Help ! Looking For A Jeep ....

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I’ve been looking high and low for these older EKO Willys / Jeepster station wagons …

http://www.walthers.com/exec/search?quick=265-2078

Every placed I’ve sourced online that actually had them listed, also showed them as being out of stock. If anyone has a source for these (I’d like at least two or three) new or used, I’d really appreciate it.

Thanks, Mark.

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This place says it’s available, not in stock, but they can get it apparently. I would call them.

http://www.pacific-western-rail.com/ho_in_stock.php?Page=3&PWRSManufacturers_ID=265

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Join the Yahoo group, HOYardSale, and post a message specifying what you are looking for to buy and someone will likely reply. That is a great source for buying and selling used HO scale stuff.

Rich

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In my experience, when a vendor says that it is available, not in stock, but they can get it, it turns out that they cannot get it. Usually leads to a dead end road.

Rich

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That item has been out of stock at Walthers for a couple of years; I have been looking for them also.

I found their website; they are in Spain. http://www.toyeko.com/ Many of the pictures on the site are the same line drawings that were in Walthers 10 or 15 years ago, but the Jeep has a photograph, so it still may be in production, but maybe not produced recently. There is an e-mail address, but they do not seem to be interested in individual sales - if I interpert the Spanish correctly their mimimun order is 40 Euros. Their price list shows the #2078 “Jeep Wagoneer” for Euro 4.16

Both the Jeep Wagoneer and the COE Jeep truck show on page 3 of their catalog
http://www.toyeko.com/pdf/Catalogo%20EKO%20Fotos%20Civiles.pdf

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Thanks for the help so far guys. Still looking though. Through different searches, I’ve found numerous online stores / hobby shops that appear to have them in stock, but when contacted, they say they are out of stock on that item.

I KNOW there’s a little hobby shop SOMEwhere that has a few still sitting on the shelf … I just have to find it !

Mark.

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Am customer of modeltrainstuff.com. When on their website today, looking at HO vehicles, found this: Herpa HO742221 US Army Jeep - On sale @ $15.99. Don’t know if this would help. TTFN…papaHOsmurf in NH

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the sketch looks closer to a 60s Wagoneer rather than a 40s Willies ragtop.

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Think you got the numbers a bit off, Herpa HO 741323 is the Willy’s Jeep, M38, M742221 is a main battle tank M48 (Patton Tank, I think).
Anyway, the Jeep the OP wants is a civilian version, looks like the Wagon.

I had a few Eko vehicles (and yeah, those drawing in the Walthers Catalog haven’t been changed since the late 1970s if not earlier, let alone a few years back. They are pretty good value for the money, no interiors (I think the trucks had a seat or something, can’t remember), and if you’re modeling the 1960s-early 1970s the American models are definitiely great for mid-scene models on US layouts.