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I wondered perhaps as the (in)famous ex-Sammy Davis Jr one, lives (still?) outside in the grounds of a Cromer old folks home I spotted some years back. 

Just looked it up.  No longer at Cromer.  Shocker.  @wuvvum

Sold at Amelia Island in 2017    

https://www.bonhams.com/auctions/23850/lot/179/

Now looking for photos of the original red-over-black.  If it's true that Sinatra gave it to Davis as a gift, it's probably already been done as a model?

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1 hour ago, flat4alfa said:

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I'd love a Dinky Rolls, best I have to offer is a Corniche and it's badge engineered brother from Corgi

 

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2 hours ago, bunglebus said:

I'd love a Dinky Rolls

Well you're not going to want to learn that ...I had a spare, in red, last month.  Put it up on 'bay thinking £££ will help the bills (it was all complete, bar the door glazing) and got bummed on it badly.  No idea what I did wrong, but top bid was only a fiver!!  Should have kept it for another day.  Told the wife of my despair, but she wasn't really interested and went back to tapping away on her 'phone.

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11 hours ago, bunglebus said:

I have to offer a Corniche

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That PINK has etched on me since childhood.  Why, oh why, did they do that...?  I'm sure it used to make me twitch and be girliephobic

Wasn't until recently that when gifted an old box of brokens and spares, an odd boot lid was in there and the pink paint gave it way....  also in there was the 'matching' grille/lights combo, but off a Rolls Royce, not Bentley, instead.  So you can guess what happened - blinkered  catch-up nostalgia and the click-button of doom went off to seek them out.  I did not know of the Rolls Royce version of the Mulliner Park Ward two-door one as I had thought for decades that the RR equivalent of the Bentley-T was always a Corniche.   But, I can see that growing-up in the arse-end of Watford didn't really help there.

Anyway, these also turned up at the garden bench meet last week. 

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The Bentley-T was a lone and honest purchase; RR Shadow was a bargain as was in with a 'job lot' lazy effort listing

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Nice models, details are pretty good.  If only they didn't have those gash Whizzwheels !

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Tidy interior decal and a metal steering wheel

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Notice how they moved things about to incorporate the RR and B logos

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Scale works out to be 1:42

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5 hours ago, flat4alfa said:

I did not know of the Rolls Royce version of the Mulliner Park Ward two-door one as I had thought for decades that the RR equivalent of the Bentley-T was always a Corniche.

I thought the RR equlivilent of a Bentley coupé was a Corniche not a Silver Shadow. Turns out that's only true from '71 onwards

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1 hour ago, Split_Pin said:

I'd love a Bburago Silver Shadow. I passed up a boxed one at a Swapmeet for a tenner about 5 years ago but now they appear to be rare and expensive.

You’ll probably attest to this but they appeared in one of those big Toy Car books you’ve mentioned before. A silver and a blue one. 

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1 hour ago, Split_Pin said:

I'd love a Bburago Silver Shadow. I passed up a boxed one at a Swapmeet for a tenner about 5 years ago but now they appear to be rare and expensive.

You’ll probably attest to this but they appeared in one of those big Toy Car books you’ve mentioned before. A silver and a blue one. 

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1 hour ago, Split_Pin said:

I'd love a Bburago Silver Shadow. I passed up a boxed one at a Swapmeet for a tenner about 5 years ago but now they appear to be rare and expensive.

You’ll probably attest to this but they appeared in one of those big Toy Car books you’ve mentioned before. A silver and a blue one. 

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The larger Corgi Corniche is a bit special.  It's one of those models that just feels weighted 'right' when holding it, opening the doors, etc

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Notice during production the front indicator colour changed...

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...yet the rear indicator colour stayed the same.  Odd.

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Dashboard decal a bit of a cop-out especially as the centre console being moulded-in is a good effort.  Plastic steering wheel this time.

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Going back to the smaller scale, this is a front aspect comparision of the Corgi against the Dinky Silver Shadow

The Corgi is quite accurate with its overall scale average (measuring just length and width) of 1:43

The Dinky dimensions are quite off, as the width is way out; taking the overall scale to 1:38

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Market Blokies nationwide probably don't know this.  Even on TAT FRIDAY (postponed)

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There is something about that gorgeous red that has stuck with me for forty odd years. 

As a child I had the same one, but on the thin Superfast wheels.  It lost its boot lid shortly after.  I've no idea where it is now....

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I can't join in with the Rolls Royce love I'm afraid, my only model being this 1980's Silver Spirit

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On the subject of big red luxury cars though, I do have this Jag, which I'm very fond of. I know, more pub landlord than elegant luxury, but hey, I'm a commoner. 

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The rain has receded and the sun came out just now, which was perfect for a garden table meet for some of the Lesney Matchbox efforts. 

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Anyone else notice that the passenger window is open yet the driver's is closed?  (RHD)

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The pre-Superfast saloon has suffered a punch in the eye.  Anyone have one in their spares tin?

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Now, I can understand the boot lid and front bumper/grill/light castings sharing their rung registrations...

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But did anyone else know the chassis are not shared across the pre and Superfast range?  Shadow / Shadow 'Coupe' stamping is one thing, as is the wheel recess change; but the dimensions are different too

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I naively did not know this, so the bright idea of digging this lot out of Eddy's spares box to quickly make up a 'Superfast' Shadow, to sit alongside them, failed ?

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Even the wheel bases are different!  All of 1mm, but still.

The Shadow body dimensions measure to 1:75 scale.  Fab1? no idea, best leave it there

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Some recent diecast tat finds...

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Zylmex  Wheaties van,no?me neither.

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Whizzwheels Reliant Scimitar. 

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Whizzwheels Eldorado. 

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Majorette Impala taxi.

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Matchbox Porsche 959.

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Also found this rather snazzy Maisto tilt n slide recovery truck,along with an engineless mod rod. 

Thought smoll Eddy may like it,haven't seen him about recently so took a trip down to his lockup,lots of noise and hammering coming from behind closed doors.

My knock was greeted by a "sod off M8"

I've also noticed the Daf car transporter I got recently has gone missing........

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1 hour ago, TheDoctor said:

I know, more pub landlord than elegant luxury, but hey, I'm a commoner. 

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Oh.. I don't know, they aren't tooooo far off, if a top line one with the thick carpetting, English leather and veneers all over the place!  Perhaps you should out the Rovers and sample one (if not already) ? .  My old Daimler Sovereign was bid to £1200 (this was three years back) and went straight onto the same FJ insurance policy as the Rover R8 diesels - and at the same cost too!

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Glad you posted the Super Kings XJ40.  Sadly, sold my boxed minty example recently to gather some cash (why did they put a snow scene as the insert?)...

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...but did hold back a play worn example...

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....which has since been stripped and repainted into a similar blue of my old Daimler....  but still not finished, much like everything else in the boxes of projects

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1 hour ago, junkyarddog said:

Zylmex  Wheaties van,no?me neither.

George Barris did the 'Wheaties Super Sportsmobile' custom van this is modelled on

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Yours is (was!) the later colour variation it seems, presumably in production after the competition ended

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