We also saw a first generation '67 Chevrolet Chevelle SS, and a '67 Cadillac DeVille. Circular porthole windows looked cool on the glass-fiber pull-down top. A '57 red Thunderbird two-door convertible was on display with its hood open, revealing the engine. If you like cars, there's plenty to see here. Carol noted a magazine advertisement featuring actress Carole Lombard saying, "Advised by my singing coach, I changed to Luckies." Memories came flooding back as I eyed Bloodhound Chewing Tobacco, with its red hound dog and slogan "A Dog-gone Good Chew." Sir Walter Raleigh was there, too, with his pointed beard and feather in his cap. When I was a kid, tobacco ads were everywhere, in magazines, newspapers, on the sides of barns. There is also a collection of 1,800 die-cast model trucks, no two alike. There are red and white cans of Kendall Motor Oil, Gulf and Texaco fuel pumps, and signs offering gasoline at 22 cents per gallon. Other memorabilia include canned goods, many with a local connection, including Old Virginia strawberry preserves, and Pride of Virginia herring. His soda bottle collection contains hundreds of items, and he can tell visitors the provenance of every one of them. Stone is the collector of memorabilia at the museum. said, "A truck doesn't have to be homely." This truck proved him right. Legend has it that the owner of the Diamond T Motor Car Co. Next to it, I admired the 1930 Diamond T dump truck with running boards, classy grill and boxy cab.
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