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==Museum Models==

Cursor started making ultra detailed 1:40 scale plastic replicas of 1880-1920 era Mercedes-Benzes and Daimlers about 1969. The first models were started by model maker [[Wiking]] and then immediately taken over by Cursor (Force 1990, 122). Models produced (sometimes marked with the initials C.R.) were mostly of vehicles on exhibit at the Mercedes-Benz museum, like the 1886 'Drierad' three-wheeler and Daimler's gas powered 'horse -buggy style 'Motorwagen' of the same year. These were the first gas powered vehicles ever produced. Also made were an 18971895 taxi, an 1896 firewagon, and the 1911 Blitzen Benz race car (Sinclair's 1977). David Sinclair, an influential dealer to the diecast collecting hobby, imported some of the first Cursor Models to the United States in the mid-1970s (Levine 2009).

Some collectors are critical of plastic for collector's automobiles, but those in-the-know realize that companies like Cursor, [[Minialuxe]] of France and [[Brumm]] and [[RIO Models]] of Italy, all have done their earlier 'bicycle' tire vehicles in plastic because the spidery detail necessary for realistic portrayal of wire wheels and roof ties is not possible with diecast zamac (Sinclair's 1976).