The Diecast Zone · Model Car Club Since 1994
Diecast Collector Forums
Eight forums, every scale, and thirty years of shop talk — new arrivals, restorations, reviews, and the finds you won’t see posted anywhere else, with the full archive back to 2002 restored and searchable. Free to Register.
8Forums
195,000+Topics
1,276,000+Posts
10,000+Members
Notifications
Clear all
Forum 43
5
Posts
3
Users
0
Reactions
113
Views
18/06/2016 12:23 pm
The search for a Stutz Bearcat (pic)
When I was a boy, in a far and distant era. . .
photo no longer available
And I suppose that's when I started. I didn't know scales, but found this:
photo no longer available
Later (several years!) I made a common error in brand names and found:
photo no longer available
Trying as a collector in the revered scale of 1:43, I attempted to redeem my earlier actions with this one:
photo no longer available
And then in desperation I returned to my earlier confusion to utilize a second Mercer:
photo no longer available
So here they are, but not an early, totally open Bearcat in my chosen scale amongst them.
photo no longer available
There's a good looking and great big Franklin Mint piece lurking out there, and I've been tempted by an older 1:48 Renwal kit, but what I really want is that Highway Pioneer in 1:43. Is there one out there that I have missed?
PS- The beautiful BRK 200 Stutz is a whole different class.
18/06/2016 4:45 pm
Yes, there is!
The very early, and still unsurpassed Raymac kit that was done entirely in brass. And there's also a kit of the Stutz Blackhawk that was raced at Le Mans.
photo no longer available
photo no longer available
photo no longer available
18/06/2016 5:48 pm
Many thanks, Wayne. I have found a little information, including a picture, and it looks verrrrry interesting. I will be hunting!
(later) Talk about a memory loss! Doing a little more research, I found that in November of 2008 right here on the forum, Wayne and I, along with others, talked about this same topic, centering on the Raymac kit and including some great pictures of Wayne's masterful building of that kit. Thanks, Wayne, for all that information back then that I obviously was never successful in using.
19/06/2016 2:13 am
I had one of the Raymacs, but decided it was above my skills.
Wayne - who made the LM Stutz?
19/06/2016 5:34 am
I believe the LM Stutz was made by MCM of France