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Yea not the real thing but it started when my lovely wife bought me the big resin car for Christmas one year. and the rest just kind of come along catch as catch can. Makes a neat little display. The Indy Roadster Ezra Brooks decanter above it was purchased by a much younger version of myself at age 21. It is amazing it survived the night, much less the past 41 years.
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GREAT Piece, love it.
Nope still here, she bought it out of a second hand store about 12 years ago. I have no idea of the age and there are no makers identifing marks.
I see it's been a few months since your post. Have you ever found out anything about the large blue car? I have a red one very similar to it and can't seem to find out any info. at all. The only marks on the bottom of mine are a D and an A but they're not even by each other. They're really cool cars.