Group,
With everyone chiming in with their particular wants I'll throw my wish into
the wanted details pot too. My wish is very simple. Can any of the die-cast
vehicle manufacturers be convinced to produce some "FOUR DOOR" sedans? There is
an absolute dearth of four door cars available for use in S scale. Oh yes,
there's the 30's ERTL Dick Tracy series Chevy and Ford. And the Matchbox? Ford
Woodie Station Wagon. Matchbox also used to produce a Checker Motors cab a
while ago. (Every S scale train station could use a minimum of two or three of
these cabs parked out in front waiting for fares.) Have any of you tried buying
any of those vehicles lately? Good luck with that. There ain't none.(Yes,I know
that's bad English.) The cars being produced by folks like M2 Machines now were
the top of their lines when they were being produced. The average buyer in the
forties and fifties usually bought a four door sedan for his family; not some
glitzy hard top coupe or convertible. We're not talking about the Great Gatsby
crowd here. What I'd really like to see produced in our favorite scale is:
1940's and 50's Four door sedans in their "period correct" paint colors.
Checker Motors Marathon cabs in all of the various prototypical liveries.
(The Checker's were produced for a couple of decades with minimal model
changes.)
Cars described as being 1/64 scale are the correct size instead of whatever the
particular manufacturer determines 1/64 scale to be.
I'd also like to challenge all of the manufacturers to produce four door sedans
where "all" of the doors are operable. Neat idea? Eh?
What can we do? For starters I'm going to write M2 a snail mail letter
outlining what I'd like to see them make available. E-mail and phone calls just
don't cut it. They're just too easily forgotten or dismissed. There's over
eight hundred members on this list. If any of you are of a like mind please
follow my lead. Eight hundred letters requesting four door sedans sitting on
the M2 marketing director's desk should elicit some kind of a response. The
last time I made this same request was back in the old S Gauge Herald. Nobody
wrote then either. We can all see where that got me. Going back into my lurker
mode now. Let the flames begin.
Dan Waskes
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