Shite in Miniature II

[flat4alfa]

For the 1970s, Alfa Berlina conversion.  This also survives and has been rebuilt after a workshop fire when a Ferrari tried to take it with it.  In this shot, it is waiting for the Alfasud fuel tank to fall off. 

Modelled in 1:43 by Tron

[sierraman]

1 hour ago, flat4alfa said:

Prior to that, during the 1980s they used converted Alfa 6 and Giulietta

The Giulietta has been modelled by Tron in 1:43, both in finished or kit form

Only in Italy would the fire brigade use a six carburettored V6 Alfa for tending to the odd fire. 

[junkyarddog]

Had to do a tip run this afternoon and I was transported back to 1983.....

Christmas morning I got one of these...

Long gone now,although I think one car and a few bits of track may have survived. 

This was in a pile outside of the waste plastics skip,it was scattered about amongst other random stuff including  some similar aged Lego tecnic!(not complete,but the boxes looked in good shape)

I didn't have much time and the workers there don't like scavenging,so I scooped up this quickly and got it into the car.

It's only all complete,and in really good condition. 

A test with a 9v battery revealed that the cars still work.

Mega chuffed to have found this!

The price sticker says it was £9.95.

[flat4alfa]

44 minutes ago, sierraman said:

Only in Italy would the fire brigade use a six carburettored V6 Alfa for tending to the odd fire. 

'Squared' headlamps on the top one, making it second series, with Bosch injection.  Yes you are right on the series one behind the Giulietta, why?

That doesn't quite get them off the hook though.  Why did they fit Bosch L-Jetronic, and not the proven SPICA set up, used for a decade of sales to the US market?  Alfa Romeo owned SPICA.

[sierraman]

5 minutes ago, flat4alfa said:

'Squared' headlamps on the top one, making it second series, with Bosch injection.  Yes you are right on the series one behind the Giulietta, why?

That doesn't quite get them off the hook though.  Why did they fit Bosch L-Jetronic, and not the proven SPICA set up, used for a decade of sales to the US market?  Alfa Romeo owned SPICA.

More to the point why did they think that we’d always wanted a Nissan Cherry with the Arna? 

[danthecapriman]

26 minutes ago, junkyarddog said:

Had to do a tip run this afternoon and I was transported back to 1983.....

Christmas morning I got one of these...

Long gone now,although I think one car and a few bits of track may have survived. 

This was in a pile outside of the waste plastics skip,it was scattered about amongst other random stuff including  some similar aged Lego tecnic!(not complete,but the boxes looked in good shape)

I didn't have much time and the workers there don't like scavenging,so I scooped up this quickly and got it into the car.

It's only all complete,and in really good condition. 

A test with a 9v battery revealed that the cars still work.

Mega chuffed to have found this!

The price sticker says it was £9.95.

Well done saving that. What on earth makes people throw things like that away!? Surely you’d try eBay or donate it to a charity shop if it was still in that sort of condition? 
Makes you wonder how many old diecasts have ended up in a skip. 

[NorfolkNWeigh]

7 hours ago, danthecapriman said:

Most likely!😆

A little bit of me wants to repaint it exactly the same, but do it properly this time! 
Wasn’t it ‘a thing’ in the 70’s to add that stripe onto your Morris Marina or whatever you had!? Maybe this could be a replica of that!

It definitely was, I bought a Datsun 260C in S&an colours complete with SlotMags, gave it to my brother and he abused it but couldn’t kill it, eventually sold it to a banger racer.

I almost bought a Mazda RX4 Coupe, with a 2.0 Pinto conversion, again Red and white with Wolfies, can’t remember why I didn’t buy it now! Probably couldn’t insure it.

 

[NorfolkNWeigh]

This 1968 Quattroporte fire engine is my favourite.

Of course, it’s been modelled .

[junkyarddog]

46 minutes ago, danthecapriman said:

Makes you wonder how many old diecasts have ended up in a skip. 

I try not to think about it!

Was heart breaking to see the old Lego sets chucked out too😥

[Bren]

This came the other day -

purchased to go on the transporter I acquired the other week. Just ordered another period junior to go with it.

[flat4alfa]

1 hour ago, sierraman said:

More to the point why did they think that we’d always wanted a Nissan Cherry with the Arna? 

That was led by Nissan, they needed a foothold in European market manufacture

[flat4alfa]

Talking of which

Alfa Romeo Arna in resin, 1:43 scale, by Nonomologati using Gamma bases

[bunglebus]

35 minutes ago, Bren said:

This came the other day -

purchased to go on the transporter I acquired the other week. Just ordered another period junior to go with it.

Those Juniors Dyanes came in some excellent colours as well as "usual yellow". Shame my dark blue one is battered

[Bren]

Never seen the blue one. Had the yellow one multiple times due to my dad not realising I already had one.

[flat4alfa]

10 minutes ago, bunglebus said:

Was sure I'd seen that colour before

[flat4alfa]

Also modelled as Polizia by Nonomologati

[flat4alfa]

Alfa Arnas in 1:43 by Kess

[andrew e]

Sometimes the minshitter God’s are on your side, seemingly no catch, no damage either! Gas bill must have came in 😆

[flat4alfa]

14 minutes ago, andrew e said:

Sometimes the minshitter God’s are on your side, seemingly no catch, no damage either! Gas bill must have came in 😆

That's a Business Seller account.

So if the toy model trade are discounting them now, then we have failed in our investment of CMC releases!

[danthecapriman]

36 minutes ago, bunglebus said:

Those Juniors Dyanes came in some excellent colours as well as "usual yellow". Shame my dark blue one is battered

Must admit, I didn’t even know they came in any other colours than yellow or yellow with black roof!

[Dick Cheeseburger]

30 minutes ago, flat4alfa said:

Alfa Arnas in 1:43 by Kess

Almost 

[eddyramrod]

3 hours ago, danthecapriman said:

Well done saving that. What on earth makes people throw things like that away!? Surely you’d try eBay or donate it to a charity shop if it was still in that sort of condition? 
Makes you wonder how many old diecasts have ended up in a skip. 

Don't.  It's too sad.  I can't afford to think about that stuff.

[flat4alfa]

When I go to the tip run, I take a deep breath.  Not from stench, from the shock of incredulous waste

[Dick Cheeseburger]

5 hours ago, danthecapriman said:

Well done saving that. What on earth makes people throw things like that away!? Surely you’d try eBay or donate it to a charity shop if it was still in that sort of condition? 
Makes you wonder how many old diecasts have ended up in a skip. 

That reminds me of when I was parking up at the tip a couple of years back. My engine was still running, I was in the process of answering a call from Mrs L and I spotted a bloke strutting past the back of my car with a complete, lidded 80’s Scalextric track box. The way he held it suggested it wasn't empty,  either. 

My abillty to multitask became nil at that point as I watched helplessly and with my mouth still wide as the chap proceeded to throw the box into a nearby skip. In hindsight, I should have jumped out of the car, engine running and with OH still on the line and accosted the bloke before he lobbed it. Hindsight...

[Split_Pin]

Yet weirdly, on AS, where the general ethos is to mend things and pay forward, people seem to be obsessed with regular 'tip runs' and cars that will be suitable for them. I cant remember the last time I went to the tip. We got a skip last year for the first time in 10 years for stuff that we were unable to give away 

Well done @junkyarddog for saving that racing set, its rather heartwarming to see!

[danthecapriman]

1 minute ago, Split_Pin said:

Yet weirdly, on AS, where the general ethos is to mend things and pay forward, people seem to be obsessed with regular 'tip runs' and cars that will be suitable for them. I cant remember the last time I went to the tip. We got a skip last year for the first time in 10 years for stuff that we were unable to give away 

Well done @junkyarddog for saving that racing set, its rather heartwarming to see!

The only things I ever seem to take to the tip are bags full of festering garden waste, which stinks the car out for weeks afterward! Or used engine oil/filters.

Our local tip is very good at sorting the waste though, so I live in hope they find any old toys and stuff that’s too good to chuck away and sell them on. They even take all the old books out of the bin bags that get thrown in the skips and put them in big ‘book bank’ crates for re-use.

[Split_Pin]

Glad to hear they do that!

Thats reminded me, the last time I went to the tip was December with several cars' used engine oil.

[barrett]

I used to have a very large grass verge area for engine oil disposal at my old office. Since we moved I just haven't bothered changing any oil. More 1950s motoring tips available by telegraming BARRETIPS 284

[RayMK]

In my hard up younger years I used to have my dad's old oil after he serviced his Victor.  My Reliant was a superb disposal system as it burnt and leaked oil at the rate of 2 pints a week.

I've never seen diecasts at the tip/recycling yard but my dad did dig up a 1940s Dinky Post Office van when they moved to their new house in Peterborough. The van had most likely been shipped there with the topsoil rather than left by descendants of the Romans.  He gave it to me and I restored it.  About a year later it was breaking out in zinc pest and I wrapped it up and put it in storage. It's now at least 15 years since I last saw it.  If I can find it I'll post a photo, maybe with my other small collection of late 30s, 40s and 50s Dinky toys.  I've never owned many Spot-on diecasts. The Humber estate fell apart decades ago, though I still have its plastic luggage rack; a Fiat 600 Multipla disappeared even longer ago. All I have now is a LWB Land Rover with superbly compliant suspension, a Bristol missing its windows, a 1930s type MG sportscar and a Bentley 4.5 litre from a similar period - the last two being 1970-80 issues if I remember correctly and both in good condition.

Edited May 3, 2023 by RayMK
Incorrectly stated that Bentley was 3.5 litre. It's 4.5 litre

[sierraman]

7 hours ago, danthecapriman said:

The only things I ever seem to take to the tip are bags full of festering garden waste, which stinks the car out for weeks afterward! Or used engine oil/filters.

Our local tip is very good at sorting the waste though, so I live in hope they find any old toys and stuff that’s too good to chuck away and sell them on. They even take all the old books out of the bin bags that get thrown in the skips and put them in big ‘book bank’ crates for re-use.

Ours does that but I’ve a feeling quite a lot of it falls in the boot of their car. I wouldn’t mind we’re it not for that there’s usually loads of debris and nails/screws etc left all over the show. Clearing that up so I don’t get a nail in the tyre should be their prime concern.