> Were these trucks in any way associated with "Budd Buddies"
Nope. These trucks were associated with plastic-coated cardboard passenger car
sides made from menu stock. Flat smoothside car sides were die stamped from
this material in several window patterns. You have not lived until you built
full scale length 84' S scale passenger models in the goode olde daze.
> "Budd Buddies", a product or product line that I never have gotten anyone to
> explain to me in a way I believed.
> - Earl Henry, Nashville
Budd Buddies was a group of ten buddies each of whom contributed $1,000 toward
tooling for Budd passenger cars. A $10,000 contract was signed with an
experienced fellow who promised a complete train of injection molded Budd cars
from the baggage to the observation. The trucks were actually produced and
retailed by BTS. Nothing else was ever completed although various parts and
pieces were started.
The so-called experienced fellow then called and said he ran out of money and
wasn't that too bad. He bailed on the project, filed for bankruptcy, moved to
Florida from Seattle in order to keep his house, became sick and passed away.
Later, we learned that some of the Budd tooling money was spent for non-Budd
car things.
Just before his movement away from Washington (state of), the Budd Buddies
threatened legal action (via Larry Sokol, a Portland, OR attorney who was not
licensed to practice in Washington) and a compromise was negotiated. We got
half our money back, but he got to keep the tooling for the trucks. That
tooling is now in the possession of Des Plaines Hobbies who makes production
runs of these trucks when enough pentup demand presents itself to Ron.
Interestingly, the copyright for these trucks belongs to the Budd Buddies and
we have never requested any royalty payment for this product. We were just
happy to see them on the market.
Sound similar to certain containers? Yep, same type of story. But life goes
on and stuff is forgotten.
Now you know....Ed Loizeaux
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