bunglebus Posted January 17, 2023 Share Posted January 17, 2023 15 minutes ago, sierraman said: Any new Matchbox in Tesco? Not yet - checking today though sierraman 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MiniMinorMk3 Posted January 17, 2023 Share Posted January 17, 2023 12 hours ago, danthecapriman said: Quick question for those in the know! Is the Dinky Wayne school bus rare? I’ve just scored one, not too bad condition, but it just occurred to me that you don’t seem to see very many around. Or I don’t anyway! Did it not sell well? Vectis get about 4 or 5 a year through their sale room. Estimates for boxed examples range from £60-£120. danthecapriman 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MiniMinorMk3 Posted January 17, 2023 Share Posted January 17, 2023 Here is the first road car produced by Minichamps. It came in three colours, met red, met blue and met black. Also note the dark silver box and the very early model numbering. The Karman Ghia was also an early release, the first versions having the 4 digit numbering. Soon after came the brighter silver box. Then 5 digit numbering The the MIN numbering and finally the 9 digit numbering, the 430 denoting the scale of 1/43rd. Soon after the silver outer was changed to the black outer danthecapriman, Datsuncog, AndyW201 and 1 other 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
andy18s Posted January 17, 2023 Share Posted January 17, 2023 Picked up a few bits over the weekend,nothing special although the police car has a battery compartment underneath,and optics running up to the roof lights. Quick clean up and new batteries but nothing works.... And finally got the treasure hunt Subaru for a decent price. Datsuncog, FakeConcern, andrew e and 3 others 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bunglebus Posted January 17, 2023 Share Posted January 17, 2023 Siku Capri 🙂 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
andy18s Posted January 17, 2023 Share Posted January 17, 2023 34 minutes ago, bunglebus said: Siku Capri 🙂 It's a Welly,same as the Subaru behind it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
flat4alfa Posted January 17, 2023 Share Posted January 17, 2023 1 hour ago, danthecapriman said: https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/402871508852 Nearly £15 posted mind!! Someone must be watching this thread. It's gone up by another fiver Tenmil Socket 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bunglebus Posted January 17, 2023 Share Posted January 17, 2023 4 minutes ago, andy18s said: It's a Welly,same as the Subaru behind it. Yes sorry! I have one somewhere As for new Matchbox in Tesco - no singles but there are some new 5 packs MiniMinorMk3, andrew e and AndyW201 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
flat4alfa Posted January 17, 2023 Share Posted January 17, 2023 BROWN MERCEDES ESTATE Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bunglebus Posted January 17, 2023 Share Posted January 17, 2023 Welly Crapi AndyW201, MiniMinorMk3 and danthecapriman 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
andrew e Posted January 17, 2023 Share Posted January 17, 2023 Those matchbox multipacks all look good 👍 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sierraman Posted January 17, 2023 Share Posted January 17, 2023 Like the Autobahn Express set. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tenmil Socket Posted January 17, 2023 Share Posted January 17, 2023 16 hours ago, flat4alfa said: Remnants idea #1 Remnants idea #2 I wonder what the back of the estate looks like and what was used to convert it... Granada? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Datsuncog Posted January 17, 2023 Share Posted January 17, 2023 50 minutes ago, Tenmil Socket said: I wonder what the back of the estate looks like and what was used to convert it... Granada? A different conversion, but evidently a Volvo 245/265 would do the job... How convenient... bunglebus, danthecapriman, flat4alfa and 2 others 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Datsuncog Posted January 17, 2023 Share Posted January 17, 2023 Still mildly obsessed with one of Friday's Tomica finds: This is just such a nice toy. There's a small peg on the base which, when moved, opens the front door. Simple, but effective. I don't know why I like this one so much - but I do. Also managed to remove the blobs of glue from the wheels of the Oxford 1/72 Corsa: 😧 That's a bit better. Not maybe something I'd be all that interested in at full retail price, but for only a pound or so... Looks like it's wearing a set of Lidl Middle Aisle black wheeltrims, for ultimate misery spec. Still, I don't have much in the way of contemporary(ish) models, so it's kinda nice to have. Potatocam is rubbish, but there's a teeny tiny Vauxhall badge on there - honest. Even the interior's quite well detailed, given the size of it. Underside too (plus more glue blobs). It doesn't take much to make me happy... FakeConcern, AndyW201, bunglebus and 7 others 10 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
flat4alfa Posted January 17, 2023 Share Posted January 17, 2023 57 minutes ago, Tenmil Socket said: I wonder what the back of the estate looks like and what was used to convert it... Granada? LOE 99P was in-house at BL official prototype. Was daily hack for CEO Michael Edwardes for a while. Now lives at Gaydon SHP 549R was official prototype contracted out to Carbodies. Now lives at Haynes Museum TMK 428Y was done by an engineer in Norfolk. Currently on a SORN, last on the road 5 years ago MorrisItalSLX, andrew e, bunglebus and 8 others 9 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
junkyarddog Posted January 17, 2023 Share Posted January 17, 2023 Whoever put those side repeaters on that bronze estate needs to made to eat them!! The Rover/Volvo mashup looks like it been rear ended!! sutty2006, Remspoor and bunglebus 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Datsuncog Posted January 17, 2023 Share Posted January 17, 2023 2 minutes ago, junkyarddog said: Whoever put those side repeaters on that bronze estate needs to made to eat them!! It does seem kinda unnecessary, given that the SD1 had probably boasted the biggest, most wraparound front indicators of the era... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Christine Posted January 17, 2023 Share Posted January 17, 2023 double seat Honda Cookiesouwest, MiniMinorMk3, AndyW201 and 1 other 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sierraman Posted January 17, 2023 Share Posted January 17, 2023 2 hours ago, flat4alfa said: LOE 99P was in-house at BL official prototype. Was daily hack for CEO Michael Edwardes for a while. Now lives at Gaydon SHP 549R was official prototype contracted out to Carbodies. Now lives at Haynes Museum TMK 428Y was done by an engineer in Norfolk. Currently on a SORN, last on the road 5 years ago How many pints had he had when he designed that red Estate? Tenmil Socket 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
155V6 Posted January 17, 2023 Share Posted January 17, 2023 20 hours ago, bunglebus said: That's cool. But I want the Track Car I'm sure someone on here was on the trail of one from Facebook marketplace years ago I did get this one a while back It's a bit rough,but it was cheap & I haven't seen another one since. danthecapriman, andrew e and bunglebus 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bunglebus Posted January 17, 2023 Share Posted January 17, 2023 More FB pics of strange HK imports. The guy bought a load of stock from a closing toy shop 30 odd years ago AndyW201, MiniMinorMk3, danthecapriman and 3 others 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bunglebus Posted January 17, 2023 Share Posted January 17, 2023 5 hours ago, flat4alfa said: BROWN MERCEDES ESTATE Yes. That was the set I bought - they're all nice but not quite enough to buy the others AndyW201 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jon Posted January 17, 2023 Share Posted January 17, 2023 Hi All. Thanks to the quote below from @danthecapriman's diecast sale thread: On 1/14/2023 at 2:32 AM, Split_Pin said: I've never got mine working either even although everything looks in good order. Maybe @Jonhas some tips! I nipped into the garage yesterday, for a bit of tinkering with the @sierraman Neue Klasse BMW, to see if I could get it to work. Apologies for upside down image (insert Antipodes joke here) but this image won't flip, for some reason. Anyway, the chonky features are there to house all these gubbins; that red interior inlay is possibly the cheapest grade of plastic ever assigned to a Dinky car, I imagine. A test with a AAA battery and a bit of wire confirmed that the ancient bulbs still worked, so I set to with some shards of wet n dry, 'lubricated' with some contact cleaner. The cam on the rear axle is the magic-maker. And the result: Soz for potatofootage, I've converted mp.4 to GIF to easily upload it here. But I reckon that working indicators on a toy back in the day would've been pretty revolutionary. Spurred on by the success, I tackled the NSU: Woohoo! This is a real bobby dazzler in this range of battery powered Dinkies, since the slab sides of the Ro80 aren't too exaggerated by the need to house a AAA battery and 60's electrics*. Again, simple cleaning of contacts and the happy circumstance of 5 decade old bulbs still holding up led to this mini victory. This casting is also the one with the neatest design and the most satisfying fit of all the components, to give confidence that it'll actually work, once all buttoned back up. Finally, my luck ran out with the Merc: The rusty contacts I could overcome. But I had to borrow a bulb from another car, as this one didn't have one. Yet, you can see that it was either a larger bulb originally fitted, or I had a piece of the puzzle missing, as the space for the battery was too long. A bit of sleuthing online showed a rather elongated battery - was it possible that the Mercedes employed a now long defunct battery style? Further sleuthing and phone screen zooming found the instructions written in English, describing the need for a U16 battery. Turns out that's an old term for AAA batteries, so that's not the issue and that a Dinky illustrator was having a bout of artistic licence that day. My money is on the missing bulb being a different size, as from the illustrations, I've nothing missing from the puzzle. Anyone got one they can open up, for a looksie? RoadworkUK, flat4alfa, andrew e and 8 others 11 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bunglebus Posted January 17, 2023 Share Posted January 17, 2023 I also popped into Entertainer. Just another box of long cards on the annoying clip strips Plus I think the last of the £3.50 F+F set Upon my return home this was waiting for me. Another one that I have but this is much nicer Then I had a mad afternoon rescuing my son in law after another completely avoidable automotive disaster - but I did visit a FB seller on the way back who had several trays of Matchbox etc on offer Not seen either of these before Husky Corgi And a weirdo MiniMinorMk3, eddyramrod, andrew e and 4 others 7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
155V6 Posted January 17, 2023 Share Posted January 17, 2023 19 hours ago, bunglebus said: Well folks, I'm off down a rabbit hole again. Posted that Sunnyside Rover 3500 Dinky copy on FB and someone came up with this As well as some others in the same Midnight branded boxes That another one I've had (the Panda looks familiar too - Bburago?) And this That's the Alme Golf I showed earlier... ...along with the BMW 633. Might explain why they usually have no make on the base So of course off I went searching for Midnight, and found they often have the brand Zodiac on them Think this '57 is an MC Toys which is also sold as a Zee (or the other way around) Here's mine Not sure on the T-bird, might be Zee again some others on the back of a box containing what's 100% a Zee pickup - recognise any? So yeah. More weirdos for me to hunt down, I have read the SS-909 Rover also came as a rally car - the search continues! I've got the TR8,missing the rear spoiler FakeConcern, bunglebus and Remspoor 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bunglebus Posted January 17, 2023 Share Posted January 17, 2023 7 minutes ago, Jon said: Apologies for upside down image Jon and eddyramrod 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
danthecapriman Posted January 17, 2023 Share Posted January 17, 2023 Never had one of these before but always thought it an odd choice of car for a British manufacturer to cover. Simca! Notice the Carrimore in the background? Notice too how it’s not my ‘bitsa’ green repainted one…. This can only mean one thing!! Yes, another box of old toys arrived today. Gotta sort through yet but plenty here. Dick Longbridge, Datsuncog, bunglebus and 4 others 7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spottedlaurel Posted January 17, 2023 Share Posted January 17, 2023 23 hours ago, flat4alfa said: Saw this and went off to see but did not find a RatDat post - must have been lost in a purge? Never mind, Corgi's 1975 Buick (Century) Regals have been discussed plenty before in this thread............... It was a whole load of them I saw that he'd amassed when visiting him some years ago. I'll get a few more photos of the Ertl Quattroporte up at some point, didn't realise I'd got myself a bit of a rarity (here at least). Looks like someone has one for sale on Etsy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
flat4alfa Posted January 18, 2023 Share Posted January 18, 2023 12 hours ago, Spottedlaurel said: Looks like someone has one for sale on Etsy. There are another 17 on eBay too, but all in the US That's one of the cheaper ones... No, I don't want one. Honestly I don't. No. Stop it! eddyramrod 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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