The YesterYear range never appealed to me as a child because I had never seen any of the real things.However, Steed in the TV series ´The Avengers´ made the blower Bentley an icon in my young eyes, and what with a few other TV appearances amd seeing at least 2 in the metal this has become the only YY I really like and enjoy. I own about a dozen YYs including both blower Bentley castings which I picked up for very little money at toyfairs in the late 1990s when YYs were being almost given away.....
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I have seen a real London Tram in the London Transport museum, so I had to buy the model when one popped up for about $4 - apart from the very small scale it is a very well made model.The no 56 Trolleybus is a fine effort for the 1950s and has done rather well capturing the real look of these awesome vehicles, ( albeit in tiny scale.).......Persuading cities all over the world to scrap their trams in the 1950s and their Trolleybuses in the 1960s (BIG MISTAKE :freak: ) was actually BIG OIL´s first major victory against wonderful electric transport.
Dirty diesel buses a modern improvement :freak: ......they sure did kid a lot of folks.....at a time when the electric overhead was often 50 years old and approaching the need for expensive major renewal.Blackpool in England, Gothenburg in Sweden and Oslo in Norway never did relinquish their trams and they remain charming, popular and environmentally friendly tourist attractions today


I could sell the rest of my small selection of YYs and never miss them..........
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I pop in here from time to time and when I saw this thread I knew I had to post.

My most memorable Model of Yesteryear has to be Y-12, the 1909 Thomas Flyabout. Our family took a roadtrip out to Michigan in the late sixties. One of our stops was the Henry Ford Museum. Of the 7 of us, I was probably the most mesmerized by all of that mechanical beauty. If I remember correctly, I got the Flyabout at the gift shop at the museum.
Compared to the 55-cent 1:64 Matchboxes, the Yesteryear models were expensive which is why I only have 10 of them. Haven't purchased any as an adult so the ones I own have been with me for a good long time. :)

Of all the Yesteryears my favorite is the Fowler Showmans Engine, a wonderfull casting! Yesteryears does not have the highest priority in my collection but I can't walk away from a nice Fowler, when I see one :p

About the Tramcars; I remember the yellow tramcars in Copenhagen, when I was on holliday with my grandparents i Copenhagen (late 60s). The city lost a lot of its soul when they dissapered :(

Karl-E. Denmark

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I have always liked the Model T best.

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I'm gonna take a guess at the year of that amazing store display....1971? LMK !

I'm going to guess 1969.

Thanks for the contest!

1968?
KARL -those Showmans engines must be about the finest example of Jack Odels work ever to come out of the Lesney Factory - I have either seen the real deal or something very close at classic car events.I actually have one of these playworn in dark maroon that I have never looked too hard at - now is the time to dig it out and start enjoying it, methinks :)