And Then There Were A Few Promos...

[Junkman]

Found this on one of my surfing safaris:

How about a spot the promo contest?

[disabled modeler]

COOL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I just drooled on myself...see a few wagons in there

[Chuck Most]

Do you see it? It's right toward the middle of the picture....

[disabled modeler]

Hey Chuck...is that a 68 or 69?....ether way it is SWEET!

[Chuck Most]

'66. My great uncle got it when he bought his 1:1 '66 brand new.

[disabled modeler]

Very cool Chuck!... I have a few that were my dads--one I am having problems with in the restoration. Its a 58 Fairlane HT and has the metal chassis but the wheelbase is off a bunch its stamped 58 Ford to boot?

[Camshaft]

I'm looking for patterns.

[Agent G]

Dad drove a '68, black/black. That's one I NEVER joyrided............................

G

[Mike Kucaba]

Looks like the Bob Wingate collection?

[Casey]

I find the other things in the picture even more interesting. The service door which was added after the garage was built, the shutters, which cover the entire window like they're supposed to, the globe style light bulb, the snow(?) tires at the back of the garage, the single garage door (I don't see any counterweights, though), the crisp lines of the Dutchlap siding...and is that a boat hanging from the ceiling?

That is a lot of promos, though!

[jeffs396]

Those are the COOLEST pavers I've ever seen!

[Chuck Most]

Those are the COOLEST pavers I've ever seen!

Just watch your step!

[gray07]

What would happen if someone not paying attention and come flying in driveway and pull in garage. I wander if they want a couple more old ones, i have 2 forsale

[Hypermung]

Who's gunna be the first to try & count em??... (Not me)

[mikemodeler]

I once worked with a guy who said he had hundreds of promos as he started collecting them in the 50's when he would take his paper route money and buy them as he had the money for them. I never saw the collection in person but he did bring a list one day and it was impressive! This picture looks like it could be his collection, but I doubt Jerry would have taken them out of the box and laid them out!

[2000-cvpi]

So that's what 100,000 dollars looks like spread out on the floor.

[Junkman]

I got the picture from the Clarence Young website.

They say it was a publicity photo shot in 1965, so apparently all you see is 1965 promos.

There is room for speculation what happened to the promos after the photo session. Did they go straight into the dumpster, or were some kids in the neighbourhood lucky enough to snatch a few and blow them up with firecrackers?

Edited November 10, 2011 by Junkman

[Junkman]

muahahaha...

Edited November 10, 2011 by Junkman

[Dr. Cranky]

Great picture, Christian, and Chuck, great promo!

[Guest]

Impressive collection to say the least! Looks like he needs to sell a few of them and use the money to finish his garage.

[Art Anderson]

I once worked with a guy who said he had hundreds of promos as he started collecting them in the 50's when he would take his paper route money and buy them as he had the money for them. I never saw the collection in person but he did bring a list one day and it was impressive! This picture looks like it could be his collection, but I doubt Jerry would have taken them out of the box and laid them out!

That pic reminds me of an old friend, the late Bill Harrison of Monta Vista CA. Bill's home was THE place to visit whenever I went to NNL West back in the 90's--ranch style home, chock full of models, model car kits, promo's and TONS of literature about both real cars and model cars! I think it could be said that if the "Big One" had ever hit, Bill's house would be the only one on the block still standing--it could not have collapsed due to the sheer cubic volume of model car kits (his attic space was also packed full! He showed me, with obvious pride, his "Ford room", AKA his bedroom, more model kits of Fords than I knew existed (one stack, floor to ceiling, of nothing but Revell '57 Ford Country Squire kits--you know, the unobtainium one!). The attached garage had been remodeled into a large family room before he bought the place in the 1960's, and it was a veritable museum of model cars, from diecasts to promos, to built kits, to even a few Gerald Wingrove scratchbuilds! If you ever saw the movie "Tucker, A Man And His Dream" where Harrison Ford mimicked the famous portrait of Tucker holding a 1/8 scale Tucker in his arms--Bill HAD that actual model Tucker!. In his model car workroom, Bill had perhaps a dozen 5' filing cabinets, each one filled with Xerox copies of magazine articles on flathead Ford V8 cars (Bill's first love), all organized, sorted, a gold mine of reference materials.

Bill was on a first-name basis with not only many legendary modelers, but also museum curators all across the country.

Bill's garage out back was cool as heck too! In the middle stall was a cherry 1941 Buick Century Sedanette, its straight eight engine factory equipped with dual carburetors, and next to that was a '32 Ford Panel Delivery. Out in the yard were TWO 1932 Ford pickups, both closed cab trucks.

In his living room were literally aisles and tunnels (enough to make any film noir recluse drool with envy) of stacks of car magazines--and the bookshelves filled with virtually every book on antique and classic era cars ever printed up to the time of his death about 4 years ago.

Nothihg like seeing that to get the creative juices flowing!!!!

Art

[Eshaver]

Art, didn't Car - Craft magazine do an article on Bill about 1963 ? I seem to recall a gentleman who had a vast collection that was later repeated in one of the Peterson Spotlight books from about the same time . Ed Shaver