Card of the Day - 2023-10-20

Lime Rock Dream Cars
Lime Rock [trade/commercial : cards : O/S : USA) "Dream Machines" (1991)

This card was a fortunate find, because I hit a wall for a final card, though I did find some very intriguing issues that I could not track down. Read on for those. However I thought it might be interesting to see the DeLorean without the film props, so I went for this. Imagine my surprise when I saw the film was mentioned on the back. 

These were actually issued as a set of 110 cards, in a cardboard box, all at once, in a limited edition of 100,000. The boxes were sealed and had details of interesting things you might find inside - an autograph card of the baseball player Jerome Walton, holographic promo cards, and the chance to win original unnumbered press sheets.

Cards 111 - 165 were issued the following year and I have not yet found out how they were issued.  

Lime Rock were in Providence, Long Island. They issued two sets of baseball cards, which are their most sought after, and also a huge number of sets which you can browse at Trading Card Database / Lime Rock

 

Now to those missing links. 

The one that everyone seems to think is the most exciting is the Kelloggs issue of 1985. It was only eight cards in length, had a very limited run, and we do not even know where that was - though the fact that the back is in French and English seems to suggest Canada to most people, yet some say it was intended to be for Europe so that one set could do several countries. 

Now even more curiously there is a set issued with Shreddies, and they started in Canada. These are not cards though, they are small booklets which have a story in them, and when you get to the end of each page there is a multiple choice where you pick what you would do and go to the page that answer says. 

Then there are fourteen cards which were given away at the 2015 Comic-Con at San Diego. These ostensibly advertise a book, but they look like the Topps set of cards, and they are numbered, and the numbers follow on from that Topps set.