I saw this Jaguar Mk X for sale last week and rushed to buy it, offering far more than the initial bid which the seller gladly accepted. Amongst all the many colours I have of the #238 model, I didn't have a silver one with a lemon interior!
It had a few signs of wear but was generally pretty good and I looked forward to adding yet another variation to my collection.
When it arrived, though, yes, you guessed . . . it was just a cerise model which had been left out in teh sun for a few years!
It is quite remarkable how that particular paint finish fades. I had had a model some time ago that was light cerise on one side and dark cerise on the other but this is quite extraordinary, with only the paint inside the boot, under the bonnet and along the inner edges of the sills underneath retaining their original colour.
I shall have to ensure I keep this one, which is still a nice shade of cerise, under wraps!
I remember the first one I had as a child was a strange solid slightly pale green colour which I felt never suited the car. When I had a little of my own income from mowing people's grass or some farm work a year or two later this was one that I replaced with the much nicer cerise version. It was only 50 years later that I realised just how many other colours this model was produced with. I wish I had asked the toy shop man to look in some of the other boxes he had at the time!
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