2007 = Finished!

YES! Another succesfull year at Tiny Toy Cars! We have shipped more cars than ever, got more new customers than ever, got more new stock than ever! It was a thrilling year and we met our turnover goals, even 10% over it!

Other achievements was the succesfull launch of the first Dutch 3 Inch forum (http://www.3inchforum.nl) and the start of this blog.

Well, 2008 can only be better with the start of our Toy Car Garage (we're still looking for a brilliant name)! The opening of this show room will also include expansion of our inventory. For example, we will carry the full Siku range, including the Farmer range. Also we will expand into the 1/43 range with high end brands like Norev, AutoArt, Schuco and such.
The aim for these brands will be European cars ranging from 1950 till 1990.

Anyway, we hope to meet you all some day in our showroom! Or, like we used to meet, via the internet!

All the best for the brand new year!!!

Henri

Seasons greetings!

May 2008 bring you:

• Health
• Happiness
• and many model cars!

The Toy Car Garage before pics: Interior

Today I was able to shoot some pics of the interior of the building. This picture is the inside of the front of the building. All this will be removed and large doors and windows will be added.


Here the windows in the roof are clearly visible. The wall underneath separates the room from the corridor behind it...


The corridor at the back of the building, over the whole width. See the 3 meter high windows... wow!!














This is the wall separating the front area from the corridor and which will be removed.





Last picture, where I tried to capture the roof structure... The wooden separation wall will be removed.

The Toy Car Garage before pics topic

This is the Toy Car Garage in it's current form... It does look very bad and in fact, it is very bad. The building is from 1953 and was used heavily during the highdays of the flax industry (in Dutch, vlas industrie) which 's-Gravendeel, where the building is located, was famous for.

At the right side of the building, behind the large black wooden doors, were the turbines located in which the flax was processed. When all processing was finished, it was taken out of the building visible at the left side, the lower doors.
The flax industry has long left Europe...

Left side of the building... In the background is an incredible large, 15 meters high, storage area where the flax was stored.

15 meters high and I don't know how wide... If interested, the building is still available...


There is no lack of parking space...


My Toy Car Garage will be located in the marked area. It is over 7 meters wide and 15 meters deep.
During the renovation, which will start before the end of this year, the whole front will be removed and garage doors, as well as windows and normal doors, will be added.

But the best secret is kept at the inside, and that is exact where I fell in love with... The interior is so incredible '50-s industry style!!! It is wonderful, just look at the windows in the roof, which are aimed North. The wall you see underneath the windows will be removed, adding an additional 5 meters in length to the room. And the rear wall is completely made out of glass, also facing North. That makes the room extremely 'friendly', almost no artificial light is needed during the day! Unfortunately when I was there taking these pictures, the building was locked but I will soon add more pictures of the inside of this wonderful building!

Never finished...

Ahh... Looks much better this way! I adapted the design of the Tiny Toy Cars website to the blog, well, I tried it someway...
It is not perfect, but it is ok for now...

Intro...

Yes, finally it is going to happen: Tiny Toy Cars will have it's own real store! The contract is almost signed and then we can start the preparations for our 105 square meter showroom!

We will update this blog very soon with pictures and a more detailed description of our plans.