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Here is a cool article about someone who has scanned all of the Weird Wheels cards into hi res pictures.

http://jalopnik.com/enjoy-thes...ding-cards-511995533

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Ok 1 more pack then I'am done...no really..wait how many are left in that box?

http://1000thghostcards.weebly.com/
 
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I love these. I still have mine from when I was a kid. Never finished the set though. Hard to do as a grade school kid in 1980.
 
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Here's another article about Weird Wheels by yours truly. They're wonderful stickers and the artists behind them did a great job. That's the great Norm Saunders and a second "mystery" artist (interviewed in the article). Enjoy.

http://thewrapper.tripod.com/weirdwheels.html

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Posts: 404 | Location: Tallahassee, FL | Registered: April 12, 2003Reply With QuoteReport This Post
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I remember about 35 years years ago, at the tender age of 5, collecting cards from this set or something very similar. One day, I went to a store with my mother and lost one of the cards, a parody of Chevrolet cars, called (I think) Shovelrolet. I cried and cried for days !

However, looking at Jeff Allendar's checklist, that is not among the cards in this set. WHAT set was my mystery card from ????
 
Posts: 4714 | Location: Bayonne, NJ, USA | Registered: May 06, 2001Reply With QuoteReport This Post
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That was a great article. I had some of these as a kid but never really got into them as much as i should.

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Ok 1 more pack then I'am done...no really..wait how many are left in that box?

http://1000thghostcards.weebly.com/
 
Posts: 1155 | Location: Denver, CO | Registered: December 03, 2004Reply With QuoteReport This Post
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35 years ago would have been in the 1970s, long before Weird Wheels was released by Topps. But Donruss had several reprints of the Odd Rods series during that decade. I bet it was one of those. (That was the original inspiration for Weird Wheels, anyway.)

Here's an article (and my boyhood memories) about the Odd Rods stickers: http://thewrapper.tripod.com/oddrodreview.html

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Also, in the mid-seventies there were "Funny Cars" which might have come in a package with bread or cupcakes or something. The Shovelrolet name sounds like the kind of thing they did with those.

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Mike is right. "Shoverolet" was from the 20 card set of "Funny Cars" from 1976 by CBC (Continental Baking Company). You'll have a tougher time tracking that one down, as they were unnumbered and only came one per bread loaf.

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Posts: 404 | Location: Tallahassee, FL | Registered: April 12, 2003Reply With QuoteReport This Post
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Wow ! Thanks for solving the mystery !!! I see 4 on that auction site now for 99 cents each, but no Shoverolet.

Did these really come out in '76 ? Is it possible that when I lost the card, I was only 3 years old, and I still recall and am traumatized by the incident, 37 years later ? Smile
 
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That's when the copyright was, but they could have continued issuing them a few years, or the copyright could have been when they started designing them so the issue date was actually older... or you could have been eating really, really OLD bread!

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