We've got a real KONI car lift!

And it is old. Very old! Specialists think this particular lift is from 1950, upon examination of these two pictures. The lift will be the center piece in our showroom! Plans are to paint it white with red running boards, just like the current KONI lift colors. But the current black color is the original color of the lift...
It will be delivered next saturday (2nd of February).

A little bit of KONI trivia: the original KONI factory, famous for their shock absorbers and car lifts, is located in Oud-Beijerland, which is a village in the Hoeksche Waard, the isle where 's-Gravendeel is also located on. And I think it is funny to have as much as possible items that were assembled locally! (links courtesty of Wikipedia)

GM Futurliner on Ebay

Many of you might now that I am a huge fan of the fantastic GM Futurliner. For all information about this fantastic piece of rolling Art Deco US Car history, visit the GM Futurliner site 

Now, Old Cars Weekly, announces that a restored and customized Futurliner will be auctioned on Ebay later this month. See their article about this Futurliner.

Tiny Toy Cars has famous customers, one being the seller of the 4 Million Barrett Jackson auctioned GM Futurliner, the other being a Swedish gentleman who has bougth an unrestored Futurliner which is currently on it's way to Sweden. See the photo report on the 3 Inch Forum.

If a real Futurliner is just a little too large for your garage, you may consider Norev's 1/64 GM Futurliner  at Tiny Toy Cars...

A new computer...

As our old computer was in need of replacement, I bougth myself a classy Macbook! Experience with the Apple brand aging 20 years back (really!) were very good. In fact, that Macintosh experience was my start to trace Windows in those days (1985) and I ended up with Windows 2.11. But now, with all the 'new' features found in Vista, I was not so happy anymore to buy a new Windows based computer. 

So this is what I got!

Only problem I faced was my email. On my windows computer, I used Pegasus Mail, also for about 15 years. Only the file system used by Pegasus was not compatible with any of the Apple mail programs so I had to convert it. There it went wrong. The conversion tool not only created nice and new formatted email folders, it also updated the original files... And I had not made a backup of my email. Resulting in the loss of about 50 important emails...

Never, never forget to backup! 

Back from a short break!

Right after new years day we went for a short break to Disneyland Resort Paris.

Jurre (my 6 year old son) and I agreed this would be a very nice Tiny Toy Cars company car:














Then we went directly for the new CARS attraction, to see Lightning and Mater!












































Luigi and Guido in front of their Casa della Tires, maybe these two are even cooler than Lightning and Mater...