Shite in Miniature II

[Felly Magic]

There is another one of these on evilbay, but at double the price, and on ebay france the double deck petrol station minus cars & pumps for a staggering £30 plus a small fortune in shipping, not bloody likely sonshine

[simmo]

I picked this up as part of a mixed lot yesterday, it's remote control but missing the battery cover and controller.  It's plastic; no idea what make it is.

 

[Split_Pin]

That's very smart indeed.

[Spottedlaurel]

R/C or not, it's a nice model. A bit of bare metal foil around the windows would look good on it.

[Felly Magic]

Oh dear, I couldn't help myself, just ordered something megashite from Eastern Europe, it will go very well with my Daewoo Nexia, it's only a flippin Espero for only £8.99 shipped

[Junkman]

R/C or not, it's a nice model. A bit of bare metal foil around the windows would look good on it.

 

BMF is soooo yesterday. Molotov chrome pens have replaced it at the Junktowers.

[Split_Pin]

Oh dear, I couldn't help myself, just ordered something megashite from Eastern Europe, it will go very well with my Daewoo Nexia, it's only a flippin Espero for only £8.99 shipped

I'm meant to be getting one of those in a trade, haven't heard back yet though.

[mercrocker]

I picked this up as part of a mixed lot yesterday, it's remote control but missing the battery cover and controller.  It's plastic; no idea what make it is.

 

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Flippin' lovely.   I presume its a Hong Kong-er  such as Lucky, Telsalda or NFIC but as you have probably discovered they were very often un-marked.   Worth plenty coin in the right market.   A lot of the remote-controlled ones I have seen seem also to have been available with plain friction drives too.  

 

I used to get a lot of these from Woolworths when I was a kid but of slightly earlier cars, S2 Bentley, Volvo Amazon and Mk1 Cortina stick in my mind.   They usually broke the same week due to ham-fisted play techniques.....

[Junkman]

Today the GGG was at the Buxton Toy Fair.

This did not go without consequences.

 

 

 

 

 

 

[Junkman]

The Rancho will nicely complement my existing Corgi 1/36 collection, which hitherto comprises this:

 

 

 

 

[Junkman]

There are also these recent Dinkyshite arrivals:

 

 

 

 

[Felly Magic]

Nice lot there Junkman, I have that Rancho unboxed, I think Corgi of that era were pretty good, and they did do some real chod

[Junkman]

Many thanks indeed!

 

I very much concur and I think it's a now or never thing to get them in decent condition for decent money.

It' just a matter of time until they arrive on the radar of the mainstream collectors.

[mercrocker]

That El Camino is high on my want list (which Mrs Rocker carries in her handbag for birthday and Xmas purposes).   I have the Lone Star equivalent but its not a patch on the Dinky....Do you have the trailers, JM?

[Pillock]

I've got one of the Ranchos but it looks like it was found in the sea, the paint has bubbled off and the metal below is quite chalky. I got it for 50p from a market so i don't think the world will cry if i repaint it.

[junkyarddog]

I picked up a Rancho today too

 

 

A Matchbox one,needs a scrub up,but chuffed with it none the less.

[MarvinsMom]

hmmmm, El Camino.....

 

meanwhile, we went to the Restoration Show at the NEC this weekend, while there i managed to buy these.

 

 

A Husky/Corgi Junior Studebaker Wagonaire which cost a pricy £2 and this

 

 

a Dinky Morris 1100, mine for £10. i dunno if its been repainted or restored but its really tidy.

 

other recent buyages have included these

 

various Bedford TK and J-type tippers, with a bonus Austin J pick-up

 

again these were each a couple of quid each, and while not mint they are very tidy.

[mercrocker]

Dinky Morris 1100 is nice - it does look like a well executed rebuild but still nice and well worth having.   Bedfords are nice, too - usually lose either cab or body.   The Husky Studebaker is quite rare in that form - more common with the TV camera or as an ambulance.   Good stuff...

[junkyarddog]

Today's finds,

Matchbox Ford

 

Majorette Renner 25

 

CX

 

Toyota FJ/BJ 40

 

Transit with a neat sliding door.

 

Transit tow truck,with towing jib intact!

 

Renner 17!!

 

Matchbox Flog with a Majorette trailer,think they look good together,

sadly one of the sufboards is missing.

[Felly Magic]

I had that exact Majo trailer with a blue & white Mk2 Capri as a nipper, nice

[Junkman]

That El Camino is high on my want list (which Mrs Rocker carries in her handbag for birthday and Xmas purposes).   I have the Lone Star equivalent but its not a patch on the Dinky....Do you have the trailers, JM?

Sadly not.

[Spottedlaurel]

Good purchasing there from everyone above.

 

I'm finding Corgi of that era to be pretty reasonably priced, I've picked up a few over the last year or so for no more than a fiver each. Also have a few from when I was young, they've survived being played with by me and more recently my son pretty well.

 

Was having a bit of a sort-out in the shed last night, with the aim of getting another display cabinet into the house. Will upload the results in due course....

[Felly Magic]

I've found another one of those Tonka sets on ebay, bidding on it, let's see what happens eh?

[Junkman]

Right.

 

That Dinkyshite taxishite I bought today - I just did some research on it.

 

Straight to the point, it has 1.6mm diameter axles, smooth hubs, open rear window, narrow sump, hole in the middle of the baseplate, small script.

Hence it is without a trace of a doubt a genuine pre war example!

If the black tyres are original, it was made anywhen between late 1939 and 1941, since the white tyres were discontinued in September 1939,

to make a comeback only after the war.
In any case, it's at least 76 years old and thus the oldest toy car I have ever owned.

 

The first ones were cast from lead. No surviving examples are known to exist.

They then switched to a lead / pewter / zinc alloy and many of them suffered from zinc pest.

Mine doesn't even have a trace of it, it's an intact example with unbroken wing tips (a very common fault), but sadly suffers from major paint loss.

 

Still, I'm prouder than a crate full of monkeys.

[mercrocker]

Good work, JM....Owning a pre-war Dinky is indeed something rather special.

[sierraman]

Some ranchos of my own here...

[Junkman]

Good purchasing there from everyone above.

 

I'm finding Corgi of that era to be pretty reasonably priced, I've picked up a few over the last year or so for no more than a fiver each. Also have a few from when I was young, they've survived being played with by me and more recently my son pretty well.

 

Was having a bit of a sort-out in the shed last night, with the aim of getting another display cabinet into the house. Will upload the results in due course....

 

Thank you!

 

I paid twice that for the Rancho and still find it reasonable. I guess it's a now or never thing. You can still find them mint / boxed for prices bordering sanity.

This won't go on forever. Once they appear on the radar of the mainstream collectors, which can happen any time now, it's over.

 

I never had any of them when I was a kid, because I spent all my money on pre 1/36 scale rubber tyred shelf warmers.

Yet the 1/36es are part of my childhood, because they were omnipresent. However, despite that, they were a bit elusive at the same time.

Those old enough to remember will recall that they were rather expensive.

 

Looking forward to pics of your new display cabinet.

[Junkman]

Speaking of rubber tyred diecast chod, I still managed to buy a new Corgi '59 Impala in powder blue as late as the mid Seventies in a toy shop in Vienna.

There was a toy shop in Trieste, which still had crates full of old Corgis and Dinkys, as well as all the Italian diecast stuff, like Mercury, Politoys and Polistil,

Rio, Brumm, etc. We passed it en route to our annual holiday in Yugoslavia. I used to pester my parents all the way to have a stop there so I can blow all

the cash I got from relatives for Easter. It only occurred to me later in life how benefic my parents were in some respects.

They would drop my sister and me at the shop after having changed our money for Liras at a nearby bank (and topping up our funds a little),

then wait in a cafe across the street until we were finished shopping.

From one year to the next, all the old stuff had gone. The shopkeeper told me some guy from Germany came and bought everything.

I bet he then flogged it all with a hefty scene tax levied on it in the then just emerging toy fair scene.

[junkyarddog]

Picked this up yesterday,

 

1988 issue,sadly made in China

 

Still pleased with it.

[junkyarddog]

How about a shite holiday?

 

Norev renner laguna and shonky Norev caravan in tow