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Q. Can you or someone identify the source of this wooden model of a Buick? It says “Buick” on the radiator. The radiator, wheels and lights are plastic, and the rest is wood. It's a very light wood, possibly balsa.

The best I can recall, an elderly great-aunt gave it to me back in the mid 1960s, when I was a child. It was already

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