Category: Collectible
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Some Recent Additions To The Collection
Just some pics of recent finds and additions to the collection. Some were gifts from my daughter and son-in-law. I can’t wait to mount the display that they got me to house my Sweet Sixteen cars. As you can tell, we’re particularly fond of die cast VW’s.
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One Last Update To The Poor Man’s Swamp Cooler
After taking a closer look at the finished product and thinking it over for a few days, I decided to paint the brace for the swamp cooler the same color as the cooler itself. If I didn’t like it, I could easily revert right back to the blue. But after it was painted, there was…
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Updating The Poor Man’s Swamp Cooler Part II
Finally had a warm enough day to prep and paint our vintage “looking” swamp cooler. I decided to keep it satin rather than gloss, but I can always go back and change that. I’m very pleased with the end result, it looks a lot more like a vintage swamp cooler now! As always, if you…
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Updating The Poor Man’s Swamp Cooler Part I
It’s time to take our “vintage looking” swamp cooler and really make it look vintage. The prices for real vintage swamp coolers are through the roof. Last year we found a guy who sells reproduction swamp coolers that are actually pretty functional at fraction of the cost of real vintage swamp coolers. We’ve used it…
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Custom Matchbox Gangster Car
This was a quick one, but I think it turned out pretty good. The idea was to talk this 1933 Plymouth police car and turn it into a gangster type of car using the Bonnie and Clyde car as inspiration. If you have any questions, please feel free to ask. Hope you enjoy the video,…