Originally Posted by Jim B.

My grandmother gave me my first toy car as a little boy.

Even back in 1953, just about every photo of me in a family album portrays me withy some type of toy car in my hand.

My future as a "car guy" was sealed for life!

Even today I still have a large collection. It includes about 100 1/25" scale models, "Promo" (Promotional) autos pre-painted at the factories seen sometimes at auto dealers to demonstrate what the colors actually looked like, that now and then would give them away to new car buyers. By the mid 1970s the practice had pretty much ceased, save for a few Corvettes and such..


I also have about a hundred little 1/43" Paul's Auto Art Mercedes Benz models, too, every single different w123,w124, R107, pagoda roof SL and w126 that I could get, along with a Ponton, Heckflosse, a couple of buses and trucks, and a lovely diorama with Chancellor Helmut Kohl, standing by his official w126 silver 560SEL. Many of these were acquired on ebay Germany over the last 15 years, one at a time.