This weekend was payback time, as I owed a good friend my services in exchange for a number of old radio finds at yard sales. I buffed out his car, a gorgeous '58 Pontiac Parisienne that he's auctioning at Hershey next month. As buddies will do, he tried to pay me just the same, which I politely refused. Instead, he handed me this....an offer I couldn't refuse
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I believe this 2046 dates to 1951 and appears well cared for. I did spend a couple of minutes touching up some paint chips after giving it a bath.
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The icing on the cake was a set of cars to go with it. All in equally good condition. My limited reference material doesn't show the 2046 heading any set, which I find hard to believe. ( found it in the '53 catalog, heading a number of 027 sets ???) It's the biggest PW offering next to the 773 and the shell has it's roots in the prewar 226. IMHO the tender should have been the same as on the 773. The 2046W looks diminutive behind that hulking boiler.
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Bruce