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13 hours ago, sierraman said:

Britain’s Farm Tat seems to be going for some good coin at the moment. I had quite a bit of this when I was a kid but it used to be really susceptible to sunlight and brittle plastic. The Rice horsebox I had literally fell to bits after a few years in my window. 

 

It does. It wasn't the most robust stuff at the outset, the tractor cabs were plastic and pretty to scale and never withstood much hard play (aftermarket replacements are available though). You also get plastic degradation, especially wheel melt on some vehicles. Luckily the only example I have of this thus far is on the relatively cheap and easy to find Massey Ferguson seed drill.

I usually buy my Britains stuff broken and mend it myself using aftermarket parts. 

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I had an hour today to rush around Romford looking for toy cars. Managed to check 8 shops, both Entertainers being closed on Sunday. Found naff all except this Jada Nano set which was way too expensive but will allow me to line up all the F+F MK1 Escorts in size order

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I have REALLY wanted one of these launch model Cavaliers since getting my first one in February but they were all north of £30. Far too much for one of these crude Gama efforts.

This one had no bids at £9.99 so for £14.19  posted it was mine. 

It arrived today, shame about the non disclosed crack in the windscreen but I still love it. 

Apt  Autoshite slogan as well.

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A heads up. Bicester Sunday Scramble has a slightly new format. Part of it is that the main hangar is no longer auction and cars for sale, but it's setup as an Autojumble.

As such, there were sellers of exotic miniature shite. Some of it was pricey, but some of it, not so much.

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My mind is starting to play tricks on me. After getting the knackered police Peterbilt recovery truck recently, I found this one locally - and now I cannot for the life of me remember which version I had as a kid! This one does not have the working steering I remember from my original, guess this was dropped for cost reasons? Everything else works though

 

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On 10/11/2021 at 2:32 PM, bunglebus said:

My mind is starting to play tricks on me. After getting the knackered police Peterbilt recovery truck recently, I found this one locally - and now I cannot for the life of me remember which version I had as a kid! This one does not have the working steering I remember from my original, guess this was dropped for cost reasons? Everything else works though

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That's a K-20 Peterbilt you have there, only produced in the green and white, available between 1979 and 1985.

A police-livery version was made from 1986 on, in Macau, and replaced the green and white K-20. It was renumbered as K-121, and came with the working steering you remember - highlighted as a 'new feature' in the '86 Matchbox catalogue. Was yours the peelermobile special?

My own childhood version with this feature dates from the late 80s (Woolworths buy with Christmas money) - I'm not sure how long it remained in the range, but it's still listed in the 1990 catalogue, though not in the 1993 one.

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It's a rare occurrence where features were added during Matchbox's Universal era, rather than deleted...

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I remembered another local charity shop on Sunday that I hadn't been in for a while. Nosing through the window revealed a tantalising glimpse of some die casts in a tub. Popped back today;

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Even the offer of viewing the boxed ones hidden in the store room wasn't enough to tempt me. But the 50p box turned up a few orphans

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Some interesting stuff there 😎.The trailer of the auto carrier looks like a copy of the larger Siku one20211012_165337.thumb.jpg.6ee9ef61ffe4ce5c9942988558a98101.jpg

Does anyone know where Zylmex were sold?.I don't really remember seeing them when I was growing up,same as Yatming & Playart.Maybe it was a period when I was more interested in other things 😂

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31 minutes ago, 155V6 said:

Does anyone know where Zylmex were sold?.I don't really remember seeing them when I was growing up, same as Yatming & Playart.

I think they may have been sold mainly in '50p Shops', as they were known to me - cheap discount stores, and often repackaged by an importer.

I mean, this one says 'Tuf Toys', but the Kenworth cab, wheels and trailer look very similar to the ones in the Zee/Zylmex catalogue.

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Dunno if in this part of the world we just rarely saw the names Playart, Yatming or Zylmex by themselves - kind of the way Maisto/MC Toys were branded Edocar for a while in Europe, as that was the importer's branding?

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There was also a Matchbox Rover Sterling in its box and a Superkings 944 , again boxed for a Fiver each . I can pop back in at the weekend if anyone’s interested. 

 

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10 hours ago, eddyramrod said:

I had that Lexus.  Not sure if it went in my Great Diecast Sale; possibly not, because it still had a box (although it had been opened).  I must have a look, see if it's still here.

I'd be interested if you do find it, otherwise it'll be one for me to look out for......

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15 hours ago, NorfolkNWeigh said:

There was also a Matchbox Rover Sterling in its box and a Superkings 944 , again boxed for a Fiver each . I can pop back in at the weekend if anyone’s interested. 

I hate making plans for people, but if you happened to be passing...

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