What's your favorite auto make in 1/43 scale?

I'm all over the place from Brass Era to early 70s. I love the orphan cars and prewar custom bodies the most and little interest in 80s and newer. I do have a lot of racers, mostly 50s and 60s.

My collection of 1:43 is mainly in white metal and without knowing it in advance it was only by chance but I think I have a greater interest in Pontiacs, Buick, Chevrolets, Oldsmobiles and Cadillac. I have been influenced by some members here on the forum over the years who love them too and have passion so near of 50% of my collection are GM'S, around 20% are Chryslers, Desoto, Dodge, Plymouth etc. 15% are Ford and 15% are independent models. All are models street between 1935 and 1965. I have no interest for race car formula one etc even if we have had an excellent local race pilot Gilles Villeneuve. However is museum at Berthierville is interesting. 

I too love the Orphan makes, Packard is my favorite, followed by Hudson. The make I have the most of is Cadillac, but I think that is because there are just more of them available. I don't collect anything in racing genre, not my thing-custom and hot rods are very sparse. My main focus these days are the 30s to the 50s, but my collection runs from the early 1900s to current year.

I'm all over the place too. Up to 1930s American, but mostly early English and European makes, with a smattering of early racers in my, near growing daily, 1/43 collection. I love the variety available in the scale, particularly the obscure early European cars.

I started with concentrating somewhat on Rolls Royce and Bentley of all eras, but fewer of these are being made in 1/43. 

Ever since NEO started the resin push into American makes of late 50s through 70s that's been my main interest, especially Buick and Cadillac.

My "favorite" make is Chrysler, followed closely by Buick. But I find the Packards, Hudsons, and Studebakers in my collection so interesting!

@geoff-jowett 

    One of my other "divisions" is the RAMI series of older European (primarily) cars.  I completed these several years ago and didn't mention them.  They tend to be around the 1/43 scale.  Here's the ROCHET SCHNIEIDER of 1895, alongside one of the RAMI catalogs.  These tend to date to the 1970s.

This is a very tough question indeed as there are so many beautiful marques done.  Based on looks alone and taking in 1930s through to late 60s my fave would have to be Pontiac.

@d-m-holcombe what a superb item David. That catalog would be priceless!

@jcarnutz: I agree. Packard is my favorite also. 

That’s a tough question. My favorite cars are those bread and butter cars tha travelled our streets and roads and those parked in our driveways during the ‘50’s and ‘60’s. It is these cars that bring back so many cars that interested me as a kid. An example would be this ‘52 Willys station wagon. I was fascinated by Jeep products. My dad had two, this ‘52 and later a ‘57.

Several years ago I started a spreadsheet of makes of cars in my collection, split by country of origin. So for Ford, as an example, they are split by Ford USA, Ford UK, Ford Germany, and Ford Australia. A quick check shows over 375 makes. 

At one time I tried to find every MG available, but today I only have 99. As you all know, I have a ton of sports and racing cars, so there should be no surprise that Porsche is No. 1 at 290. Ford-USA is next at 202, then Ferrari at 190.

The very first 43's I bought were from Solido's Age D'or collection, a Bugatti Royale and a Duesenberg. The first expensive model was a Western Model Buick Invicta. I started mainly concentrating on 1950's American cars with an occasional European make, then I came across a Lincoln Continental Mark III and I just had to have it Then I came across a cheap Citroen 2cv and I had to get any French make and so on. My discipline went straight out the window.

 I'm currently concentrating on cars from the DeAgostini American collection and Ramblers/AMC. My preferences are die cast, cheap to expensive, white metal then resin. My favorite models are Minichamps' Lincoln Mark II, because I love the car and Goldvarg's 1961 Pontiac Catalina for sentimental reasons. 

@mg-harv I have a spread sheet too and am glad I made it. I also listed the price I paid for each model and the model brand.