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Come join us for a journey back in time. We’re going back to the time before Amazon One Click…before we had the Internet, or superhighways. Our destination is more than a century ago when Model T’s were a new invention. Back then, travelling salespeo ...
Self-made millionaire Ron Sturgeon of Colleyville blends investing with preserving automotive history as his collection of small-scale model cars grows to almost 3,000 small-scale models at his local DFW Elite Toy Museum.
Sturgeon is constantly looking for rare models and for their stories in his travels. He began his collection in 1985 with a Marklin truck and trailer circa 1935, which he bought for $350 at one of Christie’s auctions in London. That piece is now worth $1,000.