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1975 was a busy year.

Ramblin' Wrecker

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Backwards Bomb had a camper attachment instead of a tow truck boom

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Emergency Squad and Ranger Rig

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Grille also on Super Van and Paramedic

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It's surprising they coped with it all.

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1 hour ago, sierraman said:

The hot wheels fold away garage has a Larrys Towing. 

Had to look that up

Reckon that's quite valuable now, the first 1979 release anyhow

Hot Wheels Service Center Playset

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I wondered who Mike and Ted were.  I looked up on the designers list but none match from that era.

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Another couple of things for the collection I'm still not sure about arrived today20231023_202514.thumb.jpg.89fd105f98fcd6cd19a601589ae6f515.jpg

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They were sold as spares only,so I wasn't expecting too much.The crane is actually all there apart from the catch that the boom clips into, @FakeConcern,did you fix one of these?.The trailer is complete apart from the sliding doors either end20231023_204949.thumb.jpg.b2d9144a9706b75005d1f31fd90a699d.jpg

Quite happy with these 🙂

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23 minutes ago, 155V6 said:

Another couple of things for the collection I'm still not sure about arrived today20231023_202514.thumb.jpg.89fd105f98fcd6cd19a601589ae6f515.jpg

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They were sold as spares only,so I wasn't expecting too much.The crane is actually all there apart from the catch that the boom clips into, @FakeConcern,did you fix one of these?.The trailer is complete apart from the sliding doors either end20231023_204949.thumb.jpg.b2d9144a9706b75005d1f31fd90a699d.jpg

Quite happy with these 🙂

That looks better than mine you did well to get them. These are great the crane is so heavy and just real! Also I'm jealous of the cage, I've bid on three so far and not won any!

You can get a repro ratchet, I just decided to be a cheapskate! I made one from aluminium sheet glued to a bit of soft iron wire, then glued onto the stump of the original. I'll see if I can do a template for you, but may be in a few days time as I'm out until at least Thursday. I also made the hook although I think the Steve Flowers one is pretty cheap anyway.

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21 hours ago, flat4alfa said:

^^ Lone Star Alfa Romeo got scale measured here

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measures to approx 1:51, so perhaps it was intended for the larger Roadmasters range rather than Impy?

So did you work out what would be suitable replacements for the steering wheel and windscreen?

As for scale, that is a bit of a strange one and doesn't fit with anything else I have, but I believe your workings much more that Van Cleemput as he states the scale of the original Corgi 318 Elan as 1:42 & the 319 detachable chassis Elan as 1:40!

Do you know the scale of the Dinky Sprite?

The Big Book says

MGB GT 1:45

TR2 1:44

MGA 1:45

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18 minutes ago, FakeConcern said:

That looks better than mine you did well to get them. These are great the crane is so heavy and just real! Also I'm jealous of the cage, I've bid on three so far and not won any!

You can get a repro ratchet, I just decided to be a cheapskate! I made one from aluminium sheet glued to a bit of soft iron wire, then glued onto the stump of the original. I'll see if I can do a template for you, but may be in a few days time as I'm out until at least Thursday. I also made the hook although I think the Steve Flowers one is pretty cheap anyway.

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Thanks!,I did remove the rear part of the cover over the mechanism hoping that I could just pop in a new ratchet,but it looks like you have to dismantle the whole truck.It did come with a hook,but it fell off while I was fiddling with it & I've dropped it on the floor & lost it twice already 😂

These weren't mega cheap,I think I paid just under £19 posted after an offer from the seller,but as you said,the trailer seems quite hard to get hold of on its own

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One of my favourite finds yesterday. 

Spot on Volvo 122s.

It is a repaint,but done quite nicely. 

Couldn't leave it,even though it wasn't particularly cheap....

Opening sunroof is a nice touch.

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"It looks erm,Spot on M8"

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41 minutes ago, junkyarddog said:

Spot on Volvo 122s.

It is a repaint, but done quite nicely. 

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"It looks erm,Spot on M8"

The red does suit it better.  There is a baby blue original here

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Sunroof panel is there, but loose inside.  Gave it a go to reseat it, but it fought, so left it.

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1 hour ago, FakeConcern said:

Do you know the scale of the Dinky Sprite?

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Went off to find the one here, to answer your question.

But no.  It's a Spot-On.  Not a Dinky.   

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Fail.

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Seven-day warning:

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Lidl say they'll have Hot Wheels in-store from Monday 30th October.

Or at least, they will over here, anyway. And probably not these exact ones - I know from experience they seem to use any old library pic to illustrate Hot Wheels in their flyers.

Could this be a chance to nab some from the latest release case?

As we've no Aldi branches and the big supermarkets seem stuck on earlier cases, I'm vaguely hopeful...

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Browsing YouTube this morning, I found a reference to a film I'd not seen - Corvette Summer

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Do we think someone at Matchbox may have been a fan?

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I watched Corvette Summer when I was 9 or so. I liked it because "really cool car", but I had no real idea what it was about. On rewatching 20 or so years later, I realised that it was an absolutely dreadful film, and that the car isn't really all that, either.

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15 hours ago, flat4alfa said:

Recent years Atlas Editions

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Oh no what have I done

 

Modern Norev version comes with hard and soft tops

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Obscure French Resin Caravelles with bonus Dauphine

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I had a Tomte-Laerdal Renault Floride as part of a bigger collection, now long gone, but I can't seem to put my hand to a pic of it.

Tomte Toys body colours

So this library pic'll have to suffice.

Mine was missing the rather-too-upright windshield and also, I seem to recall, the driver's head...

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Two of my owned-from-new Spot-Ons, including the Floride looking rather sorry for itself...

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And this is how the Floride looks now!  Bonus Corgi Elan too for @FakeConcern :)

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Windscreens for both, and bumpers for the Renault, by Mr Flowers.

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Really pleased to find the Q case in Aldi - no Super in the 6 boxes I looked through, but the regular version was in there. Drift stuff is a bit hit and miss but I do like the colour - I think the blue glazing will work better for customising too

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Regular Treasure Hunt is this baja

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New casting in the form of this Land Rover - I reckon that surfboard will come off fairly easily too for use elsewhere

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I do like 60s style paint, Nomad casting was improved a while back too, grille etc is much better than the old one

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Sweet Firebird 

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New colour on the Alfa 

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I would have said this paint scheme was right for a Mustang but it actually works

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I know these are weird but I like them!

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Barbie Corvette looks great in baby blue

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Nice AMX recolour

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Same again for the Autoshite sunshine bus

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Conti looks good in new colours as well

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Red Raudi

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Yet another recolour - I  don't do bikes generally but I can't help myself with the Cub as I used to buzz about on the back of a C70

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7 hours ago, bunglebus said:

Aldi now have the Q case, three boxes in store #1

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And in #2

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Nothing in the third one though. Still, I got what I wanted

Not around here they won't, so I'm not going to bite and waste the petrol and will shout at the moon instead.

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1 hour ago, bunglebus said:

Can't leave anything alone!

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I might have to get one of those.  It looks awfully like the pale blue one Daniel Craig drives in No Time To Die... ;) 

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