 | | Re: Rarest 60's Lego Item?? was Re: Frank's first LEGO train set has been a 111 —Reinhard "Ben" Beneke
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| | | In lugnet.trains, Gerhard R. Istok wrote: Congratulations to the winnning of this auction Gary! No I haven't been aware of these garage colour-mix-up at all. To be honest I have even never owned such a garage and not more than 5 H0-cars so far. That (...) (19 years ago, 3-Mar-05, to lugnet.general)
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| | | | | Re: Rarest 60's Lego Item?? was Re: Frank's first LEGO train set has been a 111 —David Koudys
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| | | | (...) If you look at the bottom of this page-- (URL) have two white bottoms. That said, I also have a grey bottom as well. No idea where the grey bottoms came from. I've been told that the white bottom came from the Garage set so that's how I built (...) (19 years ago, 3-Mar-05, to lugnet.general)
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| | | | | | Re: Rarest 60's Lego Item?? was Re: Frank's first LEGO train set has been a 111 —David Koudys
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| | | | | In lugnet.general, David Koudys wrote: <snip> (...) As an aside to this particular thread, there's the single most dumbest thing ever done by yours truly (in the LEGO sense...) So I put an ad in the paper 20ish years ago--"Wanted-- LEGO, will pick (...) (19 years ago, 3-Mar-05, to lugnet.general)
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| | | | | | | Re: Rarest 60's Lego Item?? was Re: Frank's first LEGO train set has been a 111 —Gerhard R. Istok
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| | | | | | (...) Hey Dave, Hope this makes you feel better (maybe you didn't throw away Lego cars after all). The 1:87 Lego cars/trucks are die cast, but they are plastic (Cellulose Acetate from 1955-63, ABS 1963-70). The only metal part was the wheels and (...) (19 years ago, 3-Mar-05, to lugnet.general)
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| | | | | | Re: Rarest 60's Lego Item?? was Re: Frank's first LEGO train set has been a 111 —Gerhard R. Istok
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| | | | (...) Hey Dave, The moment you said "bottom", I had a suspicion you were not talking about the same garages... There are 2 major garage types of the early Lego era: ---...--- Type 1: Flip-up Garages - 1955-72. This garage type is known as the (...) (19 years ago, 3-Mar-05, to lugnet.general)
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| | | | | | Re: Rarest 60's Lego Item?? was Re: Frank's first LEGO train set has been a 111 —David Koudys
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| | | | | In lugnet.general, Gerhard R. Istok wrote: <snip> (...) Ahh, now I see--the boxes. Eh, I still think I threw out die cast metal LEGO cars... Grr!!! ;) Dave K (19 years ago, 3-Mar-05, to lugnet.general)
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| | | | | | Re: Rarest 60's Lego Item?? was Re: Frank's first LEGO train set has been a 111 —Eric Strand
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| | | | | (...) They weren't included in any USA Lego catalog that we know of but here are the catalogs Gary referred to (starting in 1964): (URL) 1966 they weren't in the catalog any more as individual cars. However they came back in the 1967-1969 catalogs (...) (19 years ago, 3-Mar-05, to lugnet.general)
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| | | | | | Re: Rarest 60's Lego Item?? was Re: Frank's first LEGO train set has been a 111 —Clark Stephens
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| | | | (...) Don't forget the UK release of that door in solid yellow plastic (not clear with yellow painted frames). Still looking for a good picture of that door. I've got the others here: (URL) was a variance in the doors and counterweights: (URL) clear (...) (19 years ago, 4-Mar-05, to lugnet.general)
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