The biggest years

My collection is all over, from 30's hot rods up to modern cars. My main focus is muscle/pony cars, then 50's models.😊

My collection is mostly American 1950s and was hoping for more from the 1960s (non-muscle) but we all know what happened to the Mints before that happened.  I mostly display by auto brands with the largest single group being T-Birds followed by Cadillacs and Lincolns.  Lots of Chevies as well that I display grouped together. 

@abaucom About an hour after stating in my reply that I had pretty much all of the models that I wanted I saw one on eBay that I didn’t realize I wanted. I think I need more therapy!

…or not. I have always loved Nomads, don’t have one in my collection, is new in box, very reasonably priced, and will look amazing with my red ‘57 Sport Coupe…so I bought it.

My collection consists of a number of 1940s, 1950s, 60, and 70s cars mixed with about 10 1930s.  They are in 1/64, 1/43, 1/24 and maybe 10 1/18th.  Not counting matchbox collections.  But majority are 1950s.

I'll just stand over here, by the punch bowl, with my early to mid 20th Century 1:43 British and European models.   

@kevins I also thought I was pretty much done and had not bought anything new for years.  However, I did pick up a few additional DM models last year and now I am done with collecting any of the older DM or FM models.  Perhaps in the future there will be some new 1:24 scale resin models, quality resin models I don't already have.

Many years ago I did add two DM Nomads to my collection, both my good friend and diecast master in Canada modified for me.  Many of you would know his name, but I don't name names because he modified a number of my models just out of friendship. One was the DM coral 1955 Nomad that was lowered because I thought the ride height was too tall and the stance modification made a big difference.  The second is really special to me not only because it was modified by my friend but because the changes made a world of difference to the model.  That model is the DM blue Corvette Nomad that was issued as a custom.  A few of the modifications he made to my model made it look more like the original period dream car.  Wire headlight covers, wide whitewall tires & stock hubcaps, etc.  Its beautiful but sorry you are just going to have to envision.  I have not posted pictures on the Net for a decade since I stopped using a photo sharing site.  Perhaps when I have more time I will look into how to post jpeg pictures from my personal files.

May I ask what 'DM' and 'FM' signify?  I assume they are model makers.

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I'll just stand over here, by the punch bowl, with my early to mid 20th Century 1:43 British and European models.   

Lol, but I do have a number of smaller scale British and European model automobiles and I think they look great, too !  

@gdh I believe that Mr. Perrone should elaborate with more detail, but the easy answer is that F.M. refers to Franklin Mint and D.M. To Danbury Mint, two major players in the collectibles industry.

@kevins   You know, if I had had my brain turned on I might have figured that out, by now.  Thanks for the tip.