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Offline David

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Re: I just bought the Siesta Motel!
« Reply #10 on: October 16, 2006, 07:00:28 am »
Ya gotta love eBay!

   Here ya go Jeff!      $9.00  on eBay!

Matchbox first edition Ford Truck #6.

Take off the rear cap and add some white paint in the right places and you have Jacks "reunion" Truck!   ;)

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Re: I just bought the Siesta Motel!
« Reply #11 on: October 16, 2006, 09:05:21 am »
Quote from: meryl on October 15, 2006, 10:44:11 pm
That's how it starts, Jeff.  Next year you'll have the whole friggin' town of Riverton assembled in your bedroom!  ;D

What's HO stand for?  ???

Supposedly "HO" stands for "half-O," being half the size of O-gauge/O-scale model trains, "O-gauge" being the size of Lionel model trains.
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Re: I just bought the Siesta Motel!
« Reply #12 on: October 16, 2006, 09:07:25 am »
Quote from: DavidinHartford on October 16, 2006, 07:00:28 am
Ya gotta love eBay!

   Here ya go Jeff!      $9.00  on eBay!

Matchbox first edition Ford Truck #6.

Take off the rear cap and add some white paint in the right places and you have Jacks "reunion" Truck!   ;)



Thanks, David! I think I had an earlier version of that Matchbox pickup, back in the days when I was an earlier version of me.

Why the heck did I let my mother give away my Matchboxes?  :laugh:
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Re: I just bought the Siesta Motel!
« Reply #13 on: October 16, 2006, 09:24:13 pm »
Looking forward to pictures of the completed project.   ;)
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Re: I just bought the Siesta Motel!
« Reply #14 on: October 17, 2006, 11:30:52 am »
Of course, I could also do the story version. In the story, in 1967 Jack hasn't yet started to come into any of his father-in-law's money. When he shows up at Ennis's apartment, he's wearing the same old Resistol and driving the same old pickup as in 1964.

So maybe I could look for some 1940s style pickup--in green, I think the story says the color is.

Guess I'll have to start looking for a laundromat building with a second floor to it.  :D
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Re: I just bought the Siesta Motel!
« Reply #15 on: October 17, 2006, 12:19:19 pm »
Quote from: Jeff Wrangler on October 17, 2006, 11:30:52 am
Of course, I could also do the story version. In the story, in 1967 Jack hasn't yet started to come into any of his father-in-law's money. When he shows up at Ennis's apartment, he's wearing the same old Resistol and driving the same old pickup as in 1964.

So maybe I could look for some 1940s style pickup--in green, I think the story says the color is.

Guess I'll have to start looking for a laundromat building with a second floor to it.  :D
The black pickup was a GMC, pretty much the same thru 1948-1953, Chevrolets very nearly identical.
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Re: I just bought the Siesta Motel!
« Reply #16 on: October 17, 2006, 01:21:49 pm »
Quote from: jpwagoneer1964 on October 17, 2006, 12:19:19 pm
The black pickup was a GMC, pretty much the same thru 1948-1953, Chevrolets very nearly identical.

Hey, thanks, Mark! Much obliged!  :D
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Re: I just bought the Siesta Motel!
« Reply #17 on: October 17, 2006, 05:55:17 pm »
Jeff here is a link to a Ho 1950 chevy pickup

http://www.cchobbies.com/hoscale/vechicles/asscembush.htm
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Re: I just bought the Siesta Motel!
« Reply #18 on: October 17, 2006, 06:21:59 pm »
Just since we're talking dioramas, I hope no one minds if I post this here for old times' sake:



http://destinationdaniel.smugmug.com/gallery/1213678/1/56764720
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Re: I just bought the Siesta Motel!
« Reply #19 on: October 17, 2006, 06:35:39 pm »
Quote from: jpwagoneer1964 on October 17, 2006, 05:55:17 pm
Jeff here is a link to a Ho 1950 chevy pickup

http://www.cchobbies.com/hoscale/vechicles/asscembush.htm

Hey, Mark,

Wow! That's great! Thanks!

I'd have to beat it up a little more to be Jack's truck, though.  :D
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