Shite in Miniature II

[sheffcortinacentre]

The lights work on them Inc blues & twos on police/ ambulance version the latter has a removable stretcher too.

I remember as a kid during mid 70's having a Kadett "B" coupe (rally car silver black bonnet),blue land crab & alitalia stratos . Can't remember the brand's.

[Tenmil Socket]

Any more pics of the large yellow Cortina?

[Datsuncog]

On ‎9‎/‎20‎/‎2019 at 2:03 PM, Datsuncog said:

The Pepsi Challenger-liveried Chevrolet Pro Stocker has a tale.

I received one of these in December 1984, I believe - my parents had gone up to Belfast to do some Christmas shopping one evening, leaving me and my infant brother with my grandparents. On their return (which seemed like the middle of the night, but was probably only about 9.30pm), I was presented with one of these, boxed, "for being good" (ha!). It came from Belfast's legendary Leisure World, a huge toyshop in Queen Street.

I really loved this particular toy, and it was briefly promoted to my 'best car' status - please tell me I'm not the only freaky kid who did this - until one day I was messing about in the back garden, whizzing my cars up the slide, when I overcooked it slightly - sending my Pro Stocker deep into the hedge behind. Much searching and clambering through the hedge failed to find it, and I was inconsolable.

About seven or eight years later, while trimming said hedge, my dad then found the car - now missing most of its paint and looking quite sad. In an effort to spruce it up, I tried to paint it... using Tipp-Ex.

You can imagine how good that looked.

I'm not sure whether I kept this or not, but anyway - this is a replacement of sorts, looking in roughly the same condition as mine when it went into the hedge in 1985.

Memories, hey?

Following on from my earlier ramblings... here's the Pepsi Challenger liveried MB34 Chevy Pro Stocker, contrasting my original lost-in-a-hedge version with a slightly better version from the tat stall.

It's not in great shape, my original one. But the more intact version brings back that rush of receiving mine new - I was intrigued by the see-through packaging of the new blue boxes, as usually the Matchbox cars I was still buying were old stock from local newsagents - which still came in the illustrated cardboard boxes. Wish I'd kept 'em!

It was indeed 'repainted' using a bottle of Tipp-Ex; most (but not all) of which I then scraped off at some point. What a mess.

Still - memories. This is another I'd like to procure in mint/boxed status... one day.

[sierraman]

Further shite purchased today. Ford Cargo a particular bargain at 50p. 

[155V6]

2 hours ago, Datsuncog said:

Following on from my earlier ramblings... here's the Pepsi Challenger liveried MB34 Chevy Pro Stocker, contrasting my original lost-in-a-hedge version with a slightly better version from the tat stall.

It's not in great shape, my original one. But the more intact version brings back that rush of receiving mine new - I was intrigued by the see-through packaging of the new blue boxes, as usually the Matchbox cars I was still buying were old stock from local newsagents - which still came in the illustrated cardboard boxes. Wish I'd kept 'em!

It was indeed 'repainted' using a bottle of Tipp-Ex; most (but not all) of which I then scraped off at some point. What a mess.

Still - memories. This is another I'd like to procure in mint/boxed status... one day.

Here's mine.I've still got a few of these cars & trucks left,from when I used to buy absolutely anything to do with NASCAR ?

[sheffcortinacentre]

Do you meen my Mk5? Will sort some.

[egg]

Finished the Porsche 935 I picked up last week for 50p, I enjoyed working with this late 80s Macau made casting more than I thought I would. Bit modern for me! Some sporty decals might help, but not inclined to spend more on it.

 

[sierraman]

Further shite purchased today. Ford Cargo a particular bargain at 50p. 

[Split_Pin]

Siku, that is a bargain for 50p. I have the ADAC helicopter transporter which I got for Christmas 1992. I found its original box not so long ago, stored safely inside an empty Italeri truck model kit box, together with the box for my Parcel Force Iveco Turbostar.

[sierraman]

The Roadrunner is a bit tatty but I’ve been looking for one for ages. Just need the one where you could swap the bodies to find now! 

[Datsuncog]

Siku did make some bloody lovely trucks. For 50p, that's quite a find!

Planning on doing some proper scans of my catalogues over the winter this year...

[Datsuncog]

Just to follow on from yesterday's ramblings on the MB34 Chevy Pro Stocker... it turns out there's two quite different castings in circulation.

The first, launched by Lesney in 1981, had somewhat over-large wheels but otherwise looked rather convincing as a Chevrolet Chevelle Laguna S3, the top-performance variant of the A-body Chevelle.

But two years later, when production shifted to Macau, the front end was significantly changed to blank off the grill louvres and headlights and put a much deeper front spoiler on.

Quite possibly this is why I failed to draw a connection between my little model and the car featured in the Cannonball Run, one of my guilty pleasures films...

… which in turn was a replica of Donnie Allison's succesful NASCAR Chevelle Laguna.

As 155V6 alludes, the Chevelle was a notable NASCAR racer: the unique sloping polyurethane front end had been designed for speed, and as such it was a runaway success, scoring 53 Winston Cup victories between 1973 and 1977, 34 of which were won by driver Cale Yarborough alone.

In fact, so successful was the Chevelle Laguna that NASCAR organisers did the only thing they could to maintain competition - legislated them off the track. For the 1978 season, competing Lagunas were required to be fitted with a 'restrictor plate' - something no other car was required to have. Racers had little option but to move on to other cars such as the Chevrolet Monte Carlo instead.

I reckon these look better in their racing trim than they do as a civilian model. 

Even though they'd been out of circulation in the real world for four years before the Matchbox version arrived, MB34 proved a popular model which clocked up five years in the main Matchbox lineup before spending many more years appearing in racing sets, gift packs and as Laser Superfast and Road Blasters versions.

[Split_Pin]

34 minutes ago, Datsuncog said:

Siku did make some bloody lovely trucks. For 50p, that's quite a find!

Planning on doing some proper scans of my catalogues over the winter this year...

I had a very similar catalogue, I think it might have been 1988 or 89 and I recall looking longingly at all the vehicles, particularly the cars because they were so unlike the Matchbox and Corgi that I had. 

[flat4alfa]

1 hour ago, Datsuncog said:

Laser Superfast and Road Blasters versions.

Had to look that one up didn't I

Couldn't find a RoadBlaster one, but found a Mega-Blaster - the one with the firing cap mechanism

And a Halley's Comet special

[sierraman]

Guess what I bought Monday? 

[sierraman]

Also really nice Renault 5 still with the tailgate glass in. 

[flat4alfa]

Corgi Driving Schools

Cars get bigger, shocker, etc

[Sudsprint]

I have also just bought a Corgi Austin Cambridge to replace the one I destroyed as a nipper.

It joins the later VW Beetle driving school car that is a bit of a charmless thing really.

[bunglebus]

Ebay wins have finally tailed off - but I did acquire a gold DeLorean I've been hunting for;

 

20191001_104032 by RS, on Flickr

 

Looked better after a wheel refurb

 

20191001_104449 by RS, on Flickr

 

Binz ambulance has taken its place among my other Police cars/ambulances

 

20191001_104006 by RS, on Flickr

 

This amazingly accurate copy of a Jaaag XJS arrived with the DeLorean!

 

20191001_104120 by RS, on Flickr

20191001_104125 by RS, on Flickr

 

 

[flat4alfa]

LANCIA STRATOSSING

Hot Wheels, Corgi, Shinsei

Shinsei a new brand on me, had this sent over from German eBayer

Yes, I know Wonder Woman’s Bertone Runabout concept is the imposter. She’s also been at the pies.

[flat4alfa]

ALFA ROMEO 8C

Hot Wheels and New Ray 1:32 

New Ray makes a bit of a din when you open the door

[flat4alfa]

On 9/27/2019 at 6:02 PM, Split_Pin said:

I love that Pontiac J2000, back when HW made proper US domestics.

I’ve got this kit on ‘bay right now

[flat4alfa]

On 9/28/2019 at 4:17 PM, warch said:

1/32 Britains Series II LWB Land Rover

1/43 (actually more like 1/48) Corgi Series II LWB Land Rover

1/76 Oxford Diecast Series II SWB Land Rover

Lucky Toys 1:32 ish

Civilian, not Military.  Unless of course those hay bales have hidden ordnance

I paid far too much for this.  eBay bidding war / shillage

[bunglebus]

Finished off my MB RS2000 today

[BL Bloke]

3 hours ago, Datsuncog said:

Just to follow on from yesterday's ramblings on the MB34 Chevy Pro Stocker... it turns out there's two quite different castings in circulation.

The first, launched by Lesney in 1981, had somewhat over-large wheels but otherwise looked rather convincing as a Chevrolet Chevelle Laguna S3, the top-performance variant of the A-body Chevelle.

 

Even though they'd been out of circulation in the real world for four years before the Matchbox version arrived, MB34 proved a popular model which clocked up five years in the main Matchbox lineup before spending many more years appearing in racing sets, gift packs and as Laser Superfast and Road Blasters versions.

I don't think I've seen one with a red base before, mine's got the unpainted base.

DSCF0898 by timothy jones, on Flickr

Nice looking RS2000 @bunglebus, where did you get the wheels from? 

[warch]

1 hour ago, flat4alfa said:

Lucky Toys 1:32 ish

Civilian, not Military.  Unless of course those hay bales have hidden ordnance

I paid far too much for this.  eBay bidding war / shillage

1/32 you say? It looks like a rescaled copy of the Corgi model (exactly the same colour too). I really like that. As with the Corgi, apart from the cab, which actually does look like the canvas truck cab you can get these days its a really rather good model.

My favourite Land Rover toy I haven't seen for years were those big scale, 1/18 or thereabouts cheapo ones made of plastic. Me and brother got some on a daytrip to the seaside and ideal for play off roading in the sand. They were always LWB, and Series III but beyond that my memory is a bit vague. 

[Noel Tidybeard]

1 hour ago, bunglebus said:

Finished off my MB RS2000 today

 

you got it wrong! no RS2000 ever made by Fraud had a nose cone with a colour match that good! ?

[Sudsprint]

11 hours ago, bunglebus said:

Binz ambulance has taken its place among my other Police cars/ambulances

 

20191001_104006 by RS, on Flickr

 

 

 

 

You have an imposter in there...

[Split_Pin]

Hey, speaking of Land Rovers, I have an old plastic friction toy one, looks like an S2, to a scale of about 1\30. 

It is in military guise, with a removable tilt and those blue tinted windows that a lot of plastic toy cars seemed to have at the time. However it is FRONT WHEEL DRIVE.  I presume this is to allow a flat bed at the back but its still weird!

[bunglebus]

11 hours ago, BL Bloke said:

Nice looking RS2000 @bunglebus, where did you get the wheels from? 

Er...out of my spares box! I take lots of die casts apart for bits. 

*edit* seems Racing Champions is a brand of die casts

https://racingchampions.fandom.com/wiki/5_Mario_Andretti_1989_Indy_Car_Texaco_Havoline