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[idare2bdul]

What was Harmon's first name? My memory says the company was sold, to Booth possibly. Was this due to Harmon's death?

[Rick]

Harmons was primarily a Chevy Resto Company and he toyed with slots for a while, alone with R/C's. I seem to remember a divorce maybe in the past. Slots was just a whimsical fling for him. I don't remember of his demise.

Hershman will know more on this being in "da bidness". Harmons made lots of kewl drag bodies and stock car bodies . . .

[Ron Hershman]

GARY Harmon is alive and well with his own business of selling Chevy parts in the Dayton, OH, area these days.

http://www.resto-wor...information.htm

http://www.chevrolet...ationworld.com/
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Back in the mid-'80s, Harmon had a pretty large Chevy retro parts business doing about $8 milion a year in sales. He then opened a hobby shop/raceway in Indiana and had either the second or third King track that Ogilvie ever built.

Sometime between '89 and '91 Harmon got into the mabufacturing side of slot stuff. He either made the molds himself or had Booth make them for him. Booth made the bodies and Harmon packaged and shipped them. Also around this time, Harmon's got real big in slot drag racing.

Harmon went real car racing in '91 or '92 and soon after that, got a divorce and walked away from the business giving it to his ex-wife and son.

As for the molds, I have heard conflicting stories, one was Harmon sold the molds to Booth, the other was Harmon didn't care anymore about slots and left them to Booth.

Booth was sold a few years ago to Scott McLeod (SP) and Scott still has the Harmon drag molds.

[TSR]

So much for those then.