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[Martin]

Gum......and this it what you get when you google Gum Sponge

This is a new one on me. Have you ever seen or tried them?

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[Phil Smith]

I read you post and thought, what the hell, I'll try them out. Someone's got to. So I click on the link to buy them and they're already sold!

 

You guys are killing me. I gotta find a new hobby. Maybe Beanie Baby's would be less frustrating.

[Martin]

Check your P.Ms Phil.

This could be your chance?

[Phil Smith]

Thanks again Martin!

[Phil Smith]

Martin alerted me that another 2 sets of foam Candies was on eBay and I bought them.

 

They look like silicone, but they are soft, way softer than silicone Candies. And they're very sticky. I had a heck of a time getting them out of the tubes. That might be from deterioration.

 

https://www.ebay.com/itm/324216744870

 

 

 

[Martin]

I would still like to know what " CASTORGLASS" means

 

Anybody ever use these back in the day?

[Bill from NH]

To a bottle collector, castor glass is the one color & sometimes clear bottles that castor oil came in. Some were highly ornate. Now how this applies to the stampings on the Candies labels, your guess is as good as mine. That stamping did not appear on their bottles from 1967-69 when we had to run silicones. 

[edscars]

The labels show a PO box in a city called Winter (something).  Is it known what company made Candies tires?  Maybe that city or the manufacturer of Candies could be the start of a lead on who made Castorglass and what is was.  Perhaps it was just their trade-name for a particular type of silicone.  The Castolite company I think is based out of Chicago so my guess is Castorglass wasn't made by them.

[don.siegel]

I'm not home now, so can't check, but pretty sure it's Winter something Florida...

 

Don

[Jay Guard]

I don't know anything about the Candies but here in Central Florida we've got Winter Park, Winter Garden, Winter Springs, and Winter Haven.  There's even a Winter Beach a bit further south on the east coast.

[tonyp]

To many winters for how damn hot it is here.

[Vince Romano]

Blue swirls and plain green.  The green have some chunk from over enthusiastic parade laps.  I got these two pair probably late 90's at a slot show to replace dried foam.  I seem to remember the guy had a table full and they were pretty inexpensive.    

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[Bill from NH]

Here's a Candies ad from the March, 1967 issue of Car Model magazine. Note they originally were made in Winter Park.

 

[Jay Guard]

Too bad the ad didn't give a street address rather than a P.O. Box,  I might have ben able to track down who actually made them.  If they lived in Winter Park, FL (probably a safe assumption) their home raceway was probably Aloma Model Raceways, which was a huge 4-track American Model Raceways facility.  Funny thing is that while I raced there from 1965 to 1968 I don't remember anyone using silicone tires.

[Martin]

https://www.ebay.com...2wAAOSw8GZfohCH

 

Not Candies or Twinkies

But these have to take the prize for the most outrageous color combo. Now for sale.

 

I wonder if these are home made or factory?

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[NSwanberg]

I'd call those striped.

[Mad Mark]

Finally got my first pair! Snatched up a whole chassis just for the tires.

[Martin]

[Phil Smith]

Mark, that's actually a pretty exceptional pair. They normally don't have that much swirl and are that uniform. Much better than anything I got!

[Phil Smith]

I have a thing for Candies tires. There were two things I drooled over in the counter at the track when I was very young. One was the Russkit Black Widow they had, and the other was swirl Candies.

 

So I watch for them on eBay. Most are not very uniform and don't look all that great. This pair was was pretty darn nice! And I wanted them! But my bid didn't even come close. $38 plus tax for a used pair. Yikes!

 

https://www.ebay.com/itm/353082110202

 

This is a post I regret. You don't see many of them, when I did find them, the price was low. I bought a couple pair new in the tube for less than $20 each. Now they cost way more than that. I attribute that to this thread sparking interest in them. I didn't know I had a secret!

[Mad Mark]

Mark, that's actually a pretty exceptional pair. They normally don't have that much swirl and are that uniform. Much better than anything I got!

good to know! don’t think they have been run.