[Piz]

I picked these up in a large lot I aquired years ago and have never been able to fully ID them . It is a parts lot I would say thye are maybe 1/54 scale ( smaller than 1/43 but bigger the 1/64) I kinda of remember running across them somewhere on line before but can't find anythis again.
Thank s
Mike

PS NONE of the parts have any kind of ID markings what so ever .

 

[kyle2084]

they look like old marx cars.

 

[kyle2084]

after looking at them again.....if the pickups in the box are the originals.....i dont believe they are marx

 

[Piz]

I believe everything is original , but not 100% positive

 

[Bill Hall]

Not Marx!

Brain fart though....VJ has some of these...he'll be along.

 

[krazcustoms]

I believe they were made by a company called Penn Line, which was a model train company and I'm pretty sure they were the only slot cars that company ever made.

 

[kiwidave]

Yep Penn line!

 

[Piz]

You guys nailed it. I just googled Penn Line slotcars and found out they were the only slot cars they made and in fact they were so bad that they bankrupted the company !
thanks for your help .

 

[Omega]

Talk about having a slice of history, That is just to cool. If you can I would clean them up, put them together and display them.

Dave

 

[Piz]

There is nothing to clean all of these parts are N.O.S The paint a decals are just old and low quailty . i would put them together but I don't have all of the pieces , there are no chassis .

 

[ParkRNDL]

WOW. very cool. talk about discovering a forgotten piece of slot car history...

--rick

 

[videojimmy]

they are indeed Penn Line... and beautiful bodies as well.

 

[SCJ]

They are Penn Line (can you guess the state they are from?) and the only available set I've seen is an Indy 500 AJ Foyt set with a very young AJ on the box lid. The chassis is molded in Atlas grey and looks like an Aurora O guage chassis.

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[videojimmy]

They are Penn Line (can you guess the state they are from?) and the only available set I've seen is an Indy 500 AJ Foyt set with a very young AJ on the box lid. The chassis is molded in Atlas grey and looks like an Aurora A-jet chassis.

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not the ones I have, mine are white and they have can motors with
gearing like an Atlas or Lionell...with really long pick ups shoes

 

[SCJ]

not the ones I have, mine are white and they have can motors with
gearing like an Atlas or Lionell...with really long pick ups shoes

Sorry should have been more descript (I knew what I meant)....agree Atlas like but te size and pick-up configuration reminds me or Aurora O Guage stuff.

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