2021 What vintage cars/stuff have you bought

You're probably wondering why I bought this... me too!

Found on ebay Italy, it looked like a 1/32 version of the Cox Cheetaracha, so for €15 or so, took the plunge. It's a real Cox Cheetah body, mounted very low on what I think is a modified Polistil/Policar chassis, so does really give the effect of a Cheetaracha in the smaller scale. Still to be determined what I'm going to do with it...

Don

Here's mine, the metallic green version, but with plenty of added decals!

Don

These weren't actually purchases this year, but over the last few weeks, I finally decided to assemble some of the many hundreds of motor parts I've accumulated over the last 20 years or so. I've assembled a few over the years - and a lot of these are rewinds, factory or home-brewed - but this time I put together about 20, mostly 16Ds, and a few 26Ds... and one lonely 36D!

Things don't always match up the way you think they will, so it takes awhile... All in bags now, waiting for the Perfect Application... if you need a bare shot of any specific motor, let me know. On one, I wrote "Hot" - not that it's an especially fast motor, but it runs kind of hot - not to be used for endurance races of more than 5 minutes!

Don

I hear you Steve... that's actually mostly what I first looked for at the beginning (and still mostly now, to tell the truth...), but have realized over the years that I probably have more use for the standard motors, or mild rewinds, on almost all the tracks we run on here. But you're a lucky man to have found rewinds at the flea markets - almost none of that here. Except once, kind of, back in the late 1990s, I think, at a very local flea market in our not very rich neighborhood, one of the guys was selling a bunch of wing type slot car stuff from the 70s or 80s, including strap motors and a Barry Magee fiberboard chassis! Was asking about 800 francs ($120 or so), but he finally let me have it for half that, since I think he realized he wasn't going to find anybody else remotely interested in that kind of slot car stuff!

Of course, with the inauguration of the Green Monster last September, we're all having to rethink our approach...

Don

For instance, here's the Strombecker Lotus 30 and Eldon Chaparral 2C...

Don

Yep, Motorific cars, and their rivals, are in a class by themselves - I wouldn't really call them slot cars, since not remotely controlled and with batteries, but they did have a slot track they could run in. Pretty neat models in general.

Here's my latest arrivals, forwarded by a buddy in the States, with some of the highlights. Don't usually go for MIB stuff, but a fairly large lot of the AMT Ford "Daytona Stocker" came out recently, and I got this one for a very reasonable price. Other than that, the usual mix of odd parts, odd cars and odd chassis... and what I thought were two Ungar Specials, since all I had were the early Eldons, but one of these also has an Eldon sticker on it... Also, at least my third Strombecker 007...

Don