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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*
    • Auto World catalogs died off by the '90s. Forgot when the last catalog was published. There was also a 1/1 racing parts & accessories catalog. *LINK*
  • 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*
    • Yep, I think I started getting the Hobby Heaven lists in the late 80's, certainly by the early 90's.......Tom Carter & Hobby Heaven with Scale Auto Enthusiast magazine were a relevation regarding my model hobby & I can't express my thanks enough. *NM*
      • Ditto for me. That’s almost exactly my experience and sentiment. *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....
    • Ditto on the hot knife! *NM*
    • Marty...you mentioned a brand of "Hot Knife"...reminded me that once I started chopping up plastic models I used an old butter knife heated over a metholated spirits burner....lol....lots of plastic kit "molding" & ruination ensured. *NM*
      • An added bonus of that hot knife was that when you slipped and stabbed yourself with it, the wound was instantly cauterized! *NM*
        • Never worked like the pictures, at least not for me!
          • In my stash, is the remains of an original issue AMT '62 Chevy pickup, that has the doors hot-knifed open. Cab is trashed.
            • Just sold mine... *NM*
            • ISO the annual kit long bed parts - anyone who has 'em, LMK
              • I keep hoping that a '62 Chevy long bed will be the subject of Round 2 cloning project some day, along the same lines as the '60 Ford. Both cab and bed configuration haven't been done in modern times. *NM*
                • I'm surprised that whoever has the AMT '66 longbed tool hasn't contacted Round 2 (or Atlantis) about running plastic through it *NM*
                  • As the NASCAR boys say, "one of them racin' deals..."
                  • Seems like a slam dunk if it could be put together. Might be challenging if the tooling had to be shipped overseas in order to run it, though. Either way, I’d be up for a few. *NM*
              • Bed "surround" is the same except side trim all those years...
  • 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*