Split_Pin Posted September 24, 2022 Author Share Posted September 24, 2022 Do you think that 17 is a Majorette copy? The treatment of the back lights suggests it is. bunglebus 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dick Longbridge Posted September 24, 2022 Share Posted September 24, 2022 Some of my early 80s Ertl. My brother and I both had an identical van at Christmas time but, unusually, I've got absolutely no idea where it ended up. I bought the van complete with spinny BA in the front a few years back to make up for it and sourced the figures in a large haul. I've since sold a Murdock! Tenmil Socket, warch, bunglebus and 6 others 9 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bunglebus Posted September 24, 2022 Share Posted September 24, 2022 31 minutes ago, Split_Pin said: Do you think that 17 is a Majorette copy? The treatment of the back lights suggests it is. I wouldn't say so, just similar andrew e and Split_Pin 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sierraman Posted September 24, 2022 Share Posted September 24, 2022 25 minutes ago, Dick Longbridge said: Some of my early 80s Ertl. My brother and I both had an identical van at Christmas time but, unusually, I've got absolutely no idea where it ended up. I bought the van complete with spinny BA in the front a few years back to make up for it and sourced the figures in a large haul. I've since sold a Murdock! A kid on our street had the big A Team Van, I was always wished he’d get fed up and sell it me. I look at the toys my kids have played with and they’re shite in many ways compared to the 80’s toys I had. Everything was just better then...🤣 eddyramrod, bunglebus and andrew e 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
barrett Posted September 24, 2022 Share Posted September 24, 2022 13 hours ago, Split_Pin said: I think I'm only missing the original Norev and the Spanish Dinky? Does anyone know ofnthe latter was re-issued by Pilen? It was... and just to make things more difficult, it was later slightly re-tooled with the later Solara-style front end andrew e, Split_Pin and Remspoor 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Split_Pin Posted September 24, 2022 Author Share Posted September 24, 2022 Superb man, I'll have a look on ebay to see if anything comes up. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Split_Pin Posted September 24, 2022 Author Share Posted September 24, 2022 Aah, it looks like Pilen make a 1/64 version as well, another one to add to the list. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dick Longbridge Posted September 24, 2022 Share Posted September 24, 2022 8 minutes ago, sierraman said: A kid on our street had the big A Team Van, I was always wished he’d get fed up and sell it me. I look at the toys my kids have played with and they’re shite in many ways compared to the 80’s toys I had. Everything was just better then...🤣 Agreed! Ertl large tinplate stuff was amazing to eight year old me - I loved the Dukes and A Team, so owning my own chunky metal versions was the ultimate really. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sierraman Posted September 24, 2022 Share Posted September 24, 2022 Oh for those Saturday afternoons as a kid watching the A team, Hollywood’s Greatest Stunts and playing with diecast on the living room carpet. Dodgem driver, Split_Pin, andrew e and 1 other 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bunglebus Posted September 24, 2022 Share Posted September 24, 2022 Another Entertainer (Amersham), another huge delivery of Hot Wheels AndyW201, Split_Pin and andrew e 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sierraman Posted September 24, 2022 Share Posted September 24, 2022 Considering visiting a Swapmeet in a few weeks. Haven’t visited one in 20 years, what are prices like? Are they still full of people who have no social skills? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eddyramrod Posted September 24, 2022 Share Posted September 24, 2022 I haven't visited one in over four years, but at that point the answer was a resounding Yes. Also, prices? They were already laughable, and if they follow ebay it's only getting worse. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sierraman Posted September 24, 2022 Share Posted September 24, 2022 I’m guessing there’s no £2 or 50p bins? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bunglebus Posted September 24, 2022 Share Posted September 24, 2022 I find everything from 50p tubs to how much? At toy fairs. Worth a look I reckon. Had a mooch around some charity shops, found there two Hot Wheels with blackwalls but obviously modern versions, possibly from a set And this jigsaw puzzle - who fancies IDing all the models? That Entertainer visit netted me a few spares and some new ones AndyW201 and andrew e 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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sierraman Posted September 24, 2022 Share Posted September 24, 2022 Think I might give it a go, it’s the massive one at Doncaster. Fortunately my interests are cheap! 80’s and 90’s Matchbox... bunglebus 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
155V6 Posted September 24, 2022 Share Posted September 24, 2022 1 hour ago, bunglebus said: I saw a print of that a few years back in a local charity shop,didn't buy it & have regretted it ever since 🙁 bunglebus 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
junkyarddog Posted September 25, 2022 Share Posted September 25, 2022 A friend sent me this picture. A real RS2000 painted up like the Matchbox version!! Cool😎 Jon, RoadworkUK, Datsuncog and 16 others 17 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
andrew e Posted September 25, 2022 Share Posted September 25, 2022 That’s brilliant! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sierraman Posted September 25, 2022 Share Posted September 25, 2022 Picked this up today, not seen this one in Tesco? AndyW201 and andrew e 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bunglebus Posted September 25, 2022 Share Posted September 25, 2022 On 24/09/2022 at 08:53, bunglebus said: There should have also been the 1303 shape Beetle and Citroen DS from Galanite (that I don't collect) but despite showing as delivered are AWOL Had a surprise birthday party for the Mrs today, just tidying up and found a slightly soggy parcel in the garden rubbish pile Obviously it was a GS Rather than a DS, the 1303S was my main target. Postman is usually very good so I take it this happened on his day off. Other deliveries made it into the house unscathed, first of all a Dinky Alfa in better shape than my current version And then a couple of still-boxed beauties, a Mazda B1600 in a slightly worn box The pickup is perfect though I think I'm the 1st person to open that tailgate No box damage on this Polistil MK3 Escort though Going to have such fun applying the stickers Split_Pin, Datsuncog, warch and 5 others 8 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Split_Pin Posted September 25, 2022 Author Share Posted September 25, 2022 Crikey I remember those Polistils. I had a Golf and a Celica. The big spoilers were interesting. bunglebus 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spottedlaurel Posted September 25, 2022 Share Posted September 25, 2022 I have a Datsun Violet that looks like that, also Polistil I believe. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AndyW201 Posted September 26, 2022 Share Posted September 26, 2022 Had a mail call with a difference today. In that it was our very own @Jon doing the delivering. A pleasure to meet and a gent to do business with! Bit of a Vanguards Holy Grail this one as it's one I've been after for years. The Mk1 Fiesta was covered pretty well in period, especially by the European manufacturers. Recently though, there has only really been the Minichamps XR2 (rare and expensive obvs), the casting by Revell/Corgi Detail Cars, (including a rather nice Signal yellow 1300S and a couple of nice rally versions) which was later marketed by Solido (curiously with the wider arches of the rally version) as a green 1300 Ghia for the Century of Cars partwork. Most common though is probably the version by Corgi Vanguards, which has come in quite a few varieties from a Nordic blue 1100L, through the fancier Festival and Sandpiper special editions to four XR2s and three Supersports, with a police version also in there. The black Supersport version for me represents a car that was my biggest "The one that got away". In the early 1990s, when I was doing a YTS at a Reg Vardy Rover dealership, the sales staff and mechanics always got to look over the cheap non-retailable part exes and got first refusal before they went to auction. One day in came a very tidy Supersport in black. The young mechanic who was mentoring me at the time, a Ford fanatic, looked it over and pronounced it sound, just needing a quick service and probably the brake pads and shoes doing. Price was what Vardy's gave for it- £500, cheap for a Supersport even then. Sadly it came to nowt as I was still learning to drive and had nowhere secure to keep it. In truth, left on the streets of Middlesbrough back then, it wouldn't have lasted 5 minutes. So sadly EBB 248W went to auction. I eventually got a MK2 1.4 S about 18 months later, but the hurt remained... Anyway, to the model... So, for those who don't know, the Supersport was a special edition based on the 1300S, with a few extras from Ford's X-pack programme thrown at it, such as the front chin spoiler, wheelarch extensions, rear spoiler and 6JX13 " 4 spoke alloy wheels, with a special check patterned interior and lairy side graphics. Corgi captured the Fiesta very nicely. They even did two versions of the shell, with sunroof and without for the Povo-spec versions. Obviously this one comes with! It also has all the right bits like the front driving lights, the body kit bits and the correct flat face Fiesta alloys. The twin colours of the graphics are nicely defined. Nice number plate font, sadly a bit on the wonk on this one! Again, great plate and spot on badging. It even has the small bulge in the rear valance needed to accommodate the 13" spare wheel on the sporty models, along with the add-on reverse and fog light. (Though someone at the factory has put the fog light on at a bit of a jaunty angle). Correct type exhaust too, Corgi took the time to model both this type of exhaust and the big-bore type for the XR2. Being a black interior, everything looks a bit sparse, but it's all there. it's a shame that back in 2012 when this was made, Corgi weren't doing the detailed seat patterns that they do for their models now. This would have looked fab with the red tartan seat pattern of the real thing. But I'm glad to finally get a black Supersport after all these years. It's the most I've paid to date for a Vanguards model but still less half of what people are asking for them on eBay, so it's all good! bunglebus, Jon, Datsuncog and 8 others 11 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AndyW201 Posted September 26, 2022 Share Posted September 26, 2022 Also thrown in with the Vanguards was a Mk1 Fiesta model from the other end of the timeline, the lovely Guiloy version, It's a lovely little example, full of period charm, that's survived in great condition. The stickers are still bright and vibrant and not peeling off. Some great period detailing, like the cast in badging in exactly the right font. Never used to see much in the way of Guiloy stuff on my family holidays to Spain, it was always Joal or Guisval, but I d have been chuffed to have got this back in the early '80s! Tenmil Socket, RayMK, Datsuncog and 4 others 7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
outlaw118 Posted September 26, 2022 Share Posted September 26, 2022 Bit of cross promotion, got a few items of interest on ebay...https://www.ebay.co.uk/sch/capri4evar/m.html?item=295238574804&rt=nc&_trksid=p2047675.m3561.l2562 eddyramrod and 155V6 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WillCarter Posted September 26, 2022 Share Posted September 26, 2022 Went to Peterborough Festival of Antiques this weekend and talked myself out or a load of 50p Matchbox Superfast. The regret has crept in now, can see me falling off the wagon again once I've moved. andrew e, Remspoor, sierraman and 1 other 2 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eddyramrod Posted September 26, 2022 Share Posted September 26, 2022 1 hour ago, outlaw118 said: Bit of cross promotion, got a few items of interest on ebay...https://www.ebay.co.uk/sch/capri4evar/m.html?item=295238574804&rt=nc&_trksid=p2047675.m3561.l2562 That 1987 Red Line mag has gone on my Watch List, to send to my mate in Cyprus. It's just up his street; last time I saw him he had one of those Covin "Porsches." outlaw118 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bunglebus Posted September 26, 2022 Share Posted September 26, 2022 6 hours ago, AndyW201 said: Guiloy That's lovely, I'd like one of those. I too lusted after a SuperSport as a lad a few years older than me who lived up the road had a couple at the time I passed my test and was buzzing around in my lowly 950 base model MK1 AndyW201 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
andy18s Posted September 26, 2022 Share Posted September 26, 2022 Be quick as I imagine the prices will go through the roof on eBay.. Remspoor 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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