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6 hours ago, Skizzer said:

Whooaaa, hold on...THERE’S A MATRA MUSEUM??

Glad to see you've found it, it's a great place.

If you visit that area there's also a very good motor museum at Valencay. Just looked back at my photos from 2015, they had a good range of Panhard and Citroen stuff plus R16: http://www.musee-auto-valencay.fr/#Accueil.A

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Kinda want it now but I'll try and find a less battered one.

 

Anyway - picked up another Zylmex as I thought it was a copy of the Corgi JPS Lotus that everyone had as a kid (made a good wheel donor but that's another story)

 

Turned up today

 

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Another huge one!

 

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Local museum has a toy room, only a few lonely older Dinky type cars in there

 

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Which reminds me it's been years since I visited the toy museum at Stansted Mountfitchet, so I'll try and rectify that ASAP. There's a whole room full of Matchbox with their boxes.

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On 10/12/2019 at 12:46 PM, bunglebus said:

Has Datsuncog been kidnapped by the die cast mafia?

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"For more than ten years there's been peace - everyone to his own patch. We've all had it sweet. I've done every single one of you favours in the past - I've put money in all your pockets. I've treated you well, even when you was out of order, right? Well now there's been an eruption. It's like fuckin' Belfast on a bad night. Scratched Whizzwheels and Rolamatics with bent axles everywhere. And believe me, all of you, nobody goes home until I find out who done it, and why."

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On 10/12/2019 at 11:02 AM, Split_Pin said:

£1 each for [..] Mack fire engine are in pretty good nick.

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A P4 for 4 quid.

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Could I be so bold as to grab the Corgi Mack fire engine and the Vanguards P4, please and thank you?

Mack fire engine is one I remember so vividly from Corgi catalogues at the time, yet I never had one.

 

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Cheers, dude!

And thanks to all who have partaken in Friday's tat clearance event - those are all now set aside for everyone. If there's anything else anyone wants adding, feel free!

Parcels will be packed tonight and posted tomorrow, for those who are keenly awaiting some diecast (and plastic) delights.

No problem with keeping other boxes open until everyone's happy they've enough to get on with.

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Good grief. I was being so good at clearing out and resisting all the lovely miniature chod on offer.

I failed miserably this weekend. 1 Hotwheels, a parcel from Sierraman, an ebay win on a 1/43 Mira Ford Taunus and a car booty tat box rummle.

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The latter were interesting.

First the Motor Max Discovery, mint condition, very pleased to find that.

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2 BMWs, I have a Realtoy E46 M3 and though these would go well with it.

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But check this Celica out. It's a knock off of a Realtoy or Welly casting, right down to the last detail. The original is the slightly scruffier one.

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I know this sort of thing has been discussed before. I say knockoff because the original feels solid like a Hotwheels but the knockoff has some spectacular flashing. It's mint though and I'm away to detail it and will report back.

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Bargain commuter. Nice one. I decided I couldn't salvage the one Datsuncog sent me, a bit too far gone.

If anyone wants that Diplomat, it's the same price I paid for it - £1, I reckon I could 'just' squeeze it in as a 'large letter' so postage about 83p.

The British Heart Foundation ladies seemed quite pleased when I dropped off the Matchbox Sea King to them this morning, happier than I was with it anyway ?

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2 hours ago, sierraman said:

Picked this up today, Yatming VW Scirocco. Also this delightful Mercury Commuter for 50p. 

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The Scirocco is nice,I have one,plus a yellow version.Yatming did some really nice castings,I don't remember actually seeing them for sale anywhere though ?

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