I was in the fifth grade in '65-'66. My buddy and I would read Car Model Magazine (always looked for Dave Shuklis' latest creation!) and Autoworld catalogs from cover to cover. Slot car racing was all the rage, but we were too far out in the woods to visit any commercial tracks, so we concentrated on building model cars. Gosh, I remember so many "first editions" that are rare collectibles today; built a lot of them. Thanks for these walks down memory lane!
Man, this is so cool! I used to build old Johan '70 442 kits for my Dad to put on the air cleaner of his real car at shows. I quit building for a long time, but kept buying once in a while. Now my garage looks like a hobby store, at last count it was at 400. Lol.
I remember my first exposure to AutoWorld back in the late '60s. I was (am?) a member of the PRDA (Polish Race Drivers of America) and still proudly have one of their decals on the rear of one of my vehicles (on magnetic material, so it can move from vehicle to vehicle). Oscar always made it a point to keep auto racing FUN! I think my paper membership card wore out several years ago, but I still can recall their high membership standards: One had to be Polish and a race driver; Non-Polish and a race driver; Polish and not a race driver; or Not-Polish and not a race driver. I also remember that they produced a line of decals to apply to your race car models, which included a wide range of sponsor and sanctioning body decals, to make the models even more authentic.
Steve! Love the channel! I found your channel through UTG and love it! I remember reading about the Wilshire Shaker build back in the day. If you can find a way to turn up the volume for the viewers, it will certainly help guys like me watching on our phones. We need more automotive historians like you. Keep it up!
Boy Steve what timing! At almost 65 I am just starting to resume my childhood pastime of building model cars . Found a Revell 71 442 kit that I am building to look like the one I had in the late seventies. I sold it to put a ring on my girlfriends left hand in 1980. Still have her, kinda wish I had the car too!
Hi Steve. Beginning to watch you on UA-cam now. Of course always watched you on Barrett Jackson. Boggles my mind one guy could know so much about cars. Wish you continued success and will be watching for sure. Dennis
thank you steve magante i was also a young modeler of the 70`s. i just resently started building model kits agian, my favorites are big rigs and gassers. i love your show on motortrend ,i watch every friday night cant wait for the next episode !
Back in the late 70s/mid 80s I got into model car kit and dealer promo collecting. Went to toy shows almost every weekend around the area, you'd see the radio equipped cars and lots of friction car models.
Nice series Steve with the models! Brings me back to my childhood too. Got rid of all my models including my 1:18 scale metal models in favour of the 1:43 scale Hot Wheels / Matchbox / M2 etc. ( takes way less room. I have a wall display. Wife much happier with this collection)
My brother and I built plastic models at a young age iin the 70s and 80s. We still have all of our finished models. I credit the building of these models for our love of cars and our mechanical ability to work on real cars. Very important for us as young boys
I've always loved model cars but I never seemed to finish any. I was obsessed with trying to paint every detail into them and I usually got the engine done and the rest mostly painted but never completely assembled. I actually have two in my closet right now in the same state
I recently bought my first kits from AutoWorld. I see a few more I want, ( I always buy more than I will build anytime soon 😂 ) thanks Steve for putting together the cool shows! I'm trying to finish up my '64 Coronet altered wheelbase model I'm custom building! That's the,car I showed you on your Facebook page
"Back in the day" as a 10 year old modeler I mail ordered what was basically a heated exacto knife that would cut through the plastic on the models. I must mention the 0 safety features and that I probably could have branded myself with the knife. I also drank water from a garden hose and I'm still here. Pretty amazing huh?
My Dad took me to the store numerous times in the 70s still have my official Goodyear jacket i received one Christmas from Autoworld you also could race slot cars on a track in the store good memories
Just when I thought you couldn’t get any cooler, you break out those old catalogs. You’re the Man Steve. Oh yeah, I want your kit stash. Those JoHans were my favorites. Do you have Tom Daniels “Puma” custom Corvette tucked away?
My first Auto World catalog was probably 1970. They had a hot knife to radiusing wheelwells, a set of shifters which were probably just straight pins, and a semi dump truck model with the name "Phil Dirt" on the tractor.
Hail Steve. From FLINT MI here. Upon seeing the title to this one I immediately thought to myself . " how does Steve know about Flint's (defunct and long gone) 1980's theme park failure AUTOWORLD. ???
Thanks, I’ve been getting back into this hobby, and trying to find some of these kits from my past are not easy to find. I didn’t know that “Auto World” was still around.
Don't forget Model Car Science magazine, which during it's span changed focus several times. There was the infamous CARtoons and the comic book contingency with Teenaged Hotrodders and Hot Rods and Racing Cars with their related spin offs. Least not dismiss the Hot Rod trading car sets.
Where's my time machine? You could get the Auto World catalog on the newsstand a couple of times a year in the New York City area and by the time the 1980s rolled around, I had quite a stack of them but even better than that was a relationship with Oscar! Birthdays and Christmas there was always going to be a box from Scranton on somebody's doorstep in my family, but you're leaving out an important part of the story, Oscar was one of the leading distributors of Aurora slot cars and many times would have long lead announcements of upcoming products, not to mention a variety of hot rod parts, decals and even high-end controllers and brass chassis rockets! And who could forget Oscar the track cleaner? Another thing is Oscar was one of the first national distributors of some of the earliest radio control cars, I remember them first appearing in his catalogs around 1975 or 76. Very happy to see Tom Lowe carry on the tradition of Auto World and slot cars with his reproduction Aurora stuff, especially since the quality has improved so much over the years since the earliest days of his Johnny Lightning line. Tom is a really great guy and a true enthusiast of both cars and automobilea and I appreciate everything he has done for both hobbies. Keep up the great work, Steve, I'm glad that I subscribed and I'm getting to see so much cool content from you.
i just sent for thier new catologe...i build model car & truck kits...i also have 1/25 and HO slot car cars and tracks...i even have some original thunder jet HO slot cars....i live in wilkes-barre pa....i had no idea auto world was or isnin scranton pa...great video steve thank you......
The Philco radios were also included in Thunderbird promos from 1964 through at least 1968 and possibly 1969. The Philco model number was NT-11. There was also a 66 Impala radio made. Even though Ford had owned Philco since 1961 it was only in 1966 that they changed the name of Philco to Philco-Ford.
Steve I know a guy that has hundreds and hundreds of old model kits a lot of them unopened, He does sell model kits at toy shows, at car shows, things of that nature. We live in upstate New York not far from the mass border
Virtually all the promos were available as friction drive cars, often front wheel drive, from the early 1950s onward. They’re generally worth 20 per cent less than the equivalent condition roller.
A lot of these comments are about blowing up, burning or destroying models .I did the same ,but I got grand-dads 8mm and filmed it . I think that kind of sport was universal with kids .
Oscar K raced a Can Am McLaren....He couldn't afford the exotic Lucas McKay timed fuel injection....So.....what did he do? Slapped a BIG OLD HOLLEY 4150 onto his Big Block Chevy....The car had a cool paint job that looked like a Slot Car Track circling around the body
I was 10 in '73 and I wished I still had some of the model's I built back then but I loved to blow them up with M80's and gasoline balloons inside them!!!! Like the explosions you'd see in the movies. Yeah I know I was a wild little sob. Lol good time's.
Please comment for the need of new kits for a new generation of kit builders. Too many kits are re issues of very.old kits that don't cut it with younger builders.
Back in the early 80’s, my parents took me to their location in Scranton PA. They were surprised that we actually drove there because they only did mail orders. But they let us pick what I wanted in the catalog and they went and picked it,right then and there.
Really never built kit cars was more into World War II planes and ships. I remember go the roof of my building with my friends and setting an aircraft carrier on fire 🔥 and throwing it off.
Interesting video! Never seen a model car radio before. Sometimes I wonder what all the "car nuts" like us would do if it was the year 1821...yikes, a world without cars. Unbearable!
Thank you Steve Get well soon
I was in the fifth grade in '65-'66. My buddy and I would read Car Model Magazine (always looked for Dave Shuklis' latest creation!) and Autoworld catalogs from cover to cover. Slot car racing was all the rage, but we were too far out in the woods to visit any commercial tracks, so we concentrated on building model cars. Gosh, I remember so many "first editions" that are rare collectibles today; built a lot of them.
Thanks for these walks down memory lane!
Man, this is so cool! I used to build old Johan '70 442 kits for my Dad to put on the air cleaner of his real car at shows. I quit building for a long time, but kept buying once in a while. Now my garage looks like a hobby store, at last count it was at 400. Lol.
loved it lived it. Now old enough to get back into it.
thanks Steve Mags!!!
Round 2 Network! Your a bizzy man on You tube these days. I sure am glad to see it! Dig your model stuff especially.
Well done! Thanks for creating
I remember my first exposure to AutoWorld back in the late '60s. I was (am?) a member of the PRDA (Polish Race Drivers of America) and still proudly have one of their decals on the rear of one of my vehicles (on magnetic material, so it can move from vehicle to vehicle). Oscar always made it a point to keep auto racing FUN! I think my paper membership card wore out several years ago, but I still can recall their high membership standards: One had to be Polish and a race driver; Non-Polish and a race driver; Polish and not a race driver; or Not-Polish and not a race driver. I also remember that they produced a line of decals to apply to your race car models, which included a wide range of sponsor and sanctioning body decals, to make the models even more authentic.
Steve! Love the channel! I found your channel through UTG and love it! I remember reading about the Wilshire Shaker build back in the day. If you can find a way to turn up the volume for the viewers, it will certainly help guys like me watching on our phones. We need more automotive historians like you. Keep it up!
This makes me want to go get a kit and build it.
Love the inside back cover ad for Cox Slot Cars. Those were the days for kids of all ages.
Good Day Steve. Cheers 🇨🇦
Boy Steve what timing! At almost 65 I am just starting to resume my childhood pastime of building model cars . Found a Revell 71 442 kit that I am building to look like the one I had in the late seventies. I sold it to put a ring on my girlfriends left hand in 1980. Still have her, kinda wish I had the car too!
Hi Steve. Beginning to watch you on UA-cam now. Of course always watched you on Barrett Jackson. Boggles my mind one guy could know so much about cars. Wish you continued success and will be watching for sure. Dennis
On my 10th model after watching Super Models, thanks for the inspiration, Steve!
thank you steve magante i was also a young modeler of the 70`s. i just resently started building model kits agian, my favorites are big rigs and gassers. i love your show on motortrend ,i watch every friday night cant wait for the next episode !
Back in the late 70s/mid 80s I got into model car kit and dealer promo collecting. Went to toy shows almost every weekend around the area, you'd see the radio equipped cars and lots of friction car models.
I loved the Autoworld catalogs. I would wear mine out thumbing through them. I didn't have much money so my purchases were minimal.
Nice series Steve with the models! Brings me back to my childhood too. Got rid of all my models including my 1:18 scale metal models in favour of the 1:43 scale Hot Wheels / Matchbox / M2 etc. ( takes way less room. I have a wall display. Wife much happier with this collection)
My brother and I built plastic models at a young age iin the 70s and 80s. We still have all of our finished models. I credit the building of these models for our love of cars and our mechanical ability to work on real cars. Very important for us as young boys
Great segment.
I've always loved model cars but I never seemed to finish any. I was obsessed with trying to paint every detail into them and I usually got the engine done and the rest mostly painted but never completely assembled. I actually have two in my closet right now in the same state
I still have an old Auto-World catalog from my childhood in the 1960's.
Wow, the model car radio was cool--I got the Radio Shack neoclassic car radio, with the spare tires as the volume knob.
Cool stuff. @Steve Magnante remember when Aurora held slot car races to give away a fullsize Thunderbird?
There's some videos here on UA-cam if you search for them, I particularly like the one of Sterling Moss kicking everybody's butt on some TV show!
Auto world is so cool and with slot cars too! Good times!
I liked the slot car section. I once visited their retail store in Scranton.
I recently bought my first kits from AutoWorld. I see a few more I want, ( I always buy more than I will build anytime soon 😂 ) thanks Steve for putting together the cool shows! I'm trying to finish up my '64 Coronet altered wheelbase model I'm custom building! That's the,car I showed you on your Facebook page
Sweeeet ! Models, models and more models ! Thank heaven for Round 2 and the mom and pop (although not many) hobby shops ! Thanks Steve 🍻
I loved AutoWorld!
I built that same Chevy Caprice/trailer kit and painted it to match my Barry Setzer Vega funny car build.
Love this - thank you! I know I’m off topic, but the Cox ad from the catalog brought back some fond memories as well.
"Back in the day" as a 10 year old modeler I mail ordered what was basically a heated exacto knife that would cut through the plastic on the models. I must mention the 0 safety features and that I probably could have branded myself with the knife. I also drank water from a garden hose and I'm still here. Pretty amazing huh?
My Dad took me to the store numerous times in the 70s still have my official Goodyear jacket i received one Christmas from Autoworld you also could race slot cars on a track in the store good memories
Just when I thought you couldn’t get any cooler, you break out those old catalogs. You’re the Man Steve. Oh yeah, I want your kit stash. Those JoHans were my favorites. Do you have Tom Daniels “Puma” custom Corvette tucked away?
How about some of the dealer promo models
Very cool! I get emails from them and have bought a couple of models now I just have to build them.
Cool and very Informant and you learn something new every day
My first Auto World catalog was probably 1970. They had a hot knife to radiusing wheelwells, a set of shifters which were probably just straight pins, and a semi dump truck model with the name "Phil Dirt" on the tractor.
Get well steve❤
Great channel, I really liked AMT model kits for their detail, those those 3 in 1 custom car kits were awesome. 🤗
Don't forget the AFX stuff they had. Man I loved that catalog.
In the mid 60's I would order hard to find slot car parts from Auto World. They had everything! Still have some of that stuff.
Big auto world fan used to get all catalog since I was a kid
I am a little older, so I remember seeing Oscar at the Glenn in a Can Am event in the early 70s...Good memories
Hail Steve. From FLINT MI here. Upon seeing the title to this one I immediately thought to myself . " how does Steve know about Flint's (defunct and long gone) 1980's theme park failure AUTOWORLD. ???
Thanks, I’ve been getting back into this hobby, and trying to find some of these kits from my past are not easy to find. I didn’t know that “Auto World” was still around.
Don't forget Model Car Science magazine, which during it's span changed focus several times. There was the infamous CARtoons and the comic book contingency with Teenaged Hotrodders and Hot Rods and Racing Cars with their related spin offs. Least not dismiss the Hot Rod trading car sets.
Where's my time machine? You could get the Auto World catalog on the newsstand a couple of times a year in the New York City area and by the time the 1980s rolled around, I had quite a stack of them but even better than that was a relationship with Oscar! Birthdays and Christmas there was always going to be a box from Scranton on somebody's doorstep in my family, but you're leaving out an important part of the story, Oscar was one of the leading distributors of Aurora slot cars and many times would have long lead announcements of upcoming products, not to mention a variety of hot rod parts, decals and even high-end controllers and brass chassis rockets! And who could forget Oscar the track cleaner? Another thing is Oscar was one of the first national distributors of some of the earliest radio control cars, I remember them first appearing in his catalogs around 1975 or 76. Very happy to see Tom Lowe carry on the tradition of Auto World and slot cars with his reproduction Aurora stuff, especially since the quality has improved so much over the years since the earliest days of his Johnny Lightning line. Tom is a really great guy and a true enthusiast of both cars and automobilea and I appreciate everything he has done for both hobbies. Keep up the great work, Steve, I'm glad that I subscribed and I'm getting to see so much cool content from you.
I have many of them magazines, auto world and scale auto enthusiast! I used to build model kits based on some of the pictures from the magazines!👌😎👍
Top left corner, I want the volare road runner kit u have 😍
awesome sir very cool
Round 2 is coming out with some great stuff!! And i just finished that 79 doge truck in the background. But i made it a short box 4x4
i just sent for thier new catologe...i build model car & truck kits...i also have 1/25 and HO slot car cars and tracks...i even have some original thunder jet HO slot cars....i live in wilkes-barre pa....i had no idea auto world was or isnin scranton pa...great video steve thank you......
The Philco radios were also included in Thunderbird promos from 1964 through at least 1968 and possibly 1969. The Philco model number was NT-11. There was also a 66 Impala radio made. Even though Ford had owned Philco since 1961 it was only in 1966 that they changed the name of Philco to Philco-Ford.
I think in my dealer promo collection, I have the Tbird radio car
Steve I know a guy that has hundreds and hundreds of old model kits a lot of them unopened, He does sell model kits at toy shows, at car shows, things of that nature. We live in upstate New York not far from the mass border
Dad worked at Philco Ford, that also where heavy in the space program in the 60's
Virtually all the promos were available as friction drive cars, often front wheel drive, from the early 1950s onward. They’re generally worth 20 per cent less than the equivalent condition roller.
I love all your knowledge and willingness to share it with the world. On the other hand you need a better microphone setup. Thanks for the content
All of my H.O. Cars came from AutoWorld lot's of trick parts .
That's the same trailer included with the mpc 1968 SS427 Impala kit.
You have some nice older models that bring back memories...model collector myself!! Kool
A lot of these comments are about blowing up, burning or destroying models .I did the same ,but I got grand-dads 8mm and filmed it . I think that kind of sport was universal with kids .
Oscar K raced a Can Am McLaren....He couldn't afford the exotic Lucas McKay timed fuel injection....So.....what did he do? Slapped a BIG OLD HOLLEY 4150 onto his Big Block Chevy....The car had a cool paint job that looked like a Slot Car Track circling around the body
in the 1970's i bought parts from them for my ho cars. still haveover 50 cars.
I was 10 in '73 and I wished I still had some of the model's I built back then but I loved to blow them up with M80's and gasoline balloons inside them!!!! Like the explosions you'd see in the movies. Yeah I know I was a wild little sob. Lol good time's.
Hello Steve, volume seems low.
I think those licence plates were only made as 1961 plate weren’t they…? Never saw any from other years.
Hi Steve, Great videos, but audio isn't good!!
Please comment for the need of new kits for a new generation of kit builders. Too many kits are re issues of very.old kits that don't cut it with younger builders.
Back in the early 80’s, my parents took me to their location in Scranton PA. They were surprised that we actually drove there because they only did mail orders. But they let us pick what I wanted in the catalog and they went and picked it,right then and there.
Really never built kit cars was more into World War II planes and ships. I remember go the roof of my building with my friends and setting an aircraft carrier on fire 🔥 and throwing it off.
Interesting video! Never seen a model car radio before. Sometimes I wonder what all the "car nuts" like us would do if it was the year 1821...yikes, a world without cars. Unbearable!
Like ⭐️🚘🎥📺✨
I’ve got those magazines up in the attic in my collection
i wish you could see my builds