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4 hours ago, bunglebus said:

So what's this Red Rider doing with a Big Banger engine? This variation isn't shown on Christian Falkensteiner's fairly exhaustive list of Matchbox differences 

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I knew of the ‘Brown Sugar’ and ‘Big Banger’ story: surplus ‘Pi-Eyed Piper’ bases being used on export (US) releases, but not engine errors or swaps.  You might be rich!

Example, on card

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Long awaited Matchbox Jeep arrived with the windscreen intact

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Seller didn't post it for a while so sent me a bonus Porsche 910

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Not seen this version on the Majorette Beetle before, two holes in the rear window and glass moulded to make a roof light. The glazing is also warped as if it had a bulb in it at one time

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Also suffering warped glazing is this Schuco MK1 Golf, also sadly missing the dashboard 

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Staying with the orange theme is this Norvev Escort XR3

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Finally a Corgi Mach 1 Mustang with one over painted wing - looks water based so hopefully will come off

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Bburago Capri.

The wheels actually resemble the pressed steel jobs of the Capri LS more than they do the Capri Injection pepperpots, but, other than the slightly unconvincing rear lights (which are, at least, the right shape), it's rather well resolved on the whole, and the decals are particularly well captured.

1/24 is probably my least favourite scale, but the Norev 1/18 just looked so wrong to me that I couldn't do it. This isn't bad at all, proportionally.

Also a pleasingly eccentric subject for Bburago to tackle in 2020, but I'd expect these to sell by the bucketload among Ford lickers.


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53 minutes ago, C1am said:

Can anyone identify this? It will originally have been part of a set. Marked "Hong Kong" on the exhaust.

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If it is not a Christmas cracker toy but about 5 inches long, it looks remarkably similar to the link, if not identical.

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Edit: Or this one, which has the bracket for stabilising wheels:-

 

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30 minutes ago, andrew e said:

What’s the plan? I really like these but never spot a bargain, I’ve often thought they’d make an excellent Haliki Eleanor.  Will keep looking!

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I'm leaving this one alone - only seen red ones before, think there are 70s originals and later James Bond ones? They always seem to attract bids anyway.

Seen three red versions that I know of, likely different castings

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7 hours ago, andrew e said:

I’ve had one of those Capris in my eBay watchlist a while, it looks better in the flesh (bar those carbuncle headlight washers), I wonder if the alloys might appear on an XR4 (Or Orion Ghia injection!) model in the near future?

Those alloys look more like the steels on the 1.6LS Capris. 

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21 hours ago, bunglebus said:

Not seen this version on the Majorette Beetle before, two holes in the rear window and glass moulded to make a roof light. The glazing is also warped as if it had a bulb in it at one time

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Got to the bottom of this, it's actually a car air freshener/keychain of all things

 

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Rolls done. Took my time with this one, agonised for days over the paint as I wanted gloss and satin black but knew I'd never hide a masked line. Think what I came up with worked. 

Engine and side pipes from the Matchbox K-50 model T hot rod, lizard from (I think) a 57 Chevy model kit I built as a teenager. Steering wheel out of the spares box, wheels off a pull-back Ferarri 

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18 minutes ago, bunglebus said:

Rolls done. Took my time with this one, agonised for days over the paint as I wanted gloss and satin black but knew I'd never hide a masked line. Think what I came up with worked. 

Engine and side pipes from the Matchbox K-50 model T hot rod, lizard from (I think) a 57 Chevy model kit I built as a teenager. Steering wheel out of the spares box, wheels off a pull-back Ferarri 

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I've still got a childhood mint and boxed Corniche identical to yours. I never expected to see it looking like that - fantastic work!!

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Having a couple of nights away,and saw there were a couple of car boots nearby.

The 1st one was quite big,but I only found these two

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The next one was smaller,but I found this lot within five minutes of arriving

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Most came from one stall,but the ADAC Beetle was in a box marked £1.00.When I went to pay,the woman would only take 20p,as she thought it had come out of a bag of cars for a pound ?20200906_131151.thumb.jpg.25e774ae6f8959b2689fe37e2c230843.jpg

My favourite find for quite a while ?

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