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Toy Restoration: Watch As This Studebaker Lark Matchbox Comes Back To Life!


Toy Restoration: Watch As This Studebaker Lark Matchbox Comes Back To Life!

Care for an object says a lot about you as a person. I’m not sure what the care of my Hot Wheels and other scale cars of my childhood says about me, but let’s be honest: if you’ve ever rummaged through bins of old, discarded 1:64 scale cars, you know that almost all of them lead a hard life. They are crashed into each other. They get flung around those plastic tracks and they get flung at siblings with fastball-like speed. The paint loses it’s luster, the chips start to show, or maybe the black sharpie marker of doom has done it’s damage. Just like cars, scale cars are simply a collection of parts that, if you know how to disassemble and reassemble, you can restore to former glory or even better than new.

The scale vehicle restored today is a scaled version of a 1963-66 Studebaker Wagonaire, a Lark station wagon that had a retractable roof section that allowed large and tall objects to be carried in the back of the car thanks to an open-roof concept. Studebaker was in trouble when the Wagonaire came out and the reputation the car gained as a water leaker didn’t help matters any. Finding a real Wagonaire today is going to be a chore. Finding a nicer Matchbox Wagonaire than what you’ll see here in the finished product will be just as difficult!


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