Shite in Miniature II

[Mat.T]

My wife and I have been using toy cars to train my 2 year old son to use the potty. Each potty visit gets a sticker, 5 potty visits and 5 stickers gets a toy car. So far it seems to be working. So I've been looking for job lots of diecasts to use as potty prizes! 

I chucked a £5 bid on eBay for this lot and to my surprise won it for 4.71. the pictures were rubbish so I didn't know half of it was there.

Matchbox catalogue was a nice touch

 

A pretty good haul especially the motor show matchbox displays (shame about the missing BMW) the majorette Chrysler 180 particularly caught my eye. Most of these look to nice to give to a 2 year old though. Some like the 180 I think I will have to put in my own collection.

 

[bunglebus]

Corgi Whizzwheels Escort! Nice. Driving school Beetle is nice too - what are the ones on plinths?

[Mat.T]

These are the plinths they all to clip together. They look very lightly played with

[bunglebus]

Definitely not for two year old! All unique colours as far as I can see

[flat4alfa]

Matchbox 'Motor Show' series from 1993.

Sold in USA as 'Show Stoppers' series.  A few variations made between markets.

  All but the Ferraris were unique colour-ways and all had extra detailing to the lights front and rear

[sierraman]

I have the gold 600SEL. 

[Datsuncog]

Goin' on a Tat Hunt.

And, apparently, I've now acquired a small portable... something along with the delivery yesterday.

Rigid tent frame? Gallows? Gateway to Narnia?

You choose.

I'm off to see what I can find...

[Datsuncog]

First stop: the car boot sale round the coast I used to go to whenever I was clearing out assorted tat.

They only operate in July and August now.

Used to be that if you didn't get in the queue by 5.30, chances were you wouldn't get a space.

No such bother today...

Literally ten cars selling at 9 o'clock.

Well, desperate weather combined with Norn Iron holiday season probably plays a part.

Mostly just yer average dusty glass ornaments, early-2000s DVDs and Diana biographies, with some household clearance tat thrown in.

Oh, hullo...

Tat sighted.

Stallholder apparently had another Corgi car in a box somewhere, but enthusiastic searching yielded nothing.

Another guy had some ropey unboxed MoYs, but also a few other bits...

Purchasing purchased.

And onwards.

[bunglebus]

Hit the jackpot in Asbo Basildon 

Meanwhile BuM have the same mix of Matchbox....

...are they having a giraffe? 

[egg]

My Armstrong Siddeley had an original rear plate

But no front plate

But Steve Flowers has the solution.

[MiniMinorMk3]

17 hours ago, bunglebus said:

I splurged a whole 25p on a Majorette Alfa today

At first I thought that was an Alfa Giulietta

But then realised it was a 75.

Should have known from the headlamps really.

75 Wagon anyone.

[MiniMinorMk3]

3 hours ago, Datsuncog said:

 

And, apparently, I've now acquired a small portable... something along with the delivery yesterday.

Rigid tent frame? Gallows? Gateway to Narnia?

You choose.

I'm off to see what I can find...

Skate Ramp?

[sierraman]

17 minutes ago, MiniMinorMk3 said:

At first I thought that was an Alfa Giulietta

But then realised it was a 75.

Should have known from the headlamps really.

75 Wagon anyone.

Far and away the best Alfa 75 Model was the Bburago. Annoyingly though they always used to be emblazoned with stickers when really a nice plain red would have looked better. They’re cheap enough though to buy one to respray. 

[155V6]

I called in at a local charity shop yesterday,they haven't had any diecast for ages but had just put out three boxes.The only disappointment was that they were all £1.00 or £2.00 each now,so I limited myself to these four

Tatra 623 by Monti Metal

Shonkily made Lada Nova,with actual spring suspension,not sure who the maker is

Norev Citroen CX

Minichamps Volvo 480,this is probably my favourite,it is in pretty good condition considering it was loose in a box with a load of other cars

I might go back & have another look tomorrow after the car boot if I've got any cash left

[w00dy]

6 minutes ago, 155V6 said:

I called in at a local charity shop yesterday,they haven't had any diecast for ages but had just put out three boxes.The only disappointment was that they were all £1.00 or £2.00 each now,so I limited myself to these four

Tatra 623 by Monti Metal

Shonkily made Lada Nova,with actual spring suspension,not sure who the maker is

Norev Citroen CX

Minichamps Volvo 480,this is probably my favourite,it is in pretty good condition considering it was loose in a box with a load of other cars

I might go back & have another look tomorrow after the car boot if I've got any cash left

That's a superb haul. 4 winners right there.

[bunglebus]

I'd have cleared the shelves at that price

[egg]

29 minutes ago, 155V6 said:

Norev Citroen CX

Bargainous haul, is that a 70's JetCar or newer Hachette job?

[155V6]

I added some more cars to my sales pagehttps://autoshite.com/topic/54528-155v6s-haphazard-diecast-sales-box-of-doom-stuff/?do=getNewComment

[155V6]

19 minutes ago, egg said:

Bargainous haul, is that a 70's JetCar or newer Hachette job?

Not sure,I thought it might have been an original one,but it doesn't say Made in France anywhere.Here's the base

[bunglebus]

New 5 pack and more premiums in Entertainer 

Plus some charity shop bargains*

[MiniMinorMk3]

58 minutes ago, 155V6 said:

Shonkily made Lada Nova,with actual spring suspension,not sure who the maker is

 

That'll be from on of the many Russian factories. The suspension is great on those.

[egg]

33 minutes ago, 155V6 said:

Not sure,I thought it might have been an original one,but it doesn't say Made in France anywhere.Here's the base

yeah, hard to tell, the jet cars were either ref 845 or 852 from the Norev Bible, so that would indicate probable 70's, if not then one of these later Hachette models around turn of the Millennium? France being France there aren't websites detailing exactly what year any given model is like you have with Matchbox variations. I guess it's a very Anglo-Saxon thing to be ultra nerdy about such things.

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/354087712876

 

[Datsuncog]

Crumbs, what a morning.

The car boot yielded these...

A pound for the Corgi 205, and a fiver each on the Matchbox Dinky - not massively bargainous, but I'm happy enough.

I had the A40 van previously (I think - or was it the red Sharp's Toffee Commer van?) but sold it on last year, annoyingly.

The Dino I've never had before, but have coveted it ever since its release in early 1991.  I'm not normally much for Ferrari products, but I just kinda like this.

So it's a gift of sorts to my ten-year-old self.

I then wandered on down into town... I haven't really had much call to be back around my hometown for a fair few years now. I can't say I feel very attached to the place, for a variety of reasons, but I've been coming through a kinda introspective phase and somehow felt a bit of a tug to go back and have a nose around.

And it was kinda good that I did.

Look, it's Saturday and I have Stuff To Do, but - I'll come back later once I've edited pics and do it all justice.

It'll be worth it.

[sierraman]

Going to start restoring this ex @danthecaprimanLandrover. I don’t seem to have any corgi tyres in but fortunately some King Size Matchbox ones will fit perfectly. 

[bunglebus]

It's been a very Majorette kind of day.

Asbo in Basildump had some individual ones including a very pink Beetle

I also picked up the black Toyota 2000

Under those was a full box of Tune-ups, series two - a bit of online detective work revealed that #25 should be a Golf

And it is!

##28 should be too

And it is!

The tuning bits are quite unusual on this one, Carlos Fandago tyres!

##32 should be a Dodge Charger 

And it is!

These are obviously all better without the tuning bits, although I do quite like the surfboard on the Golf - however they do not go back into the pack with anything fitted! They do have a stackable display box included though.

Here's the full series

We're not done yet though, oh no. I realised the other day you can order direct from Majorette on their website.

I wanted one of these Golfs, however you can only order a random car from each set

Quite cool but not exactly what I wanted. Target #2 was the orange T3 camper and trailer from this set

Score!

[bunglebus]

Last but not least, both Asbo and Entertainer had new Fast and Furious premiums.

The Land Cruiser is pretty nice but I left that, and got this

[Remspoor]

@DatsuncogHow is the new bathroom?

 

[Christine]

Bunglebus !  I've picked it up at last , well , pushed it home 50 yards .. The model you customised is perfect !  150 squid bargain !   Golf auto can go soon... £300 

      

[Christine]

[Datsuncog]

38 minutes ago, Remspoor said:

@DatsuncogHow is the new bathroom?

 

Yeah, it's... getting there.

Slowly.

There's not even a plug for the sink!