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anyone has a set available or willing to help me in the right direction?
had not much succes in my 3 months search.
JD has not have them in the shop neither does E-one.
not on ebay or in the shops like PTh etc.
There are many other collectors looking for these, also...as are a number of my readers.
From what I understand, 10,000 pieces were produced for each run...for both the Pumper and the Ladder...
But, a call to Jack Daniels stated that only about 300 - 400 pieces of each one ever made it down to their Gift Shop, and sold out long ago.
One version of the Jack Daniels Ladder...in purple...made it to eBay and it sold for only $75.00. I had a chance to personally examine it and it's authentic, all right...right down to the pad printing.
So the question remains...just where are the rest of these? I for one would like to know!
Some collectors think the Pumper was released first; not so...the Aerial was released first, the Pumper after that...and I'm almost inclined to believe the quantity of Pumpers produced may have been reduced due to the lack of sales from the reported quantity (by Code 3) of 10,000 Aerials...
But it would be interesting to learn just how many of each were produced, and where they went and/or are now...
This is interesting. When Code 3 announced the liqidation of the aerial, I checked KB Outlets and did a complete search of the internet,e.g Jack Daniels,Overstock.com, TRU, etc. It was not found. So it makes sense that they are still in the Code 3 warehouse.
No......"a wharehouse in California" it did not state a code 3 wharehouse.
If code 3 still has them, that are gonna pay tax on them sitting there, so I would assume if they were theirs, they would have offloaded them by now.
MY RECORDS INDICATE THAT I GOT MY PUMPER 1ST ON 11-7-03 AND I REMEMBER THE LONG WAIT FOR THE LADDER,WHICH I TOOK DELIVERY ON 12-8-05. I ORDER MY CODE 3S AS SOON AS THEY ARE ANNOUNCED, I HAVE 2 WAYS OF LOGGING MY ORDERS AND DELIVERIES, PLUS I COULD GO BACK TO THE CODE 3 LITERATURE TO TRIPLE CHECK THIS . ANOTHER WAY WOULD HAVE BEEN CHECKING FIRE APPARATUS JOURNAL IN SCALE SECTION FOR THOSE YEARS.I THINK THE PUMPER CAME 1ST
HANS I HAVE A EXTRA PUMPER IN THE BOX NEVER DISPLAYED. I BOUGHT 10 OFF EACH, BUT JUST HAVE THE PUMPER LEFT .EMAIL ME WITH YOUR OFFER
Richard, you are correct. According to the release schedule on the Code 3 web site, the Engine was announced in Oct. '03 and the Ladder was Nov. of '05.
I went back into my records and pulled a Code 3 brochure mailed out when they announced the 1/64th scale Yankees Pumper and the LA County Ward Engine # 16...
The brochure states, "Now that you have the (Jack Daniels) Ladder, What About The Engine?" Then, the back side of the brochure is a FULL page spread of the Pumper...
Also announced in the same brochure was the Bakersfield ALF Century, Bayonne Aerialscope, the LA Police Command Van, and the LA City of Hope Helicopter...
So...
Does that mean they STILL have a quantity of the JD Pumpers to get rid of when the ladder was announced?
The brochure has a 2005 copyright on it...
But, again...why such a grandstand play for the Pumper AFTER the ladder had been released?
The pumper was being sold at $20 at one of code 3's sales, and then became sold out.
It then became available at one of the liquidator stores over there.
I was enjoying free shipping then, so I bought lots for the UK, and was dissapointed when I could not get anymore, and found that code 3 dumped the remaining bunch. (I wonder how many that was?)