Shite in Miniature II

[bunglebus]

6 hours ago, Jon said:

$1 (50p) tub

I'd gladly take those on, no rush to get them to the other side of the world.

Very jealous of the Sikus!

[danthecapriman]

Picked this up recently.

Absolutely lovely Caprice yellow cab. Doesn’t look like it’s got a mark on it. Even the wheel treads are still unworn and shiny. 
I had no idea Corgi even made this model until I saw this one.

[MiniMinorMk3]

The Caprice came in three other types. 341 in NASCAR livery, 325 standard road car (metallic green or two-tone blue and silver) and 326 Police Car.

[MiniMinorMk3]

The final instalment in my Roadside Assistance theme include a varied selection of other countries vehicles.

Kenna Austin A40 Van in NAF (Norges Autombil-Forbund) livery

R&J Miniatures AAA 1949 Pontiac Pick-Up

Eligor 1932 Ford V8 Pick-Up in Motormannen (Sweden) livery

Eligor Renault Juvaquatre Secours Routier (France)

Brumm Puch 500 OAMTC (Austria)

GAMA-Mini Opel Kaddet Caravan ACE (Auto Club Europe)

Kaden Skoda Octavia Kombi ABA

 

[Datsuncog]

14 minutes ago, MiniMinorMk3 said:

The Caprice came in three other types. 341 in NASCAR livery, 325 standard road car (metallic green or two-tone blue and silver) and 326 Police Car.

(Also as the C1008 Corgitronics Fire Chief car - but with a plastic base and opening nothing, I'd say it's a bit inferior to the others)

[sierraman]

I have the Police Caprice, really nice weighty model. 

[flat4alfa]

Interestingly, the one here also has the roof light cover / beacon missing

Should look like this dog lipstick style

Seems it is commonly missing, according to an image googling.   I wonder what it is shared with

[bunglebus]

Not especially cheap Matchbox in Oxfam

[AndyW201]

12 hours ago, Jon said:

Part 2. Apologies for the glare but it's a bright sunny day here, around 28 Celsius. You know what it's like this time of year, eh?

 

 

 

 

Anyway, I've been a bit cheeky here, as I did pick up an item of interest, to help fund what I found next....

Wish that shop was near me! 😆There are a couple of Vanguards there that are priced a good few quid below UK eBay prices, the Roman Bronze Granny, Astra GTE and Turbosystems Sapphire Cossie all go for about £30+ over here.

If nothing else though, I'd be stashing that Richard Burns Sunbeam away for Teh Investmentz, Any sporty Sunbeam model goes for good money now and Vanguards RB stuff is starting to appreciate (see how the Pug 205 did on eBay) now the Colin McRae stuff has gone stratospheric...

[Jon]

Funny, I imagined the workaday Sierras would be worth a bit, too.

 

Anyway:

😉

[bunglebus]

I bought just this from the charity shop

I didn't need it if course, I just always feels sorry for stuff like that in a basket full of half naked Barbies and Real Toy junk.

Doesn't look like it's had a hard life

[Datsuncog]

Looks in similar nick (and purchased for similar reasons) to last Friday's acquirements.

Just looked a bit too nice to be stirred around with the other junk, causing the paint to get knocked after 40+ years.

Unsullied wheels suggest a collection-minded first owner, rather than a kid firing them off a concrete ramp...

[bunglebus]

I was saying to the Mrs it's first owner just pushed it up and down the carpet, rather than burying it in the sandpit or firing it out of a catapult

[bunglebus]

Sometimes a box of old junk turns up in the post and it takes me a minute to work out why I bought it.

There are a few tidy Matchbox here, some not the most desirable though:

There's a spare purple Ferrari if anyone's interested...?

This was the one I wanted though. Lesney must have kept making regular wheels tyres for years after they stopped fitting them, just for the Field Car 

[RoadworkUK]

The combination of purple and those swirly wheels on that Fezza 456 makes it look all the more like a Ford Probe.

[sierraman]

They aren’t regular wheels, they’re just the narrow plastic ones. They did still make regular wheels post 1969 For the hay trailer and the brief twin pack Alvis Stalwart in the 70’s but they were probably old stocks they had left. A bit like the left over Mercedes 300SE castings from the military versions, painted them silver and sold them through Tesco in the early 80’s.

[MiniMinorMk3]

Also the No.72 Jeep that started as a regular wheel and went on to be a Superfast.

[bunglebus]

Found a long card MK1 in Tesco just now

[danthecapriman]

I’ve just bagged a couple of Corgi Ford Sierra’s off eBay, the larger model not the juniors. They’re the made in GB version and one is still boxed. But the box has ‘Ford’ branding and info etc about the Sierra, not a normal Corgi box. 

Where the early ones part of some sort of Ford promotional thing for the new Sierra? 

I have noticed the wheels on the original GB made ones are unique but were ditched on later models for the standard Corgi wheel.

[bunglebus]

13 minutes ago, danthecapriman said:

Were the early ones part of some sort of Ford promotional thing for the new Sierra?

Yes. I'm sure someone will be along with a more in-depth answer

[sierraman]

39 minutes ago, danthecapriman said:

I’ve just bagged a couple of Corgi Ford Sierra’s off eBay, the larger model not the juniors. They’re the made in GB version and one is still boxed. But the box has ‘Ford’ branding and info etc about the Sierra, not a normal Corgi box. 

Where the early ones part of some sort of Ford promotional thing for the new Sierra? 

I have noticed the wheels on the original GB made ones are unique but were ditched on later models for the standard Corgi wheel.

Yes, the first was the yellow model that was introduced round launch time, so any yellow ones will be the oldest, red, then the metallic brown ones came, followed by the beige taxi spec one. Then post ‘84 they released them in a variety of shades. As far as I know they continued in production until the early 90’s, some of the late ones had a cheaper four spoke wheel on them and came with the bigger box that had the emblem. 

I picked up a yellow one a month or two back to replace the one I had as a kid. 

[danthecapriman]

3 minutes ago, sierraman said:

Yes, the first was the yellow model that was introduced round launch time, so any yellow ones will be the oldest, red, then the metallic brown ones came, followed by the beige taxi spec one. Then post ‘84 they released them in a variety of shades. As far as I know they continued in production until the early 90’s, some of the late ones had a cheaper four spoke wheel on them and came with the bigger box that had the emblem. 

I picked up a yellow one a month or two back to replace the one I had as a kid. 

The two I’ve bought are metallic blue (boxed, Ford branding) and the beige/goldish colour (unboxed). I’ve got a really nice dark blue one too, but it’s a much later made in China one. 
When they arrive I’ll post a couple of pics.

[sierraman]

From memory I’ve got the yellow, the metallic Blue, the Taxi, the metallic brown, police, the Texaco one and another that’s some sort of pace car. 

[bunglebus]

Think I've only got one. It's nice though

 

 

[danthecapriman]

I’ve already got a Texaco one somewhere. Not seen it for years but it’s here somewhere!

Were the original Ford boxed one available at Ford dealers or something then? 
Volvo did something similar with various models. I’ve got the 700 estate but I can’t remember the name of the manufacturer.

[Spottedlaurel]

Corgi did the large and small versions in Sierra-branded packaging:

By coincidence the 11 that I got at the same time also had an element of manufacturer's branding.

[danthecapriman]

Your box is different to the one I’ve bought. Mines red and white with a big Ford logo on the front.

[AndyW201]

,^^^ Like this, I presume?

I got this one some time ago, from amishtat of this parish. It too was to replace my identical childhood one, My cool Uncle Stan got me it for Christmas in 1982 just after the Sierra came out. AFAIK he got it from the toy shop in town, so the Ford branded packaging wasn't dealer-only.

The box with this one has seen better days, but it's hanging on in there, I did manage to stick the cellophane back to the cardboard to some degree. I was just chuffed to find a decent condition boxed example cheaply. It is a fantastic model, I just love Corgis in this scale!

I had to get this version as getting my original yellow one is such a big childhood memory, I was over the moon to get it. But I still find the yellow paint job a bit unrealistic. I wonder with this being the first version that Corgi brought out, at the Sierra's launch, they were unsure what colours Ford we're going to use and assumed they'd offer yellow like they did with the previous generations of Cortina? Ive always thought that the gold example posted by bunglebus and Spottedlaurel was the most realistic for an early Ghia, I still want one of those, as I like the blue Ford branded packaging on that too.

[danthecapriman]

52 minutes ago, AndyW201 said:

,^^^ Like this, I presume?

I got this one some time ago, from amishtat of this parish. It too was to replace my identical childhood one, My cool Uncle Stan got me it for Christmas in 1982 just after the Sierra came out. AFAIK he got it from the toy shop in town, so the Ford branded packaging wasn't dealer-only.

The box with this one has seen better days, but it's hanging on in there, I did manage to stick the cellophane back to the cardboard to some degree. I was just chuffed to find a decent condition boxed example cheaply. It is a fantastic model, I just love Corgis in this scale!

I had to get this version as getting my original yellow one is such a big childhood memory, I was over the moon to get it. But I still find the yellow paint job a bit unrealistic. I wonder with this being the first version that Corgi brought out, at the Sierra's launch, they were unsure what colours Ford we're going to use and assumed they'd offer yellow like they did with the previous generations of Cortina? Ive always thought that the gold example posted by bunglebus and spotted laurel was the most realistic for an early Ghia, I still want one of those, as I like the blue Ford branded packaging on that too.

That’s it! The car in mine is the light blue metallic though. Must admit, doing the car in yellow does seem a bit odd. Yellow was more of a 70’s colour rather than something on a bang up to date 80’s car.
It’s a shame they didn’t do the Sierra estate. Did anyone make one?

 

[sierraman]

The one I had as a kid was well worn, missing the tailgate, it ended up getting painted gloss black, not sure what the goal of that was... I had a few bigger Corgis etc in a box of tat I used to play outside with, amongst which was a Senator with the front missing and the windscreen put through. I’d recreate scrapyards with them, thinking back in there I had a Dinky Rolls Royce and the Mini Clubman both heavily damaged and in keeping with the scrapyard. 

To put this in context as a kid I was obsessed with scrapyards, we are talking in a pre H&S era but I can remember my dad taking me in to the breakers with him to get something or other. Completely unimaginable scenario now!