Hi Hans,
Sometimes doing "generic" searches will not yield satisfactory
results. It might be helpful if you really narrow-down your search
to a specific model. Since you are looking for cars from specific
years, I would suggest looking at this listing on the NASG web site:
You can then pick a year, select a model make, and then see which
manufacturer created that car. Where available, I have listed at
least one of the manufacturer's model IDs (number, PLU, SKU, etc.),
so those can be helpful when doing searches.
So, instead of searching for "1950s cars" and not finding much, you
can search for, for example, "Racing Champions 1951 Chevrolet
Corvair RC004", and then get a listing of companies that might still
have that model in their inventory.
Use the NASG web site to find out what is, or was, available, and
then do your searches using that specific information.
You may also want to use a generic search engine, such as Google,
DuckDuckGo, Bing, Yandex, etc. to do your searches, rather than
doing a search specifically on the eBay's site only. These generic
search engines will still list eBay entries, but they will also list
manufacturers' web sites (some do sell directly) and/or other vendor
web sites that sell diecast vehicles. In other words, instead of
limiting your search to just eBay, now you can search the entire
Internet for the model that you are interested in, and you will
likely have better results.
I hope this helps,
- Peter.
On 07/06/2024 04:59 PM, Hans von
Draminski via wrote:
Hello to all. When I watch videos about S scale layouts I see some
beautiful model cars crowding the streets. A search in the bay
will get me not that many results when looking for classics of the
1950ies and 60ies. I was scanning the portfolios of Greenlight and
Johnny Lightning but it seems there are much more Muscle Cars from
the Seventies then Oldies from the Golden Era after WW II. Am I
missing something? Or am I just too late and a lot of what I look
for is just out of print yet?
The last car I got was a Mercury from the early Fifties in Canary
Yellow, by the way...
Greetings from the heart of Football Sadness, Hans
--
Peter Vanvliet (info@...)
owner, Fourth Ray Software
Houston, Texas
(personal web site)
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