This thread seems to have gone rather quiet lately, so perhaps I may be permitted add a small offering: Last May I posted some photos of my MPC beer and "favorite spirits" reefers. At the time--and for the preceding four decades--I thought I had the complete MPC series, so you may imagine my distress at just now discovering that I was missing the first four spirits reefers. Oh, the horror! Fortuitously, I found an on-line auction seller offering two of them at quite rational prices, mainly because the boxes were, as she put it, "rough." (I'd have described the boxes as catastrophically mauled, but the cars themselves appeared to be in like new condition.) Her prices being really too good to pass up, I cringed a bit over the boxes but made the purchase, and now, nearly 40 years after they were made, the Cutty Sark and Dewar's reefers have new homes in the train room. Oh yes, there is one downside. Since the display shelves were already absolutely packed, a few MPC boxcars had to be given their marching orders and are hoping to find other train rooms with more track and display space, but c'est la guerre.
