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8,669 · February 14

I didn’t realise that the Ruff Trek was based on an Australian (Holden) ute. It always looked the epitome of the yank pickup.

5,989 · February 14

6 hours ago, Christine said:

Britains Autoway and compressor .. crank the handle and it goes Bŕŕrrrrrrrrh

Ford D engine perhaps ..

I sort of admire how cash strapped Britains turned a series 3 into a 90, but I cant un-see the back of the rear arches or the track of the axles! Were Britains ERTL then or pre-ERTL?

67,978 · February 15

Absolutely filthy weather, so the toy fair was rammed. Paying to get in early avoids the crush.

Why am I only just realising the Corgi FX4 came in three sizes, not two?

I wonder if anyone bought this Siku Hummer?

More stuff to dribble over

What I bought

6,975 · February 15

7 minutes ago, bunglebus said:

Absolutely filthy weather, so the toy fair was rammed. Paying to get in early avoids the crush.

Why am I only just realising the Corgi FX4 came in three sizes, not two?

I wonder if anyone bought this Siku Hummer?

More stuff to dribble over

What I bought

A little frustrating sellers put the sticky price labels on perfectly good boxes ☹️

29,790 · February 15

That Novelty Bank thing is cutting it a bit close to the knuckle these days isn’t it!?😆

The boxed Matchbox Toyota pickup is absolutely fantastic. Pricey, but very cool.

30,859 · February 15

I miss toyfairs. There's some nice stuff in those pics, @bunglebus; thank you. I particularly liked the boxes of restorable old Dinkies. I'd be amazed if there was anything among them I could afford, but that's a whole other consideration.

I'm guessing the last pic is your haul from today? Well done if so. Have those Matchbox ambulances suddenly become "a Thing" on these pages?

67,978 · February 15

58 minutes ago, danthecapriman said:

The boxed Matchbox Toyota pickup is absolutely fantastic. Pricey, but very cool

And it sold very quickly!

67,978 · February 15

1 minute ago, eddyramrod said:

Have those Matchbox ambulances suddenly become "a Thing" on these pages?

No it's just me 🤣

67,978 · February 15

Okey dokey, today's doings. Starting with boxed stuff, a certain Mr. E pushed me to buy a couple of the Chinese Dinky repops at a reasonable price

Very nice, here with my custom/resto from a while back

Second one is the 356

With an original, of course the red one is currently tucked away

I don't think you can argue with the price of these if you wanted to do a custom or just to sit on the shelf

This Pilen Renault 17 was hidden away in a box underneath the table, but I heard it calling me

The rear window had fallen out at some point but was wedged under a front tyre - that does mean I now have a tread print on it thanks to that weird chemical reaction

Saw a guy with a boxed Corgi Kays Escort van in his hand, and was waiting for him to put it down so I could snatch it - unfortunately he didn't but I did get this Mercedes instead with my daughter's name on it

67,978 · February 15

Moving on with a slightly embarrassing tale; in the box with that Pilen was a Corgi Green Hornet car which I pulled out for inspection, unfortunately firing the missile off into the distance as I did so! Despite several of us searching it never materialised, but as it's behind the tables somewhere it hopefully came to light as they packed up...

Moving swiftly on, found a few donors for my custom ambulance project, none of which have anything any better than what I already have 🙃

It's OK though, as I can chop this one up instead /s

This is the last of the line Superkings with the blue windows. Think the guy knew he probably wasn't selling that to anyone else!

There were a lot of £1 to clear trays today and I vacuumed up some bargains. I've got a K-11 like this but couldn't resist

Also a pound was my favourite Volvo

Roof has a textured finish (and something unfortunate spilled on it) as if it was supposed to have a vinyl roof? Think I've seen this once before but wasn't convinced it was factory at the time

Quiz time. Car make/model and diecast manufacturer?

Sunnyside Superior Modulo in unknackered shocker

Dinky Dyane wasn't £1 but is very tidy

I've never seen the Corgi safari Beetle lose front wheels before, and yet today there were two otherwise decent examples doing just that. I have donors so this was snapped up

Today's best Beetle is this Tekno

Considering how much these are on eBay, and who was selling, I virtually stole it. Very pleased to finally have one

Another £1 bargain

As were all these

Unusual colour canopy

Yellow caravan is quite rare, and is a different casting to the pink - the door goes all the way to the top on these. A subtle difference!

Flickr search is currently broken so I couldn't check which versions of the Snow Trac I had in good condition, there were half a dozen on offer so I picked up the best two

I think this is a repaint...

Never seen the cement mixer before so I got them for novelty value

Clean Majorette

An Ideal Trans Am

A £1 redline

And bargain Corgis

29,790 · February 15

Nice finds @bunglebus, that ovloV is a blinder for a quid.

Love those two little cement mixers too!

5,989 · February 15

I’d have pleaded with Rich too if I knew about the mixers!

13,972 · February 15

@bunglebus nice haul!

Now I need one of those Pilen R17s!

I too recently bought a virtually mint Corgi Safari Beetle missing one front wheel, strange...

13,972 · February 15

I spotted some interesting large toys in a junk shop yesterday

An amazing Citroen DS pedal car

A couple of really nice large tin plate busses

Large Triang lorry

And amazing ERF? pedal car

30,859 · February 15

ERA [/pedant]

13,972 · February 15

Toy fair today

A couple of Spot Ons

Never seen a Jensen before

Corgis £2 each, Land Rover mainly for the canopy and Lotus for the screen, driver and steering wheel/mirrors. The Radar truck I didn't expect to like much, but it's great! Also Mrs Concern insists it goes on display

£2 Dinkys

Both are complete apart from the VW headlights

Nice Schuco BMW 3 Series needing a bonnet

And Norev Masarati needing a boot!

I have a good Norev Maserati already to copythe boot, but I'm on my own with the BMW!

A couple of interesting plastic cars

They seem to be painted with Humbrol

Bothe have the grill missing

Neither have a makers name, place of origin or even the car make or model on the base, so no idea what they are.

Here's everything

You may remember I said my SIL (Mrs Concern's sister) has a lot of Britains horses, this is small selection

She also has quite a few Land Rovers and horse boxes

So she picked a few out of her spares box for @Split_Pin to display with his Britain's horse box

36,814 · February 15

19 minutes ago, FakeConcern said:

Toy fair today

A couple of Spot Ons

Never seen a Jensen before

Corgis £2 each, Land Rover mainly for the canopy and Lotus for the screen, driver and steering wheel/mirrors. The Radar truck I didn't expect to like much, but it's great! Also Mrs Concern insists it goes on display

£2 Dinkys

Both are complete apart from the VW headlights

Nice Schuco BMW 3 Series needing a bonnet

And Norev Masarati needing a boot!

I have a good Norev Maserati already to copythe boot, but I'm on my own with the BMW!

A couple of interesting plastic cars

They seem to be painted with Humbrol

Bothe have the grill missing

Neither have a makers name, place of origin or even the car make or model on the base, so no idea what they are.

Here's everything

You may remember I said my SIL (Mrs Concern's sister) has a lot of Britains horses, this is small selection

She also has quite a few Land Rovers and horse boxes

So she picked a few out of her spares box for @Split_Pin to display with his Britain's horse box

Thank you! I'll PM you in the morning☺️

I actually now have another Britain's Land Rover in the pipeline, this one is the correct version to go with the horse trailer but it has no canopy. They're over £8 on ebay so thats not happening. However I had some success in fashioning a canvas sunroof for an old Polistil Fiat 500 restoration so I might have a go at making one with some kind of wire frame and material.

Then I'll need to find some kind of livestock trailer to accompany the green one with the sheep on the side. It's going to end up being a blinking smallholding 😂

6,607 · February 16

3 hours ago, FakeConcern said:

Toy fair today

A couple of Spot Ons

Never seen a Jensen before

Corgis £2 each, Land Rover mainly for the canopy and Lotus for the screen, driver and steering wheel/mirrors. The Radar truck I didn't expect to like much, but it's great! Also Mrs Concern insists it goes on display

£2 Dinkys

Both are complete apart from the VW headlights

Nice Schuco BMW 3 Series needing a bonnet

And Norev Masarati needing a boot!

I have a good Norev Maserati already to copythe boot, but I'm on my own with the BMW!

A couple of interesting plastic cars

They seem to be painted with Humbrol

Bothe have the grill missing

Neither have a makers name, place of origin or even the car make or model on the base, so no idea what they are.

Here's everything

You may remember I said my SIL (Mrs Concern's sister) has a lot of Britains horses, this is small selection

She also has quite a few Land Rovers and horse boxes

So she picked a few out of her spares box for @Split_Pin to display with his Britain's horse box

The burgundy one of you 2 plastic models is a first gen Firebird a 68-9 it there's no frt 1/4 lights, I think it's a formula spec or ramair spec, but I'm not a big firt gen fan more a second gen 70-78 ( can't stand nosecone on last facelift 79-81).

Not sure what other one is

67,978 · February 16

6 hours ago, sheffcortinacentre said:

Not sure what other one is

Thunderbird?

29,790 · February 16

Definitely a 5th gen Thunderbird.

13,972 · February 16

Yes I knew what the car* was meant to be, just I have no idea what make the plastic models are and google lens has no idea either!

*I'll own up to calling the Firebird a Camaro until @eddyramrod corrected me!

18,481 · February 16

13 hours ago, FakeConcern said:

A couple of interesting plastic cars

I think these are lesser-spotted AMT 1:43 kits. Known at some stage as the 'Mini Trophy' range – both these cars were offered but there's hardly any info online. Does mean you might be able to find replacement parts though, if you're inclined

6,975 · February 16

On 14/02/2026 at 12:49, Datsuncog said:

Nice!

Out of interest, does it say No. 58 Jeep on the base...

Or No. II Sleet-N-Snow?

Just got this in a job lot if anyone wants it?

6,975 · February 16

23 hours ago, bunglebus said:

Absolutely filthy weather, so the toy fair was rammed. Paying to get in early avoids the crush.

Why am I only just realising the Corgi FX4 came in three sizes, not two?

I wonder if anyone bought this Siku Hummer?

More stuff to dribble over

What I bought

Why are those Hot Wheels on the cork board so expensive?

44,306 · February 16

11 minutes ago, Tenmil Socket said:

Why are those Hot Wheels on the cork board so expensive?

Super Treasure Hunts, aka planned scarcity to generate buzz/ animosity/ profiteering amongst collectors.

Real Rider rubberised wheels, often spectraflame paint too, and better decals.

Rumour has it that STHs are more commonly packed in with the long card cases; the short cards (most typically encountered in UK stores) seem to have fewer of them. US dominated collector groups go mad over them.

Never found one in the wild myself, though have encountered a Matchbox Super Chase (same idea).

6,975 · February 16

I received this earlier. Unfortunately it’s missing its steering wheel ☹️

36,814 · February 16

2 hours ago, Tenmil Socket said:

I received this earlier. Unfortunately it’s missing its steering wheel ☹️

How many doors open (serious question).

6,975 · February 16

2 minutes ago, Split_Pin said:

How many doors open (serious question).

Just the 2 doors.

36,814 · February 16

Well look here, after the MIA Caprice seller promised to send a replacement (remember it had the nicer 4 spoke wheels), the original car has turned up:

It was wrapped in a jiffy bag, fully addressed to me but unfranked and had then been wrapped again inside a coffee box, covered in brown paper and addressed to me again. Both times the address was correct and in my opinion perfectly legible.

Who knows, probably a stress the seller could have done without. I swiftly closed the ebay return request and thanked the seller for sorting it all out.

The car is bloody cool. I had a MIB one of these about 25 years ago but it was 2 tone with whitewalls and I never took to it. This cab version is way more like it. I can almost hear an early 80s film soundtrack and lots of traffic noise in the background when I look at it!

36,814 · February 16

5 minutes ago, Tenmil Socket said:

Just the 2 doors.

Better than the ONE that opens on my Polistil Renault 5 from the same era 😂

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