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Three pieces of Danish metal, all 1:43 related....

Karl Schnelle · 2023-05-21T13:12:54Z

Visiting old friends in Denmark is nice but... I also saw an old toy car dealer and a Tekno 'historian', a very dangerous thing for me. The dealer, Jacob, has amazing things, many from Denmark, from the 1940s-1970s (pre-Hot Wheels basically). From him, I bought 2 printing plates. These were used to print ads for new Tekno releases in the Danish newspapers. From Peter's Tekno history website, I found the actual ads (Politiken, 1966 and 1964) that that were printed from my plates!!! VW 1500 notchback: Scania-Vabis 75: It's interesting that these plates were the 'artwork' only and the text could be filled in later. Finally, Peter found bins of extra parts from when the factory closed up - he gave me one the the Porsche 911S raw castings from 1970-2! Very cool to compare it to the actual model car. Peter also has a photo to show how many parts went into these diecast Teknos - they were at the height of the design and manufacturing technology then! Check out how the sprue is attached to the rear window! Made to be easily knocked out...