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Topic starter
30/12/2019 12:06 pm
Harv, exactly! Gorgeous and one of the most fragile replicas I ever owned
The wheels and exhaust pipe would self-destruct if you so much as looked at them. The other model that has been a headache is a Minimarque '33 Packard phaeton with the p/e wheels. It is spectacularly beautiful but the glue is beginning to age and the wheels in particular seem suscceptible to flying off into the weeds without provocation.
30/12/2019 1:05 pm
and an earlier Fiat... 1921
Rio Fiat Super from 1921:
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with a 1926 Isotta Fraschini in the back...
30/12/2019 1:34 pm
American cars of the 1920's are, with the exception of Fords, practically non-existent in our scale. I saw this topic and have been looking, knowing I would find virtually nothing. BTW, the Lancia is a beauty, but the windshield's reverse slant just doesn't look American of that era to me. Here's one I found, in pewter, that might be of interest.
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I think it's a good looking model, but I tried to take another in the series apart for painting and made a mess. Perhaps in black and white photography?
In short, I have more US cars from the teens than the twenties. It's a 1:43 wasteland. Okay, I forgot the Esval 1920 PIERCE ARROW 32 7-SEAT LIMOUSINE GREEN 1/43. That paucity changes with the decade of the 1930's, though the early years are not covered that well.
30/12/2019 2:10 pm
I found one! (pic)
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Well, that's one anyhow. Any more?
30/12/2019 2:37 pm
Norev has a 1929 Renault Reinastella. Esval produced several 1929 Cord's.
30/12/2019 2:51 pm
Eligor's 1930 Talbot Pacific looks more like 1920s in my eyes - see link below...
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Ralf Buyer
Wiesbaden, Germany
30/12/2019 4:11 pm
Didn't Franklin Mint call that a 1927 model?
30/12/2019 5:00 pm
Eligor did some pretty nice 1932 Fords, both cars and trucks. They were also very colorful. Just checked eBay and there were almost 100 of them listed!
30/12/2019 5:32 pm
Right! Please forgive my sloppiness. I have corrected it.
Topic starter
31/12/2019 7:40 am
Some reasonable suggestions there, Guys. Glad that Esval stepped up to
The plate with their Pierce. Maybe a few others will follow suit. Minichamps' Model A is a cracking replica. Some of the others such as the Eligor Ford and Ertl Chevrolets are close with some work to improve grille and headlight appearance to change the chrome to something more realistic.
John Roberts used the original Volvo as the basis for his Hudsons and Jerry Rettig never found this a problem. He just made his own.