Shite in Miniature II

[bunglebus]

You have to laugh. New Hot Wheels 5 pack out with yet another MK1 Escort. Mate jumps the gun and pays £15 for one off eBay. An hour later i walk into Smyths and buy one for £6.99

 

[bunglebus]

Closer look at the cars

 

[bunglebus]

Went back to the charity shop to double check I hadn't missed the skip from the Skip Truck to no avail - but I did find this at the bottom of the basket 

Took a while to work out what it belongs to

[flat4alfa]

[flat4alfa]

On 5/2/2021 at 11:48 AM, bunglebus said:

One of two large Lone Star scores, I saw some kid holding this but he put it back, snatched it immediately

I think I now know what the heap in an antique shop cabinet was

Didn't fancy it a £4

[flat4alfa]

Whilst wandering about Hitchin on Saturday, spotted this for £280 in one of the cabinets 

£280 might seem a lot, but Hitchin property has exploded in value in the past 18 months and any mid-terrace two-up two-downs are for £450k+. 

So if the property goes up, so do the toys...

What I also do know is when we dithered buying a property there 10 years ago, we made a major mistake.

[sierraman]

Christ the yuppies have gentrified the local diecast market!

[bunglebus]

1 hour ago, flat4alfa said:

I think I now know what the heap in an antique shop cabinet was

Mortal remains. Maybe Lone Star were trying to muscle in on Tonka territory? 

Also very similar to this Qualitoys by Corgi I acquired recently 

 

[flat4alfa]

On 5/26/2021 at 5:26 PM, flat4alfa said:

A Cub and a Qualitoy

Interesting, but worthless.

Quality qualitoy

[flat4alfa]

[bunglebus]

Just drove past the Wednesday boot sale that @Amishtatused to frequent. Unfortunately I'm on a mission and can't stop.

Cookie Monster bus in Asda

 

[flat4alfa]

A pairing that will no doubt be unrepeatable

From the same Hitchin charity shop precinct on Saturday:  A TALBOT and an ALFA 

Solido Talbot Tagora on the left

Rio 1914 ALFA 40/60 HP Aerodinamica, on the right

With very different arses

Both of them do have opening things in common

But very little else

 

The ALFA had 6,082cc and (with this body) you could reach 86mph whilst wearing a big hat

 

The Talbot had 2664cc and you could reach 121mph, without a hat.  But it did have the benefit of brakes on the front wheels as well.

[Amishtat]

30 minutes ago, bunglebus said:

Just drove past the Wednesday boot sale that @Amishtatused to frequent. Unfortunately I'm on a mission and can't stop.

Cookie Monster bus in Asda

 

There genuinely isn't much I miss about my old life, but Wednesday mornings at that boot sale is one of those things. (Disposable income and Andreea's thighs in over-tight shorts being two of the others, just off the top of my head. But I digress..) That was where your Lone Star finds at the top of this page originated, it pleases me to see they're still doing slow laps of Essex 

[bunglebus]

Today's arrival is this 1:33 scale Guisval MK3 Escort. Pretty sure it's missing a pair of spotlights, but so were a lot of XR3s in the 80s

[andrew e]

That’s terrible - I love it 😂

[flat4alfa]

2 hours ago, bunglebus said:

The best Moskvich Aleko impression, ever

[sierraman]

Found someone selling what seems like their old toys on Gumtree, it was as a job lot of around a hundred cars plus a load of crap old annuals, a metric shitload of board games, a big trak and various other shit. I’ve made an offer for the diecast, I don’t want the other stuff as it would just be a PITA to sell on. 

[TheOtherStu]

First of all, I'm aware this isn't really shite. But I also don't have any other forums that I'm in that have a diecast thread.

I didn't realise quite how much some of these things go for.  Who knew!

I have one of these. Won it in a raffle along with a Toyota hat (Bear in mind, I have an MR2, so was very happy with the hat). It's 1:43 apparently.

I thought it was just some cheesy car in a box, promotional thing from Toyota.

Didn't realise these sell for between £60 and £70 and will go up in value, because they're no longer produced. Worth much more than the hat 🤣

[warch]

41 minutes ago, TheOtherStu said:

Won it in a raffle along with a Toyota hat (Bear in mind, I have an MR2, so was very happy with the hat). It's 1:43 apparently.

Do you have a very small head?

[flat4alfa]

3 hours ago, sierraman said:

Found someone selling what seems like their old toys on Gumtree, it was as a job lot of around a hundred cars plus a load of crap old annuals, a metric shitload of board games, a big trak and various other shit. I’ve made an offer for the diecast, I don’t want the other stuff as it would just be a PITA to sell on. 

You do want a Big Trak

Sold prices

[sierraman]

16 minutes ago, flat4alfa said:

You do want a Big Trak

Sold prices

If he would be a laugh to mess about with and ridicule it’s ‘state of the art technology’ but they wanted £250 for all the whole shebang, which in all honesty I couldn’t see much mileage in getting that back, given the cars were about a quarter of the whole haul I made an offer on the cars alone. There was some tidy stuff in there, regular wheels, loads of sixties Corgi and above all a Spot on Multipla. But at £250 I’d have been left with a load of shit I definitely didn’t want plus I’d have probably about made the money back so hardly worthwhile.

Plus explaining to the wife I’d dropped £250 on old crap, simply couldn’t face that. 

[flat4alfa]

Ah well, now you say the asking price...  no

[sierraman]

10 minutes ago, flat4alfa said:

Ah well, now you say the asking price...  no

There were a just over a hundred cars but realistically I’m not going to bust someone’s balls whose selling their childhood collection off. If they were asking a ton or so then there would be a drink in it lets say for the cars but I did say I was happy to make an offer for the cars alone and left it with them. Perhaps I should have just gone ‘best price 2nite m8 swop 4 hot wheels’. But I’m not a twat like that so.

[Dick Cheeseburger]

1 hour ago, TheOtherStu said:

I have one of these. Won it in a raffle along with a Toyota hat (Bear in mind, I have an MR2, so was very happy with the hat). It's 1:43 apparently.

 

1 hour ago, warch said:

Do you have a very small head?

 

[bunglebus]

A new thing just arrived

By why do I want a tatty busted B1600 when I have a better one?

Because this

[flat4alfa]

52 minutes ago, bunglebus said:

Because this

Ah..  That looks familiar....

Here is a Lucky Toys one almost identical in plastic.  Came in the very same Camping Rally Boat set that Dolly and Ken arrived in

You know what this means don't you.  You need to source a Dolly and Ken!  And a tent.

[bunglebus]

That's 100% a copy of the Corgi dinghy, interesting! 

I think only the B1600 and Rancho were released towing these, in different colours - unless anyone knows different? 

[andrew e]

Tonight 20% off Faz (still an expensive shop though!)

https://www.fazsdiecast.co.uk

[flat4alfa]

[bunglebus]

Moving parts 911 or 36 Ford for £3 anyone?