Tenmil Socket Posted April 9, 2021 Share Posted April 9, 2021 Would anyone be interested in this FOC? Dick Longbridge 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dick Longbridge Posted April 9, 2021 Share Posted April 9, 2021 1 hour ago, Tenmil Socket said: Would anyone be interested in this FOC? If no-one else has jumped in already, yes please! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Split_Pin Posted April 9, 2021 Author Share Posted April 9, 2021 Those MB 57 Chevys are great. I've had mine since I was about 3, its the black and red version. I loved the tipping bonnet. bunglebus, andrew e and Datsuncog 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bunglebus Posted April 9, 2021 Share Posted April 9, 2021 I must have had the "Cherry Bomb" version when I was young, the words stuck in my mind. There are two different hoods on these 57s, one open like yours and one with an enclosed scoop Datsuncog, Split_Pin, andrew e and 1 other 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Split_Pin Posted April 9, 2021 Author Share Posted April 9, 2021 I didn't know that! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
barrett Posted April 9, 2021 Share Posted April 9, 2021 What is this idiocy???! Nobody needs THREE Politoys Alfa 2600 Sprints. Although I've learned the police variant has a separate number - 537, with the standard road car 514 Sudsprint, andrew e, RoadworkUK and 1 other 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
barrett Posted April 9, 2021 Share Posted April 9, 2021 Okay, two of those arrived in a job lot with these, which was the real reason for purchase. The new red 2600 is nicer than my old one and the police car... well, not sure yet. I thought I might use it as a wheel donor for the other 2600, which I'd then sell... fuck knows, this lot cost quite a lot of money and I'm not sure why I did it tbh. Anyway, the prizes: The Mebetoys Mistral is a bit borderline in terms of condition, but it's just about okay. Nobody apart from me is ever going to see it anyway. The Politoys 3500GT is what I really wanted, anyway, and although it has a few paint chips the paint colour hides them pretty well for the most part. Interesting* to see the Maser has moulded plastic wires which are quite different from the (slightly) later Alfas. RoadworkUK, andrew e, Skizzer and 10 others 13 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tenmil Socket Posted April 9, 2021 Share Posted April 9, 2021 3 hours ago, Dick Longbridge said: If no-one else has jumped in already, yes please! Great, I'll PM you. Dick Longbridge 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lord Sterling Posted April 9, 2021 Share Posted April 9, 2021 Glad you liked the Celica Supra @Dick Longbridge The pop-up headlights pop up when the front suspension is pressed down on. I think I bought it as a job lot with a Corgi Black Mercedes 190e-16. I thought the Toyota was an unusual model. Here is a few more from my collection. I have more but they are carefully packed away and I am working at the moment. Sudsprint, Datsuncog, morrisoxide and 10 others 13 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Split_Pin Posted April 9, 2021 Author Share Posted April 9, 2021 I have a real nostalgia for 1980s 1/36 models at the moment. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dick Longbridge Posted April 9, 2021 Share Posted April 9, 2021 16 minutes ago, Lord Sterling said: Glad you liked the Celica Supra @Dick Longbridge The pop-up headlights pop up when the front suspension is pressed down on. I think I bought it as a job lot with a Corgi Black Mercedes 190e-16. I thought the Toyota was an unusual model. Here is a few more from my collection. I have more but they are carefully packed away and I am working at the moment. That Celica is lovely. Added to my ebay searches! 😉 Lord Sterling 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bunglebus Posted April 9, 2021 Share Posted April 9, 2021 (I've been after an early white one to restore) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sierraman Posted April 9, 2021 Share Posted April 9, 2021 I had a quick browse for those Corgi Celicas on eBay but they seem to go for some serious coin. I’ll have to chance finding one at a car boot - whenever they open again. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eddyramrod Posted April 10, 2021 Share Posted April 10, 2021 I've posted a little parcel today to @Amishtat, and in a reciprocal agreement, a little parcel has arrived from him today while I was out. These were as arranged, and have gone up on my wall in their packaging. However, because my birthday is fast approaching, and he remembered, there was also this: A Corgi Range Rover Vigilant! I have one already but it's one of those things, isn't it? A specialist collector of police vehicles can never have too many, and I am that specialist! Many thanks, @Amishtat Spottedlaurel, Sudsprint, bunglebus and 5 others 7 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eddyramrod Posted April 10, 2021 Share Posted April 10, 2021 Oh and for those who follow these things: Cold Shoulder level: 95%. Quote: For every one that arrives, I'll put one in the bin. Amishtat and MarvinsMom 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Amishtat Posted April 10, 2021 Share Posted April 10, 2021 I did wonder whether that might result.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eddyramrod Posted April 10, 2021 Share Posted April 10, 2021 It reliably does. Obviously I didn't open the parcel in front of her. The fact that she'd just seen me walk into the post office with a box and out without apparently cuts no ice. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bunglebus Posted April 10, 2021 Share Posted April 10, 2021 Glad I have one that doesn't mind my strange hobbies. Especially as these just arrived; Can't see many police departments specifying wide whites and a red interior, but I think it looks great This one I only bought for the rear canopy, but it's really tidy AndyW201, eddyramrod, Sudsprint and 3 others 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jon Posted April 10, 2021 Share Posted April 10, 2021 A few months back, I bagged these Corgi Minis as a job lot, for about £4 each, which I thought to be very favourable. I'm happy to embrace shite miserdom, especially when it provides a glimpse into how one company focused on remodelling a model in only a few short years! First up is the Mini van, itself not the earliest but not to worry. Here it is seeing how those rockers are getting on down in that there Brighton. Just out of shot is some odd fellow with a box brownie, looking at an obscure vintage car. Note also that this one has the incredibly delicate rear doors, still. Nice. That said, this setting is probably wrong for this period of wheel style, so if it is, please rush those correspondences to: Jon. Whatevs NZ. Here's a photo of some hip young things (who will all be drawing pensions now, if they're still alive) posing in front of a novelty-laden Cooper S. Opening bonnet, doors, boot lid, flipping seats and stripy sliding sunroof! Must've been a revelation to the youthful recipients when these were new. And the crushing reality that 1960's London wasn't all summery days, miniskirts and blokes decked out in old military dress uniforms. I'll admit that the host of features came at the expense of the casting here, which is a bit contrived in places, like the lower rear quarters and the rather squared off front end. Has anyone truly made an accurate Mini casting?! That said, this is a lovely little thing, if a bit damaged in places. Strewth mate, they even got the little buggers down in Stralya. I can't see these Melbourne trams without thinking of the excellent mid-80's film, Malcolm. A must see, if you haven't already. Anyway, nice cheery colours and early disc wheels on this one. And finally, debatably the runt of the litter in this context, since it isn't filled with opening stuff, doesn't have fragile bits intact that often go missing and isn't one with cheery colours and early wheels. But it's still a fun little thing, with nice bouncy suspension and arguably the most accurate casting that Corgi did - although the van is pretty nifty in that respect. Seen here in its twilight years, trundling round suburbia. I can smell the ageing creosote of that crumbling fence from here. morrisoxide, Datsuncog, FakeConcern and 14 others 17 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dick Longbridge Posted April 10, 2021 Share Posted April 10, 2021 I've got the blue Mini and my bro had the green model. Utter bargains! I'm sure I paid more for mine in the late 80s... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eddyramrod Posted April 10, 2021 Share Posted April 10, 2021 I had the green Mini Magnifique from new. I remember it was also issued in blue, but I never had that one. Mine died by my own hands many years ago, but I managed to pick up another green one (probably for bugger-all, me being me) and last year I set about restoring it, drilling it out, stripping the old paint, priming and finally coating it with Ford Purple Velvet, which I thought was a highly suitable colour. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FakeConcern Posted April 10, 2021 Share Posted April 10, 2021 I had all of those Corgi Minis from new, I probably have them, but all have been modified (ie ruined) by me in some way! The van has lost the back doors, but I still have the dog! The green Magnifique I cut out the glass from the sunroof so it opens properly (!) and I think I took it apart for some reason and is in bits now. Anyway that's a nice collection right there... Edit; Love the film Malcolm and the Antipodean conection makes me think of one of my fave films Goodbye Pork pie... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MarvinsMom Posted April 10, 2021 Share Posted April 10, 2021 i too have several Corgi mini's, though the list above missed out the rally car, which came in 3 distinct liveries, from memory there is the 1964 and 1967 monte carlo rallys cars and the third been the sun rally, which it seems is now very valuable! i cannot find a picture of mine, which is the 64 monte car. there is also the "racing" mini, available in blue and pale yellow, mine been a very chipped blue one and there is the "wicker" sided Radford Cooper, based on the one commissioned by Peter Sellers. He had a series of cars built for himself and his then wife, Britt Ekland, but the wicker sided car was i think the first one. and there is the mini-magnifique in blue, i have been trying to keep an eye out for the green one, i have yet to find one cheap enough to match my skinflits budget! FakeConcern, Datsuncog, Split_Pin and 5 others 8 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FakeConcern Posted April 10, 2021 Share Posted April 10, 2021 I had those too except not the blue manifique. The several Monte Carlo Minis I had got rallied to death in the garden! I can see me rummaging in the loft tomorrow! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MarvinsMom Posted April 10, 2021 Share Posted April 10, 2021 i too have the red and blue boggo corgi minis, though i am missing the orange austin 7 version, the maroon one been a morris mini-minor. the blue one is i think a morris too. i got the police mini van too, though i have the copper and his dogs with mine still. and that is before we start to think about the Dinky versions, the police mini cooper, seen here with the mini-magnifique the mini traveller (or was it the austin mini countyman, i cannot remember) which came in more than one colour besides white, i'm sure. and the mini "automatics" which was i suppose Dinkies way of differentiating their cars from Corgi's. in the blue and red with mat (vinyl?) roof and then later Dinky also produced the Clubman in police and civilian colours. Sudsprint, eddyramrod, andrew e and 7 others 10 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bunglebus Posted April 10, 2021 Share Posted April 10, 2021 I was fortunate enough to acquire the blue version recently Which compares nicely with the Dinky That one owes its left door to the police version The Traveller is a different era really, with the pressed metal base All of them seem to be quite in demand, but can be found cheaply if you look for long enough warch, Split_Pin, eddyramrod and 5 others 8 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Split_Pin Posted April 11, 2021 Author Share Posted April 11, 2021 Want! I love the Corgi Minis with the opening features as they're the only ones I haven't owned. I still have the Blue Mini-Minor that was my Dads and the Traveller which I bought at a Swapmeet in the 80s. The others have come and gone mean time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
155V6 Posted April 11, 2021 Share Posted April 11, 2021 I got my Corgi Collectors Club Anglia Ice Cream Van in the post last week,the next in the series is the Monte Carlo Rally Mini.It costs £14.99 posted,but that includes the cost of the Anglia & you also get a couple of free gifts.Might have to treat myself FakeConcern, eddyramrod, bunglebus and 1 other 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
flat4alfa Posted April 11, 2021 Share Posted April 11, 2021 On 6/21/2020 at 8:24 PM, flat4alfa said: All this Mini talk caused another garden meet..... And not only that, I'd not realised until now how different the 'same' Corgi models were - nothing is shared, not even the glazing! Madness. Bit late to the Mini party But here was a previous meeting Amishtat, eddyramrod, Sudsprint and 1 other 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
flat4alfa Posted April 11, 2021 Share Posted April 11, 2021 On 11/23/2020 at 11:31 PM, flat4alfa said: Post Lady delivered a large parcel from deepest Essex. In there was a Mini. So, four different Corgi Mini castings could be lined-up for scrutiny The oldest and the youngest have no opening parts. Progress, eh Oh and there was this too Photos taken to show the dramatic* scaling changes by Corgi over the years FakeConcern and eddyramrod 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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