DOCTORBILL

I was at Wal-Mart today and while doing my walkabout, I saw a butt load of Hot Wheels
and small car models.

No Geo Metros were evident....

Did/does anyone make little models of my favorite little car ?

DoctorBill

doug2060

Sorry Doc, I don't think they made any. Not a very popular car when in production.

DOCTORBILL

I seem to remember that I saw a model of a Geo Metro long, long ago in a galaxy far,
far away before I owned mine.

I remember laughing and wondering why anyone would make a model of a Metro.

My oldest daughter had one in the '90's and I remember mocking it...

Little did I know.

If they make models of these things....why not a Geo Metro?
http://www.diecastmodelswholesale.co...ars/Categories
http://www.diecastmodelswholesale.co...Diecast/Detail
(I owned a 3CV in Argentina in the 70's - what a deathtrap of a car...!)

My Dad owned one of these when I was a kid in the 50's - I had to wash & polish them...
http://www.diecastmodelswholesale.co...els/Categories
http://www.diecastmodelswholesale.co...Diecast/Detail

I had one of these lovelies back in the 60's - a wonderous vehicle! and it was Red.
http://www.triumphexperience.com/pic...ph_tr3_red.jpg
http://images.google.com/imgres?imgu...DuG_twePpPGuAg

How about this little beauty?
http://www.diecastmodelswholesale.co...-Tanker/Detail

Now HERE was the classiest car ever made ! A beauty to behold....
http://www.diecastmodelswholesale.co...Model-J/Detail

DoctorBill

Woodie83

That's a Bugatti. Think the website got a little bit mixed up, certainly not a Peterbuilt Tanker Truck.

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Woodie

98 Metro and 06 Aerio SX

DOCTORBILL

Yup....here is the Bugatti
http://www.diecastmodelswholesale.co...Type-59/Detail

I was wondering if Peterbilt (correct spelling) was somehow that old and maybe started in Italy...(?)

Did some Googling and found they go back more than 60 years - far enough for that Bugatti -
but no involvement with Bugatti....some other Italian company, though.

http://www.peterbilt.com/history.aspx

"the Fageol Motors Co. of Oakland, Calif., which for 17 years had produced rugged, heavy-duty
trucks and luxury buses.

The Waukesha Motor Co. and the Central Bank of Oakland operated Fageol from 1932 until 1938.
That year, they sold it to T.A. Peterman, a logger and plywood manufacturer from Tacoma, Wash.
Peterman had been rebuilding surplus army trucks and modifying old logging trucks for use in his business.
By 1938, his lumber operations had expanded beyond the capabilities of his fleet.
So he purchased the Fageol assets in order to build custom chain drive logging trucks."

Yup - somebody on that Model Car web site messed up.

DoctorBill