Spottedlaurel

Citroen GS Camargue: https://dyler.com/posts/411/citroen-gs-camargue-the-first-joint-creation-of-bertone-and-citroen

Didn't know about this one until I picked up an old Majorette version recently.

I was in the strange position today of being out and about in the car on my own and having plenty of time to kill. Other than getting a surprisingly good haul of 1:1 spot photos, I made use of it by going to a boot sale, then a toy fair, which netted me this lot:


The JPS Lotus was £1 at the boot sale, half the price of another one I saw later.
The rest were from the toy fair, which was a bit sparse but that was good for my end-of-month cashflow. Apart from the Sierra, they aren't particularly smart, and the Majorette VW and Jeep have missing tailgates, but none of them were very expensive. Even the Transit milk float was only £3.
Trader who sold me the Sierra told me he cuts them up to make P100s, but this one was too good for that fate....

I was in the strange position today of being out and about in the car on my own and having plenty of time to kill. Other than getting a surprisingly good haul of 1:1 spot photos, I made use of it by going to a boot sale, then a toy fair, which netted me this lot:


The JPS Lotus was £1 at the boot sale, half the price of another one I saw later.
The rest were from the toy fair, which was a bit sparse but that was good for my end-of-month cashflow. Apart from the Sierra, they aren't particularly smart, and the Majorette VW and Jeep have missing tailgates, but none of them were very expensive. Even the Transit milk float was only £3.
Trader who sold me the Sierra told me he cuts them up to make P100s, but this one was too good for that fate....

I was in the strange position today of being out and about in the car on my own and having plenty of time to kill. Other than getting a surprisingly good haul of 1:1 spot photos, I made use of it by going to a boot sale, then a toy fair, which netted me this lot:


The JPS Lotus was £1 at the boot sale, half the price of another one I saw later.
The rest were from the toy fair, which was a bit sparse but that was good for my end-of-month cashflow. Apart from the Sierra, they aren't particularly smart, and the Majorette VW and Jeep have missing tailgates, but none of them were very expensive. Even the Transit milk float was only £3.
Trader who sold me the Sierra told me he cuts them up to make P100s, but this one was too good for that fate....

Camry update. Garage reported that the code suggested LH front ABS sensor is at fault, but they can't get hold of one at sensible cost.
Spent much of this evening removing one off the spares car. Not easy when it's the side that is against the hedge, and the car is on gravel. Eventually get car jacked-up and wheel off.
Everything was undoing OK, even the arch liner fixings. Unfortunately I failed at the final hurdle, when the sensor snapped-off in the housing.
Having done a search, which I wish I'd done when they first told me, it looks like I might be able to get a new one from a UK supplier for £30. Just need to check it's correct for my car, then fingers crossed it is that one that's at fault.....

Camry update. Garage reported that the code suggested LH front ABS sensor is at fault, but they can't get hold of one at sensible cost.
Spent much of this evening removing one off the spares car. Not easy when it's the side that is against the hedge, and the car is on gravel. Eventually get car jacked-up and wheel off.
Everything was undoing OK, even the arch liner fixings. Unfortunately I failed at the final hurdle, when the sensor snapped-off in the housing.
Having done a search, which I wish I'd done when they first told me, it looks like I might be able to get a new one from a UK supplier for £30. Just need to check it's correct for my car, then fingers crossed it is that one that's at fault.....

Camry update. Garage reported that the code suggested LH front ABS sensor is at fault, but they can't get hold of one at sensible cost.
Spent much of this evening removing one off the spares car. Not easy when it's the side that is against the hedge, and the car is on gravel. Eventually get car jacked-up and wheel off.
Everything was undoing OK, even the arch liner fixings. Unfortunately I failed at the final hurdle, when the sensor snapped-off in the housing.
Having done a search, which I wish I'd done when they first told me, it looks like I might be able to get a new one from a UK supplier for £30. Just need to check it's correct for my car, then fingers crossed it is that one that's at fault.....

Corgi Juniors always felt slightly downmarket to me too, compared to Matchbox and others; and I've already touched on my weird love/hate thing with the Jag XJS, Aston DB6 and 'US Van'.
They annoyed me a little because they felt flimsy and didn't perform as well on play tracks - yet Corgi also did models of cars I liked, such as Mk3 Escort, Rover SD1, Volvo 245 and Ford Transit Mk2 pickup.
I didn't tend to buy Corgi with my own money; Matchbox was my preference, with Hot Wheels when I could get them. I wasn't really a fan of the Super GT range as I just thought fantasy=rubbish, but I should have looked closer at the Capri, RS2000 and Lotus Europa... but Matchbox felt like my brand.
Models like the Rover 800 Sterling were just gorgeous; even thinking about the blister-packed Rover hanging on a peg in Woolworths gives me a Proustian rush.


I was a bit too young to understand the whole England/Macau thing and Lesney's demise, but there just seemed to be so many Matchbox, and always new ones to find both old and new (and why Charlie Mack's Encyclopaedia of Matchbox Toys continues to give me such a kick).
The standard Majorette range on a spinner rack seemed to be mainly stocked by independent chemist's shops, for some reason. Some toy shops sold bigger 1/35 scale Majorettes and gift packs, but when I think of Majorette I always think of chemists. NI never had branches of Morrisons (other than for a few months in the mid 2000s, when they bought out Safeway but then quickly sold the NI stores on to Asda).
Siku were virtually unobtainable - I picked up a bay window VW Crew Cab, a Passat estate and an Audi 100 from a rummage box at an autojumble in the late 80s, and was transfixed - I'd never seen models like them before. I still have them (top right).

A few years later, Leisure World in Belfast started stocking some of the bigger Siku sets (and, crucially, little A6 range booklets so I could gawp at them all), and now and again an independent shop like McCulloughs would get in a box of standard issue vehicles - but they were always twice the price of Matchbox. I did, however, pick up a Mk3 VW Golf and a T4 Transporter from McCulloughs in the early 90s, and later a Mk4 Fiesta, Audi A6 and VW Beetle a few years later.
Weird stuff would also turn up from time to time, such as Edocar and Welly models (occasionally found in newsagents) and Novacar and Guisval (which popped up briefly in Toymaster stores in the early 90s) - but they never really captured my imagination in the same way (though the Edocar Trabant was a joy to my Jalopy magazine-lovin' 12 year old self). I also found some oddities while away on holiday, which made me very happy.
Most of the Corgi I had came from freebies and giveaways with cereal, petrol or Easter eggs, with the odd 'Bumper Pack' received as a gift, or some ropey second-hand ones picked up at jumble sales.

I do dimly remember receiving a blister pack Corgi Vauxhall Nova in red, from Stewart Millar in Clandeboye Shopping Centre, not long after the real car was launched - so around 1983/84.

 
Now, it did have a plastic base but also had an opening boot - and I can remember that it felt a bit special, somehow. I really liked it (and still have it, though it's pretty worn).
But the Juniors always felt highly variable in quality, and the fact that so many of them stayed in the range for years and years meant that I ended up with a lot of duplicates - I must have had about a dozen Mercedes 240Ds and Buick Regals in various colours - and that sorta diminished it, somehow.
I also ended up with a lot of duplicates from the BP promo range, and that also maybe cheapened the 'specialness' to a five-year-old.
Another toy shop, Rainbow, had a whole rack of Corgi Juniors in the early 90s, which never really sold - they only had about four different models, all of them sports cars in drab and unappealing colours like navy blue and dark maroon, including the Ferrari 348, BMW 8-series and Porsche 911 Carrera. They were left hanging up at the end of a shelf for years, reduced to 49p and getting dustier and dustier... stuff like this didn't help perceptions, I guess.
 
But I've been mulling this over for a few days, and I think the main difference is that Matchbox started off making 1/75ish scale toys and then later started making bigger versions, whereas Corgi started off with 1/43ish scale toys and later decided to grab a slice of Matchbox's market share by making smaller toys.
IMHO, Matchbox Superkings were never as well-built and detailed as the Corgi 1/35 range - except for the short-lived late 60s range involving the Dodge Charger, Mercury Cougar, Mercury Commuter and Lamborghini Miura, which were exquisite.
Equally, Corgi Juniors were never quite as finely detailed and finished as their Matchbox equivalent, and this became even more pronounced into the 1980s as Mettoy struggled with deteriorated tooling and the need for cost-cutting on their smallest and least profitable toys.
I reckon this is because each company's original focus was slightly different; Lesney were tremendous at putting unbelievable levels of detail into tiny models, but their 70s and 80s larger-scale output often (not always, though) seemed a bit half-arsed.
For example, the 1-75 range version of the Mk1 VW Golf has accurate badging and number plates and everything...


...while the Superkings version is much more crude and far less detailed, despite being twice the size. It looks like it was made by a different company entirely.


Corgi, on the other hand, focused on innovation and features in the 50s and 60s, and then settled into film and TV tie-ins during the later 60s and 70s where fidelity to the real-life screen car was important to secure contracts.
For their Juniors range though, it seemed more like they were trying to sell cars to kids who liked superheroes, rather than trying to sell superhero toys to kids who liked cars.

With a few notable exceptions, Corgi's large 1/35 range was truly special, and around 1980 it was quite a bit ahead of Matchbox Superkings in terms of features and detail.
But here the small/large variation is reversed - on toys like the Fiat X1/9, Jaguar XJS, Mk 3 Escort, Ford Sierra, Range Rover and Rover SD1 , the smaller version was noticeably inferior in terms of proportions and detail.
I will say, however, that their Mk3 Transit appeared to be much better proportioned and detailed in its SWB Juniors format than in the LWB 1/35 format.
Even later on into the 80s, it was still noticeable:

The large Volvo 760 is an absolute cracker, inside and out; whereas the casting of the smaller version seems nowhere near as crisp, and the extension of the glazing unit to form the headlights seems to detract rather than enhance the front end. 
Comparing Matchbox and Corgi Volvos of the same approximate scale also indicates that although Corgi managed to get the proportions and the detail mostly right (mebbe a bit wide), it looks like the paint's too thick or something - the lines just aren't quite as clean as the Matchbox, despite slightly shonky shut lines on the latter's doors.
The contrasting bumpers on the Matchbox - rather cleverly using a slot in the base to give the correctly coloured air dam while securing the body - provide some realism. Neither model has any tampo printing, just the paint.

The Matchbox wheels are undoubtedly better, as well - even on this well worn tat box example. Cloverleafs are my least favourite Corgi Jrs wheel variant.
Matchbox opts for badging on the bootlid too - though I think here, Corgi's rear is more distinctively Volvo, somehow.

Also, in unscientific toybox testing, I reckon that large-scale Corgis wore much more robust paint. That big green Volvo spent twenty years in my toy box, yet is virtually mint - any Superkings bought around the same time were treated no differently, but soon suffered enormous paint loss.
So yeah... it's an odd one.
But I reckon Matchbox's heart never really lay in the bigger stuff, while Corgi never saw their true calling in making the smaller stuff.
And, even to us young enthusiasts, it showed.

More kits:

1:24 Fujimi Nissan Skyline GTS Saloon (R31) by Spottedlaurel, on Flickr

1:24 Hasegawa Jaguar XJ-S V12 HE by Spottedlaurel, on Flickr
The latter quite an old issue, and a bit smelly, but it somehow seems appropriate?

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I am trying my best to revisit the slightly to the east bits of London currently. A lot of them are a touch stabby at times (it used to be a case 'sun is out, it's fine no doubt' but now not so) but my little traipse around Hackney today was actually very pleasant. I wouldn't necessarily go into Walthamstow or Stratford though.
This is what I saw. A lot of these cars will be subject to a daily charge from October 2021, although not all. 

Tidy Anniversary

No trim level, so Base. One owner.


 
Is it just me or do the early ones not rot out quite as much?


Two mainstays of old London, both in long term ownership.

Yikes. I have seen this car before, but it didn't look too smart way back in 2012. Same owner for 32 years. R series?



No idea why this is here. It's not to my tastes!



All three of these live quite close together. The Orion and 21 seldom move by the look of the tidemarks.

Still a few MK3 Golfs, although I miss seeing sunbleached poverty spec ones.

Yuck


One thing that never seems to die is the old Volvo population. A lot less in use as handyman vans though.

More or less perfect.

Find myself hankering after a Carina E  a lot now.

Awful spy shot.

Nice. 

The LEZ and ULEZ already cleared out a lot of old vans within London, so anything this age is quite unusual now.

Remember when JC got one, banger raced it on a field and then flattened it with a car crusher? This was when they were brand new.

A lot of class still in these.

Not so much these.

I prefer these to Figaros, which are actually quite scarce compared to a decade ago, when they were everywhere.


One an 8v, the other a VR6.

All within 150 metres of one another. 

Bloody lovely.

Yet more Volvo.

Definitely thinning out.

I actually quite like LTs.

Insert joke about awful automatic gearbox here


Parked down the same road. Early 'roccos look phenomenal these days.
And lastly, this wonder!


Rarely do I see such fantastic timewarp pieces like this gem now. I have seen photos of it before but until now, had never seen it myself. Funny to think that this thing won't actually be illegal when the ULEZ widens, and will probably stay as is. Same owner since 1985. And they haven't even tax or MOT exempted it yet. 
Two hours and I got that lot, and a couple more for futures sake. I will be heading back to this area soon!
FIN

Okay some night time from Bari. There is definitely more here, but it's tiny compared to Turin. Only a short explore, again. I'm also taking photos (or will be, tomorrow) on my actual cameras. 
The train from Turin to Bari took 8 hours. Not actually that bad. 
 

We just walked to the shops and saw this in a very small area....quite surprised really. 
Also constantly amazed by the quality of night shots with my phone. 

Right then, here's what eight days in Portugal will get you. Overall impressions were a little disappointing - lots of dull modern cars with a smattering of early '90s bilge but little else. I have the feeling if I'd been there 10 years ago the streets would have been teeming with rammle, but the tourist trade has certainly changed the country's main cities a great deal recently and an influx of foreign property investors has probably irreparably ruined a lot of the atmosphere there. For non-non-shite purposes it was bloody great and I'd reccomend it to anyone who likes crumbling buildings, 1970s signage and good cheap food (and walking).
My first wander round Lisbon netted the previously posted, and these.


Tried to get away with a subtle pic here but was rumbled, which soon developed into a fun* game where my missus tried to jump into frame every time I snapped a car. Hilarious.
This was a highlight. Looked absolutely mint, unlike a lot of the older cars I saw

Really satisfying spotting the old black and white plates on stuff
Lots of R4s around, easily the most common old car, whilst I only saw a couple of 2CVs

fewer old commercial vehicles than I had hoped, but still a handful of older things playing various trades

Another one, just behind the Mitsubishi 

And this was a couple of cars along

There were loads of R5s about, and even more AXs, Unos and Pandas

another highlight. In a 'cool' bit so presumably owned by a hip young blade rather than an old duffer. Looked very tidy 

another one...

lots of cool car-based vans not familiar in the UK. I had no idea these existed but it looked great. Novas (well, Opel Corsas) were also very common to the point I only photographed a small handful. I did see another van, too, but it was much rougher

Lovely CX 2.5 Turbot in 'that colour' with the window Louvre etc. Lovely.

Most vans are fully decorated by the region's amateur street artists

This is becoming unwieldy on my phone. More in a sec...

See, hilarious. I did say 'Men on the internet will be looking at that later' but it didn't make any difference 

A shit photo,  but this Merc hearse was mega. I also saw, but to my eternal regret could not capture, a BEDFORD MIDI HEARSE which might just be the most shite vehicle ever built

404 pick-up advertising a shop just outside my digs in Porto (v nice city, would go again)

Lovely old BMW is exactly the sort of thing I would ignore in the UK, but this looked so 'right' in that colour and on those steelies

another 'still working' Transit. This was the only proper Mk3 I saw, but I'm pleased to report lots of Portuguese Transits have the pointless single 'hatchback' door thing that I love

A  very typical street scene. The Panda was more loved than most with fancy alloys etc

An Sierra

More bilge. Particularly scenic images here. What a beautiful country.


Never seen a Clio van before so I was quite excited about this!

An odd Toyota truck thing. A few similar such vehicles were seen, of indeterminate age and model

There was a smattering of Cavaliers, mostly booted

An proper cla**ic. Nice.

Nocturnal 305. I really like the look of these

Ending on a high note. I went to a bar on the top floor of an Art Déco car park (a sort of bougie European take on Trinity Square, if you will) and took the stairs back down to see what I could find.

yum! Let's have a closer look...


frankly, it doesn't get much better than a beige Simca 1100 estate, does it?
 

Ooooof!

Today’s finds on the market. A whole host of Corgi US Vans. Already have the Unimog but at 50p I had to have it. 

Matchbox Corvette is done. Video and pics don't do justice to the vibrant red/gold/green flip 



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Citroen GS Camargue: https://dyler.com/posts/411/citroen-gs-camargue-the-first-joint-creation-of-bertone-and-citroen

Didn't know about this one until I picked up an old Majorette version recently.

Citroen GS Camargue: https://dyler.com/posts/411/citroen-gs-camargue-the-first-joint-creation-of-bertone-and-citroen

Didn't know about this one until I picked up an old Majorette version recently.

I haz bin acquiring a few more 1/43’s. 
Russkie's first!
SSM ZIL 157 flatbed.

GAZ 14 limo.

IXO models GAZ 12 

And lastly an impulse buy. Another GAZ 13, but a much older diecast model from ‘Yanka’ made in USSR. Never heard of them before but it’s a nice casting and has opening doors and boot.


 
Now a capitalist pig dog automobile!
NEO Volvo 760 GLE. Really nice model and the interior looks spot on too.


 
Ive also got a Volvo 780 coupe and Volvo 244 coming from France & Germany yet to arrive. And a ZIL 131 military mobile generator set and URAL 375 command truck coming from Russia...
I also decided to get a couple of cheapo display cabinets for my 1/43 stuff. I’ve been buying them and then they just sit in their boxes under beds or on top of wardrobes etc, not really being seen. Now I can put them in these and appropriate them a bit more!

Sorry to hear about the Granvia, hope you get it sorted OK.
Have a D-reg Sierra Base postcard shot to cheer you up:

A27, Worthing old postcard late 1980s by Spottedlaurel, on Flickr
It made it to 1988. I'd like to think that the couple raising their hands on the left are acknowledging their appreciation of it being a Base.

Camry taken for an MoT this morning:

Both the failure items as expected. Unfortunately I only found out about the headlight last night and it was too cold/dark to faff around changing it when I knew it would fail on the ABS light.
Pleased to find no rot/brake/suspension issues. Will get them to advise on what's up with the ABS and get it sorted. I have the spares car here if need be, although I do wonder if there's a bit of rodent damage.
I could do with getting it on the road again as I seem to be doing a lot of extra miles due to various dad's taxi duties, and it's not ideal to keep using the Sunny at this time of year.

Okay kids - so we may have another new tat source potentially opening up (albeit of a higher grade)...
This afternoon I happened to be over in Whitehead, a picturesque Victorian seaside village a couple of miles away which also has a couple of fairly niche craft/hobby/antiques shops...
Just as we were leaving, I happened to glance into the window of a shop I hadn't noticed before, billing itself as 'The Vintage Time Travellers'. Some very nice mid-century modern furniture was in evidence, set off with gleaming retro tea sets, racks of 1950s and 60s gowns - all decent quality stuff, and clearly picked with a high degree of taste and discernment.
And then I stopped, frozen.
MrsDC clearly noticed 'that' face.
"What is it?"
**stage whisper** "There's shelves and shelves of diecast in there..."
"Do you want to go in?"
"Yesssssssssssssssss..."
I think I may already have been inside before I managed to get that single syllable finished.
Ohhhhhhh...

Well, crikey.
After a bit of drooling, and much stroking of French Dinkys, we got chatting to the proprietors.
Seems they've only been open since late last year, and Lisa seems to be running the place while Andrew formerly had a model shop somewhere in North-West Scotland, but since moving over to Norn Iron all his old shop stock is currently crammed into a storage unit/shed.
While he seems to have previously sold a lot of models via eBay, right now it obviously makes sense to have some stock out on display in the shop, just in case an inverterate diecast-licker like me toddles in.
Very wise.
So there is apparently A LOT of diecast not currently out on display.
I mentioned that I'm a member of a small but dedicated sub-forum of diecast tat afficionados, and asked if I could take a few pics to share with the group, just in case there was anything which would tickle their fancy.
This was wholeheartedly endorsed, so here you go:

The middle shelf was what transfixed me first of all. Corkey O'Rorkey, what delights.
Many of them are, of course, correctly labelled as Atlas reproductions of French Dinkys. There were also some boxed Matchbox Dinkys, at a tenner each. Less common beige Ford V8 Pilot just visible at the bottom.

Saviem flatbed with load is a lovely big thing. £25 asked for it. UK Dinky partworks behind not as scarce, tis true.

Boxed Opel Kapitan, Ford Taunus Politzei, Renault R12 Gordini, Buick Roadmaster, Citroen 2CV and Ford Thunderbird all seemed to be priced between £15 and £20 each. Gorgeous Citroen Type H in 'Philips Roadshow' trim priced at £25.
Not super-cheap, granted, but if he usually sells on eBay then I've no doubt it's about the going rate for each.
But, if these could be purchased in multiples without the need for auction fees, or PayPal fees, or individual postage... well, I reckon we could maybe have a chat.

Grey Citroen Traction Avant is by Solido, with opening bonnet wings and all. Rover P4 'Cyclops' is by Dinky; not sure if it's a reproduction or restoration.

A trio of Atlas reissue Aston Martin DB5 DHCs,  lovely in metallic red and priced at £15 a pop.

Corgi Land Rovers, and Dinky Bedford/Austin/Daimler commercials priced around the £5 - £15 mark, depending on condition. Oxford 1/72 Bedford TK box van right at the back in Tayto ROI livery very appealing, too.

Monkeemobile priced at a tenner. Very restorable, and I doubt that Market Blokey would be selling something like this for much less.
The shelf below, then...

Well, that large-scale tinplate bus is a sight to behold.

No manufacturing marks beyond 'Made in China' - anyone know what it might be? Triple doors seem more like Hong Kong buses than UK ones.
Then, below the bus, some Matchbox commercials - mostly Ergomatics, and mostly Superfast, though some Regular Wheels in there too:



As you can see, Dodges, DAFs and Fords from anything between £1 and £3.50 seemingly arbitrarily applied (plus a rogue Corgi Juniors Kojak Buick in there too) - but he could be open to offers, if anything appeals here?
Further down, and perhaps a little less interesting to the dedicated tat hoker: some Oxford and Corgi Classics Minor vans...

...and then some Days Gone

(I swear there must be some byelaw somewhere, stating that if you're selling second-hand models you must have a certain percentage of DGs in there. I know I did.)
And moving on up, just around eye level:


Bburago, Revell and Welly stuff...
Worth a closer look at this Fiat 500, though...

Opening everything!

Does the name Nacoral mean anything to anyone?

This looked old, more like a toy than a model going by its relative crudeness, and was very very heavy (more than a real one, possibly) - not so much my bag these days, scale-wise, but a very lovely thing nonetheless.
A fair few Beetles on the upper shelf, too:

And then, moving on up to the very top, some more commercials of mixed era:

Unboxed Lledo Vanguards Bedford and Thames box vans, with Corgi Karrier and Jeep commercials in between. Corgi Classics eight-wheelers behind.

Corgi Classics Bedford O-Types, plus an OB Coach (?), and another Vanguards Thames Trader.

Still more Vanguards (Thames and Bedford) with a Corgi ERF tipper, and Dinky Bedfords - with a Scammell Scarab behind.

I think the Dinky Supertoys Foden Chain Truck is an Atlas repro - still very nice, though. Original Dinkys down below; also a Corgi Classics Scammell Highwayman tanker (I think).
Other clumps of diecast were scattered around the shop, plus other automobilia too:

Matchbox Originals from the early 1990s - nice in their own way, of course.

Locally liveried OOC models - such as these Citybus, and Belfast Corporation buses - are worth a packet. I remember when the Ulsterbus Tours Plaxton came out (in pre-internet days) they were changing hands for £100 at toy fairs. £30 seems not too bad.

Another few Atlas repros, plus another Corgi Classics Bedford O-type pantechnicon.

These little spotter books were charming at a mere £3 each.

And quite an appealing Dinky Morris Oxford MO, hiding in a cabinet. £10 on this one too.
After yesterday's tat-splurge, I didn't come away with anything with wheels - tempted though I most certainly was  - but I felt it would be remiss of me not to let you folks have a gawp too.
The diescast guy, Andrew, has an eBay shop where he trades as 'treasures_of_transport'. You can check it out here:
https://www.ebay.co.uk/sch/treasures_of_transport/
Now, there's not much on there at the minute - which is understandable, if he's only just relocated from the Scottish Highlands, though I suspect that, like me, he may also be fed up somewhat with eBay's current structure. But worth a look, nonetheless?
He also has Facebook and Instagram accounts with the same handle, where he has more recent pics of the shop stock (and better ones than my potatocam efforts):
https://www.facebook.com/Treasuresoftransport/
https://www.instagram.com/treasures_of_transport/
It goes without saying that I'm happy to make enquiries if owt appeals here - and also arrange payment, collection and postage along with existing, or new, tat boxes... same terms as usual, folks.
As mentioned, there's A LOT of models which he still has in storage, so if there's anything you're searching for, either hit him up on Instagram like what da kidz all do these days, or I can also make enquiries on your behalf.
Knock yourselves out!