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Aurora HO Model 657-98 Joes Diner Assembly Instructions

Tuesday, May 4th, 2010
  1. Cement (2) LONG VENETIAN BLINDS to FRONT WALL PANEL.
  2. Cement (2) SHORT VENETIAN BLINDS, one to each of left and right SIDE WALL PANELS.
  3. Cement FRONT WALL PANEL to ROOF.
  4. Cement left and right SIDE WALL PANELS to ROOF and FRONT WALL PANEL.
  5. Cement REAR WALL PANEL to ROOF and SIDE WALL PANELS.
  6. Cement FRONT STONE PANEL to bottom of FRONT WALL PANEL.
  7. Cement REAR STONE PANEL to bottom of REAR WALL PANEL.
  8. Cement left and right SIDE STONE PANELS to bottom of SIDE WALL PANELS.
  9. Cement FRONT STAIRWAY to FRONT WALL.
  10. Cement STONE STAIRWAY FRONT to FRONT STAIRWAY.
  11. Cement CANOPY over FRONT DOORWAY.
  12. Cement (3) ROOF VENTILATORS to ROOF.
  13. Cement KITCHEN VENTILATOR to REAR WALL.
  14. Cement (2) DOWN SPOUTS to REAR WALL.
  15. Cement (3) SIGNS to ROOF.
  16. Cement (4) FLOODLIGHTS to SIDE WALLS.

HO Gauge Railroad & Road Racing Structures Box End Panel Graphics

Monday, April 26th, 2010

Part of the allure to collecting vintage Aurora buildings is the colorful graphics that each box displays. If you are investing in a complete set of these HO 1/87 scaled structures for your railroad & slot car layout you get an added value bonus of looking at a box with colorful artwork & graphics. Listed here again is group II of the vintage HO plastic model accessory scenery kits which were produced along with their original stock numbers and price.

  • 657-.98 Joes Diner
  • 658-1.49 HO Gas Station

Colorful box artwork is typical for the period and Aurora made no exception as you can see from this image of the side panels.

Aurora HO Slot Car Racing Plastic Model Building Kit Box End Panel Graphics

Aurora HO Slot Car Racing Plastic Model Building Kit Box End Panel Graphics

HO Slot Car & Railroad Layout 657-98 Joes Diner Kit

Sunday, April 18th, 2010

The Aurora joes diner kit displays nicely on any HO scale slot car racing track layout because it was scaled to fit HO gauge railroad layouts. This all plastic assembly kit is hard to locate.

Aurora HO Scale Layout Plastic Joes Diner Kit

Aurora HO Scale Layout Plastic Joes Diner Kit

Aurora Model Motoring HO Scale Slot Car Racing Track Layout Structures

Sunday, April 11th, 2010

During the 1960’s Aurora Plastics produced a line of HO scaled structures, in kit form, which could be used for slot car track layout scenery. Since these injection molded plastic scenery models are now quite collectible, an unblemished complete set of the eight different unbuilt model kits can be expensive to purchase, as well as, time consuming to acquire. Aurora was one of several companies to manufacture such a wide variety of scenic kits specifically made for 1:87 scale slot cars. Here is a list of all of the vintage kits which were produced along with their original stock numbers and price.

  • Kit No. 651-.79 HO Trees
  • Kit No. 652-.98 HO Colonial House
  • Kit No. 653-1.29 HO Ranch House
  • Kit No. 654-1.29 HO School House
  • Kit No. 655-1.29 HO Church
  • Kit No. 656-1.29 HO Railroad Station
  • Kit No. 657-.98 HO Joe’s Diner
  • Kit No. 658-1.49 HO Gas Station

If you can find them at a price you can afford, I will guarantee that these kits will make fantastic additions to your slotcar layout once they are built.