December 1, 2020
#406
Gentle reader,
As we all know, this year has been quite stressful to most of us and even deadly to far too many people around the world.
Yet, I can't believe it is December already! I am not ready for Christmas and Thanksgiving was just the two of us.
Here is a link to a previous article we wrote about in this category:
The Robb Collections: We Decided to Get Out ALL of Our Play & Race Diecast Cars. We Have a Lot of Them!
That was about all of the PLAY and RACE diecast cars, trucks and other things we have, a total of 915!
This photo and all the follow with the LARGER cars mixed in with the smaller cars are the way they WERE.
I put all the racing 1:64th cars starting on the left end of the shelf and the stock (non-racing) ones starting on the right.
They are arranged alphabetically by (real) car manufacturer names, Acura, BMW, Chaparral, etc. And by model year of the cars. This pattern continued with the new arrangement.
Most of the Gulf Racing cars were grouped together here. Aside from the Fiat on the end, the REAL 1:64th scale cars are the smaller ones. I like 1960's/1970's NASCAR, but those are the only two I have collected so far.
We both really like these 1:32nd (nominally) scale cars we find in grocery, drug and other stores. Their detail is excellent and the prices amazing.
I have to fight my OCD when cars get out of place as some are here. I love wagons and drive one: a 2005 Volvo V50 T5 M66. I especially love TWO-door wagons such as the Nomads and Chevelle 300 models above.
More wagons here. The only Dodge Magnum wagon I have is a JADA and it is larger than most of the cars.
The photo above is the LAST of the old setup. Nancy and I each culled ones from the PLAY and RACE cars we wanted for our collections. Which is why I had to do what you are about to see below.
Starting again with racing cars. Acura NSX road racer on bottom left, to Cadillac CTS road racer on top. The dark blue Datsun 240Z, third from left, bottom row has no numbers on it. More on that later.
Seven columns fit fine on the (1x12) twelve inch wide pine boards I used to construct this shelf. I deliberately made this top shelf to house diecast. It even fits 1:18th scale cars.
I made a clear cover out of 1/4" thick Lexan to try and keep the cars dust free and away from grandchildren.
The white van is marked "KREMER RACING PORSCHE" and has the Porsche crest. It's a Ford Transit van and was made in ENGLAND. That is a real racing team, so it is in with the Porsche race cars. Three Volvo wagon racers complete the racing cars.
First full row of street cars begins with an Alpine A110 and ends with an Audi RS6 wagon (they call them Avant). Yes, that 1964 Chevelle DOES have numbers on it, but it is a street car to me as I have other supercharged engines in the street set.
Bottom left is a Racing Champions 1996 Camaro Z28 of which we had a real one. The hood is not correct though. See the BLUE car with a number on the hood? That is a true 1:64th scale Datsun (Nissan in Japan) Skyline GTR. The printing on the bottom is so tiny I cannot tell who made it. Once I saw it, I panicked and then remembered the numberless Datsun 240Z and simply swapped the. Whew!
1969 Ford Mustang begins this section. And no, that 2006 Ford GT is NOT a race car. It wears the "Heritage Livery" of Gulf Racing and a number of real ones have it.
Open space is for a GMC Typhoon which Nancy has ordered for me to sit by the black Syclone. The wagon at the bottom is a Ford Police car which Nancy also bought for me.
Thick with Porsches here. We had a 1987 924S which is a two-year only model comprised of a 924 body with a 944 engine. Those two years the humble 924S was quicker and faster than the same year 944 due to being more slippery and lighter than the fat fendered 944 cars. The last car on the shelf (top right) is the SOLE non-race 1:64th scale Volvo in the collection. It's basically a two-door version of the V50 and was made to honor the 1800ES of the late sixties and early 1970's.
Here is a shot of the 217 1:64th scale cars covered with the Lexan. I realized that a 1x3 board was the perfect size to hold the 1:32nd (nominally) cars. I say "nominally" because the maker, like Hot Wheels, creates them to a certain square centimeters (or inches).
The Alfa Romeo 4C on the left end of the shelf is a TINY car in real life compared to the GT Aston Martin behind it.
We had a 2000 Audi TT quattro in denim blue (inside and out) and next it a model like it.
From these angles you can get a better idea of what cars, in each scale, we have, as well as seeing the Lexan cover.
That red and white car is a Toyota road racer, I don't know what model street car it is based upon. It is the last of MANY film related cars my late friend Colonel Bill Arps had collected in addition to over 4000 film cameras and countless lenses and other camera related things.
The 1:32nd red Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution is dressed as a rally car, but is not.
The blue Subaru above, however IS a model of a WRC rally race car. Lastly in that scale is a VW Type 2 crew-cab pickup truck.
These last two photos I loaded full sized (1000 pixels at the narrow end) to show you a couple long looks at the cars.
This will be the LAST room I fix up since SO much will have to be moved out. I have changed the wall decorations many times which resulted in lots of holes to fill.
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Thanks again for reading our humble blog!
Scott & Nancy
December 1, 2020
#406
BONUS: Nancy had suggested I make a grid with the information on all 217 cars. I'd like to, but that would be a LOT of work.
However, I WILL list all the cars in each category by brand.
RACE CARS: 1 Alfa Romeo, 1 Acura, 1 AMC, 2 BMW, 2 Cadillac, 1 Chaparral, 5 Chevrolets, 1 Cunningham, 3 Datsun, 3 Dodge, 1 Ferrari, 2 Fiat, 18 Ford (including 3 Shelby), 2 Honda, 3 Jaguar, 1 Land Rover, 1 Megane, 2 Mazda, 1 Mercedes Benz, 1 Oldsmobile, 2 Panoz, 1 Ford (van), 5 Porsche, 2 Riley, 1 Toyota, 1 Triumph, 7 Volkswagen and 3 Volvo.
STREET CARS: 1 Acura, 1 Alfa Romeo (actually it is a Lancia!), 1 ALpine, 1 Aston Martin, 6 Audi, 1 Bentley, 2 BMW, 1 Cadillac, 26 Chevrolet, 1 Chrysler, 2 Datsun, 14 Dodge (one police), 4 Ferrari, 19 Ford (one police), 1 GMC (2nd on the way), 1 Kia, 7 Lotus (Loti?), 1 Mazda, 1 Mercedes Benz, 1 Mini, 1 Oldsmobile, 4 Pontiac, 3 Plymouth, 16 Porsche, 1 Scion, 1 Shelby, 1 Subaru, 1 Suzuki, 2 Tesla, 1 Toyota, 18 Volkswagen and 1 Volvo.
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