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My last Corgi Catalogue, 1972...

I would have been 13 and starting to think I was too old for toy cars while still loving them. I was by then into making Airfix models in a big way as well...

This is the best sort of front cover...

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I know I hated the Corgi Technocrats and thought them childish and patronising, bring back the Corgi Story!

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Someone had discovered the Pantone pen...

I fancied the Capri dragster, but I would have probably tried to make it look like a road car and ruined it...184980359_Scan_20191017(6).thumb.jpg.215219a29ce5acb00847cd62cb13befe.jpg

I have a Merc 350SL and it looks nothing like the rendering shown here...

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They still use the lovely line drawings to show details though...

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The drawings of the competition cars in the lower corners look like the artist has never seen either the models or the real thing, they look like they escaped from A-ha's Take on Me video...

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More of those drawings, why are they there?

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At last Graham Hill posing with his Cortina, no mention of Project X now...

An actual photo of Daf City Car...

Amazing they still sold the Mini & bubble car, I remember having them when very young...

I never aquired the piss colour Marina, pretty sure I bought Graham's GXL instead (although mine's bronze colour)...

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Strange mix of fun and the Fuzz...

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Yeah yeah yeah...

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Same...

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Same, TDF set still cool...

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Actually left blank!

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Not again...

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Nice...

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Also nice...

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More great line drawings...

Real suspension? Wow!

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Is that Unimog tipper new?

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Someone had fun doing these pics...

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Blimey that Booster thing looks a bit mad...

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The Green Hornet was a masked vigilante, much like Batman.  In fact the TV series was made by the same studio and they made crossover appearances in each other's shows.  He was a newspaper owner named Britt Reid, played by Van Johnson IIRC, with a chauffeur named Kato who was played by Bruce Lee.  There was a film not many years ago with Seth Rogen (?) in the part.  They built a bunch of cars for the new film, all customised Imperials very much like the original which Corgi reproduced so well.  For a series that was barely aired over here, the car stayed in the catalogue for a surprisingly long time, and it's not hard to pick them up used.

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On 10/15/2019 at 10:42 PM, sierraman said:

I’ve got my southern correspondent (my father) on the case scouring the local Tesco for them. 

I thought them Southerners couldn't get hold of them? Anyhow I can send you a boxed W123 if you want?

I was going to turn it into the Griswolds family truckster for my Dad. However I have now bought a Greenlight Truckster in metallic pea green with greenwall tyres and graffiti!! :-D

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12 hours ago, sheffcortinacentre said:

The Tesco in the wicker has one tub each of matchbox & hot wheels but it's potluck what you get on what day.

Yeah, been to that one three times, it’s on my way home from work. Saturday I thought I’d hit up the other megastore on Infirmary Rd, bizarre how they have 2 huge shops less that 1/2 a mile from one another but the closest one to where I live is 7 miles away. Anyway it had been picked over, I’ve got my dad on the case now, where he lives the average age of the people living there is about 150, so hopefully the ‘collectors’ won’t have picked over in his store. Once I’ve got more than one I’m planning on making a replica Tenerife Taxi from one. 

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9 hours ago, MarvinsMom said:

many thanks for the scans of the Corgi catalogues.

now i see that there MANY more cars that i need to add to the collection.

drat.....

 

 

You really need the Edward Force book, covers all the releases up until ‘82. It’s been out of print now for some years but you could pick a copy up on Fleabay. 

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Thanks for scanning those FC, a really interesting period in Corgi's range. A mix of 60's hangovers such as the Oldsmobile Tornado and the non-opening Mini and the Mercedes, Cortina and Marina.

The above mentioned Mercedes SL is an odd one as compared to the Marina and Cortina, its a lot more detailed, particularly the chrome window trims. I didnt know what to make of mine at first but I really like it now.

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Picked up a pair of Pi-Eyed Pipers, both with missing engines (but I have a plan), a better Piston Popper and this Lone Star Buggy locally

 

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Paint on the Pistastic is coming along, just need some Rollamatic wheels now

 

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Been going through some boxes in the loft and found these. 

Two Dinky Triumph 1300 's

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One original tatty with a tyre missing. The other I was going to do as my car and never finished it. The boot is currently missing but I know its in one of the boxes somewhere. I may finish it one day. 

Then there's this Dinky 2000. IMG_20191020_171542.thumb.jpg.a4eb8a5f6f49b555beddd5489e19a74f.jpg

Painted by someone else to a reasonable standard. The 2000 is a much nicer proportioned model than the 1300.

Next is this cheap plastic 2000. No idea where I got this from. IMG_20191020_171557.thumb.jpg.c93e02e58de28de4977374346047196b.jpg

This all it has underneath 

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There's a sort of logo next to the no.2 but it means nothing to me. 

And finally. 

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So I have three sizes of mk1 2000

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All these scans remind me I haven't done any in a while - so let's go back to 1975

 

48930864451_672b4fbac4_3k.jpgMatchbox 1975 01 by RS, on Flickr

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Anyone remember the fighting figures? Don't recall them but I was never into that stuff anyway

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19 hours ago, eddyramrod said:

The Green Hornet was a masked vigilante, much like Batman.  In fact the TV series was made by the same studio and they made crossover appearances in each other's shows.  He was a newspaper owner named Britt Reid, played by Van Johnson IIRC, with a chauffeur named Kato who was played by Bruce Lee.  There was a film not many years ago with Seth Rogen (?) in the part.  They built a bunch of cars for the new film, all customised Imperials very much like the original which Corgi reproduced so well.  For a series that was barely aired over here, the car stayed in the catalogue for a surprisingly long time, and it's not hard to pick them up used.

Aha, most of my childhood we didn't have a TV, but I knew of Batman from all the enacted "Dinner, dinner, dinner" stuff and other kids swapping Batman bubble gum cards and so on while nothing about Green Hornets!

17 hours ago, bunglebus said:

 

You can get them on eBay - check your wheel size and type carefully though, there are many variations.

OK thanks for that. I had had a quick look on ebay, but kind of hoped there would be some website that made it a bit simpler since as you say there are lots of types. The one I was looking for recently is for a Dinky Mini Moke and the tyres are sort of plastic rather than the usual rubber ones.

17 hours ago, MarvinsMom said:

many thanks for the scans of the Corgi catalogues.

now i see that there MANY more cars that i need to add to the collection.

drat.....

 

 

I feel your pain! Many of the cars I thought I had have either gone missing or have suffered the improvements* I made to many when I was a bit older.

5 hours ago, Split_Pin said:

Thanks for scanning those FC, a really interesting period in Corgi's range. A mix of 60's hangovers such as the Oldsmobile Tornado and the non-opening Mini and the Mercedes, Cortina and Marina.

The above mentioned Mercedes SL is an odd one as compared to the Marina and Cortina, its a lot more detailed, particularly the chrome window trims. I didnt know what to make of mine at first but I really like it now.

Yes that Merc is strange compared to all the others as it doesn't even have the normal state of the art Whizzwheels, but a pretty good representation of the real thing!

Here's mine with those despised Technocrats on the boxIMG_9153.thumb.JPG.6c63fbaad5f417c65e1af62431c8ec42.JPG

49 New Pence haha!

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Powerblaster & Whizztrack on the back

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A rather nice Orthographic Projection on the bottom of the box

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I've never been a fan of Matchbox as I always prefered the Corgi/Dinky size cars, but that catalogue is great really documenting all the models so well and there are so many of them! Thanks to @bunglebus

@Split_Pin The SL isn't quite as good as it looks in the pics, but I did buy it new!

Anyway here is a scan of my 1970 Dinky catalogue...

Front cover has all the cars layed out, I love this style...I can try and spot all the models I have...

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Never really into the fantasy type models even though I loved Thunderbirds. I have a Prisoner Moke now though...

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Very strange how they used renderings of the models rather than photos...

I would have prefered photos really...

Just looking at the first page of cars reminds me that the vast majority of my cars were Corgi, I only had the HA Viva and a Volvo P1800 with a missing door that someone gave me out of all of those...

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Some of these renderings are pretty bad, but also some of the models weren't all that accurate either.

I would have loved the Zodiac with four opening doors, but never got one...

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The Mk2 Cortina was one of my faves at the time, but the stickers were all paper, including the Lotus side stripes (which had the no 7 attached to them) so they got really tatty very quickly...

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"With operating water pump" why?

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Funny I only seem to have filled in the Cortina on the check list...

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More farm stuff...

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The Moke was much played with even if the canopy didn't really fit and the bonnet always sprang open...

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I didn't know anyone with model Dinky planes...1572169106_Scan_20191017(15).thumb.jpg.fb1090a5a749addfb684b3139d51d386.jpg

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Those gift sets look great...

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Thanks for that. I had a few of those and coveted many of the others but never got them. The AEC tanker was one of the prides of my fleet. 

Half of those I never even knew existed and some of the others I hadn't seen for 40 years. 

The water pump on the Merryweather fire engine doesn't mean the water pump on the engine. You could fill it with water and squirt it out of the hose I think. The memory is very hazy now but I think there was a plunger type pump somewhere much like windscreen washer pumps of the time. 

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3 hours ago, Yoss said:

The water pump on the Merryweather fire engine doesn't mean the water pump on the engine. You could fill it with water and squirt it out of the hose I think. The memory is very hazy now but I think there was a plunger type pump somewhere much like windscreen washer pumps of the time. 

Prepare for memory de-hazing!

Mine is missing the little hose that attaches to the rear

 

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My last catalogue Dinky 1971 (I think) now with price in New Money, but still using the rather poor rendered drawings of the cars not photos including on the cover this time...

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Some new models from UFO another series I've never heard of!

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I've heard of, but never seen Joe90...

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The Opel Commodore looks like it should be really nice never seen (Dinky) one. Why is the Mini automatic?Seems a bit peculiar!

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New rally version of the Capri...

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They got their monies worth with the Range Rover model, standard, Fire Chief & Police and is the Police Cooper S also Auto?

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Strange mixture of vehicles on this page...

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Strange again, they obviously didn't know where the Lunar Roving Vehicle should fit in'''

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Another blank check list...

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New for 72 CF van model!!! Wow I don't remember seeing one of them...

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Apparently the Spitfire & Stuka are no longer from the Battle of Britain film...

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I never did get any of these Dinky kits even though I liked the idea of them, I suppose because I was into Airfix & Frog plastic kits by then...

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43 minutes ago, FakeConcern said:

 

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New for 72 CF van model!!! Wow I don't remember seeing one of them...

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Why does the RO80 have luminous seats?

 

I have a couple of those CFs, pretty common in emergency or AA livery

 

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I guess the metal kits are essentially an un-assembled standard model, The Transit, MK1 Escort and Moon Buggy certainly were

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