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- Question for the old guys......
- Nope,only ever heard of an Auto World catalog once the internet arrived,for me,it was waiting for a Saturday morning when I could catch the train into Sydney & go spend some hours oggling the kits & built models at HobbyCo,the biggest by far hobby & model shop around. *NM*
- It wasn’t such a big thing for me, but I do recall being excited to get the latest Hobby Heaven list in the mail. *NM*
- The first time I saw the AutoWorld catalog...
- Ditto on the catalog, and on mowing the lawns. *NM*
- Absolutely, I remember it. Looking through all of the stuff to see what I might find for modeling.
- Still have many of them!!!! *NM*
- Yeah! My dad started getting those when I was a kid and I got them later. Same with catalogs from Model Empire in Milwaukee. I wish I had kept some of that stuff. *NM*
- I'm not quite as old, but yeah.... I first discovered the Auto World catalog some time around 1972. Spent hours and hours pouring through it's pages. After that I'd look forward to the next edition....
- I spent paper route and lawn mowing money on models too. I found Auto World in the Model Car Science magazines I was buying at the drug store.Nelson's hardware store had models upstairs. I still dream about all the models I could not afford *NM*
- Yes, Still have mine around here somewhere....
- Started getting them on the news stand sometime around 1964. Once you placed an order (and there were many) they started sending the catalogs for free in the mail. Really miss those days!
- Great memories...
- Aahhhh, the Auto World catalogs! Between models, tools and HO slot car stuff, they got a good majority of my paper route income. In hindsight - still more fun than putting it in the bank! *NM*
- I got my first Auto-World catalog in 1978...
- I remember seeing my older brother's copies in the mid-Sixties. The small ones. I have since managed to find one of each (sold a spare '64 at NNL East yesterday). The JC Whitney of the model car world! *NM*