Gas, tires, oil.

Another ad from the April 1960 Car Life magazine.

Now go google “chassis research” and check out the history of this company (nitrogeezers is probably a good starting point).

Here’s some scans out of a 1960 JC Whitney ad. As a kid, I didn’t have money for comics, but JC Whitney and Edmunds Scientific came for free. Check out these stickers, I would have assumed that this sort of thing wouldn’t have shown up till later than 1960. Anyone know the artist (or if there are color images anywhere)?

Hey Coop, how about re-doing the “girl with head” with one of your devil girls?
The “Voodoo Head” shifter about halfway down the pic below is interesting

I think they still sell the exhaust cutout (and use the same artwork).

I didn’t include a pic yesterday of the case top. Unfortunately, some one ran strapping tape around case at some point and put something (probably a plant) on the top that left a ring .

In with the diecast cars mentioned a couple posts down, was this very strange toy.

Anyone have an idea what it is? The individual pieces aren’t to the same scale, but are made from the same plastic (and were tied together with string).


It seems that something is missing, but I have no idea how its supposed to work. The legs on the figure can move independently, but don’t seem to be spring loaded.

So my landlord decided to redo the roof last week, he tore off the shingles Thursday and Friday. Saturday morning, 4:30 am, we wake up to find water dripping out of the light fixture onto our bed. Of course, it was raining. One of the things this prompted me to do was clear off a shelf in a closet (to get to the attic). I found a box of Matchbox, Husky, Corgi and Tootsie toy die cast cars that I had bought at a yard sale a couple years ago. The guy wanted a dollar a piece, I paid $20 for all (48 pieces). I’ll post pic of some of the nice/rare ones soon. Here’s poorly lit shot of a few.

In the foreground is a studebaker film car, behind you can see 2 Monkees GTO wagons from the tv show as well as a “Man from U.N.C.L.E” and James Bond car (they have a missile launcher and ejection seat, respectively, with several missiles and ejectees).