The American Society of Scale Model Rebuttal Bureau was established in 1966 to bring order, accuracy, and dignity to the classification of scale model vehicles worldwide.

We have achieved one of these three things.

The Bureau's founding collection belongs to the late Peter J. Fitzsimmons, who spent 25 years assembling over 1,000 scale model vehicles with the dedication of a man who knew exactly what he was looking at. His son does not.

Chief Classification Officer Fitzsimmons appears on every case record. He had excellent taste in cars and was right about most things. The Bureau's automated classification system has inherited his confidence. His accuracy has proven more difficult to transfer.

ASSMRB.org is a work of satire. All classifications are generated automatically and are frequently, sometimes spectacularly, wrong. A 1953 Studebaker may be filed as a Ferrari. A school bus has been classified as a Corvette. The Bureau stands by its findings.

Distinguished Rebuttalists are encouraged — indeed, implored — to correct the record in the comments of each case file. The Bureau cannot improve without your intervention. This has been true since 1966.

All jokes aside.

My dad spent 25 years building something beautiful, one car at a time. He knew every make, every model, every year. I am his son and I know almost none of this.

I'd love nothing more than to learn what he actually collected — the makes, the models, the stories behind them. If you know your diecast, I genuinely need your help. Every correction in the comments is a small act of remembrance for a man who deserved one.

Help a son out.