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| My Earliest Police Car | |
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| Tweet Topic Started: Feb 25 2018, 12:37 PM (163 Views) | |
| Stangfreak | Feb 25 2018, 12:37 PM Post #1 |
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This MB was my earliest police car I remember having as a kid. A 1961 Ford. As I remember this one was a hard to find one. I rarely played with this one because the decals chipped easily. ![]() At a later date I found 3 of these 1959 Buick police cars made by Husky at a local pharmacy, that had a cool MB and diecast section in the toy department. These were 29 cents each at that time. My grandma bought me all 3. Only 1 survived over the years, but you can see it got much more play time than the Ford...
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| Stangfreak | Feb 25 2018, 12:42 PM Post #2 |
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A short time later, I found this regular daily driver version of that same 1959 Buick by Husky. I acquired two or three of these also. I bet I put a million miles on the Buick police car and this Buick in car chases...
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| b2young | Feb 25 2018, 03:33 PM Post #3 |
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Sad firefighter
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Were they 'evenly matched'? Or did the police have more powerful engines in theirs? I bought two Husky Buicks online and turns out, by good fortune, there were distinct shade variations between them. (Different sellers.) I never had one of the Matchbox Fairlane police cars until I found one at the toy show at the Albuquerque gathering a few years back. But the ones I had as a kid were the Mercury wagon and the Galaxie and a Mercury cruiser with the two policemen inside (which, I just noticed to my dismay, I chose to repaint as a kid and it's horrible...in fact, two of them repainted by a sloppy kid.....) I managed to acquire the "E" (Empire) brand plastic Buicks for police (a couple of variations) and a red fire chief variation. |
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| firedog | Feb 25 2018, 03:39 PM Post #4 |
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Very nice cars ! |
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| pjedsel | Feb 25 2018, 07:38 PM Post #5 |
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Mine would be a similar story Steve - my earliest police cars are the same as the Matchbox and Husky models you show. I think my third one would have been the Wollseley from Budgie.
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