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Just picked this up a couple of hours ago.

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I was down picking some model railroad stuff up for a buddy at a pre-sale of estate stuff (I know the sellers), and found something that caught my eye....and I do believe my son will enjoy it:

https://www.bonhams.com/auctions/19286/lot/239/

That's just a photo of it.

Mine is a hand-assembled prototype, made and sent to (train related) PFM to see if they would handle the line for Pocher. 1/8 scale.

Apparently, the folks at PFM smoked like a chimney, as the class case has taken a LOT of work and paper towels to clean the brown off, but it's getting there.

One headlamp lens is loose, but there. 4 jack stands included...put it up on the mirror base on stands to see underneath.

I won't say what I paid, other than a WHOLE lot cheaper than the auction listed above.

Nice car. Oh....ignition keys tied to steering wheel..leather belts hold boot covers on......leather bound owner's manual in door pocket....

Dave
 
Niiiiice! My buddy is in to die-cast models, and had graduated to some of the nicer, more expensive ones. The level of detail is incredible on some of them! Good score.
 
I lusted after those Pocher kits for years - any one of them would do. If your reference to "PFM" is to Pacific Fast Mail - I still have a couple of their brass models. One's a Shay and the other is a (Tenshodo) Hudson.
 
Yup, Pacific Fast Mail.
These things are amazing. Push on the brake pedal, shoes move out. Turn the hand crank, engine internals move (crank, rods, cams), but I haven't tried to get it apart to see it move!
Individual spokes (metal) in the wire wheels. Knockoffs work. Supposedly the friction shocks work, too.
 
Joined a large scale car forum, was on it one day and it crashed for four or five days....figured it was my posts, right?
Anyway, the estimate right now is about a grand.
Looks like it is, in fact, a factory-built car, worth easy six hundred, factory glass case LESS GLASS is 250......add the original glass into the mix......
Crimeny.
Factory built cars had the wood framed glass cases with the brass plaque.
Dave
 
TR_Jim said:
I've had this Alfa Romero 8c 2300 Monza (1931-1934 for years. I think I built it around 1980. Prices are going up!

https://sites.google.com/site/jimstriumphsite/alfa

(The GMC link at the bottom of the page takes you to an "O" gauge brass engine.)
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General Models. They bought the Varney 0 scale line. When GM went kaput, All-Nation bought the line.
I have a GM (says so on the builders plate cast into the sides of the smokebox) Mountain (4-8-2), a very rare 600HP GM diseasemal, several NW-2's, along with a plethora of later All-Nation units.
I have a GM 4-6-0 and tender. Easy to spot original tenders with the tabs sticking through the sides.
Usually we use a torch, acid flux, and solder them together, file and sand the tab smooth, fill and paint.
Nice units. Field wound motor? Most of the GM stuff was, A-N went to permags. My Mountain still has the field wound with hand reverse. My ScaleCraft engines were field wound, over the years I have located BIG K&D direct permag replacements.....screwdriver swap back if I need to.
Nice job on your ten wheeler.
Dave
 
Thanks! I'm not really into trains, but I picked up the brass engine at a hobby shop that was going out of business.
20 bucks. I thought it would be an interesting project.
 
Got to see the real thing at The Collier Collection last Saturday. Elegant. Both versions. Nice grab, Dave.
 
TR_Jim said:
Thanks! I'm not really into trains, but I picked up the brass engine at a hobby shop that was going out of business.
20 bucks. I thought it would be an interesting project.
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Twenty bucks for a Varney/GM/A-N ten wheeler that's complete is a steal.
 
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