From the files of our diecast collections, this Saturday Evening Post has some real “red meat” for my fellow Matchbox collectors! This is a topic I’ve been aware of for a while but had slipped through the cracks over the years in all the excitement about Thunderjets. Thanks to a recent comment by a readerContinue reading “Brazilian UNICORNS: The Uber Rare Roly Toys & Inbrima Matchbox Cars”
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She Always Comes Back
Some stories are too strange to die, too stubborn to stay buried. At Drag City, they don’t talk about Zach Zimmerman in the past tense, and they don’t call the ’58 Plymouth Belvedere by its name. They just say one thing, with a kind of resigned fear:.. she always comes back. Track File #008 –Continue reading “She Always Comes Back”
Golden Dawn — The Deep DEEP Dive!
My confession is out of the way; you know I’ve fessed up to being the GM guy who races a Ford at the track. Guilty! I can’t help it, not when I’ve got a T-Jet that looks like THIS… Sometimes I drive her on the street on street wheels – either a set of gray-crackleContinue reading “Golden Dawn — The Deep DEEP Dive!”
Mercury Cougar, Gen I: The Upscale Predator
Its time for Modelo En Bofus #3, a deeper dive into some details and back stories of some of the slot cars and die-casts we grew up loving! Ah, the Mercury imprint of FoMoCo! We lost it in 2010, but we remember! Mercury was born in 1938 as Edsel Ford’s idea of a “bridge brand”Continue reading “Mercury Cougar, Gen I: The Upscale Predator”
Drag City NOIR – Cure for Pain
“I propose a toast to my self control You see it crawling, helpless, on the floor” If you are one of the few readers who managed to get through the density of my first “Dark Lounge” post and its discussion of music to decompress with on hot summer nights, and were rewarded to find myContinue reading “Drag City NOIR – Cure for Pain”