Datsuncog's Heaps: May 2025 - Corolla vs. Sparkly Stick Action...

[Datsuncog]

Okay, pics unearthed on the phone's hard drive, so let's get the Cararama stuff finished off here.

***SOLD SOLD SOLD*** Ford Transit with trailer and RIB, in Fire Service Investigation Unit flavour.







Not a bad rig.

£6 posted.

[Datsuncog]

***EDIT: SOLD to Mr. Quicksilver****

Genuinely odd one here:

 

We appear to have a 1950s Chevrolet towing truck, wearing Ford livery, pulling a modern double-axle trailer with a Jeep CJ2-A on it. To make matters even more baffling, the Jeep appears to be without its most distinctive styling feature, its grille - instead there's just a flat piece of painted metal.

Take it away for £8 posted, it's doing my nut in.

There's a lot of detail in there, mind. The ramps on the trailer slide out and the jockey wheel pivots and all.

[oldcars]

Could i have the wee green X Type Jaaaaaag please? Can you pop it aside and i will see what else comes up to go with it please?

[Datsuncog]

On 5/31/2018 at 2:36 PM, oldcars said:

Could i have the wee green X Type Jaaaaaag please? Can you pop it aside and i will see what else comes up to go with it please?

This one?

Can surely!

[oldcars]

This one?

 

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Can surely!

Yes please, that's the one. What are the sills like     

[Datsuncog]

On 5/31/2018 at 2:41 PM, oldcars said:

Yes please, that's the one. What are the sills like     

Well, it's spent 15 years in a sealed hermetic bubble - so I'd say they'll be absolutely bloody shagged.

[Datsuncog]

***OFF TO PASTURES NEW*** A rather pleasing little set now - Mini Countryman with caravan.

I seem to remember this was sold as a Marks & Spencer 'gift solution' for Fathers Day, back in the mid-2000s - so could well be a set exclusive to them.

£5 posted!

[Datsuncog]

Trucks now!

***SOLD*** The bin lorry's been claimed already, but how about a Mercedes street sweeper?

£5 posted!

[Datsuncog]

**** SOLD!**** Mercedes Actros 6-wheel box truck, in suitably generic 'Logistics' livery.

Opening doors at the back, mind.

Also £5 posted.

[Datsuncog]

**** SOLD SOLD SOLD **** Another 6-wheeler box truck - think this one might be a Scania.

(You can tell my knowledge of commercial vehicles putters out beyond anything bigger than a Transit.)

Fiver!

[Datsuncog]

****GONE ALSO **** Lastly, Mercedes Actros 'Euro Gas' tanker.

As with all of these, a good basis for a Code 3 repaint, I'd hazard.

£5.00, posted.

[Datsuncog]

Now, just as the aforementioned trucks are 1/80 scale rather than the 1/72 scale most of Cararama's cars appear in, here's a few smaller scale trucks that I'll warrant are intended for US railway modellers, at 1/87 scale.

International something-or-other tractor unit.

£4 posted.

[Datsuncog]

***SOLD!!!*** Another International, this time a skip truck - and this one has an amazingly intricate and fully functional extending boom mechanism, for literally hours of fun (hey, I did).

£5 posted!

[Datsuncog]

And the final International, this time a tipper. Again, the tip bed works.

£5 posted, with usual caveats of amazing discounts for bulk purchase and so forth.

[Datsuncog]

Some bigger playsets now.

This one encompasses a Mercedes Actros Fire Tender, a Mercedes Vito police minibus, and a Mercedes ML420 paramedic response vehicle.

Comes complete with two giants and some pieces of gym equipment, for reasons I cannot fathom.

£10 posted!

[quicksilver]

Yep, that Chevy tow truck is the one I called dibs on. I'm enjoying your sales patter - who could resist buying such finely described piles of miniature chod?

[Datsuncog]

Okay, a few playsets that are more kiddy-oriented in terms of colours and accessories, now:

This is a Tesco Junior explorer set, comprising:

• Merecedes A-class (orange)
• BMW X5 (metallic blue/grey)
• Chevrolet Caprice (green)
• Mercedes CLK (yellow)
• Saab 9-5 (silver)
• Mercedes E-class estate (red)
• Mercedes rigid transporter truck, in the wrong scale
• A working inspection ramp
• Shitloads of signs, barriers, cones, little men etc, ideal for finding in the dark with bare feet.

Price on this? Looking £10 posted.

Honestly don't know what, if anything, these are worth.

[Datsuncog]

On 5/31/2018 at 3:11 PM, quicksilver said:

Yep, that Chevy tow truck is the one I called dibs on.

Good stuff - added to your pile, sir.

 

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I'm enjoying your sales patter - who could resist buying such finely described piles of miniature chod?

Hey cheers! I'm hoping the answer is - nobody can resist! Really would like to minimise the car boot sale stuff this summer, and - weird as it sounds - I much prefer knowing where all these lumps of my once mighty* collection are ending up.

 

*for 'mighty', read 'unfocused, sprawling, chaotic and ultimately ungovernable'

[quicksilver]

If no one else wants them I'll take all those 1/80 trucks. Don't want to be greedy so I'll let others have a chance first though.

[Datsuncog]

Two more Tesco sets - this time with articulated Mercedes transporters in the wrong scale.

***SOLD!!!*** Set 1

Cars are:

• Mercedes S-class (red)
• Mercedes ML420 (blue)
• Jaguar S-Type (silver)
• Porsche 911S (?) (yellow)

Set 2:

• Toyota Rav4 (green)
• Mitsubishi Evo (red)
• BMW 5-series (white)
• Saab 9-3 (yellow)

Say £10 for each set posted, and both for £18 (with further bulk discount applicable, obvs)

[Datsuncog]

***SOLD!!!*** Another playset of the same stripe, but boxed as Chad Valley - which I believe to be the old Woolworths own-brand name.

Models in here are:

• Mercedes C-class (I think - silver)
• New Mini (yellow)
• New Beetle (red)
• Volvo V70 (green)

Again, £10 posted for this one too.

 

Interestingly, there were four differently configured sets to collect, it seems.

[Datsuncog]

Well, that just about brings the Cararama to a close for now - though I think there are more lurking which I plucked from the collection and dumped in the For Sale box that I may not have yet photographed - will have another look tonight. There seem to be a fair few more in the box than there are pics in the folder, is all I'll say.

Here's a few more waifs and strays in approx. 1/72, then:

 

**** SOLD*** Ford Mustang

Not sure of the maker, think it's something like 'Road Eagle' or summat.

£1.50

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***SOLD*** Opel VX220 Speedster

£1.50

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***SOLD*** Opel Vectra C

£1.50

[oldcars]

Opel VX220 Speedster

 

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£1.50

Yes please, can you add that to my Jaaag.

[oldcars]

Opel Vectra C

 

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£1.50

And this too please.

[Datsuncog]

***SOLD!*** BMW E60

£1.50

[quicksilver]

Mustang and E60 too please. Is that it for 1/72 stuff now?

[Datsuncog]

**** SOLD!*** Alfa 156

£1.50

[oldcars]

Alfa 156

 

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£1.50

Yes please.