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

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.

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

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 ????

That was a great article. I had some of these as a kid but never really got into them as much as i should.

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.

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.

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 ?

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!