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Slot car print advertising
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, Jan 27 2014 03:44 AM
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Posted 21 September 2015 - 09:53 PM
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Posted 22 September 2015 - 05:24 PM
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Posted 22 September 2015 - 05:49 PM
Greg,
When you post these ads would you kindly note the date of the ad (if you have it); this way we can see the development of the cars.
Thanks,
When you post these ads would you kindly note the date of the ad (if you have it); this way we can see the development of the cars.
Thanks,
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Posted 22 September 2015 - 05:58 PM
Bill,
Almost all of these ads are snagged from Facebook, which means I have no idea of where or when they were published. Sorry...
Almost all of these ads are snagged from Facebook, which means I have no idea of where or when they were published. Sorry...
Gregory Wells
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Posted 22 September 2015 - 06:16 PM
When you post these ads would you kindly note the date of the ad (if you have it); this way we can see the development of the cars.
It will all be covered in a much-anticipated book.
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Posted 22 September 2015 - 06:34 PM
Here's another Gilbert video.
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Posted 22 September 2015 - 06:45 PM
Here's a pretty cool A/FX commercial from 1971.
Maybe someone can identify the awesome Can-Am car the Oscar Kovelski Auto World McLaren is dueling with on the track.
Maybe someone can identify the awesome Can-Am car the Oscar Kovelski Auto World McLaren is dueling with on the track.
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Posted 22 September 2015 - 08:47 PM
Actually had that one in the early 70's, was my favorite. Might still have it! Called something with "Turbine" in the name!
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Posted 22 September 2015 - 09:05 PM
Looks like Evel Knievel might have drove it. LOL.
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Posted 21 December 2015 - 01:48 PM
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Posted 21 December 2015 - 01:50 PM
Anyone recall "M.A.R.S.I."?
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Posted 21 December 2015 - 02:49 PM
I know Strombecker released the Brabham, but a Ferrari 1512???
Fire the ad agency, would ya believe it the did release a Ferrari 158, but it was nothing like the quality of the Brabham:
I especially like the Americam Mag chrome wheels... not!
Fire the ad agency, would ya believe it the did release a Ferrari 158, but it was nothing like the quality of the Brabham:
I especially like the Americam Mag chrome wheels... not!
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Posted 19 January 2016 - 06:24 PM
Just picked up a couple ads with slot cars from various sellers.
The first is an odd one: Playboy, May 1962, and a brand of shirts I've never heard of, that may not have survived beyond this issue. So all the cool Ivy League guys were racing slot cars, eh? And, goodness gracious, not your plebian Strombecker, or, heaven forbid, Eldon, but good British quality, Scalextric by gum! I don't think $3 or 4 was a high price for a shirt even then...
Now here's a more recent one: the seller wasn't sure, but he thinks it came from Car magazine, July 2005 - and Smart is using Scalextric to sell their new car in the UK!
And back to where we started from, another slot car shoe ad, by Pedwin again - think the CEO was a slotter?
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Posted 05 February 2016 - 07:55 PM
Here are a few ads that ran in the DC comic mags that hit newsstands in November 1965:
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Posted 05 February 2016 - 08:00 PM
And many of the DC comics that hit the newstands fifty years ago this month contained this short feature:
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Posted 06 February 2016 - 02:03 PM
Thanks much for that Cap's, Vay - I hadn't seen that! Interesting figures too, if they're accurate, and first time I've seen a distinction between hobby shops that add tracks, and commercial raceways... total of 3,500 for early '66 sounds about right - assuming other figures we've seen are correct!
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Posted 06 February 2016 - 08:04 PM
Here are a couple of other Cap's Hobby Hints that ran the same month in DC comics:
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Posted 08 February 2016 - 04:06 PM
It was in all the model car mags Vay.
Just by chance, happened to open to the right page on my index and it was in the Jan 65 issue of Model Car & Track, for instance...
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Posted 08 February 2016 - 08:43 PM
The first time I ever saw an ad for individual slot cars was in the fall of 1963 in Boy's Life magazine. It was an ad for the first series of Monogram slot cars including the 1934 Ford Coupe, 1936 Ford Coupe, and 1956 Chevy. I was captivated! I wanted one of those cars so badly!
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Posted 09 February 2016 - 04:48 AM
More likely it was the fall of '64, Vay - the Monogram cars didn't come out till '64.
Fall of '63 is when the first Revell cars were announced, and I think it was mostly components - their kits would be end of the year or early '64...
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Fall of '63 is when the first Revell cars were announced, and I think it was mostly components - their kits would be end of the year or early '64...
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Posted 09 February 2016 - 08:34 AM
Do you know where that ad appeared?
Vay, I'm grabbing these ad scans off Facebook and in general have no idea where they appeared.
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Posted 10 February 2016 - 01:04 PM
More likely it was the fall of '64, Vay - the Monogram cars didn't come out till '64.
Fall of '63 is when the first Revell cars were announced, and I think it was mostly components - their kits would be end of the year or early '64...
At my age if my memory of things is off by only a year I classify it as a major victory.
I'm going to have to track down some reading copies of Boy's Life magazine from 1964-65.
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Posted 10 February 2016 - 01:43 PM
Lots of 'em on eBay, Vay - and don't overpay, it's circulation was probably up in the millions, so lots should be left.
They had slot car ads in pretty much every issue around that time, and there were also slot car prizes in whatever Boy Scouts were selling door to door... only a couple real slot car articles however.
Scout's honor!
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