The Jalopy Journal
Probably because they know they're about to get screwed by fast-talking auctioneers who accept non-existent bids in all the noise and frenzy....
The unwritten rule of collecting is that you will rarely find the stuff you are looking for, but you will invariably find stuff you don't collect,...
In the late 1980s Bob's Big Boy restaurants sold 4" action figures of the Big Boy at the check-out registers. There were four varieties of the...
Parting out a wrecked 1956 Ford Parklane, I was removing the dash pad and T&C radio, when five $1 bills tumbled out, dusty as hell. It was...
This is my 1955 Ford Dealer's Color Demonstrator. These were available for purchase by dealers to hang on their showroom walls. The pallet cost...
[ATTACH] Love your banks. When I was a kid, a Shell station gave me and my brother each a yellow Shell emblem plastic coin bank. Here is my...
[ATTACH] This is a 9" plastic Texaco coin bank. When a coin is dropped in, a bell goes off, sounds just like the actual pumps did with each...
That size - approximately 1/24 - 1/25 scale - was created by Henry Ford and an attorney named Wes Gallogly, in 1945. Close friends, they were...
Unfortunately, this car is not a Chrysler Thunderbolt. It's a generic design, typical of a lot of die-cast toy manufacturers in the postwar era....
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