Vintage garage stuff

[autoxcuda]

Recent adds to my garage rec. room. Some new to me, some dug out of storage.

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Nice. That semi set is way cool. I don't remember the dragster, but that's awesome too.

I still have my Evil Knievel car that the body would come apart when you hit the front bumper

 

[Scott Engelhardt]

Found this a few weeks ago. I just recently became aware that the Cox fuel contains nitromethane. As purchased, and after some sprucing up. This model has a recoil pull starter on it

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I have one just like that

 

[Mike Szadaj]

I have one just like that

Does yours have the pull starter? I understand sometime after cox put these on the market that they were sued for patent infringement over the starter. They then stopped selling models with the starter and replaced it with a knob at the back of the engine that you turned by a motion like you were snapping your fingers.

 

[Scott Engelhardt]

Does yours have the pull starter? I understand sometime after cox put these on the market that they were sued for patent infringement over the starter. They then stopped selling models with the starter and replaced it with a knob at the back of the engine that you turned by a motion like you were snapping your fingers.

I will have to look. I know one of my gas cars has a pull start. Not sure what one

 

[Mike Szadaj]

S&H GREEN STAMPS
Wow that goes back!

I got a catalog with Dinah Shore on the cover ……somewhere.
I thought the decals would add to the nostalgia. I can remember seeing them all over.

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I found this lighter the other day. I had to improvise some missing parts to fix it, but it now seems to work fine

 

[3sloppydogs]

How in sams creek did you find lighter parts?
Especially for that

 

[Mike Szadaj]

The spring to hold the flint up and the screw to hold the spring in were both missing. I cut a piece of spring from another lighter without ruining the functionality of it because this lighter uses a very short spring . I found a screw that fit in the bottom to hold the spring in. I had to grind down the diameter of the head of the screw to allow it to fit in the hole it goes in.

 

[3sloppydogs]

My man