Penny – The Second Series
[Article 12.5.2009]
By: Maarten Tys
The first Penny series (Politoys’ small-scale modelcars series) included a series of ’60 F1′s, a series of nicely detailed road cars on rubber tires and some Alfa Romeo vans and Lancia Esadelta trucks, all are made in metal and in scale 1/66. That series ran from 1965 until at least 1971 (in ’70 and ’71 only a few more versions of the Alfa van were released), and was numbered 0/1 to 0/205. An incomplete but nevertheless very interesting list of these can be found in Dr. Force’s and Paolo Rampini’s books.
In 1972 and 1973, a second series of cars was produced, numbered Y10 to Y121 (or J10 to J121)
Welcome to 164scale.com……
Welcome to 164scale.com
To the launch of the first BLOG solely dedicated to 1/64 scale approximate collecting nationally and around the world. Topics to include manufacturers, castings, new and vintage pieces, collecting, customs and dioramas, S-scale train information, farm details, trucks and the occasional real world reference mixed in.
JL Rebel Rods Site Joins 164scale.com
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Our latest addition is the inclusion of the best information source of Johnny Lightning Rebel Rod Details on the net. NovaSS has joined our growing list of contributors and will be working with us to keep the Rebel Rod information current and a continued reference for collectors new and old.
The REAL Story Behind the #1 1962 Corvette
From a Series Entitled: ” The Back Story” by Ward Wilson
[Article 1 - 10.11.2009]
Sometime the best hiding place is in plain sight. Many of us have examples of this right in our own collections. Cars painted up in a racing livery that we just assumed were the whimsical afterthought of a toy company designer.
Talk Back – WalMart Toy Department Changes
Talk Back – Editorial
Wal-Mart Toy Department Changes
A few weeks back, Wal-Mart made an announcement stating after a number of years stocking the toy department and utilizing it as a loss leader (meaning selling at less than profitable margins to draw in customers), they would be shrinking their toy stock to only a few aisles in each store.
Over the past few weeks, I have visited a number of Wal-Mart’s – living in Minneapolis they are hard to find as Target is the alpha retailer. BUT we do have a few superstores and standard venues. My experience has been that the Superstores, while appearing to reduce the inventory are still stocking fairly close to normal levels. In other words, there has been little change in my area Super stores. The standard Wal-Mart’s are another story. All three of the smaller venues visited have reduced their departments to no more than three aisles. While they were all identical and were all long aisles with product on both sides, store stock has been dramatically reduced. In particular, die cast.
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