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I’m Logan the 64th Gear Jammer Skeele, and I'm opening the doors on another episode of Toy Talk.

Several years ago, I went to South Bend Indiana on a work trip at my old job. Part of the itinerary included visiting the Studebaker Museum and the American Historical Truck Society’s National Convention and Truck Show event at the St. Joseph County 4-H Fairgrounds.

The Studebaker Museum was amazing, and their collection was impressive, but the best part of the trip was seeing all the vintage semi-trucks at the big show. There were classics from the 1910s all the way to the 1990s on display.

The biggest attraction though was inside a building. There were not just one, but two General Motors Futurliners. One of them was fully restored and the other was in need of a restore.

These machines were just mammoth in size. The fully restored one was opened up with an exhibit from the National Auto and Truck Museum of Auburn Indiana who owns Futurliner #10.

Let’s take a trip through time to see why this marvelous machine was made.

Dialing the clock back to May 27, 1933 to be exact, Chicago celebrated their “CENTURY OF PROGRESS” by hosting the Chicago World’s Fair.

The main objectives of the Chicago World's Fair were to highlight finished products, demonstrate how products were made, and show people how science works. After all, this was an exciting time of discovery in America. The motor car was being perfected. Air travel was just taking off, and many other advancements in science and industry were happening despite the depression.

In the General Motors Pavilion, General Motors demonstrated how Sound Stops Sound, cooking on a Magnetic Stove, a Photo Elastic Stress Study and Music on a Light Beam.

But GM's most important exhibit was a FULLY functioning Chevrolet production line. This exhibit was intended to show the contributions factories were making to modern society. Incidentally, attendees at the fair could purchase a Chevrolet car right off the line.

Charles Kettering, GMs vice president in charge of research was inspired with the reception GM received with their exhibits and developed the idea to take GM on the road. The GM "Parade of Progress" road show was the result. The show toured throughout the U.S., Canada, Mexico, and even Cuba from 1936 to 1956 only stopping during WWII. The Parade of Progress played to millions of people, showing them working examples of modern innovations that would make people’s lives easier and better.

Kettering’s, Parade of Progress was like a “World’s Fair on Wheels” that traveled from town to town in large red and white streamlined trucks. When the vehicles arrived in a small town, they would a park where a large tent could be erected, and the displays would be open to the public free-of-charge.

On display were jet engines, microwave ovens, and sound waves that traveled on a flashlight beam. The Fisher Body Craftsman’s Guild Competition staged an automotive design contest in which teenagers competed for college scholarships by designing and building scale model “dream cars”. The winners were then showcased in continuing The Parade of Progress.

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I've got another Freightliner Cascadia product review today by Diecast Promotions. Well, DCP by First Gear, but who uses that? After all this set is all DCP toolings. It's a fleet style truck with a really sharp paint job in 1:64th scale.

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This model I'm going to review today was made to commemorate the launch of the completely redesigned 2020 Chevrolet Corvette.

The 2020 Corvette was the most radical redesign in 67 years. It finally moved the engine from the front to midship, giving a much better weight distribution for performance and handling.

1:72 Scale Diecast Century Wings F-8E Crusader USMC VMF-333 Fighting Shamrocks DN7 Product Review

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This podcast is a departure from my normal reviews subject matter. I've done some videos on spacecraft models before, and I enjoy airplane models. So, I want to review some of them starting with a Vought F-8E Crusader in 1:72nd scale by Century Wings.

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The first “Dream car” appeared in 1938 when the Buick Y-Job was shown to the public. Concept cars have always been with us but in the 1950s Harley Earl, a General Motors vehicle designer, invented the idea of the “concept car,” a car or truck of futuristic design. He wanted to obtain customer reaction to a new and radical exterior design and new interior innovations. As you know these exceptional cars and trucks are shown annually at special car and truck shows, like the Detroit Auto Show. Most, if not all of these vehicles were never to be mass-produced.

Firebird One looked very much like a jet fighter plane only it had four wheels and was confined to the ground. Firebird One could only seat the driver in his “Jet-Like Cockpit.”

Norev made a 1:64th scale diecast version of Firebird I. Being 1:64th scale it is pretty tiny, but they did a great job replicating Firebird I It has a die-cast body and some plastic ancillary parts. It also rides on soft rubber tires. The cockpit canopy shows off the single seat. And at the back, you can see the jet turbine. They did a pretty nice job making Firebird One

Firebird Two looked more like a normal car only it possessed a somewhat more radical design. The air intakes protruded in the car front and looked like aviation weapons. This Firebird could seat four people in bucket seats.

Norev also made a 1:64thscale diecast version of Firebird II to go along with their Firebird I It shows off the, a bubble canopy with the four seats inside. Pretty nice design. It has soft rubber tires on free rolling wheels. You can also see the two intakes which do look like aviation weapons. Then on the back, you can see the dual turbine exhaust, great design and a great model of it.

Firebird Three was perhaps the largest of the three Firebird's. Imagine a two-passenger car with two “cockpit bubble” covers keeping the passengers separate.

Norev made a 1:64thscale diecast car model of Firebird III to complete the set of Firebird vehicles. The tires are all are soft rubber, and they roll pretty nicely. And this one shows off that really neat design feature, the double bubble cockpit, also the great winglets and wings that they put on the design.

And that makes the set of three GM Firebird vehicles that no rev madeas diecast cars for us collectors to have a complete set of Firebird 1:64thscale cars

Diecast Promotions Peterbilt 352 Livestock Trailer Kreilkamp Trucking 64 Scale Truck Product Review

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How many of you heard of Kreilkamp trucking before? DCP by First Gear released two different color scheme Kreilkamp Pete 352s with livestock trailers and I’m going to review those trucks together in this podcast since the differences are only in the paint scheme.

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I've got another product review today on another great 1:64th scale vintage truck.

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Today, it's another Neo Scale Models truck though this time it's a fifties truck by Diamond T.

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Today I am going to talk about one of their most famous and innovative products that never was intended to reach production. The experimental turbine powered tractor, the HT-340. The HT stood for Hydrostatic Turbine.

Mack Granite Anthem UPS & LR Product Review 1:64th Scale Greenlight Collectibles S-D Trucks Series 7

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S-D Trucks Series 7, Yep I got these guys out of order. I already dropped my video on Series 8, so I’m back tracking here, but I just found my set back in the warehouse and gotta drop a new video for you. Here is a link to go see my video on S-D Trucks Series 8: https://youtu.be/QLMIBZr8ENE.

SD Trucks series 7 is another All Mack Trucks set, just like Series 6 was. However, this one has the brand new Cement Mixer tooling instead of the dump truck.

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I’m going to talk about another classic Cab Over Truck and a 1:64th scale model of it.

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Peterbilt and cab over trucks really went hand in hand for decades. They began making a cab over back in 1949 and have come a long way to get to the Model 372, which was the last “Line-Haul” cab over truck designed by Peterbilt with production ending before its predecessor, the 362. The 372 went out in 1994 and the 362 ended production in 2005 eliminating “line-haul” cabover trucks from Peterbilt’s lineup.

A side Note, Pete still makes low cab forward COEs for vocational and city delivery trucks today.

However, today I’m talking about the Model 352 which came on in 1959 and was the first Tilt-Cab COE by Peterbilt. It was also the first UniLite cab and with an update in 1969, it received the nickname “Pacemaker”.

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I want to ask you, what did the Allis-Chalmers Company have in common with the Fuel Cell, NASA, the Military, and the SPACE program? Imagine, a tractor and heavy equipment company involved in outer space!