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On 2/24/2022 at 3:28 PM, Dick Longbridge said:

Dick(ie Davies) pic

RIP

11 hours ago, martc said:

Tinker!

15 hours ago, Split_Pin said:

Something for fans of 80s peach  coloured toilet roll.

 

 

I do worry these things are the equivalent of those videos showing 20 minutes of some Rumanian woman's feet revving up an old Dacia 

8 hours ago, Datsuncog said:

Hitch-up mechanism works fine; maybe a bit stiff from lack of use

 

I think that probably goes for most of us

15 hours ago, flat4alfa said:

Is that a gen-5 Quattroporte up there at the back?

It's a Ghibli

15 hours ago, flat4alfa said:

Crikey.  You owned a proper Flavia

Still do (with an old school friend), but sadly it now needs restoration and is up for sale with Percival Motor Company

These are the models of my Italian car ownership since 1980 (getting old).

All the right colours except the blue 128 3P should be metallic blue and Zebra striped, the 130 Coupe and the Innocenti should be silver.

The Fiat van should be a camper and the Alfa Spider a box of bits 😁

Deceased Circa 2002 I am afraid.

1 hour ago, Mr Laurence said:

^ That Innocenti must have been a seriously rare bit of kit in the UK - any idea what happened to it?

Mine was a Belgian car that had been (very well) converted to RHD and sadly, I know exactly what happened to it.  

I traded it in for an equally wonderful Mk 1 Scirocco GLi. Six months later I was rooting around in a car breakers in Sittingbourne and there was the de Tomaso, front end all smashed up (fortunately passenger cell/windscreen all good) - very sad.

Would love another...

Plus here are the real versions of the others I owned..

Talking of Innocentis, I had an Innocenti de Tomaso in the early 1980s.

I couldn't get a 1:43 silver model - so ended up with a red one.

55 minutes ago, eddyramrod said:

 

 

Sill Street Blues..

A bit later, say around 1971 I remember getting two brightly coloured plastic Aston Martin DB6s and a track.

A sort of poor boys Scalextric.

They were battery powered and crap IIRC - but no one else seems to have ever heard of them.

Found a photo if me in 1967, some interweb detective work and Ebay came up trumps (with apologies for the poor turn of phrase).

Scrubbers!

32 minutes ago, flat4alfa said:

 

I clearly need to gen up to match the knowledge on here. Christmas present to the rescue...

Happy Dinky Christmas

I love all this back history stuff..

43 minutes ago, andrew e said:

Another one I bought in the early 90’s - a genuine USSR Volga!

Lovely box art and I’m making a wild guess that ‘86’ stamp inside the box is when it was made.

In Aeroport livery, everything opens - it would give a Dinky Galaxie a run for its money! Oddly no zinc pest, and it’s been missing that mirror all the time I’ve had it too. 

Separate steering wheel, good dash moulding and even authentic holes in the floor 😁

Very finely detailed running gear, and back suspension that’s factory knackered for good measure - it’s like a Ruskie Hearald 😂

 

To compliment the roof mounted “Follow me” the rear window I have had translated to “The Pubski - Vodka’s on me!” 

I love the weapons grade Norev panel gaps.

And that gear lever is more Viagra than Volga!

Yes I will keep both. Interestingly the boots are quite different (cream one has front wheels that steer as well).

1 minute ago, Datsuncog said:

 

Agreed - the pricing seems waaaay off on these - only a few months back he was knocking out mint/boxed MoYs and Lledo for £2 a throw; so a fiver for a really scruffy unboxed example is Not Good.

Still, it's dynamic pricing, or so it seems - if he's selling at £2, he likely paid a pound each. If he's looking a fiver, he probably had to shell out £2.50 each or thereabouts to secure this job lot, so I s'pose it's market forces at work...

It would cost him nothing to dust them, mind - unless he's going with the OMG BARNFIND school of sales...

There's a chance he may drop the prices a smidge to clear some stock, so by all means let me know if anyone's interested in anything and I'll do my darnedest to secure them at target price next week, all being well!

What a fantastic haul - and, even including a fair old whack for posting that lot, I'd guess the whole lot came in at £notmuch each. The Spot On Minx looks especially alluring.

Top darts!

Fair play to the seller - P&P for the whole lot was £8.95

I won an Ebay job lot for £80 (plus p&p) and it turned up yesterday. I wanted the Spot on Minx and Zephyr (to change to red), the rest were just for fun.

Anyway, they were better than I expected. The Dinky car transporter is a great old truck and the sausage wagon is a hoot with swivelling barista.

Interestingly the Nash Rambler estate thingy is a Lonestar, not a Dinky.

I also can't work out the white tyres on the Corgi Mini??

The three modern LLedos are not too bad really.

Not as easy as Dinky, but here is my take on the Corgi 1971/72 front cover..  

On 11/18/2020 at 1:41 PM, junkyarddog said:

Today arrival is this Matchbox  Emm Gee Bee!

What do you reckon Smoll Eddy?

"If you've got to have an MGB,this is the best one to have as real ones are shit M8"

As a member of the MGBGT+  community I detect numerous micro aggressions of my safe space in this post

I thought I would start lockdown madness a day early and get back to wasting time every which way I can.

So here is my copy of the front cover of the Dinky Brochure (1971?) with numerous substitutions (and one Atlas)

15 hours ago, Datsuncog said:

For any out there feeling the Dub Luv... Home Bargains has the Dickie Toys VW Microbus back on the shelves again.

They're plastic, but pretty big and nicely detailed. Must be around 1/18 scale - they look to be over a foot long.

And they come with stickers, so you can customise it.

Lovely.

TBH I was just relieved to see a VW Camper in a box branded Dickie Toys