Reply to "What is the number for these MTH Passenger Cars?"

@Norton posted:

That would date the cars from around 1999-2004. There is some overlap though. Prior to 1999 cars had sillohuettes, after 2004 cars had figures and sprung trucks.

Pete

Have a five digit 20-XXXXX Pennsylvania smoothside set that has interiors without figures and the smaller non scale sprung trucks from Dec. 2004.

IIRC all the cars with figures have diaphragms with striker plates and the new larger scale size sprung trucks, which required modification of the skirted car tooling to fit.

Cannot imagine MTH getting samples of a car just for lettering with the paint staying the same. Will be an interesting search for sure.