Land Rover - the model that lasted

I now have 14 Land Rovers in stock! This is one of the nicest - #406 so one of the first type but unmarked - arrived today and will be on the site this week. 

The other colour available at the start was quite a bright yellow with a black roof. I am sure the AA and RAC had a part to play in those choices! Actually the RAC did get their own (in a slightly different shade).

There are two versions of the RAC model, with and without the headboard and each with a different transfer on the canopy.

The RAF Land Rover

A green 406 was featured in Gift Set 2 with a horse box and this had a tan tin canopy. The normal 406 release in a box did not have a canopy.

Type 2 is #438 and starts off in this lovely dark green with a cream canopy that looked great but probably didn't reflect reality! To distinguish #406 from #438 just look at the front bumper or at the side windows and door.

Next colour for #438 is a pale creamy brown teamed, again, with a cream canopy. Only released in Gift Set2 with a similar colour horse box.

Red models of #438 appeared in a Ferrari Racing Gift Set and in Chipperfields Gift Sets but never individually in boxes.

#438 Type 3 is the more recent version, not really seen much until the later 60s and it came with an odd khaki canopy more often than not. The shade is quite metallic and not really what you expect on a Land Rover. It'll be around for as long as the dark green, though.

An interesting variation with the later models having cast wheels a little before this too, ridiculously, went down the Whizzwheels road. It starts with a tin hook which is then replaced by a grey plastic variety.

Whizzwheels models will be blue for a Gift Set with a new horse trailer, darker blue for another Gift Set with an aircraft trailer and shades of bright apple green for the models sold as #438 in the box.