mercrocker Posted August 15, 2017 Share Posted August 15, 2017 My missus just thought I was looking at porn when I turned the lap top upside down and squinted underneath. As a matter of fact, love, I was..... What a bloody haul that is, well done! Which just re-inforces my belief that all car boot sales I visit lie in some parallel universe. eddyramrod, 64A60 and Junkman 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sierraman Posted August 15, 2017 Share Posted August 15, 2017 A lot of it is battered but most of them look decent candidates for restoration. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
junkyarddog Posted August 15, 2017 Share Posted August 15, 2017 Megahaul Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Split_Pin Posted August 15, 2017 Author Share Posted August 15, 2017 I've got both of those Polistils, they made some exceedingly good rally cars in the 70s with some proper effort out in rather than just stickers in a stock car. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rml2345 Posted August 15, 2017 Share Posted August 15, 2017 £5 for that lot is a bargain, plenty of restorable Dinky for starters.The 760 A-pillars are too thick and it's a bit lumpy to be honest. The Matchbox or Siku are better but not 1:76 unfortunately.Felly, the IXO partwork RT is a good casting and looks the part but the interior is quite simplistic and the partwork one has wrong coloured wheels but you're unlikely to be disappointed too much. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Felly Magic Posted August 15, 2017 Share Posted August 15, 2017 Yeah esp when it is less than half the price of the Ixo branded one Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
garethj Posted August 16, 2017 Share Posted August 16, 2017 I built up a pair of Blues Brothers 1:32 slot cars for someone and tried out some crude ways of dirtying the '74 Monaco Leaning through corners, natch Apparently the stunt driver was given a bonus if he could just clear the police car but take out the roof light Here's how they look in action Skizzer, UmBongo, Junkman and 11 others 14 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
srad34 Posted August 16, 2017 Share Posted August 16, 2017 Love this ^^^^^ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eddyramrod Posted August 16, 2017 Share Posted August 16, 2017 I always love your work! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mercrocker Posted August 16, 2017 Share Posted August 16, 2017 Flippin' awesome. The painstaking attention to detail is in itself awesome. However, the way those things MOVE is even more so. Slight oversteer, realistic roll and recovery and that slow-mode - just awesome. eddyramrod 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
59Impala Posted August 16, 2017 Share Posted August 16, 2017 That is just amazing, can I come round your house and play? For bonus points I have cruised around Joliet in a 56 Chevy and a 68 Olds 442. eddyramrod and mercrocker 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
garethj Posted August 16, 2017 Share Posted August 16, 2017 If you view that video on YouTube instead of on the forum it should take you to my other videos. The plot is largely the same but the cars change eddyramrod 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eddyramrod Posted August 16, 2017 Share Posted August 16, 2017 Yes, I know, I've done it! Top work sir, we are not worthy! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Junkman Posted August 16, 2017 Share Posted August 16, 2017 For bonus points I have cruised around Joliet in a 56 Chevy and a 68 Olds 442. Me in a '62 Imperial. mercrocker, 59Impala and eddyramrod 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Felly Magic Posted August 16, 2017 Share Posted August 16, 2017 Those Monacos! Phwoar! Well done there Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TripleRich Posted August 16, 2017 Share Posted August 16, 2017 Excellent use of the Driver 1 music, used to play that game a lot when I was a kid. garethj 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Felly Magic Posted August 17, 2017 Share Posted August 17, 2017 The Hachette RT in 1/43rd scale, it is a big bugger, and heavy, and yeah the wheels are the wrong colour, but that can be sorted, but for £20 shipped, I'm not really arguing. I notice it was made in Bangladesh, hmmm Shame they didn't do a rear engined UK decker, or something like a Plaxton Panorama danthecapriman, RayMK, 59Impala and 3 others 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
59Impala Posted August 18, 2017 Share Posted August 18, 2017 I do like that RT, may have to buy one methinks. Three of my uncles drove them as did our neighbour and an aunt was a clippie. The 229 was a fairly local route as well. I went to school on them for six years, never once did the RT 'fail to proceed'. Apart from when one day when it knocked a bloke down as he didn't bother looking before he crossed the road. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Felly Magic Posted August 18, 2017 Share Posted August 18, 2017 Be quick though, this RT on ebay seems to be selling out now. Comparing it with the Ixo branded version, barring the wheels, this looks better with the adverts on. At around £20 I do think this is decent VFM Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Split_Pin Posted August 18, 2017 Author Share Posted August 18, 2017 That is VALU considering an EFE is £30 odd quid now. Completely incompatible scale though, can see why it's cheap. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sierraman Posted August 18, 2017 Share Posted August 18, 2017 Bloody hell! They used to be a tenner a pop! Sold a load of them a bit back for a tenner! If only I'd known! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Frogchod Posted August 20, 2017 Share Posted August 20, 2017 I was looking for some old photos but came across this instead.It's been in storage for around 13 years, it's stuffed full with Citroen models Here's a few:Some more in detail, looks like I used to spend a few quid at Flowers spares shop.Some of my other hacksaw and repaint jobs.A DS on wires ?Acadiane pick up.SM tin top convertible.CX pick up and trailer.TA floppy top.CX limo and short thing made from the off cuts. Datsuncog, oldcars, 155V6 and 10 others 13 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ghosty Posted August 20, 2017 Share Posted August 20, 2017 That Oxford 740 is a bit incorrectly proportioned. Either the bootlid is too high or the roof is wrong (looks vaguely curved?). Something is wrong at the front too, and the whole thing sort of looks like a Lagonda. Corgi did a 740 saloon in 1/43 (and maybe bigger) there's one on my desk. The proportion and detail on that one is better. Why are all the 740 models saloons though? Are there any estate models? I know Hongwell did a tiny 850/V70, but I've never seen a 740 estate model I don't think. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
155V6 Posted August 20, 2017 Share Posted August 20, 2017 There's a Tonka/Polistil 740 estate in 1/43 scale,I had one a while ago,but sold it to a banger racing modeller Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Felly Magic Posted August 20, 2017 Share Posted August 20, 2017 Bloody hell! They used to be a tenner a pop! Sold a load of them a bit back for a tenner! If only I'd known!That sounds like the smaller 1/50 scale Solido RT you are thinking of, this is the fairly recent partwork from overseas, it is a really big bastard, and just about fits in with my collection, surprised they didn;t do the Rotmaster, but there is no way in hell I would have bought one of them, there is also a full front Harrington Dorsal fin AEC Regal coach in the same series. Ixo have just released the RT in their standard range, it is around £45, Lobster advertised them, this makes the partwork look a mega bargain, and it is so heavy you could use it as a weapon. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Split_Pin Posted August 20, 2017 Author Share Posted August 20, 2017 That's a smashing haul of Citroens there. I like the 1/18 Charleston! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mercrocker Posted August 20, 2017 Share Posted August 20, 2017 Corgi DS in black on wires looks good too....They did the LeDandy on those wheels and it always suited the car, I thought. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Frogchod Posted August 20, 2017 Share Posted August 20, 2017 Corgi DS in black on wires looks good too....They did the LeDandy on those wheels and it always suited the car, I thought.I think so too, I'm pretty sure they are actual LeDandy wheels.I'm still happy with the repaint finish, lovely deep gloss black.Probably* nothing to do with baking it on in the dryers at work one night shift... mercrocker 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sierraman Posted August 22, 2017 Share Posted August 22, 2017 Any interest in a 1/24 Polistil Fiat 128 rally or a 1/24 Lancia Fulvia Rally? £10 each plus postage which is probably about £3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Noel Tidybeard Posted August 22, 2017 Share Posted August 22, 2017 yes mate- wot condition am they? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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