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| poorvanner | Mar 25 2015, 08:23 PM Post #1 |
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Continuing my push to get casting cataloged, I pulled these small, 2 inch, very rough cast, vans out of all over the place. Two different castings: DSCN6110 by Brian Walker, on Flickrand DSCN6118 by Brian Walker, on FlickrI scratched my head a bunch looking at them, and was preparing to put together a post to ask what could they be, and who would make such things. Then I started to turn them over, no makers name. On any of them! Here is the bases: DSCN6105 by Brian Walker, on FlickrThen I noticed that one on the right. The black base. It has a logo on it. summer-metal-products by Brian Walker, on FlickrTook a while of googling to find it, but it belongs to SUMMER. Now I know who made them. And those same bases gave up the name also. Top set is labeled "Ford Off-Road", no Ford Van that I have ever seen, but hey! DSCN6111 by Brian Walker, on FlickrBottom ones are labeled simply "Toyota Van". Well, they said it. DSCN6119 by Brian Walker, on FlickrOh, and they have casting numbers also. S8306 is the Ford regular base. S8290 is the Ford with pullback base. S8305 is the Toyota with a regular base. S8289 is the Toyota with pullback base. Now, I have the info I needed. And I even managed to dig it up myself. Off to the Database! Edited by poorvanner, Jul 25 2017, 03:46 PM.
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| craftymore | Mar 26 2015, 08:58 PM Post #2 |
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Support your local demo derby.
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I don't recall seeing these though they may have been early to mid 90s releases found at dollar stores in multi-packs. |
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| poorvanner | Mar 27 2015, 08:44 AM Post #3 |
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They may have been earlier than that even. Don't remember for sure, but I have had some of these for a very long time. I posted a bunch of them to the database. |
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| SeberHusky | Mar 28 2015, 02:45 PM Post #4 |
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Summer vehicles marked with the leaping deer logo date to sometime in the early-80's. They stopped using the company name, scale size, and vehicle names towards the late-80's/early-90's and became just another chinese company. They just tossed it all out the window and said "nope, heck with this". lol |
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