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Post by Rallymaster on Feb 11, 2011 4:17:53 GMT -6
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Post by Rallymaster on Jan 21, 2011 17:35:57 GMT -6
I got this E-mail from Tom Daniel. Some fan who saw this "Pie Wagon" in CA. View the Flickr show from the link below--wild man! Dear Tom, OK, I dug up the photos that I shot of the Pie Wagon in Downey; edited, cropped, and smacked 'em into a short slideshow. Here's the link: www.tinyurl.com/Pie-WagonPlay full-screen as suggested. You can pause the show by hitting the space bar on your keyboard. Hit spacebar again to restart show. The left arrow key on your keyboard can be used to go back and replay a slide. I tried to get some "detail" shots. For my interest, yours, and for a friend of mine who is supposedly gonna build a car someday (maybe; you know how that goes). As you can see, the body is in early stages. From what I gather, someone ran across this body. No molds. Looks like a fellow started the car way back when, then circumstances changed and he got called away, leaving the car in this state for decades. The guy I saw there was transporting the car. From a seller to a buyer, I believe. He did not know a lot about it; only a little. I'm afraid that's all I know. The Googie Road Trip I was leading was comprised of guys and gals who were anxious to get with it and move on to Site #19, the old McDonald's restaurant nearby in Downey. So off we went! James Horecka, AIA
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Post by Rallymaster on Dec 17, 2010 8:20:54 GMT -6
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Post by Rallymaster on Nov 23, 2010 8:42:35 GMT -6
Earlier this year, Brandon Flannery and I were able to meet in Atlanta when I was on one of my numerous business junkets. What made the meeting extra-special was the incredible custom-model to which a number of you contributed. For those who don't know, the original image on the home page was created by none other than Dave Marek, who has his own featured section on the Rally--Flat Out Crazy. Apparently, this 1/24 creation has many contributors over the years. To be able to finally meet Brandon and receive this one-of-a-kind gift is amazing. The Show Rod Rally, like the models that inspired it, will always be a special part of my life. It took some work and some money to create and sustain it, and I thank everyone who contributed to this "tribute project" for the recognition of my effort. You can bet this one-off will always be the "prize" in my collection. On a personal note, 2011 begins a year when I have negotiated some "changes" with my employer to reduce my business travel from 95% to around 70%. I see this as (finally!) an opportunity to get back making some models myself after a 7+ year hiatus. Carry on "kids"--Rallymaster Dave See pics below:
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Post by Rallymaster on Nov 23, 2010 7:24:39 GMT -6
In case you're in the neighborhood. Tom Daniel will be setting up "shop," selling some products and shaking hands at the Albuquerque, New Mexico "Supernationals" custom auto show: www.thesupernationals.com/
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Post by Rallymaster on Sept 29, 2010 21:04:32 GMT -6
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Post by Rallymaster on Sept 9, 2010 8:00:54 GMT -6
Yes, I'm afraid that's the case. The builds that some of your did and were displayed by Paul Canney are not on my machine and so they were not restored. Sorry about that.--Dave R. It seems a large part of the Gallery(the latest additions) are missing. I noticed 2 of mine gone. Maybe something to do when Paul took over the gallery and links are different. ?
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Post by Rallymaster on Sept 9, 2010 1:03:47 GMT -6
Sorry guys, but I moved 4 of my six web sites yesterday and this was one of them. Everything should be back to normal now. Let me know if you find anything that's not.
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Post by Rallymaster on Aug 26, 2010 3:33:31 GMT -6
Tom Daniel popped me a message when he found out the original Chuck Miller Red Baron was at the "Museum of American Speed." www.museumofamericanspeed.com/Collections/Vehicles/IMG9878.shtmlHere's what Tom had to say: The museum owner left an e mail a year or so ago, but we never really got to talk about the 'original' - which he bought from Bob Larivee - who had it in his living room at his mansion in Colorado for many years. At least, that is what I was told. For its time, the builder (Chuck Miller) did a fairly decent job, but it does not have any of the neat design details of my original design; and of course, there was no way at THAT time that my 'shrunken' version of the 1:1 Mercedes Benz Aero motor could have been built (now it can!) Actually, I didn't even know the Baron was being built and only saw if after the fact - for the first time - at the Oakland Roadster Show in Frisco in 1971 (I think it was.) TD
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Post by Rallymaster on Aug 23, 2010 6:33:22 GMT -6
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Post by Rallymaster on Mar 7, 2010 14:17:49 GMT -6
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Post by Rallymaster on Feb 25, 2010 19:23:37 GMT -6
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Post by Rallymaster on Dec 31, 2009 6:57:05 GMT -6
Hi John and Welcome. As for the rules, they are at the bottom of the main posting page, but I'll paste them her for your convenience. Have a happy new year--Dave ------------------------------------------- Instructions, Advice and Etiquette
The "COFFIN CORNER" is a threaded discussion group for the thousands of model Show Rod fans who built those wacky cars of the 60s and 70s. Post a message here if you have any comments or questions about Dave's Show Rod Rally, new or reissued show rods, or just talking about how much fun they are! If you're building, buying, or trading, someone here may be able to help.
To post a new message, simply press the "NEW THREAD" button. To read a message, click on that message in the list. You will see the message and the following thread, and then have the choice of reading the remaining messages or replying to the original message.
Please note a few points of etiquette. First, all contributors should use their real full name and their actual e-mail address. Unlike some other discussion groups, you don't have to register a name here, so using your real name is the only way to ensure consistency. All contributions are welcome but please refrain from political or abusive comments. These posts will promptly be removed from the server. In addition, never mock or belittle any questions--people are here to have fun and get some questions answered.
You can contact me directly for advice or comments at: dave@wac77.com
Thanks,
Poul David Rasmussen Rallymaster Franklin, WI
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Post by Rallymaster on Dec 10, 2009 17:28:11 GMT -6
I'm sure this is just around the corner. Probably part of the next stimulus package:
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Post by Rallymaster on Dec 7, 2009 15:28:44 GMT -6
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Post by Rallymaster on Oct 26, 2009 12:24:56 GMT -6
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Post by Rallymaster on Oct 22, 2009 15:48:07 GMT -6
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Post by Rallymaster on Oct 10, 2009 19:58:11 GMT -6
Got this forwarded to me from Tom Daniel. Time to head to Norway?--dave --------------------------- Dear Mr. Daniel. Let me quickly introduce myself: My name is Atle Eriksen, 45 years "young" and an avid model car builder. It started back in 74/75 or so, so as you probably understand, your modeldesign where a great inspiration to me. I dont have count of how many hours I have been flipping thru old Monogram catalogs thru the years. Its true medicine for the heart. I have since 1992 arranged a model contest here in Norway called the Norwegian Challenge. Each year we have a special theme class, and next year, the date is not yet fixed, but it will probably be the 11th of september, our Special theme is "Outrageous Show Rods", since this has never been a theme before anywhere at Scandinavian modelshows, and its fitting nowadays since the rerelease of some of your wildest creations thru Revell/Monogram is rolling. As you probably have figured out, this is the reason I contact you. To arrange and attend modelcontests has been nothing but fun thru the years and the best part is the great friendship one gets at these shows with fellow modelers. I would like to give something back to those persons, so I was wondering if you could help me out with two or three signed photos of you or maybe some of your Show rods. It would be so cool, because in my eyes, you are the name that I first, and automatically, connects to the type of vehicles. If you slip a signed kit (preferably without cellofane) in the pack I would also like to link your web pages up to our upcoming new webpage for the next year or so, and also a link to two forums dedicated to model car kits.It might not be your biggest market up here in Scandinavia, but with limited funds in the club account (More like a wooden box actually), This is what we can offer. ( I must admit that if the response from you is no, as would be understandable and accepted off course, I will probably order a couple of three prints anyway, at my own cost, but you wherent suppose to know that ) I would apprecciate any responce from you as you where one of my fondest memories in model car building. Heres a link to a simple teaser for next years theme. I would be happy to link you up to some pics when the show is over. www.batleman.org/showrods.htmlOh, as a sidenote. My favorite Tom Daniel rods are The Baja Beast, The Paddy Wagon and Rommels Rod. (I plan to build the Paddy Wagon for next years show, although a bit modified) Yours truly Atle Eriksen Primus Motor Norwegian Challenge
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Post by Rallymaster on Sept 27, 2009 6:06:20 GMT -6
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Post by Rallymaster on Aug 6, 2009 12:54:20 GMT -6
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Post by Rallymaster on Aug 2, 2009 7:17:49 GMT -6
Someone has created a 1:1 Black Widow, using the Monogram kit as a "faithful reproduction": www.hollywoodhotrods.com/BlackWidow.htmMy pal Scotty Doyle tells me it's also a feature on TV, but not sure which channel (Speed Channel, American Hot Rod or something?) Anyway, this is what he told me, but please elaborate with more data in this thread if anyone can. This sounds like a cool little segment to see for this crowd: -------------------------------------------------------- I think it might be the Hollywood Hot Rod episode as they are the shop that built the car. If so, it will show again at 3:30 am on 8/7 or 11:00 am on 8/8. Set the DVR. --sd
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Post by Rallymaster on Jun 11, 2009 18:59:13 GMT -6
I have not ever heard of this. I need to visit it the next time I visit my kid when she's at the nearby college (UW-Eau Claire.) That's pretty impressive Dave. Have you had the chance to see the one in Fountain City, Wisconsin? Sounds like a familar collector. I been there twice and still haven't seen it all. One bad thing is your not allowed to take pictures. www.elmersautoandtoymuseum.com/
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Post by Rallymaster on Jun 9, 2009 14:36:10 GMT -6
And you thought YOU were a toy car collector!--d --------------------------------------------------------------------- June 7, 2009 COLLECTING After a Life Selling Toys, He’s Selling His Own
By RICHARD S. CHANG Pittsfield, Mass.
WHEN Donald Kaufman decided that he wanted to sell his personal toy collection, an unparalleled trove of some 7,000 antiques from around the world, the news spread quickly among collectors. And it provoked the sort of market upheaval one might expect if the Getty Trust announced it was getting out of the art business.
“Nobody knew just how many toys he had,” said Jeanne Bertoia, the owner of Bertoia Auctions of Vineland, N.J., which is handling the sale. “People saw what he was buying, but no one had seen his collection.”
Part of the allure comes from Mr. Kaufman’s role as a co-founder of the defunct KB Toys store chain, from which he retired in 1981. He has given no reason for selling the collection he spent 59 years amassing, except for a nod toward destiny. “It’s time for me to sell,” he said.
In mid-March, Bertoia Auctions sold a portion of the collection, more than 1,400 toys, bringing in $4.2 million, well above the $3 million that Bertoia had estimated. (Mr. Kaufman’s estimate was $2 million.) Another auction is scheduled for September, after which Mr. Kaufman will still own more toys than he’ll have sold. Four to five more auctions are planned.
At 78, Mr. Kaufman is a tall man with a gentle grandfatherly manner that does little to reveal his ruthlessness in pursuit of pre-World War II toys. His approach to collecting combines erudition and gamesmanship. He enjoys telling the story of a particularly important sale. He rented a U-Haul trailer, hitched it to his capacious Ford Econoline van and parked the rig in front of the auction house as an act of intimidation against other potential buyers.
Transportation toys are Mr. Kaufman’s primary interest, and most pieces in the collection are cars and trucks. Airplanes are a distant third. The toys’ domain is a four-level windowless annex to the average-size country house here in western Massachusetts where Mr. Kaufman and his wife, Sally, live.
The Kaufmans call it “the museum,” though that makes it sound extravagant or grandiose, which undresses some of its charm. Mr. Kaufman assembled the displays himself. He bought plain white shelves at Home Depot and installed them himself. Entering the Kaufman museum, a visitor found antique toy cars parked bumper to bumper on shelves that ran wall to wall and floor to ceiling. There were taxicabs in small, medium and large. Old trucks bore signs for brands long gone: Richfield Gasoline, Filene’s Sons and Sheffield Farms Sealect. There were ice trucks, water trucks, dump trucks and fire engines. The floor — covered with carpet the color of blue topaz — was occupied by a small fleet of pedal cars.
“There are no duplicates,” Mr. Kaufman said proudly in a voice graveled by age. “Only variations.”
Some of the variations were so slight that it was difficult to see the differences. Along one stretch of wall, two red tow trucks were berthed nose-to-tail, one with round windows and the other with square ones. A line of four cast-iron taxicabs from the early 1920s provided an excellent exercise in observation — the only variations were in the color of the tires (silver and white) and hoods (orange and black). The March auction did little to decrease the jam in the museum, so there was not much room to move around.
Ms. Bertoia said the collection was divided into five categories: pedal cars; American cast-iron toys; tin toys, which are more delicate and mostly from Europe; pressed-steel toys; and light pressed-steel toys, including those from an American toymaker, Kingsbury.
“Usually you’d see between 25 and 30 toys in a good collection,” said Mike Bertoia, Ms. Bertoia’s son, of the Kingsburys. Mr. Kaufman, he said, has more than 150.
It takes a moment to see anything other than the sheer magnitude of the collection. Tighten the focus and intricate details emerge: the mechanical meter in a taxi, a hand-painted mustache on a driver, the brass fixtures of a fire engine’s water pump. The auction catalog showed that most were in very good, excellent, near-mint or pristine condition.
Sitting on a shelf along the staircase between the first and second floors, a white wind-up “Gordon Bennett” racecar made around 1910 by Guntherman of Germany hardly looked a century old. On the underside of the car was a small bellows connected to the rear axle, which Mr. Bertoia said still provided the car with engine noise. Another German toy, the Märklin Fidelitas, a whimsical three-foot-long train of delicate hand-painted clown cars, brought $103,500, the highest sale price at the first auction.
Mr. Kaufman likes to say that he wonders what the toys would say if they could talk. He explained that when he looked at an Arcade Mack high dump truck, he saw more than a toy vehicle. “I see the rubber factory that made the tires,” he said. “I see the metal factory, the press — the original cars.”
Born and raised in Pittsfield, Mr. Kaufman was always interested in antique cars and trucks. The first toy in his collection was an International Harvester Red Baby truck that he bought for $4 in 1950, the year he began working for the family business.
KB stands for Kaufman Brothers. Mr. Kaufman’s father and uncle founded the company in 1922 as a wholesaler. They carried goods as diverse as confections and sundries, sodas, razors, stuffed animals and watches, Mr. Kaufman said. Toys did not come along until after World War II.
In 1958, Kaufman Brothers expanded into retail, became KB Toys in the 1960s, and stopped wholesaling altogether in 1972. Mr. Kaufman does not boast about his role in the business, but he was the first vice president and had a hand in turning KB Toys into one of the biggest toy chains in the world.
Mr. Kaufman attended his first major auction shortly after he retired and found a community that welcomed his growing curiosity about antique toys. “I started talking to other collectors,” he said. “You learn everything from them.”
Mrs. Kaufman told a story about one of her first experiences, when the collection of the closed Perelman Toy Museum in Philadelphia was being sold. The sale was held in the museum, and the buyers — each guaranteeing to spend at least $50,000 — had to race for the pieces they wanted.
In many ways, the Kaufman collection is a diary of their lives together. The annex is a very private place. Mr. Kaufman said fewer than 25 people had been inside.
He said he was not keeping a single toy, not even that first International Harvester Red Baby truck. “These aren’t my toys,” he said a couple of times during the day. “I am just taking care of them for now.”
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Post by Rallymaster on Jun 1, 2009 6:02:14 GMT -6
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Post by Rallymaster on Mar 6, 2009 13:10:58 GMT -6
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Post by Rallymaster on Jan 25, 2009 9:01:27 GMT -6
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Post by Rallymaster on Jan 25, 2009 8:56:11 GMT -6
Spectacular! Please tell us when and where it's going. And will it have its own web site detailing its history and restoration process?
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Post by Rallymaster on Jan 21, 2009 20:04:41 GMT -6
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Post by Rallymaster on Jan 18, 2009 21:56:28 GMT -6
Jim has given me permission to post these images. So we get to see if before the GNRS: tinyurl.com/8btmt5Note photo #12 and dig what's sitting in the seat!
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Post by Rallymaster on Jan 17, 2009 18:48:03 GMT -6
Gentlemen: I have been contacted by a Mr. James Emmi, a pro car builder who was contracted by a Seattle resident to rebuilt the ORIGINAL Tognotti's T in time for the 2009 show. I do not have permission to post the pictures yet, but am seeking that from Mr. Emmi. Here is what he wrote me: ------------------------------------------- Dave, I have a restoration business and was asked to do some finish work on the car. This car is not a reproduction of the Tognotti T, it is the original car. The owner, who is a well-known collector in the Seattle area happened to find out that the car was for sale. It needed a complete restoration. The chrome and detail is as close as possible to when the car was originally constructed. Gene Winfield came up to Seattle to paint the car because he painted it originally. One of the guys who has been working on the car has a model of it and says that it is very close to the original car. He is going to build the model now that he has the original car to look at!
As I said before, it will be at the Oakland Roadster Show next week. When it comes back to Seattle it is going to be finished completely and actually be able to run. When it was first built ('63-'64) it was never operational. The engine has been dyno tested, but has not been run in the chassis. The hand-made chrome-plated exhaust manifolds would discolor, we wanted them to stay perfect for the show. The wheels had to be made because the originals were missing. As I write this, we are going to pick them up and have tires mounted. The car leaves for Oakland Monday morning. After next week, I am sure there will be pictures of the car on the internet. No one has seen the car yet. Jim -------------------------------- More from Jim--d. --------------------------------
Dave, Thanks for posting the info of the King T on your website, I would like to clarify a few things about the restoration process. I did the final detail work to get the car show ready, but there is a group of professionals who also deserve credit for the actual restoration of the car. I am happy to be able to share these pictures with other model building enthusiasts. Thanks, Jim
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