Posted on 02/02/2015 9:08:43 AM PST by SWAMPSNIPER
The Pratte Collection auctioned last week, is best known for containing Carroll Shelby’s 800 hp Super Snake Cobra, the 1954 Pontiac Bonneville Concept car and the GM Futurliner, but it also contained one of the largest collection of childrens' cars ever assembled. More than 70 went to auction and they'll make you drool.
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The 21st century smart car.
What a beautiful collection. Does anybody know if the Pratte collection was publicly viewable?
Because now that it has been sold off in pieces, there will never be a place to see all of this as a group again.
They don’t make them like that any more.
We had a 1950’s International Harvester pedal red tractor and pull behind wagon. I think the dealer gave it to my father when he bought the super H. My older brother has it now. His boys rode it and they are now both in college.
Like the bigger tractors, this little one was all steel and cast iron except for the hard rubber tires.
sounds cool!
they most definitely do not make them like that any more
It was similar to this:
http://www.rubylane.com/item/645543-KC-05307/1960s-Ertl-International-Harvester-856-Tractor
This place makes some nice ones but the vintage seem to be so much cooler.
My grandfather gave me that exact tractor when I was 4, and I loved it. Unfortunately, it was stolen after just a few weeks (I left it in the front yard overnight).
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