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16/09/2021 10:08 pm Â
@randall-olson - I just received your Independents in Miniature book (2012) from Blurb! Another excellent book! Thanks for writing it and assembling all those photos! (A funny side story - I logged into blurb and saw that I had already ordered the book 9 years ago! It is nowhere on my modal car book shelf, so I must have loaned it out! Whoever you are - you can keep it now! 😉 )
I understand why you had the six major chapters on individual manufacturers, but I was expecting Stutz to be there as well. It only got a 1-page coverage in the 'others' chapter. I had not really thought about it before, but I had assumed Stutz (1911-1938) would have many more 1/43 models. Maybe they were just not around for that long? This is not a complaint about Randall's book at all but just my random musings... And I am biased by living just a few miles from their Indianapolis factory!
There have been a few 1/43 Stutz' posted here -
- Raymac and Danbury Mint Bearcats - https://diecast.org/community/1_43/question-is-anyone-familiar-with-raymac-model-co/#post-26985
- Matchbox and Danbury Mint Bearcat - https://diecast.org/community/1_43/blue-monday-31-stuttgart-bearcat/#post-26059
- Danbury Mint Bearcat - https://diecast.org/community/1_43/where-are-those-antique-cars-in-143/#post-31862
- (see a theme yet? 🤣 )
- Yatming 1924 Stutz fire engine - https://diecast.org/community/1_43/pics-1924-stutz-model-c-fire-engine/#post-1628
- Brooklin 1933 Stutz DV-32 Victoria - https://diecast.org/community/1_43/brooklin-146-1933-stutz-dv-32-victoria-convertible/#post-1930
I am not listing the 1970's reincarnation!
Then there are the NEO 1933 SV-16 Sedan and the 1933 DV-22 Monte Carlo Sedan, the MATRIX 1932 DV-32 Super Bearcat, and the beautiful ESVAL 1928 Blackhawk. Have these been posted here before? Maybe on the old forum...
Wrapping it up, I do have the Yesteryears from back when variation hunting was all the rage! The blue one is a Y-8 1914 4E Roadster (photo: hobbyDB) and the others are the Y-14 1931 Bearcats.
Thanks for reading... what are your thoughts?
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16/09/2021 10:26 pm Â
Karl- May I join your club. First, I also have a well-read and oft-used copy of Randall's INDEPENDENTS, as well as the other three. Second, I have several Stutz examples around here, but the one that comes to mind first of all is this one:
 And if you don't remember the old Revell HIGHWAY PIONEERS kits, here's the underside of the above model:
Good memories.
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(later) I just went through Karl's citations above, and I see I'm in several of them, most often with my Revell Stutz. Sorry, gang, old age brings a failing memory . . .
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16/09/2021 11:24 pm Â
Karl, I have this very old diecast 1919 Stutz, which I think is a Tootsietoy.Â
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17/09/2021 9:37 am Â
Thanks, @d-m-holcombe and @mikedetorrice - two great old Stutz' - one metal and one plastic!
http://www.tootsietoys.info does not show the Stutz, so I am curious to find out more about it!
EDIT:Â The Stutz is 'new', part of the Tootsietoy Classic Series from 1960-65!
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17/09/2021 2:43 pm Â
Here are the Brooklin, Esval, and Yatming models.I also have a Fadini model of Frank Lockhart's 1928 Blackhawk Special (no photo).
Did you say you did or did not want the Premium X '71 Stutz? 
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17/09/2021 3:54 pm Â
How could I forget that Fadini Black Hawk? We've even talked about it before!
I am rethinking the Elvis car though!
(photo: hobbyDB)
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17/09/2021 6:08 pm Â
IMS Museum, 2017...
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17/09/2021 11:30 pm Â
@d-m-holcombe and Karl...so you are the guys who bought my book! Thanks! Its funny but for some reason, for many years I think Stutz was under-represented in 1:43. Glad to see that Brooklin and Matrix, isn't their version splendid, helped to change that a little. I think the Stutz Bearcat was modeled during the early days in a few scales. Perhaps it was the name or the distinctive round windscreen in front of the driver but this early performance car seemed to be referenced often in 1950's and '60's sitcoms along with the Charleston, fur coats, sis-boom-ba, and other dated symbols when 50 year old-something characters would recall their youthful days.
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