The Corgi Whizzwheels Club

 

Surprising most of us this week, Corgi announced the launch of the Corgi Whizzwheels Club. I certainly had not seen any hints of this. We get plenty of advance notice of new models and even get asked what the Corgi Model Club should consider reproducing from time to time and sometimes I spot a model in a photograph of a selection that are in early stages of production but they managed to keep any Whizzwheels models well hidden.

That might be because members who love the early era models can often be pretty dismissive of the Whizzwheels types that started to appear in 1969 and the Club might have been concerned about losing people. That, in turn, might explain why this is, in fact, a totally separate Club. And with the new Club comes the same sort of great offer as we had before. This time for just a penny short of £10 the Ford Cortina Mk III GXL in metallic blue will be delivered, with no charge for postage in the UK. 

The model comes with the Graham Hill character too and this display sign. All this seems a pretty good deal. Looking at the promotional stuff, it looks like the Bond 750 three-wheeler are on the menu for release soon, along with the Roger Clark edition of the Ford Capri (with pepperpot wheels) and, strangely, the Kojak Buick is illustrated. Now that's a 1:36 scale model so an odd choice and one I could certainly do wothout.

I am not likely to keep any of the models illustrated and hope one of my customers will be happy to take them from me at something like cost price once I have taken some photos and checked them out. However, there are a few Whizzwheels models that are particularly hard to find and I get the impression that there were not many produced. the 304 Chevrolet Camaro in blue with a white roof comes to mind, as does the 387 Chevrolet Corvette Sting Ray in pink. These I would like to have as it's so hard to find originals in good condition - one of the reasons being that Whizzwheels did tend to be 'whizzed' around and crashes would be more damaging!

Who knows, we might even see a Gift Set 20 with the blue Mini-Marcos GT850 (which makes the Pop Art Mini seem common)!