andrew e Posted April 17 Share Posted April 17 Cor Dempsey & Makepeace Escort! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
andrew e Posted April 17 Share Posted April 17 Cor Dempsey & Makepeace Escort! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
andrew e Posted April 17 Share Posted April 17 Cor Dempsey & Makepeace Escort! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bunglebus Posted April 17 Share Posted April 17 Did you stutter? Remspoor, AndyW201, Tenmil Socket and 4 others 7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bunglebus Posted April 17 Share Posted April 17 Here's that set with the Corgi Mercedes bus andrew e 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sheffcortinacentre Posted April 17 Share Posted April 17 Cortina never available in corgi juniors range. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bunglebus Posted April 17 Share Posted April 17 2 minutes ago, sheffcortinacentre said: Cortina never available in corgi juniors range. No, I know - just had in my head something about a toy one with stuff on the windscreen and somehow thought that Merc was something to do with it...too many cars! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sierraman Posted April 17 Share Posted April 17 20 minutes ago, bunglebus said: No, I know - just had in my head something about a toy one with stuff on the windscreen and somehow thought that Merc was something to do with it...too many cars! You are thinking of the Mercedes 240d that was supposed to be the Cortina that was in The Spy Who Loved Me? It had some grey shit on the front and screen. Forgot to include one from yesterday, an avocado Cosmobile, supposedly the rare one from the Adventure 2000 set, already got one so duly wang it on eBay. bunglebus 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AnthonyG Posted April 18 Share Posted April 18 19 hours ago, richardmorris said: I have heard back from the original interested party in the cortina and silver taxi. He’s stepped back, so these two are available still @NorfolkNWeighand @AnthonyG. Yes please to the silver jubilee taxi if Norfolk didn’t want it richardmorris 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bunglebus Posted April 18 Share Posted April 18 Bank Holiday boot sale bonus day, decided to try a different one - found some good stuff but at least half the stalls were market type with brand new goods. A few interesting/comedy bits; And the cars. Plenty of older Matchbox and Corgi etc, got a good haul of Hot Wheels blackwalls and Ultra Hots too. Prices were a bit all over the place so a few went back in the box when too much was asked! One dealer had loads of interesting things but all jumbled together with broken cars and parts, fished out a few but don't feel I exactly got a bargain This was from said dealer, I know nothing about it but it's pressed steel and plastic, 1:43 and from Czechoslovakia This Bedford CA was also part of the deal And this Daytona rounding off the bigger cars are a Super Kings Brabham BT44B from the KP1 series that saw various older castings released in new colours with no decals - 50p for this one... and one third of a 3-for-£1 deal was this Scammell. Looks clean but is missing the grille and the towbar is broken andrew e, Datsuncog, AndyW201 and 2 others 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bunglebus Posted April 18 Share Posted April 18 For the smaller stuff, got quite a few earlyish Matchbox all of which have been on here before so I won't post them all. These two I weren't something I'd laid eyes on before though Very clean ambulance Cav should always be bought if found as they seem to be harder to track down Yet another version of the Corgi Merc bus And another H.W. fake Matchbox Really early Majorette has been overpainted but appears complete ERTL Excaliber - never heard of the show/actor? Lots of Ultra Hots and Blackwalls This one reminds me of a kustom Morris Minor that was about in the 80s Redline Oddball transformer buggy Lone Star bus And another oddball - plastic MK1 Golf that I don't know the maker of andrew e, AndyW201, Datsuncog and 1 other 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
barrett Posted April 18 Share Posted April 18 @bunglebus the nice Tatra truck is by KDN / Kaden, one of the big Czech toy companies. Moderately collectable I think. They also did nice 1:43 plastic Czech cars - And also obviously they did a range based on the Politoys 1:41 plastic cars (pre-M Series) RayMK, morrisoxide, andrew e and 4 others 6 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sierraman Posted April 18 Share Posted April 18 This Cavaliers and the Skodas always seem to sell well on eBay, very clean ones are an easy tenner at the moment. bunglebus 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eddyramrod Posted April 18 Share Posted April 18 Matt Houston, who did drive an Excalibur, was supposedly a wealthy Texan who moved to California and got mixed up in private-eye-type adventures. He was played by Lee Horsley who had previously played the "junior" detective to, IIRC, William Conrad as Nero Wolfe. I've spent far too muh time in front of the telly! bunglebus and AndyW201 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AnnoyingPentium Posted April 18 Share Posted April 18 1 hour ago, bunglebus said: And another oddball - plastic MK1 Golf that I don't know the maker of I'm sure I've seen one of those before. Might be one my Dad had as a bairn that my Gran kept. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sierraman Posted April 18 Share Posted April 18 Went to the biggest Tesco I could find... Matchbox discontinued. So that is that then. ☹️ AnnoyingPentium 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bunglebus Posted April 18 Share Posted April 18 57 minutes ago, AnnoyingPentium said: I'm sure I've seen one of those before. Might be one my Dad had as a bairn that my Gran kept. I had a good look at the base and it's KS Toys. Annoyed with myself for not checking the bottom of the box for the roofrack, slim chance I know but... It's apparently a Majorette copy, so there's Mercedes 450 and St Tropez caravan to find too Datsuncog, andrew e, AnnoyingPentium and 4 others 7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Remspoor Posted April 18 Share Posted April 18 A Morestone reissued by Budgie "Trucks of the world" series. International cab, lost the articulated section. warch and RayMK 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Remspoor Posted April 18 Share Posted April 18 @bunglebus I have one of them too. And for once this car in my collection is not molested so much. andrew e, bunglebus, hennabm and 2 others 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bunglebus Posted April 18 Share Posted April 18 I have a couple knocking about RayMK, Dick Longbridge, hennabm and 3 others 4 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sierraman Posted April 18 Share Posted April 18 Does mine make me a dubber? Remspoor, AndyW201, AnnoyingPentium and 2 others 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sheffcortinacentre Posted April 18 Share Posted April 18 Dismal failure no pineapple or stance😲 sierraman and eddyramrod 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bunglebus Posted April 19 Share Posted April 19 19 hours ago, sierraman said: Went to the biggest Tesco I could find... Matchbox discontinued. So that is that then. ☹️ Yep same here - for what it's worth i may contact Tesco and Mattel and express my frustration Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bunglebus Posted April 19 Share Posted April 19 21 hours ago, bunglebus said: This one reminds me of a kustom Morris Minor that was about in the 80s Just in case no-one knows what I'm going on about! eddyramrod, Datsuncog, AndyW201 and 1 other 3 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sierraman Posted April 19 Share Posted April 19 9 minutes ago, bunglebus said: Yep same here - for what it's worth i may contact Tesco and Mattel and express my frustration I wouldn’t waste your breath, they operate in such a daft way it’s almost like they want to fail. bunglebus 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Remspoor Posted April 19 Share Posted April 19 On 4/18/2022 at 6:45 PM, bunglebus said: I have a couple knocking about Fucking Tribbles. eddyramrod and bunglebus 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eddyramrod Posted April 19 Share Posted April 19 Look what just arrived from ebay... 1/18 Dodge Lil' Red Express truck, a factory hot rod from 1978 with a cop-spec 360 V8. I've been wanting one of these for years! I bid low on this, not expecting to get it, but nobody bid after me. Stroke of luck there. Now I just need a real one... Dick Longbridge, AndyW201, Remspoor and 4 others 7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spottedlaurel Posted April 19 Share Posted April 19 On 4/17/2022 at 2:29 PM, AndyW201 said: That would be awesome, if you're passing. Thank you. No joy at the first Tesco I stopped at, not even space for the MBX or HW cases, just 5-packs on pegs. But, 100% success at the next one! Silver GTi, red Civic and LS400 all purchased for you. A couple of them found in the blue case on the front of the shelf, then I saw a box behind it which had been opened. A few of the top ones had gone, but there were plenty at the bottom - I could have got a dozen Civics! More of the Lexus and VW in there too, in case anyone wants me to pop back and pick them up. AndyW201, andrew e and eddyramrod 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bunglebus Posted April 20 Share Posted April 20 Had a hunt in a few shops today, plenty of Hot Wheels but only one I needed For some reason this one's been hard to find, I saw one a few weeks ago but the card was tatty. Left as as it should be no problem finding a mainline..? Today there was this solitary example hiding behind some 5 packs. Talking of which, new ones; As usual, not very exciting, other than the inclusion of one of the "crushed" cars previously only found in some US monster truck packs as a bonus. If they did a 5 pack of just those I'd grab one as they'd be great for customising. The first release has proper metal bodies to but now are plastic, and the single one included isn't very exciting. Shame... AndyW201 and andrew e 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bunglebus Posted April 20 Share Posted April 20 Some time back I bought a tatty Corgi VW panel van Well I then found a better one so decided to restore the first. Casting has lovely details but was very coarse under the paint I really wasn't sold on the colour combo as I just couldn't see VW painting one like that in the 60s, found a few unusual colour schemes (errors) online Then I found a bit of a rarity, the "Vroom and Dreesmann" version The decals were available, so... Very pleased with this one. I couldn't resist tidying up the casting lines in the bumpers, and I omitted to paint the number plate housing silver as original, because it didn't look right to me. Colour looks a bit light in the pictures but indoors it's about right Remspoor, Spottedlaurel, Datsuncog and 9 others 12 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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