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  1. Events
    America On Wheels Museum in Allentown PA will again host the annual Eddie Sachs Memorial Slot Car Day in memory of the famous Indianapolis 500 driver. The museum will have slot car vendors and an HO drag strip available for museum patrons on this day. ECHORR while be running races on the...
  2. Vintage & Collector's corner
    Here is a HO Marusan Junior Set made in Japan that the museum just got in. It is MIB. It has 2 cars ,a Citroen DS & a Porsche. It also has 6 road signs,decals,transformer, and other accessories. It still has its cardboard inner box protector.
  3. Vintage & Collector's corner
    Here is a HO Marx Corvette. Most people think 1962 was the 1st year of Marx HO cars but it was not. This car was made in 1961. The difference is the brass gear and the Blade guide not a pin guide. These 1961 slot cars with the blade guide are rare. Also early HO 1961 Marx trak had brass rails...
  4. Vintage & Collector's corner
    Here is a Very rare Italian set by Carloni- Scuderia Draghi. The cars are 1/38th scale and the set was made in 1967. The 2 cars in the set are a Fiat and a Alfa Romeo. The cars are unusual in that they are direct drive. They made 4 different cars plus 2 different extremely rare Vacuum body...
  5. Vintage & Collector's corner
    Here is a rather rare 1/24th scale Policar 300 SP set made in 1967. I got the set without the cars but I had the correct cars already. The set never came with a transformer. It is a huge box and not in the greatest shape. But it is a important set to have for the museum. I have not seen one so...
  6. Vintage & Collector's corner
    The 1st Strombecker slot car go karts I think were made in late 1961 and were black & red. The guide on these had a rear pin . The body itself was shorter on the rear than the 1962 model. They also had a gear on either side of the rear axle, hubcaps, different wheels and tires than the later...
  7. Vintage & Collector's corner
    Here is a set I got recently. It is a Troby set from France made in 1966. It is called 1,000 Miles . I believe this was the 1st set they made. It has 2 1/32nd scale Lotus 18s in it. It uses the same controllers as the HO set they made. While not in mint shape the set does not come up very often...
  8. Vintage & Collector's corner
    Here are some updated photos of my Museum here in Houston Texas. I was changing some of the lighting. I wish I could include it all but you get a sense of it at least. There are over 7,000 cars,760 sets,books,catalogs,buildings,figures,etc. The largest collection of pre 1960 sets and cars in the...
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