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 Posted - September 06 2009 : 05:38:58 AM
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Here is my entry for the car of the week. Its a rather HTF promo car for Orange Blossom Hobbies out of south Florida. 
Also Here is a good photo of the Bubble Yum tractor trailer for those who have'nt seen a good close-up shot.
A lone amature built the ark! A large group of professionals built the titanic!
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Posted - September 06 2009 : 8:47:10 PM
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 gotta find more billboard/ad cars & trucks someday 
Is the Orange Blossom Hobbies still in buisness?
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Posted - September 06 2009 : 10:45:37 PM
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My club's 25th anniversary car...
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Posted - September 06 2009 : 11:57:58 PM
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Happen to goto a very small flee market today. Happen to find this for 2 bucks. Its damn near perfect.
I passed on the Tyco/Mantua PRR F7 which was in the same condition. I didn't need it, but sorta kicking myself a little over it.
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Posted - September 07 2009 : 03:02:16 AM
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Nice Bubblegum set Alex. I can almost feel my fillings coming loose. Interesting clubcar and bobber too
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Posted - September 07 2009 : 05:02:30 AM
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I think OBH has been out of buisness for some time now. I have several other hobby shop cars from the Tyco/Mantua era i''ll post in the CothW during the next fw weeks.
Thanks for the comments.
A lone amature built the ark! A large group of professionals built the titanic!
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Posted - September 07 2009 : 10:26:00 AM
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Nice to see you around again Alex... hadn't heard from you in ages it seems.
That's a nice promo car. I like how Mantua generally tried to mark their stuff with the MMP tag. But you know, it seems their hobby shop cars were always especially well done.
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Posted - September 07 2009 : 10:34:49 AM
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| or you could make a promo car thread in here
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Posted - September 07 2009 : 9:22:05 PM
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quote:Nice to see you around again Alex... hadn't heard from you in ages it seems.
That's a nice promo car. I like how Mantua generally tried to mark their stuff with the MMP tag. But you know, it seems their hobby shop cars were always especially well done.
Originally posted by GoingInCirclez-September 07 2009: 10:26:00 AM
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Yea, I have been pretty busy and got a few days off. I still get on here and read a lot and its seems there has'nt been much Tyco talk as there used to be so I thought I would spice things up a tad.
I have some other really nice MMP promo cars. They really did do an outstanding job on their schemes. I'll post some more in the CotW as time allows.
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Posted - September 07 2009 : 9:42:42 PM
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| ChrisC Go back & get the Tyco/Mantua PRR F7 you fool before its too late!! NEVER pass up Tyco/Mantua ANYTHING even if you have it already! Sell or give away extras here or on Ebay
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Posted - September 08 2009 : 10:57:41 PM
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a recent find... and there's a ton of these on ebay right now too but beware of the seller.
Apparently this could be the first promo car issued by the "New" Mantua - when they were really still thinly-disguised Tyco. It's an ironic car, as Western Model made gear for the model train industry in the late 70's - early 80's.... but bought their promo boxcars from someone else.
This one was absolutely mint crisp perfect in a fresh-smelling box. The box is dated Jan 1978.
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Posted - September 09 2009 : 06:44:59 AM
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Excellent.....Glad to see you found one. I was thinking mine did'nt have the MMP stamp on it. I'm sure it does though. It really is a sharp looking car. I have seen HO Scale turnouts with the Western Model packaging. I rarely look on eBay anymore because I don't have the money. Who is the seller and why should we beware? Do tell please so we don't get ripped in the future. Only REALLY bad experince I can reacall without looking up is from the seller midwinterauctions (or whatever it is) guy. I have 2 more hobby cars. 1, is the Hi-Way Hobbies which I gave you my spare and it does'nt have the MMP stamp on it. Do you think it was a TYCO run or just a TYCO 50 footer that was custom run through someone else for the Hi-Way hobbies store? Also I have a car from a store called Hobby Horse. Besides that only other one left that I am aware of is the Linconl Graphics and one was on eBay a few weeks ago (it went sorta high from what I recall too). Thats about it for the really rare ones that I know of.
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Posted - September 09 2009 : 09:58:28 AM
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LOL you got named it: mwinternetauctionsonmain. I've had aggravating experiences with him in the past. His stuff is good and packed well, but the shipping charges are outrageous, combined is a pithy "discount", and he charges mandatory "insurance". All that, and you end up getting a first-class mail box (uninsured) that only cost him $2.60 to send after he charged you $12 because there were three things inside.
Shame too because he's not far from me and I wonder where he keeps finding all this stuff.
Anyway... I saw the Lincoln Graphics car, talk about an ugly duck! You'd think a graphics company would do better, LOL.
The Mantua/Tyco connection in the 70's is infuriating. Most but not all of the Mantua cars had MMP on them. But even those say "Tyco" on the boxcar chassis. So then what to make of the cars that don't say MMP... like Desenex, Tulnoy, Western Auto, Hi-Way Hobbies....? Were they sold as "Tyco" or "Mantua"?
It almost doesn't matter, because this much is true: They came from the same tooling, made in the same plant, using the same manufacturing techniques. Why that Western Model above is even marked "Made in the USA" just like some Tyco of the time. And really the "New Mantua" and Tyco were just about one-and-the-same for the first few years. But then again, how do you classify those unmarked promos? For every Western Auto I see in a Mantua box, I see another in a Tyco. Unless you luck into one that's in perfectly unquestionable new mint-in-box shape (like that Western Model was).... it's all so very confusing.
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Posted - September 09 2009 : 12:06:20 PM
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I got ripped off by the same seller. Paid for a Tyco Anniversary car and never received it...
When I complained he was rude, arrogant and swore at me. He sells so much that complaints don't bother him...
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Posted - September 09 2009 : 2:30:25 PM
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I LOVE this thread cause I likes billboard/ad cars even if they about promos hobby stores or ones with beer soda pop candy cereal whatever they all neat OH! Am going to a local card coin & toy show here Will post my findings in the garage sales in here & about Oct 3rd another toy show in Loveland CO going to that also 
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Posted - September 10 2009 : 04:57:25 AM
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ILUV the graphics on the Orange Blossom car, ILUVBUDWSR - kind of new-old fashioned like NOS! The red/grey SP theme shaygetz has going on's also A-1.
Ahh! Mountwinterbottom and their poorly lit "descriptions". The mathematics are simple: They won't give shipping quotes so they don't get my dosh, Q.E.D.
Apparently, they do ship to Australia but to only one person who resells at a killing. Some sort of commission deal perhaps?
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