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| Jack Habits (Ferraristuff)
Member Username: Ferraristuff Post Number: 326 Registered: 4-2003 |
>>>>>>>I dug up all previous owners on my cars for example NOOOOOOOOOOOOO! NOT meaning that the guys were dead and I dug up their bodies! I meant "Traced them". Hahahahaha! Jack | ||
| Jack Habits (Ferraristuff)
Member Username: Ferraristuff Post Number: 325 Registered: 4-2003 |
I tend to "dig in deep" if something has my attention and interest. Toys, car, racing memorabilia all that kind of stuff. That is also more or less how www.FerrariStuff.com started off... a hobby that got completely out of hand... Hahahaha! To me, something has to have a "history", regardless if it is a car, a house, toys, furniture. I NEED to know who made it, how, why, when, who owned it before me etc. I dug up all previous owners on my cars for example and one house dates from 1936 and has a pretty interesting history, the other house is from 1780 (!), less history (old farm) but you can almost hear the walls (2 feet thick!) tell their story... Jack | ||
| DES (Sickspeed)
Advanced Member Username: Sickspeed Post Number: 3787 Registered: 8-2002 |
Wow, that's some really interesting stuff, Jack... How do you know all this...? Is it just from being involved in the business or...? | ||
| Jack Habits (Ferraristuff)
Member Username: Ferraristuff Post Number: 323 Registered: 4-2003 |
DES, I just modified that last post and added some more info. Has nothing to do with you not being "cultured". This is pretty specialized stuff. I'll just add one last one (Rob, tell me when to shut up!) but it is grossly off topic... This one was made in 1938 and as Schuco was a company located in Germany (Nuremburg to be precise) the Nazi regime forced them to make propaganda stuff like this drumming Nazi soldier. It also has a wind-up mechanism and when you release it, it starts to "dance" in circles while playing his drum. One of the owners of Schuco was actually Jewish and managed to escape Germany before things turned to worse and after the war set up the distribution for Schuco in the USA. "Mr. Schuco" himself (Heinrich Schreyer) was fiercely against the Nazis but had little choice but to cooperate. His attitude against the Nazis during the war served him well after the war as it gave him some room to resume production pretty quick after the war had ended. Intruiging stuff... Jack     | ||
| DES (Sickspeed)
Advanced Member Username: Sickspeed Post Number: 3783 Registered: 8-2002 |
Ah, ok, i see now... Sorry, Jack, if i'm asking silly or simple questions; i'm just not as cultured as i should be... | ||
| Jack Habits (Ferraristuff)
Member Username: Ferraristuff Post Number: 322 Registered: 4-2003 |
Nobody... That's just the name that Schuco gave the model but it is modelled after the pre-war BMW 328 sports car. Schuco had a lot of models who's name ended on "o"; Examico, Tacho-Examico, Magico, Elektro, Ingenico, Carreto etc. I guess it was a company-cultural thing and made the model names easily identifiable as being a Schuco. Jack | ||
| DES (Sickspeed)
Advanced Member Username: Sickspeed Post Number: 3781 Registered: 8-2002 |
So who makes the Examico...? Not the models, the 1:1s...? | ||
| Jack Habits (Ferraristuff)
Member Username: Ferraristuff Post Number: 319 Registered: 4-2003 |
DES, yes, the brand is "Schuco", the model is "Examico 4001". In the 1950's they made an updated version which was called "Examico II" and in the late 1990's they completely redesigned the looks to resemble the Porsche 356 Speedster (even did a German Autobahn Polizei version of it...) but they all base on the model shown here. Jack | ||
| DES (Sickspeed)
Advanced Member Username: Sickspeed Post Number: 3758 Registered: 8-2002 |
Jack - very cool... the box says Examico 4001 - is that the name of the car...? Thanks for posting, that's really neat... | ||
| Jack Habits (Ferraristuff)
Member Username: Ferraristuff Post Number: 302 Registered: 4-2003 |
DES, they're not Ferraris so I'll keep them in this section. The 1938 model that I mentioned is this one:    Made in Germany 1938 - 1940 Tin-plate Wind-up drive Handbrake Steering (rack & pignon actually!) Clutch 4 Sp. + reverse gearbox all functional of course. This model lead to a whole "family" of decendants and here's a shot of a couple of them:  Jack | ||
| DES (Sickspeed)
Advanced Member Username: Sickspeed Post Number: 3751 Registered: 8-2002 |
Jack, definitely post it - if it's a Ferrari model, post it in General Discussion, everyone would love to see something like that... | ||
| Jack Habits (Ferraristuff)
Member Username: Ferraristuff Post Number: 301 Registered: 4-2003 |
>>>These are wind-up toys...? Oh yeah! Schuco started making wind-up toys in 1912. In 1938 they released a tin-plate model with wind-up motor, functional steering, handbrake and 4-speed forward + reverse gearbox! Was modelled after the BMW 328 of those days. That model evolved into another in the 1950's which had the same gearbox but column-shift and "radio". Let me know if you would like to seed it and I'll post soome pics. I have "dozens" of them, including one that is apart so you can see the mechanism. Jack | ||
| DES (Sickspeed)
Advanced Member Username: Sickspeed Post Number: 3746 Registered: 8-2002 |
These are wind-up toys...? That's awesome...! i didn't know they had wind-up toys back then... (ah, to be youthfully ignorant...  ) | ||
| Jack Habits (Ferraristuff)
Member Username: Ferraristuff Post Number: 297 Registered: 4-2003 |
Yeah, they're fun! Notice the rubber nose pieces? Was done so that boys could run them indoors without damaging the furniture! These little rockets could attain speeds of over 15 MPH just with a wind-up mechanism... Jack | ||
| DES (Sickspeed)
Advanced Member Username: Sickspeed Post Number: 3743 Registered: 8-2002 |
Jack, those rock...! Considering that the hand brakes are functional and that you can adjust the steering with the tail pipe is even cooler...! | ||
| Jack Habits (Ferraristuff)
Member Username: Ferraristuff Post Number: 294 Registered: 4-2003 |
I'll keep comparing to nowadays technology in scale model making... These two are Schuco "Micro Racers" from between 1954 and 1964. Zinc-cast bodies, chromed axles and wheels, rubber tires, functional handbrake and.... clockwork drive. BTW, twisting the tailpipe adjusts the steering! They are supposed to be Ferrari 500's. Babyboomers amongst us might recall these "pocket rockets".   When EVEN Ferrari switched to engines in the back, Schuco remodelled the "1040" to this:  I Think they are pretty neat with their 3.5 inches length and from an era when battery-powered models, let alone radio-controlled ones, were hardly heard of. Jack |