Shite in Miniature II

[flat4alfa]

4 hours ago, 155V6 said:

Galant base says 1978

Dodge 1979

[155V6]

8 minutes ago, Tenmil Socket said:

Nice! Odd wheels?

Yes,Matchbox wheels on the front 🤔

[junkyarddog]

Ever the entrepreneur,Smoll Eddy has gone into the car waxing and electric charging point buisness.

What sort of waxing do you do Smoll Eddy?

"Nothing to suit you,I've seen your missus,she makes Chewbacca look like he's got alopecia M8"

[junkyarddog]

Managed to find the Fiat transporter set too,I like the truck because even if it unlicensed,it still looks like a Fiat truck,a bit like the one in The Italian Job.

In case anyone is interested,that set that Smoll Eddy is modelling is available in Poundland,there are a few different sets,even thought they are basically the same,just with different decals.

"FFS Don't tell em that!!I don't need the competition M8"

[Tenmil Socket]

Helping someone move house today in this weather!

Anyway, I’ve been given the below and also a bag of mixed miniature die-casts.

 

[ETCHY]

8 hours ago, sierraman said:

Here in the Matchbox book. 

What book is that please?

[Spottedlaurel]

4 hours ago, bunglebus said:

Here's that GS Camargue 

Nice colour for it. I already have the blue one with a decal, and then picked up a different variant this morning:

Was pleased to get the Siku R5.

Cherokee had chien and tailgate:

There was a nice Majorette Sierra on another stall, but a bit steep at £8 (still got the Ipswich toy fair to come tomorrow).

On the subject of Sierras:

All the above came from a 1:1 autojumble. There were probably a few other things I should have bought, but I'd already spent quite a bit on magazines and 1/24 built Tamiya kits for spares/repair:

[sierraman]

23 minutes ago, ETCHY said:

What book is that please?

Matchbox - First 40 Years from about 1989ish

[FakeConcern]

Spotted this in Whitstable yesterday...

[bunglebus]

More GS Camargues 

 

[sheffcortinacentre]

14 hours ago, Split_Pin said:

I'm sure one of you gents posted up several years ago that the Galant/Challenger was based on a Tomica Casting? Anyone able to compare?

Also, I wonder if there was an alternate wierd kid like me in the US, who fawned over such UK domestic chod as a 'Cortina 1600 GL' in the same was as I did over a Majorette  Oldsmobile Omega? Neither were ever for sale in theUS/ UK respectively although at least the Cortina was successful over here.

Anyway, cheers for scanning @bunglebus

Think they did sell the MK4 cortina in us seen a few over there in various conditions.

[Jon]

10 hours ago, bunglebus said:

Maybe it was @Jon who found one as our antipodean correspondent?

Today's small haul

I've not got any of the Hong Kong Matchboxes but have seen a few up for grabs on https://www.trademe.co.nz/ . If anyone takes a fancy to anything on there, I'm happy to offer a free brokering service.

But be warned that my quick trigger finger in UK tat sales of past have reflected the often inflated local prices...

[bunglebus]

I realised today's Jeep find means I have both black base Sleet-N-Snow

and white base US Mail truck versions

Both appear identical up top at first glance, but have different rear seats

I do have the trailer to go with, actually I've had several but even I didn't keep any spares just in case! Wheels are different to the Jeeps so was either actually paired with it?

I did find an article about the Matchbox Jeeps too, prepare to be confused trying to follow all the changes and variations...

https://lamleygroup.com/2022/01/09/matchbox-monday-evolves-a-jeep-hot-rod/

[Tenmil Socket]

19 hours ago, Tenmil Socket said:

Helping someone move house today in this weather!

Anyway, I’ve been given the below and also a bag of mixed miniature die-casts.

 

Couple more pics

Giant Load made by KY (Jelly?)

Free if you want it?

 

[Tenmil Socket]

Oh, and the contents of the bag

 

[flat4alfa]

12 hours ago, sheffcortinacentre said:

Think they did sell the MK4 cortina in us seen a few over there in various conditions.

Dagenham exported Mk1 and Mk2 Cortinas but stopped there due to poor sales.  Mk3 or Mk4 were not exported, nor was Taunus TC or TC2. So where did they come from?  Could they have been Argentine Taunus TC3, but that would have been Cortina 80 style?

[flat4alfa]

6 minutes ago, Tenmil Socket said:

Oh, and the contents of the bag

 

Hot Wheels Deora !   Are you keeping it?

[sierraman]

Is it just me that really likes the Tailgator/Rhino Rod. Reminds me of eating shit loads of Bernard Matthews Dinosaurs for the on pack offer.

[Tenmil Socket]

30 minutes ago, flat4alfa said:

Hot Wheels Deora !   Are you keeping it?

I don’t intend to…

[danthecapriman]

38 minutes ago, flat4alfa said:

Dagenham exported Mk1 and Mk2 Cortinas but stopped there due to poor sales.  Mk3 or Mk4 were not exported, nor was Taunus TC or TC2. So where did they come from?  Could they have been Argentine Taunus TC3, but that would have been Cortina 80 style?

There were a few special importers that would bring in European Fords in the 70’s. Cortina mk4’s were occasionally imported as were mk1 Transits! 
There’s a guy on YouTube with a mk1 Transit, complete with York diesel still that was imported new in a small batch for a roofing company! 
Obviously in the US they had a multitude of F series tucks and E series vans so the Transit was never imported in the usual way for sale through dealers. Likewise the Cortina (and Escort??) had many domestic equivalents so it was pointless really trying to sell them in the US.

[tooSavvy]

Spurred by Mr Bs Simca odyssey....

I got these two @£7 +3.50 post.

 

Respray coming + the unique Boll 'splodges' of white 👍

 

🚙💨

[bunglebus]

Today's findings. I was selling so didn't buy too much

[155V6]

Some of the car boots round here haven't opened yet,due to the ground still being too wet.Two did open again today though,so I went to the nearest one & came away with this lot

Majorette pickups

Other Majorettes

Matchbox

The rest

 

[bunglebus]

Darda E30 is ace! Like the Sierra too, what series is is from with the flashing lights?

[bunglebus]

Not a lot to write home about today but I shifted a load of junk out of the loft and came home with £200 to spend on some more!

Just got rid of most of my buses, so of course I bought another

E30 hopefully has a better windscreen to insert in my custom one, after a bit of hydrogen peroxide treatment 

This was a pleasing find for £2.00

Very odd tinplate Beetle by Clover Toy

Another Corgi Cog for the Datsuncubs

Dinky LR can go on to pastures new, decent casting but I've already restored one

Majorette Toyota

And very similar looking Blazer, Jimmy

Can't resist them. I've tried

Hot Wheels Ferrari

Yet another Corgi SD1. Have I got this colour combo? Prace bets NOW

Lastly that Yank front end which has working headlights. Now fitted above the door in the man cave/outhouse/workshop/tat cave 

[155V6]

18 hours ago, bunglebus said:

More GS Camargues 

 

Looks like the white one is this one,shown with a plastic copy which has some sort of spring mechanism in the back

[155V6]

42 minutes ago, bunglebus said:

Darda E30 is ace! Like the Sierra too, what series is is from with the flashing lights?

A quick search found this,but I'm sure there's more than one series like it

Darda cars are another thing I don't really collect,but I do tend to pick them up if I see them.I'll dig my others out sometime.I nearly didn't buy the E30 as everything in the box it came from was £1.00,but I thought it was worth it.The motor even works 😀

[bunglebus]

37 minutes ago, 155V6 said:

Looks like the white one is this one,shown with a plastic copy which has some sort of spring mechanism in the back

Cool. Kidco is the obvious answer but Mira, Impulse, Lido and probably others did spring loaded cars. Anything on the base?

[155V6]

19 minutes ago, bunglebus said:

Cool. Kidco is the obvious answer but Mira, Impulse, Lido and probably others did spring loaded cars. Anything on the base?

Dinsin

[bunglebus]

New one on me! Hobby DB lists them, and only shows various Camargues as their product