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(...) Thanks for the great pictures Jan! A lot of AFOLs won't be familiar with some of these, so perhaps I can shed some light a few of them. 1824(.jpg) This appears to be refills to the Danish (only?) retailer brick boxes. These are unknown to (...) (20 years ago, 9-Sep-04, to lugnet.general, FTX)
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In lugnet.general, Gerhard R. Istok wrote: (snip) Gary, PLEASE finish up your CD and get it out there in the market so that we can buy it and so we don't keep getting teased with "as I discuss in my upcoming CD" promo segments interspersed in all (...) (20 years ago, 9-Sep-04, to lugnet.general, lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade, FTX)
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(...) There's a nice article about these cars in this month's issue of "Cars and Models" magazine. I had no idea they were that expensive! I'm lusting after the Karmann Ghia... Those sets are COOOOOL! (URL) Probably a good thing, though. If I (...) (20 years ago, 9-Sep-04, to lugnet.general, FTX)
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(...) This picture shows the same clear plastic garages I discussed. And most Lego catalogs for Europe of that era show the garage doors in red, and the garage base in white (it looks gray in some catalogs that show the red door, but they were (...) (20 years ago, 10-Sep-04, to lugnet.general, FTX)
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(...) Dude! My brother and I somehow inherited (probably through a garage sale or somesuch) one of those when we were kids, and I always wondered what it was from (we knew it was an official LEGO part, but there's no way a brick-built car was going (...) (20 years ago, 10-Sep-04, to lugnet.general, FTX)
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(...) Are these the "common" colors you spoke of? (2 URLs) I was going to ask where one goes about buying these things, as a search of eBay for "LEGO diecast" was fruitless.. I eventually found these by searching "LEGO HO". I guess flea markets are (...) (20 years ago, 10-Sep-04, to lugnet.general, FTX)
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(...) Darrell, These cars come up occasionally on the US ebay but they are a lot more common on the german ebay. Go to www.ebay.de and look in this category: Startseite > Alle Kategorien > Spielzeug > LEGO > Modellautos 1:87 Good luck, Eric (20 years ago, 10-Sep-04, to lugnet.general, FTX)
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(...) Thanks Eric! BTW, I got the catalog scan from the magazine article; I don't have the catalog myself. There are other neat photos in the article, but I didn't know how kosher it would be to scan and post them. Heck, don't even know if it was OK (...) (20 years ago, 10-Sep-04, to lugnet.general, FTX)
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(...) I ended up buying that magazine online and I received it over the weekend. Very interesting article but I was hoping it would be a little longer... One item in the article that I didn't realize is that most of the cars (if not all) were (...) (20 years ago, 28-Sep-04, to lugnet.general)
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