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just to prove that i have taken all leave of my senses, i have bought my diecasts, or at least some of them, a new home.

 

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i was going to put some brackets on the back, and then fix it to the wall, however since i got it home, i now realise it need to be sat on a shelf/table/similar and then fixed to the wall using the 2 metal filigree bits on the top.

 

more pictures as an when it gets a perminant home.

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There are some toys which have no right to survive because they are poorly made, frail and difficult to identify.  So I kept mine  :-D .

 

In 1959 I attended Abbotts Ann primary school. At lunchtimes I walked up the road to a sweetshop which sold 3d (old money) lucky bags each containing a few chews, sweet cigarettes and a toy car.  The underside of each car had details e.g. scale 1/77, Make and Made in Italy. I bought quite a few, probably why my teeth are rotten. Here they are in all their glory: In order of appearance, they claim to be - Bianchini (pale blue), Lancia Flaminia (yellow), Fiat 600 (white), Renault Dauphine (green), Fiat 500 x 3, Fiat 1100 Familiare (white) and a Cadillac Eldorado (red).

 

As a bonus, to show that the UK could also produce similar quality*, I was given this slush moulded 1950s convertible in 1958. 

(Apologies for the strange formatting. It looked different in Preview Post!)

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I bet losing that screen happened early on in its life resulting in a massive outburst and it never got played with again, preserving the paintwork in the process.  Or was that just my childhood pattern?  

I do like these Impy models, they chose some unusual subjects.

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Today I received more plastic Norevshite in form of a Saviem SC10U according to the baseplate, which is the entire red lower half.

 

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Not made in France shocker:

 

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The doors can be opened by means of a black lever and making pfffft, pfffft sounds while moving it:

 

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It really could do with some advertising stickers and route signs.

 

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I guess it'll end up as a parts donor for an older French version which are usually missing their doors and grilles.

If you are interested in these, they are currently flogged at discount prices in all imaginable colours.

Mine was a tenner and free postage.

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Amazing how much better even a playworn casting looks with fresh tyres and accessories. 

 

I have started collecting the late 60s Yesteryears in the pink and yellow window boxes, most I have paid so far is three quid each apart from a £20 gift set.   They sometimes lurk in those baskets of the unwanted 90s-onwards YY boxed gear you get at jumbles and toyfairs.   A lot of the full-scale rammel in Beaulieu in that period was also, shall we say, vibrantly restored.  Particularly anything brought over from Yankshire.  

 

I also acquired this shite-tastic piece of giffer tat on Ebay last year.   There must be others because I also have the same cufflinks, minus car and box, depicting the Riley MPH.   (I also seem to collect automotive cuff-links FFS)   

 

 

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Old yesteryears are stupidly cheap, even in mint/boxed.

I guess it's not the time to start collecting them if you fancy cars of that era.

 

Actually, most models of cars of the inter war era are grossy undervalued,

look at the fantastic Rio models. There seems to be no interest in this period.

Imagine my surprice when Junkdaughter #2 fished a mint YY Thomas Flyer
in teal metallic out of a rummage box at a recent toy fair and bought it - for 50p.

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The original Seventies Solido Age d'Or and similar era Brumm pre-war subjects  are nice things too.   Like all collecting, the value in these things is what you consider it to be.   I would rather my stuff wasn't worth a mint then I will much less likely be faced with having to sell it!   

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