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| Car of the Day: February 27, 2016; High Speed '07 S & M Simplex Limousine | |
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| Dean-o-mite | Feb 27 2016, 03:55 AM Post #1 |
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Muscle Car
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![]() Today's car of the day is High Speed's 1907 S & M Simplex Limousine. ![]()
![]() For more information and pictures of the real car please visit: S & M Simplex ![]() ![]() Back when I was a teenager, my grandparents gave me a set of three High Speed cars from the early 1900's, which were a promotional gift for sharing a Reader's Digest subscription. The S & M Simplex model was already missing its steering wheel when the cars were gifted to me, and one of these days I need to go through the spare parts box and source a replacement steering wheel. High Speed also had a later Simplex model in their casting bank (a 1912 Simplex, I believe), but outside of High Speed, I don't recall having any other S & M Simplex or Simplex models. ![]() In addition to the small amount of information found on Wikipedia, there is a wealth of information on the company and founders' history at this website (a clickable link): http://www.coachbuilt.com/bui/s/smith_mabley/smith_mabley2.html. The article has so much information, I couldn't pick and choose what to include here, and instead decided it was better to just give the link, for those interested. ![]() ![]() My grandparents had saved the advertising page, and provided it along with the cars: ![]() |
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| zzziippyyy | Feb 27 2016, 05:03 AM Post #2 |
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Drive it like you stole it!
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Thanks for that link, always nice to learn more about the Hobby. |
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| cody6268 | Feb 27 2016, 09:38 AM Post #3 |
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I have close to a dozen of these which consist of ones my grandmother got from Reader's Digest that I played with (and later got amalgamated into my collection) and a few I've found later at the flea market. But, I don't have this one. Other than the wheels, I like it, even though all of the High Speed models are a tad on the crude side. |
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| pjedsel | Feb 27 2016, 01:30 PM Post #4 |
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Oh my goodness...a vintage High Speed car that I was not aware of. I have most of their little antique cars in my collection. Yes, they are on the crude side but few of them have been made by others in small scale so a neat part of my collection. Not sure why most diecast manufacturers have skipped over this era of cars in 1/64th/3 inch. This little S&M Simplex Limousine is a nice one and one I will have to keep an eye out for. Thanks for sharing this one with us Dean.
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| Hobie-wan | Feb 27 2016, 06:15 PM Post #5 |
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Indeed, I hadn't seen that one while coming across the others. Also nice that it's one of the earlier ones with the nice wheels and rubber tires. |
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Oh my goodness...a vintage High Speed car that I was not aware of. I have most of their little antique cars in my collection. Yes, they are on the crude side but few of them have been made by others in small scale so a neat part of my collection. Not sure why most diecast manufacturers have skipped over this era of cars in 1/64th/3 inch. This little S&M Simplex Limousine is a nice one and one I will have to keep an eye out for. Thanks for sharing this one with us Dean.
3:35 AM Jul 11