My husband is a big Ford fan so most of these are Fords. There is a Richard Petty Pontiac and a Dale Earnhardt #3 Chevrolet in there somewhere, but I think the rest of them are Fords.
There are 37 of these model cars in this curio cabinet, along with other racing memorabilia (there are 25 more in another cabinet in another part of the house):
He was a big Bill Elliot fan, so he has a couple of shelves dedicated to Bill's cars. These are the #94 McDonald's cars that Elliott drove in the 1990s.
This car is a special edition "Batman Forever" #94 along with the Bill Elliott #9 Coors car.
This is Dale Jarrett's #88 car.
After Bill Elliott stopped driving the #9 car and went to #94, Mark Martin took over the #9 car.
This is the #16 driven by Ted Musgrave and the #75 driven by Rusty Wallace.
This is the #21 McDonald's Ford driven by Jimmy Spencer (1994), and the #2 Miller car driven by Rusty Wallace.
My husband had extra glass shelving made for the cabinet and some of the cars are in these thin shelves. They're a little hard to get to, but they make a colorful display.
This is the car that my husband loved best, Bill Elliott's red #9 Coors car that won him the name "Million Dollar Bill" in the 1980s.
A closer shot of some of the other cars that I am afraid to touch for fear they will fall apart.
This the Dale Jarrett #21 Citgo car.
I wanted to give you a close-up so you can see how detailed these things are.
The #10 Tide car belonged to Ricky Rudd and the #28 belonged to Davy Allison. Allison died young in helicopter crash in 1993.
Around 1996 the model cars became hard to find and more expensive to purchase as manufacturers moved to pre-made die-cast vehicles. Two of the model car manufacturers merged and they stopped putting out the different vehicle color changes for the drivers. So my husband stopped building model cars.
It was a good hobby for him for a while, though.
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Cool! When I first started reading I thought they were going to be real cars!
ReplyDeleteWow! That's quite a collection!
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