tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10679483876881517492024-03-18T03:02:13.749+00:00I LOVE CORGI TOYSLots of photos and thoughts about Corgi Toys from 1956 to 1977Andrew Hillhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00976984938460821874noreply@blogger.comBlogger675125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1067948387688151749.post-80336561492124772252024-03-07T13:52:00.001+00:002024-03-08T18:52:15.406+00:00Corgi Model Club: Volkswagen Breakdown Truck<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjxHTCBVb_phCAFP19UM_PVuX622GDsEOSBvTCbCWSgG9f7AggUaGjWpy08fSeBt_vmPbVAB_H5u6eAaYLRsB8fqCpVpAhggC7i-UmmLHlBedMWMlDneBSpJZtR7HsepvDIe7z-Jsmg0tFh3gsJU-0PErXfqr3vD9-jFZDilije5t9QcCJN4bEilrTxSnY-/s4096/IMG20240307121323.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3072" data-original-width="4096" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjxHTCBVb_phCAFP19UM_PVuX622GDsEOSBvTCbCWSgG9f7AggUaGjWpy08fSeBt_vmPbVAB_H5u6eAaYLRsB8fqCpVpAhggC7i-UmmLHlBedMWMlDneBSpJZtR7HsepvDIe7z-Jsmg0tFh3gsJU-0PErXfqr3vD9-jFZDilije5t9QcCJN4bEilrTxSnY-/w640-h480/IMG20240307121323.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">This month the Corgi Model Club issue the latest model to be 'revived'. This is #490 the Volkswagen Breakdown Truck. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEil41oLgYZNSMv0LQN0HI9TTD_InV3y_Lv4e4s00pgfjZ_WavgiE5qVBwzj0N3FK-P1IEH8o5H_0AajXK4ArIq7cwX11w_qgFTMPnm4VPC3lN8KkT___7jmBMNZtqsw1LP49VAWl1K7RWqyE6XJRSVDNpl49Mxj9x_eRcMTp8M8TyeiusgHR_c01OqRNbj4/s2048/P1070456.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1536" data-original-width="2048" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEil41oLgYZNSMv0LQN0HI9TTD_InV3y_Lv4e4s00pgfjZ_WavgiE5qVBwzj0N3FK-P1IEH8o5H_0AajXK4ArIq7cwX11w_qgFTMPnm4VPC3lN8KkT___7jmBMNZtqsw1LP49VAWl1K7RWqyE6XJRSVDNpl49Mxj9x_eRcMTp8M8TyeiusgHR_c01OqRNbj4/w400-h300/P1070456.JPG" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">This is a very detailed model with many features and it must have been much more of a challenge than last month's MGA. As a result it does have some noticeable differences. The first is simply how shiny the device installation is at the rear. Mine was a rather tired-looking grey even when new and I am not aware of any shiny silver variations.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjWeX-2JGYLDpdgL9xbyZdjHx7G_VqLVr9hZJOcuKghM0idX0hsKixDjNAHWC8JZtwhnIbaEptWv1qR_NClooH3l0vS6aUmj5VwYwD5aqvoN8mKnhAPLryLV1jdBCef6o4qIYLV28eUNSpx5CM3V9H6xXT6ZaEvnZCFrnHQGtn40RAjgC9tsXTLJCD98AOq/s2858/IMG20240307121257.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2858" data-original-width="2427" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjWeX-2JGYLDpdgL9xbyZdjHx7G_VqLVr9hZJOcuKghM0idX0hsKixDjNAHWC8JZtwhnIbaEptWv1qR_NClooH3l0vS6aUmj5VwYwD5aqvoN8mKnhAPLryLV1jdBCef6o4qIYLV28eUNSpx5CM3V9H6xXT6ZaEvnZCFrnHQGtn40RAjgC9tsXTLJCD98AOq/w340-h400/IMG20240307121257.jpg" width="340" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">The ratchet which should prevent the hook from becoming free is very weak on the re-issue and it was quite difficult to keep it back in place. The grey plastic hook is made of stronger stuff than the original but looks pretty much identical.</div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgIaD2iFKuT7ecFWaRB4f30U0NCJl3ES9IgW1cAh6In90gZLyMbqbrny1tJXlRWocYHva6aSNDVNMViyzsEaanaDll5-7apXg4yjv9-FLVIrYEIvZeeOyK3wy56nT93t2R9t0C3Mi3peib56kccI8Q657jzcAvki9wST9RTYYPecJh-4mis9SFBbIbopdte/s2048/P1070454.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1536" data-original-width="2048" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgIaD2iFKuT7ecFWaRB4f30U0NCJl3ES9IgW1cAh6In90gZLyMbqbrny1tJXlRWocYHva6aSNDVNMViyzsEaanaDll5-7apXg4yjv9-FLVIrYEIvZeeOyK3wy56nT93t2R9t0C3Mi3peib56kccI8Q657jzcAvki9wST9RTYYPecJh-4mis9SFBbIbopdte/w400-h300/P1070454.JPG" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiVZ-y5eQUk7ofRhIKUzEnR4Bp-CBLJo52__w1fdYb34oq54fZPVduL-D2S4oDeVYak8QJdoBzR8-KfClg03zsGrHGWr1UwN4n-b5mmU2CCcj-edH78asnbNOAGByFyPyN0JNKB9KviaLXS_NXc_QRE1qOUredIOtZBjYqdiqs7UowTPzd47Uy6sw_hhhEx/s4096/IMG20240307121229.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3072" data-original-width="4096" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiVZ-y5eQUk7ofRhIKUzEnR4Bp-CBLJo52__w1fdYb34oq54fZPVduL-D2S4oDeVYak8QJdoBzR8-KfClg03zsGrHGWr1UwN4n-b5mmU2CCcj-edH78asnbNOAGByFyPyN0JNKB9KviaLXS_NXc_QRE1qOUredIOtZBjYqdiqs7UowTPzd47Uy6sw_hhhEx/w400-h300/IMG20240307121229.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">The greenish olive colour is good, maybe a little on the brown side but acceptably so. As always, the silver paintwork is very precise and bright when compared to the original. I see that the bottom of the V shape design in the front panel appears much less sharply defined than the original. I expect to see the bright silver and some shinier materials here and there but this front end is one that I would have thought the inspectors would have rejected.</div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgaLKwXwkcw-hiNyoAOWT1c1LPr-5ARVjpO_CFc8YLGxyVfey1jjoNM0Wmds_2gMn_zuhFuL0P4LrzWC3EhfcC_dt52RSFkX6YE8g2z8MJ7eUqlaeVP9PNcEUvjaARt-hhfZ6_X-BxlukYCYlu9zsxAqKvbPiiM-J5bx0OgbDc21KZVmUKuI-V0onbavcP_/s2048/P1070450.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1536" data-original-width="2048" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgaLKwXwkcw-hiNyoAOWT1c1LPr-5ARVjpO_CFc8YLGxyVfey1jjoNM0Wmds_2gMn_zuhFuL0P4LrzWC3EhfcC_dt52RSFkX6YE8g2z8MJ7eUqlaeVP9PNcEUvjaARt-hhfZ6_X-BxlukYCYlu9zsxAqKvbPiiM-J5bx0OgbDc21KZVmUKuI-V0onbavcP_/w400-h300/P1070450.JPG" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">The side view and dimensions are excellent and accurate. You will find the rear tool box and compartments constructed from much harder and shinier material than the softer plastic of the original and they have a darker colour too. The tool box does open and close satisfactorily - something that the original didn't always do as well!</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">It contains the usual bright chrome tools and a couple of small-size tyres.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">One thing I have noticed with this and several previous models is how the shaped wheels aren't right, the inner convex element being too small and giving the appearance of something more like a Dinky wheel than a Corgi. Perhaps the Chinese factory is using wheels produced for Atlas Dinky reproductions or something like that. These need to be revised and not just accepted as 'nearly' right. they're not, as the images below show.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh-zApVO8i05-QI3RRsjyl7zwjpseAdIUD9F1-jFmkxYpVlLDCPmUpmJBT0xW31IyLCrnxJHmhTIthxS0YfeSd1qQ44jQ5KF8kLFchmGbPy5vFxw9o3ZSdocsVPEbyFUXhJQ4mAINyJ6B8JYniFKj3hnFVz4gjrmQKah6f-Hba2RNjCpJIxUSXRqvRhngU_/s4096/IMG20240307121215.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3072" data-original-width="4096" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh-zApVO8i05-QI3RRsjyl7zwjpseAdIUD9F1-jFmkxYpVlLDCPmUpmJBT0xW31IyLCrnxJHmhTIthxS0YfeSd1qQ44jQ5KF8kLFchmGbPy5vFxw9o3ZSdocsVPEbyFUXhJQ4mAINyJ6B8JYniFKj3hnFVz4gjrmQKah6f-Hba2RNjCpJIxUSXRqvRhngU_/w640-h480/IMG20240307121215.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhrEH3rap6fnd6Y37S6smQ7_KPypvzf0kl1HcJBTQ2pf0r_Vv0uAexAr3iHsmLo3U0grs8pcfeWksO5QU9_JdKdvstV7-5-C854-1WaDpT365RYDYzuayjcgYj2nzq2WDEk8y_uw4oblUh3uqrGKgUN7pbUgVot2neKge1-wM7-cibyQcOBHMUebjyeE1uC/s2048/P1070448.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1536" data-original-width="2048" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhrEH3rap6fnd6Y37S6smQ7_KPypvzf0kl1HcJBTQ2pf0r_Vv0uAexAr3iHsmLo3U0grs8pcfeWksO5QU9_JdKdvstV7-5-C854-1WaDpT365RYDYzuayjcgYj2nzq2WDEk8y_uw4oblUh3uqrGKgUN7pbUgVot2neKge1-wM7-cibyQcOBHMUebjyeE1uC/w640-h480/P1070448.JPG" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh9PpaA8xgawPGih2jGYdrFSXFCqKt4VWLvL6W4U7rVDRMgkkE6ZkxLKYr0DLaUcXVvcI6EGAyXrG3oPYYsCCgyf_2ruwjA_XrFIDJ9jdTuGXLf1g53pev76TNmybLJt4Vr78vuz7eWEd4SZ7MQ-RmL_zxhfQHjFf8QdD0Al6mYl3TUo60jThoFEP_S7aKv/s4096/IMG20240307121514.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3072" data-original-width="4096" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh9PpaA8xgawPGih2jGYdrFSXFCqKt4VWLvL6W4U7rVDRMgkkE6ZkxLKYr0DLaUcXVvcI6EGAyXrG3oPYYsCCgyf_2ruwjA_XrFIDJ9jdTuGXLf1g53pev76TNmybLJt4Vr78vuz7eWEd4SZ7MQ-RmL_zxhfQHjFf8QdD0Al6mYl3TUo60jThoFEP_S7aKv/s320/IMG20240307121514.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhpRcdSOjOzbkAPUE3han_yZGH5Y2Ih_JnGzW9rJ9NMO2-dQdby-b2jeUs69vSlVIaB6dpWh1T-Ls1idVfJE-skV2gMBTZKtd3d8gWKbgbMxlrYAWBo3_PHtD3GPIIxPRvQ_53YsuPuicep5mxsMFydcL9K_buyEJn17JLbrnDHklgRKiER3amw5j1aE7E-/s269/490.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="269" data-original-width="261" height="269" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhpRcdSOjOzbkAPUE3han_yZGH5Y2Ih_JnGzW9rJ9NMO2-dQdby-b2jeUs69vSlVIaB6dpWh1T-Ls1idVfJE-skV2gMBTZKtd3d8gWKbgbMxlrYAWBo3_PHtD3GPIIxPRvQ_53YsuPuicep5mxsMFydcL9K_buyEJn17JLbrnDHklgRKiER3amw5j1aE7E-/s1600/490.jpg" width="261" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">In many early articles on the Corgi Club Models I have been critical of their lack of attention to the font style used on the boxes. They're still in need of attention but they do seem, at last, to have got the numbers at the end right. One step at a time, I guess. It would be so simple to get the small text right, though, and this would make a big difference</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhwXFmnDSQopzgj8KGCRndjDfXjOOUpRYPL7VOu1AAT34SjEPitJwRtI8Qb8ga4FS19PqT2ZjmLQkL2pU8_gU6oPd4Ya1eizvgq7bmLJzBPFon5AXu1vbNUpi146luP-a_1DD9dRmt1AsGo8W1XDvBjtdUUst6yvrOpYKZHXTGhmLLvS9niqEcmZFAw796Q/s4096/IMG20240307121459.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3072" data-original-width="4096" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhwXFmnDSQopzgj8KGCRndjDfXjOOUpRYPL7VOu1AAT34SjEPitJwRtI8Qb8ga4FS19PqT2ZjmLQkL2pU8_gU6oPd4Ya1eizvgq7bmLJzBPFon5AXu1vbNUpi146luP-a_1DD9dRmt1AsGo8W1XDvBjtdUUst6yvrOpYKZHXTGhmLLvS9niqEcmZFAw796Q/w400-h300/IMG20240307121459.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">This will arrive in the usual flat box with minimal outer packing but inside the box there's a big piece of tissue paper wrapped around the whole model, protecting the box against all the pointy bits and a small square piece of foam which, I think, is added protection for and against the rear end.</div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiUuOz-2u521tzFePcHjdjT3Cz5HN97wyjzo36D6E7oWH0T8iCiqv4-iZ8IXCam6bUEZ__m-wXhYOUzL-IqfunScL9MlV15hvOjdI1n-VnYsKn3eo5Uej1fVs-Kfla77Q0UFmA1WaD3nSQ0LkZyHVcB2PC1iUJjdrthUk6e9V6IkZOdn5XwSThzH1dxysb1/s4096/IMG20240307121108.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3072" data-original-width="4096" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiUuOz-2u521tzFePcHjdjT3Cz5HN97wyjzo36D6E7oWH0T8iCiqv4-iZ8IXCam6bUEZ__m-wXhYOUzL-IqfunScL9MlV15hvOjdI1n-VnYsKn3eo5Uej1fVs-Kfla77Q0UFmA1WaD3nSQ0LkZyHVcB2PC1iUJjdrthUk6e9V6IkZOdn5XwSThzH1dxysb1/w640-h480/IMG20240307121108.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Overall, I was not disappointed by this model and I recognise the good work done in getting the majority of it right. It has plenty of 'play appeal' in that one actually do something with it although I suspect that all these new editions will seldom leave their boxes.<span><a name='more'></a></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: red;">Update 8 March:</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">My good friend Andi, expert on all things VW (he is one of their senior staff so that's useful!) reports his findings on the position of the VW emblem on the front as being incorrect whereas the original Corgi had a much better placement that closely matched the real thing. He kindly provides these illustrations for us:</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjM9VqFO8ThQJbBXPri6pAnWAIvoQMoxg5mKuAPbhG4unmhJVN0PKeQ-gQUIfvupPnhiUIdaoR2rR7a5HnVozbKxf1E6DZ0YwF600bUwo_CY3CXGXwXTQkfjxNGOTb61oK440F2wXNB_8JC2ssltHk_kGz3SlQUg5b7BMed65NvM-0ziSH_AixisekMnga9/s1024/vw1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="467" data-original-width="1024" height="292" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjM9VqFO8ThQJbBXPri6pAnWAIvoQMoxg5mKuAPbhG4unmhJVN0PKeQ-gQUIfvupPnhiUIdaoR2rR7a5HnVozbKxf1E6DZ0YwF600bUwo_CY3CXGXwXTQkfjxNGOTb61oK440F2wXNB_8JC2ssltHk_kGz3SlQUg5b7BMed65NvM-0ziSH_AixisekMnga9/w640-h292/vw1.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgJO8xbDZyauycQVsa6csBw1TNBKh-ajQcvstMyWjSyBegCtaxoltP4bhIUFLPrHw_HrYSibJ6eIEimpqscAt3MkZDg7ckLgG9z7rhAGKUet1bgGfKxkP5iCojy8j9AGkLmhEYqWWEy7MFlvzTOp9VulIcwg_zladO0Px8z0K-TZ_Y7h2WTSF30E-qB_G3X/s1024/vw2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="467" data-original-width="1024" height="292" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgJO8xbDZyauycQVsa6csBw1TNBKh-ajQcvstMyWjSyBegCtaxoltP4bhIUFLPrHw_HrYSibJ6eIEimpqscAt3MkZDg7ckLgG9z7rhAGKUet1bgGfKxkP5iCojy8j9AGkLmhEYqWWEy7MFlvzTOp9VulIcwg_zladO0Px8z0K-TZ_Y7h2WTSF30E-qB_G3X/w640-h292/vw2.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgPvuvt4usd-IhZHYZP17C0r-aIAyWZMdNwHeDe9AFsj3ZHZnZCsxWc9FFUIxGh3hSqwZs6s2c1z7gnuJeHwcp3WOyhUlVWYaO5s6yml6JLaxV5RFVs-Kkyc_xLfklZ4Gjum2MPOT5LDpHun9Kq9t_NTdY1Yy-js51ricS9TUhrsobNNpmyhBm81HRzcKV6/s1025/vw3.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="914" data-original-width="1025" height="570" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgPvuvt4usd-IhZHYZP17C0r-aIAyWZMdNwHeDe9AFsj3ZHZnZCsxWc9FFUIxGh3hSqwZs6s2c1z7gnuJeHwcp3WOyhUlVWYaO5s6yml6JLaxV5RFVs-Kkyc_xLfklZ4Gjum2MPOT5LDpHun9Kq9t_NTdY1Yy-js51ricS9TUhrsobNNpmyhBm81HRzcKV6/w640-h570/vw3.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><p></p>Andrew Hillhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00976984938460821874noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1067948387688151749.post-38259041156994546922024-03-01T11:56:00.001+00:002024-03-01T11:56:00.136+00:00Corgi Toys @ 60: A VW Pick-up truck and a new tractor and plough<p> It's February 1964 and we're down on the farm with a new Fordson Power Major tractor and a new plough but only if you buy Gift Set 13 at 8/6d (which would have been about a month's pocket money for me at the time!)</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjZzZXD4IFfe5hInj6ReJeG9q8fENrIUowHtv3SvylDp16AGf3tacPwCGk68AtS6c1qzOL77Uy3wASmVOOj-XhDozxW7dswReztZrHRoM6hVlEYVyDtFaXmujBClwRGu8Swl323oH5iDq9CDIRXIiXx4s2atVkHSN5K37Y_E6DQDgZfeCGGV7I9uTeOnu7d/s300/gs13-2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="246" data-original-width="300" height="525" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjZzZXD4IFfe5hInj6ReJeG9q8fENrIUowHtv3SvylDp16AGf3tacPwCGk68AtS6c1qzOL77Uy3wASmVOOj-XhDozxW7dswReztZrHRoM6hVlEYVyDtFaXmujBClwRGu8Swl323oH5iDq9CDIRXIiXx4s2atVkHSN5K37Y_E6DQDgZfeCGGV7I9uTeOnu7d/w640-h525/gs13-2.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">The tractor may look identical to the #55 model from 1961 but there are many differences. Firstly, the steering is now more realistic, although it is sad to say that a later revision with the Ford 5000 Super Major reverts to the ugly swivelling axle. Next there are now headlamps inset in the radiator grille - much simpler for casting I imagine and one has to wonder how many of the 55 models never made the box with their little headlamps protruding on either side very vulnerably. In the seat is a driver now too, the light-haired Farmer George.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">At the back is a far simpler device for attaching implements, including the now very basic plough. Looking more realistic with its shiny shears replacing the yellow plastic this just slots over the attachment at the rear and there is now no need to fiddle around with several linkages. The previous tractor and plough were delightfully well-engineered and very much like how the real devices would have been put together but really hard work for us to play with. Having said that, there was nothing else for us to attach the plough too and not a great deal else for the tractor to pull along either but never mind.</div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj-QBw_rDcTG1WfCNEnI9Y5DQOMKbNGUHUis0x9HXRmSkyUTEOZOiE966F0cCnrI7Uv_9lmHsRobM0MrAeUP5LVipENFrZ1RpzbaN4w7_PpMRgEU50a4OA2KfPoNC5XXV5kzOx58u53MHLHfM_YxTvrlfW55obUlZRXJ2LqE-B2qJ8iQh4t4o5zR-17mHUw/s400/gs13-1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="279" data-original-width="400" height="446" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj-QBw_rDcTG1WfCNEnI9Y5DQOMKbNGUHUis0x9HXRmSkyUTEOZOiE966F0cCnrI7Uv_9lmHsRobM0MrAeUP5LVipENFrZ1RpzbaN4w7_PpMRgEU50a4OA2KfPoNC5XXV5kzOx58u53MHLHfM_YxTvrlfW55obUlZRXJ2LqE-B2qJ8iQh4t4o5zR-17mHUw/w640-h446/gs13-1.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiKG63PZFmVoosHw1hw4yKd1tczDLV1RwcWlrvqm4ttY9dAL7pxNJDofvhn_n0UAV8F3T_DS-38_m8BES_JQH3aK7JQFu6RjFGwq-iZbIrXAPGmlfDA64OnrvHRi2Jwct2kd8bL5JBgy8ZupGHJO4oQG3RBRaGeaDGxdjRrTxKrpeDVvan1z5-hMOSqnP0T/s500/gs13-3.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="339" data-original-width="500" height="434" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiKG63PZFmVoosHw1hw4yKd1tczDLV1RwcWlrvqm4ttY9dAL7pxNJDofvhn_n0UAV8F3T_DS-38_m8BES_JQH3aK7JQFu6RjFGwq-iZbIrXAPGmlfDA64OnrvHRi2Jwct2kd8bL5JBgy8ZupGHJO4oQG3RBRaGeaDGxdjRrTxKrpeDVvan1z5-hMOSqnP0T/w640-h434/gs13-3.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Most models of the new Fordson have orange plastic wheels but you may find a few with the red plastic wheels which were intended to be fitted to the Massey-Ferguson tractors but easily mixed up in the factory. I think the orange metal wheels will have only been fitted to the earlier #55 model so should not appear on the #60 models.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">You need to wait a few months until later in 1964 when the tractor and plough would be available individually.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">The other addition to the local shop stock would be the Volkswagen Pick-up truck #431.</div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjKjv7mxwiOYh1IDf_AgA04Qr4dfSAoVyDsCJFQhX0u-g-VAXUEjeFDyH9bsXczuKU8KIGn6I1ALw29SkQmGByfmA3Rrysgrgq6b-Eza4hKkAQ9ffh-kZb_UCd8hHOewcfu8sQ0wEXdfNIfAKv4nb2QELD1HGxmkJgyyUTTNrXjt6i_xDxAYDFXiQtSsoUE/s1000/431-4.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="667" data-original-width="1000" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjKjv7mxwiOYh1IDf_AgA04Qr4dfSAoVyDsCJFQhX0u-g-VAXUEjeFDyH9bsXczuKU8KIGn6I1ALw29SkQmGByfmA3Rrysgrgq6b-Eza4hKkAQ9ffh-kZb_UCd8hHOewcfu8sQ0wEXdfNIfAKv4nb2QELD1HGxmkJgyyUTTNrXjt6i_xDxAYDFXiQtSsoUE/w640-h426/431-4.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">This was always a bright yellow but could have either a red or dark green canopy. The canopy was made of thick plastic and most seem to have disappeared now, with few models being available to buy with one. It is interesting to note that Model Supplies only offer a tin replacement and I am not aware of anyone who does make what ought to be a relatively easy part. There are many very good copies for the Land Rover but it seems no-one is too concerned with the lowly old VW. So if you have a canopy, take good care of it!</div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiCasZz4RDDR-V6kv82S5wo5WNMZZ_CBIXp5ckIQd3fzqQNvgfiAPXxLYsF7GPYkFMzHVGJgcnkg5-usRVaV1JV8npjFkmdWhehxuvM0uu_CpO3I6zp1FJR8T4J2AKVkqFKXLpNyVtsFlch0t7H6tX1fXu1eIvcTPI8vAcDgcHurLv3YdE7qyVcY5SFJobU/s629/431-2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="480" data-original-width="629" height="488" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiCasZz4RDDR-V6kv82S5wo5WNMZZ_CBIXp5ckIQd3fzqQNvgfiAPXxLYsF7GPYkFMzHVGJgcnkg5-usRVaV1JV8npjFkmdWhehxuvM0uu_CpO3I6zp1FJR8T4J2AKVkqFKXLpNyVtsFlch0t7H6tX1fXu1eIvcTPI8vAcDgcHurLv3YdE7qyVcY5SFJobU/w640-h488/431-2.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">There are two interiors - lemon and red - and both are right-hand drive. The lemon flavour seems to be the more common of the two and most trucks that I have encountered have had the red canopy.</div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhAB5qHGDdD3-_6W0wfwiQKIe-WDJsRdfDs4lU_z_srBfGU_mxaoL1zsgveu69zAuLOPbx-n-foCOaL-A-RL_pV-PkhOPjXeH5IK8QsAUi0UqwpQSGKRqueIC_JiUjwdq-76POsUrGpuEeL7025hEYTM26cszKS8WlrbM8LZBokeVfgnc6EDL5czZpAGunI/s640/431-1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="640" data-original-width="594" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhAB5qHGDdD3-_6W0wfwiQKIe-WDJsRdfDs4lU_z_srBfGU_mxaoL1zsgveu69zAuLOPbx-n-foCOaL-A-RL_pV-PkhOPjXeH5IK8QsAUi0UqwpQSGKRqueIC_JiUjwdq-76POsUrGpuEeL7025hEYTM26cszKS8WlrbM8LZBokeVfgnc6EDL5czZpAGunI/w594-h640/431-1.jpg" width="594" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">The wheels are always the normal shaped a and free-spinning variety on this edition. In years to come this will be revised with a tool box in the back, a winch added and issued as a Breakdown Truck in olive or white and in a number of Gift Sets. This will continue in that form until well into the 1970s but, sadly, the Pick-up had a short life, disappearing from order lists a little more than a year later.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">A gold edition is known but is almost certainly a colour trial rather than an issued variation.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><p></p>Andrew Hillhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00976984938460821874noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1067948387688151749.post-72051596981369642342024-02-10T19:33:00.004+00:002024-02-10T19:33:19.334+00:00The Fiat 1800 in production in 1960 - a short video<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/q_N1__ZDttQ" width="320" youtube-src-id="q_N1__ZDttQ"></iframe></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">My thanks to Mike Sacco in New York for reminding me of this great video of a Fiat 1800 being produced at the Corgi factory near Swansea in Wales in 1960 from a cauldron of mazak through to dealer packs on their way, oddly enough, to Italy! I thought you might like to see this so have shared it here for your enjoyment.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">The query that gave rise to this was whether the factory used spraying apparatus or paintbrushes for the silver paint on bumpers and radiator grilles and elsewhere. The answer, of course, is 'both' as can be seen here, with the little dabs of red, silver or whatever couldn't be easily catered for by a mask, being applied with a brush. Both changes in positioning of the masks and the varying skills of the workers with a paintbrush led to no two Corgis ever being exactly the same, something which cannot be said for the somewhat less charming (but still excellent in other ways) re-issues.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">I am also not a great fan of restored models as I find that nine times out of ten people seem unable to resist the temptation to add something, be it a silver door handle or boot catch, orange indicator or, as is often the case, red tail lights when there were none on the original. It is nice, though, to see models not being discarded and given a new life. My own preference is to see them re-appear in a completely new colour or style as very few attempts to re-create the original are that successful, many colours being so hard to match now and that silver paint is seldom quite right! No-one can match the random Corgi factory ladies' skills!</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">I wonder whether the Corgi Model Club people could get hold of a video of how the latest re-issues get made in China!</div><br />Andrew Hillhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00976984938460821874noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1067948387688151749.post-89373339173771032062024-02-08T17:21:00.004+00:002024-02-08T17:21:31.666+00:00The Corgi Model Club: MGA re-issue (in a very bright red.)<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjQzXfc7B9w67qtnd-xBLa_Gj7bIt6oCV0uvXzoC2_7nOCalPZ-1Cw29OELHnV34fR-3AacZrYNMV9Jgk9-mbb5oTTWQiRgs6aNNHzX4rN8iVI1EMmcgpcfuh2JHduyo2rm4fbzkzHXud_UfcSicFvrSusg5ROgGK3j2aaJ7633WtQ_24FpmuAVhHk7avFM/s4096/IMG20240208164401.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3072" data-original-width="4096" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjQzXfc7B9w67qtnd-xBLa_Gj7bIt6oCV0uvXzoC2_7nOCalPZ-1Cw29OELHnV34fR-3AacZrYNMV9Jgk9-mbb5oTTWQiRgs6aNNHzX4rN8iVI1EMmcgpcfuh2JHduyo2rm4fbzkzHXud_UfcSicFvrSusg5ROgGK3j2aaJ7633WtQ_24FpmuAVhHk7avFM/s320/IMG20240208164401.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Blue DTC Brands have kept things simple this month with their Corgi Model Club release of the 302 MGA. The first thing that will strike you as you open the box is how red it is! Very red. Quite definitely red. The second thing may be that red again but the second or third will be how nice it is to have good protection for the vulnerable screen in the shape of two now familiar chunks of polystyrene or foamy plastic. You also get a piece of tissue paper this time, not the thin plastic stuff.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgBHkMnjxuted3QDmq55LgHQBZ4amefUqXVijPQP0Ql6TzhMfmyDIl5kRXHJygSRssqM_TdsBXyyTzArNNPHDuh_Rc3Asyf1WxR5O6ZA6H7unataZiLDIB5LimFXYombGgyqtZiBlI_yqFtDDMiKsGgXpbuBII4ZevUMEvbrroLZWJeMKAGiu8rr0PCSxhO/s4096/IMG20240208164440.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3072" data-original-width="4096" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgBHkMnjxuted3QDmq55LgHQBZ4amefUqXVijPQP0Ql6TzhMfmyDIl5kRXHJygSRssqM_TdsBXyyTzArNNPHDuh_Rc3Asyf1WxR5O6ZA6H7unataZiLDIB5LimFXYombGgyqtZiBlI_yqFtDDMiKsGgXpbuBII4ZevUMEvbrroLZWJeMKAGiu8rr0PCSxhO/s320/IMG20240208164440.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi0bbTz-V8-QUiZGG6v1QRVZK2d4nYnlO6H3_ejAXWFCGjUPhVZCjvpyFm3dhjaviUdp_KRvDmwtRLl7kRk0KJkYguHr1hqssCUikST3ITI0-Tr2X3YQwH6F-nANxNPR8VAgCypRzgZNV49XKiHxgkNL0yRhZeYcCENrV9hOGEys3i2hYONSxPqJG3rqRTK/s4096/IMG20240208164458.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3072" data-original-width="4096" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi0bbTz-V8-QUiZGG6v1QRVZK2d4nYnlO6H3_ejAXWFCGjUPhVZCjvpyFm3dhjaviUdp_KRvDmwtRLl7kRk0KJkYguHr1hqssCUikST3ITI0-Tr2X3YQwH6F-nANxNPR8VAgCypRzgZNV49XKiHxgkNL0yRhZeYcCENrV9hOGEys3i2hYONSxPqJG3rqRTK/s320/IMG20240208164458.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">It is a lovely-looking model and they've chosen the early edition with shaped wheels, not seen on a Club re-issue since the Land Rover Breakdown Truck. There's not a lot that can go wrong with making this one, although I do wonder about the slope of the radiator grille at the front. It appears rather more upright than my copy shown below.</div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiQje0FDw5nNdNqTGzYPFrgde6trA4nHRdD0WwJg0w7E6eR2M3Pu0R8YqB4AEhe74dxohLENXr0Ov67WbiEIzJ4V1GnXxgbg_eqHXI6YVaOI1khaHieQ8_BGOYaz8UzElBg36W3PWr9VfNzqiI6wzAnFDMsELpRli8p3UY0JXEtIu8JNFt0cSNgRRTEUCMQ/s4096/IMG20240208165144.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3072" data-original-width="4096" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiQje0FDw5nNdNqTGzYPFrgde6trA4nHRdD0WwJg0w7E6eR2M3Pu0R8YqB4AEhe74dxohLENXr0Ov67WbiEIzJ4V1GnXxgbg_eqHXI6YVaOI1khaHieQ8_BGOYaz8UzElBg36W3PWr9VfNzqiI6wzAnFDMsELpRli8p3UY0JXEtIu8JNFt0cSNgRRTEUCMQ/s320/IMG20240208165144.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">As usual, the detailing is precise and really just like the original except better determined.</div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiXd_pa-DOIS-OKCWIbD261Ovh0o7A3UiepE33OtolPt9IcOTmRYe9ZSp3KVkVBdZ4eF-_n17OwZoGOqxRqtoTfli_HzAfS8vSwtMkp3fVN9Yi013UGCQK3vPNo6kSC9YNbKZzLkFOtacykDgTbFifnCbpBXHNHOOj4fW29d-00A5Id_o4CTnDCsfLjGZ9e/s4096/IMG20240208164514.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3072" data-original-width="4096" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiXd_pa-DOIS-OKCWIbD261Ovh0o7A3UiepE33OtolPt9IcOTmRYe9ZSp3KVkVBdZ4eF-_n17OwZoGOqxRqtoTfli_HzAfS8vSwtMkp3fVN9Yi013UGCQK3vPNo6kSC9YNbKZzLkFOtacykDgTbFifnCbpBXHNHOOj4fW29d-00A5Id_o4CTnDCsfLjGZ9e/s320/IMG20240208164514.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">How many times do we get to see such a pristine and shiny, rust-free tin base? Lovely. If my memory serves me right the only other re-issue of a tin base model has been for the Mercedes-Benz 303S. However, with suspension required, the used a different style for that one.</div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg6pLl-4hfpqrnsfsWYOTgeL3HNdUM5qbA8VIkfoEZRasK9182QscqCS-zzwd8OCj1-GKI9lIBHy74sp_5Q7H-ew3HKFt8JYsO0Bv9kBrwlzNkIURiD-pS3-jhSIHlfndv694o7ChUBaoOHojlTrQ3auLLNMdatJcRS9-A81enXY7bEm2Em3QaxSxUCjAoi/s2717/IMG20240208165434.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2717" data-original-width="2591" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg6pLl-4hfpqrnsfsWYOTgeL3HNdUM5qbA8VIkfoEZRasK9182QscqCS-zzwd8OCj1-GKI9lIBHy74sp_5Q7H-ew3HKFt8JYsO0Bv9kBrwlzNkIURiD-pS3-jhSIHlfndv694o7ChUBaoOHojlTrQ3auLLNMdatJcRS9-A81enXY7bEm2Em3QaxSxUCjAoi/s320/IMG20240208165434.jpg" width="305" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">The description card or certificate tells us that there were three colour schemes for the MGA. We all know about the red and the metallic green but I feat they have simply copied data from The Great Book for that cream one. As is the case with many of dear old Marcel's memories of colours used for models, he is confusing colour trials with what actually made it into a box you could buy. You would not have found then, and certainly will not find now, a cream MGA with red seats other than a factory sample.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><p></p>Andrew Hillhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00976984938460821874noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1067948387688151749.post-68724861925602915612024-02-02T19:22:00.008+00:002024-02-02T19:22:41.313+00:00Corgi Toys @ 60: More Classics, a Commer and the first Monte Carlo Mini<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi6_OP_qYxhcQjln1P4oyqe6E1avonqmxdeNLSPodg0Wo-Wa8QpWUSXj2nrp-IW1vkqaLoO-v71S4woaj6qYR_zuxAXBEkHibF2DsLxzaRa7GkJHQPaDtQufqeSkGGAdnEdQv-w1EihpqlYddl2X2Z12a-aUK-T9ge4tTyHT_lBq-cW28I9AwaKXCtitrYP/s1600/P1470545-1600.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1200" data-original-width="1600" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi6_OP_qYxhcQjln1P4oyqe6E1avonqmxdeNLSPodg0Wo-Wa8QpWUSXj2nrp-IW1vkqaLoO-v71S4woaj6qYR_zuxAXBEkHibF2DsLxzaRa7GkJHQPaDtQufqeSkGGAdnEdQv-w1EihpqlYddl2X2Z12a-aUK-T9ge4tTyHT_lBq-cW28I9AwaKXCtitrYP/w400-h300/P1470545-1600.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">It's February 1964 and two more models in the Classics series are added. Two Bentley 3 litres, one red with red wheels, the other in green with steel wheels.</div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh0QhslgYSVeu9YOl59yuwWR2mwoi1f087QRhv-ffrxAlJqP6WeVzUFZssgglgwW46XbjKjXgkxGq_PA9-jtT8EgT-a_8L_axncQpRfuzSJYTMuvPdkcZNPRbAUzbiMvEgyziDbvo0c4QHo-8KsBFL-Oumv9rf06UmP6F300fSoFjKYKRaQNRWZtZ9UAqUo/s4000/P1310922.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3000" data-original-width="4000" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh0QhslgYSVeu9YOl59yuwWR2mwoi1f087QRhv-ffrxAlJqP6WeVzUFZssgglgwW46XbjKjXgkxGq_PA9-jtT8EgT-a_8L_axncQpRfuzSJYTMuvPdkcZNPRbAUzbiMvEgyziDbvo0c4QHo-8KsBFL-Oumv9rf06UmP6F300fSoFjKYKRaQNRWZtZ9UAqUo/w400-h300/P1310922.JPG" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Both have a full length hood which can be detached with a rather strange-looking driver, seemingly covered in white bandages from head to toe. It is the same chap in both the racing edition - the green one with RN3 decals on the front radiator and rear box - and the more sedate-looking red one. The green edition has the Union flag on the passenger door.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">These were both initially catalogued as #900 and packed in a flimsy card box, mounted on a card base with a plastic mechanism securing the model to the base. Later, but I do not know when, they were numbered #9001 and #9002 and supplied in much more practical stiff card boxes with separate lids and foam protection.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">We shall meet the Bentley again in a few years' time!</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgIRRO_nAsp9V3YxA4M2HlfagVMjBEAz2gJl-_GxNY9_-AMpxez_PBM5bXxLIUYVFajHMUxh8rIPbJXq7FHUVaXJLRsVZvWhxuk09oCXXk23ugq7_Md1VQIpMSafmEcSlJpfUWLTraRK4j1fA8qjYz3yMzTz4Ik6K1KcH7bsDfFo2NLkA3gTrhWlVDXJfoZ/s1600/P1290260-1600.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1200" data-original-width="1600" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgIRRO_nAsp9V3YxA4M2HlfagVMjBEAz2gJl-_GxNY9_-AMpxez_PBM5bXxLIUYVFajHMUxh8rIPbJXq7FHUVaXJLRsVZvWhxuk09oCXXk23ugq7_Md1VQIpMSafmEcSlJpfUWLTraRK4j1fA8qjYz3yMzTz4Ik6K1KcH7bsDfFo2NLkA3gTrhWlVDXJfoZ/w400-h300/P1290260-1600.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Next we have the delightful Mini-Cooper, now in Monte Carlo mode as Corgi celebrates the Mini's success at the 1964 Monte Carlo Rally. It gets a search light on the roof and is the Morris-badged casting as for the 227 model, with two headlamp jewels and a RN37 decal on each door.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">There are no variations of this model that I am aware of but I guess there could be some different base types, just as there were with the #227 models.</div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj3FtonLKIwCYwW0pUPCcrvuajQYxTgCEO5P-FjSobw094q9RgnFBabo7tnqab8RQ0YUGpE45HSUrAIHomKAxKx1bSXs6TqjFmD5RYqfrfY6vUByHJpIPZype6k2mf8n-Gv5gvbyCpRJVCOaGrXqquQ8sMQ4Qap-dd0-QvVFKp8RuW15jUkDfE0ODujohCh/s400/463.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="271" data-original-width="400" height="271" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj3FtonLKIwCYwW0pUPCcrvuajQYxTgCEO5P-FjSobw094q9RgnFBabo7tnqab8RQ0YUGpE45HSUrAIHomKAxKx1bSXs6TqjFmD5RYqfrfY6vUByHJpIPZype6k2mf8n-Gv5gvbyCpRJVCOaGrXqquQ8sMQ4Qap-dd0-QvVFKp8RuW15jUkDfE0ODujohCh/w400-h271/463.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">The final addition to the shelves at your local shop would have been the Commer Ambulance as a complete model #463 and distinguished from that which could have been made with the earlier Gift Set 24 by the base, lacking the device to remove the rear section.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">In due course the Milk Float will be issued but the plain Van never gets an issue on its own outside the Gift Set other than as a branded model, 'Hammonds' being the #462 catalogue issue. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><p></p>Andrew Hillhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00976984938460821874noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1067948387688151749.post-87597044521092325552024-01-09T19:50:00.000+00:002024-01-09T19:50:07.145+00:00Corgi Model Club: Chevrolet Impala Fire Chief Car<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhChzrQKauZ8Nmhsw1hLaORHme1u-Sc3RnXC6jyQ-eK33cGF2qSxuxliWp34vbEB4uJnUKSMX0JwHB7nIbgaB3HgcFe5F9VQFV2x15ZKsGWJ1RquxdNpzdanCLY_snRmSmxiufhZdrPWGY0XAMf3uCVsR_H-KfJgOM3C3ozgck9-ECMsQvcrgZ2quU5pIiB/s4096/IMG20240109171420.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3072" data-original-width="4096" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhChzrQKauZ8Nmhsw1hLaORHme1u-Sc3RnXC6jyQ-eK33cGF2qSxuxliWp34vbEB4uJnUKSMX0JwHB7nIbgaB3HgcFe5F9VQFV2x15ZKsGWJ1RquxdNpzdanCLY_snRmSmxiufhZdrPWGY0XAMf3uCVsR_H-KfJgOM3C3ozgck9-ECMsQvcrgZ2quU5pIiB/w640-h480/IMG20240109171420.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">The latest issue from the Corgi Model Club is here and it is yet another superb reproduction. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">It arrives with two pieces of hard foam plastic to prevent movement in the box (one piece I only realised was there after taking the photos) and some thin paper protecting the chrome at each end and the transfer on the bonnet. Unfortunately, the chunk of plastic has pushed the aerial to stand at an unnatural angle and, unlike the original, you can't twiddle it around.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhbmLTs22XKGkSlTYldTmpEKsFFumkG5KvoENYEcK_Qe1cyFIi_FnWKGX7tSppOgLUUdcuHoJCu7dWDSidXJI05oBW_1gCa6JntIlRhhyfF0NeUavtO71zk-AdVODmPXhJCc0rWQktg7sJ_dtS2rcCJxtVvD-zBVdjawWVE5fDMMxub9qHVsEyBPPxBJpVd/s4096/IMG20240109171327.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3072" data-original-width="4096" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhbmLTs22XKGkSlTYldTmpEKsFFumkG5KvoENYEcK_Qe1cyFIi_FnWKGX7tSppOgLUUdcuHoJCu7dWDSidXJI05oBW_1gCa6JntIlRhhyfF0NeUavtO71zk-AdVODmPXhJCc0rWQktg7sJ_dtS2rcCJxtVvD-zBVdjawWVE5fDMMxub9qHVsEyBPPxBJpVd/s320/IMG20240109171327.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjpon5mCx25cRmZ9BQYG7beOEwqgvd2Ud3OWHuI3g7HcOzv1-Pcuw9zSHHBTWYoBnlT1WnFETa14loD25m1C6b4LnMFM6AM6aMhI6VLj9ba3j5_Q9rQUmcsJSAvB_HcdgvPgZHDlXo46AR0l2sysdKpsXgxxkfkS195rnENNSG9C4uD-YhqaKbGllOJlFkG/s4096/IMG20240109171401.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3072" data-original-width="4096" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjpon5mCx25cRmZ9BQYG7beOEwqgvd2Ud3OWHuI3g7HcOzv1-Pcuw9zSHHBTWYoBnlT1WnFETa14loD25m1C6b4LnMFM6AM6aMhI6VLj9ba3j5_Q9rQUmcsJSAvB_HcdgvPgZHDlXo46AR0l2sysdKpsXgxxkfkS195rnENNSG9C4uD-YhqaKbGllOJlFkG/s320/IMG20240109171401.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">This is otherwise a stunning model and I cannot fault its paintwork, wonderful chrome and the accuracy of every casting detail. They will have had the #480 to work from, of course, so the Club will have made a little more profit from this one.</div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEifPkiM_dbghBrfKY3c4WQpfBYSOWPnTCFhv-vB05G8oZFF0-TlzEw9PK0bATPlRz1Iamt0LZeD9U6Dof1Dm5u0J0_UqIwBGw8_BXpFxvw3_7B6MtkGhk_L7zDR8Fy4H6D__Rr-FtRDVJFJD-2oipibgys-S9EDTQBknd9Btrr9bpVGHUn5CLzpQy2_9HnZ/s4096/IMG20240109171426.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3072" data-original-width="4096" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEifPkiM_dbghBrfKY3c4WQpfBYSOWPnTCFhv-vB05G8oZFF0-TlzEw9PK0bATPlRz1Iamt0LZeD9U6Dof1Dm5u0J0_UqIwBGw8_BXpFxvw3_7B6MtkGhk_L7zDR8Fy4H6D__Rr-FtRDVJFJD-2oipibgys-S9EDTQBknd9Btrr9bpVGHUn5CLzpQy2_9HnZ/w640-h480/IMG20240109171426.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEil2AIadveCOVs7NyVRYh4aookm9vRuzV5VEHvPdIrUmX2Wz7xGKmGGshNNqFYMMp_kDffoItKjYQPe1OChvBYS_j3Vxvu8E5A6cmPalwxyr6OhWrKcx8M8a_NkPygDAiPX3qUfq5vzIZj96p2Zxzp-cfTOdKfUEwCjYW3quslIAeo8yWtvWPI0rmfm_HR9/s4096/IMG20240109171431.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3072" data-original-width="4096" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEil2AIadveCOVs7NyVRYh4aookm9vRuzV5VEHvPdIrUmX2Wz7xGKmGGshNNqFYMMp_kDffoItKjYQPe1OChvBYS_j3Vxvu8E5A6cmPalwxyr6OhWrKcx8M8a_NkPygDAiPX3qUfq5vzIZj96p2Zxzp-cfTOdKfUEwCjYW3quslIAeo8yWtvWPI0rmfm_HR9/w640-h480/IMG20240109171431.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiieEYDRO8r4kZ_ocrlzaEqc6I6GvWqcnD8V_KW9LjvsVscpE6Byo31w69A5cqKymFJ1SVd2XPF5GWBE9JEYLe6mlevuhHRLC1ZGirFa3MxqxSPaSDGfQd77MomQthXfB2GE1EdAqwy3ZzJD-6j_xlbQroM6OH0Ag2HqFXG5GG3wpUE4VSbiwBISDwSqTdm/s4096/IMG20240109171436_BURST015.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3072" data-original-width="4096" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiieEYDRO8r4kZ_ocrlzaEqc6I6GvWqcnD8V_KW9LjvsVscpE6Byo31w69A5cqKymFJ1SVd2XPF5GWBE9JEYLe6mlevuhHRLC1ZGirFa3MxqxSPaSDGfQd77MomQthXfB2GE1EdAqwy3ZzJD-6j_xlbQroM6OH0Ag2HqFXG5GG3wpUE4VSbiwBISDwSqTdm/w640-h480/IMG20240109171436_BURST015.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">I look at these images and I'm taken back to that feeling when I first took original models out of the box. 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margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3072" data-original-width="4096" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiN8v4YVb1CddKt3_Kymp-plrZmk9bC0zysZU2b3mz0MHxNgfY8j8OsrEV0tor9fmLtPuAIiOfzF1RxkSAVU8PYQg1EuZPo5ZkjugJugdMEp_dBnOhEetfjsPaUKyZJwEgnqCB6Jmc8FZiBkHO9typmdLWT7MZDnFpYfzOvx1ny8vu85KXLWwKGU6AxR8wJ/w640-h480/IMG20240109171859.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">My own #482 is a cast wheel edition which is rather more common, this and the Police version being around for quite a while. I do have a shaped wheel edition somewhere but in my recent move it has taken a long time to find anything so I used the first one I came across! They're both identical in all other respects so it serves its purpose here just as well.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">You will notice that there is a small difference in the font used for the bonnet text, the Club edition being just a little too fat. The only other differences that I see are the lack of a silver ring around the base of the beacon on the roof and the original Impala rear lights have a sort of sheen which the people in China have been unable to replicate on this, as also for the earlier #480.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><p></p>Andrew Hillhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00976984938460821874noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1067948387688151749.post-20262150387696596662024-01-02T11:58:00.005+00:002024-01-02T11:58:43.242+00:00Corgi Toys @ 60: The Classics and Another Citroën<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjp1kS4M5QCfxJQZzFqEAu3B0q032lX14iwCct1aEmuEpeScfrs3y-reH5rJzHYw9OvEnVdmx0FiD5l4KKSQ9OCd9MLTJIQSMirvmFDABGny3nqJmfzMnpB4qIt1VTmY9xr015s53Yl_890FznebNvMPv7zj5wOnQFC0YnSBmoXqJSCV97tw6MadBWOLW9_/s1600/P1420518-1600.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1200" data-original-width="1600" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjp1kS4M5QCfxJQZzFqEAu3B0q032lX14iwCct1aEmuEpeScfrs3y-reH5rJzHYw9OvEnVdmx0FiD5l4KKSQ9OCd9MLTJIQSMirvmFDABGny3nqJmfzMnpB4qIt1VTmY9xr015s53Yl_890FznebNvMPv7zj5wOnQFC0YnSBmoXqJSCV97tw6MadBWOLW9_/w640-h480/P1420518-1600.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">It's January 2024 and your local toy shop has something completely different, the first of a short series of Corgi <i>Classics</i>, vintage cars from the early 20th Century. The first two released this month were the Ford Model T in black as #9011 and in yellow as #9012. Each had a couple in the front and I believe it is the same couple each time.</div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgHEMrbySlM33LOYPouwS3YR8PzMonl6EjotujpriSAIXunPQIF6mGhHt2SIAb4WfENXNLvuNj2A5u5CRrN8kANePluV0nEoLsVXTABGEd5nDmN_Wk4wm9QNY5ujh2lnEOLERNaFAzFqhIPhGX3zUt0CPV5Gy5MS2XQ3Bq5x5cYohVjuALgFnQ7sokdpOXS/s4000/P1200829.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3000" data-original-width="4000" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgHEMrbySlM33LOYPouwS3YR8PzMonl6EjotujpriSAIXunPQIF6mGhHt2SIAb4WfENXNLvuNj2A5u5CRrN8kANePluV0nEoLsVXTABGEd5nDmN_Wk4wm9QNY5ujh2lnEOLERNaFAzFqhIPhGX3zUt0CPV5Gy5MS2XQ3Bq5x5cYohVjuALgFnQ7sokdpOXS/w640-h480/P1200829.JPG" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">The detailing is excellent and the intricate models, with many vulnerable features, were packed in a sturdy, thick card box with a separate lid, protected by a piece of foam rubber and an information leaflet.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">These models were not cars to be played with, though. They were for display only and it was a quite different market that they would have been intended. They had no suspension and, whilst one or two might have been added to our layouts in the 1960s they were not really 'Corgis' as we had come to love.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Sales were modest but nothing like as successful as the normal range and at 8/11d they were expensive. You could have bought the Routemaster bus for 2d less or a Tractor and Plough set for 8/6d. Most model cars were four or five shillings, half the price of the Ford Model T. They are now very easy to find for just a few pounds and you should have no trouble finding models with intact windscreen and in original boxes with figures should you wish to build this collection. Maybe now that all Corgis from this era are just for display, these <i>Classics</i> will not appear so out of place and become more desirable after all!</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Also arriving this month is the second appearance of the Citroën ID19, now in white with a ski rack, skis and skier character, a Winter Olympics transfer on the bonnet.</div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiysS6oPlarGjRXeSAffXHssVBqnEGH4YI64eGR8R6frdB2ny0MtQOtns8ZcumbnPrV8Wwnxps80IlIYqgulTbUqO4zgyqEIPSFWNCe9V3kw9PeItAKFUsr14JsuBT5dD9GR3OnIWYHMLc5O_BTkf_RzxGUWA3GRQTRn_fRV3i91RYisYijMZyCOS5HWktv/s1494/475-2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1389" data-original-width="1494" height="596" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiysS6oPlarGjRXeSAffXHssVBqnEGH4YI64eGR8R6frdB2ny0MtQOtns8ZcumbnPrV8Wwnxps80IlIYqgulTbUqO4zgyqEIPSFWNCe9V3kw9PeItAKFUsr14JsuBT5dD9GR3OnIWYHMLc5O_BTkf_RzxGUWA3GRQTRn_fRV3i91RYisYijMZyCOS5HWktv/w640-h596/475-2.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">This is the April 1963 model but with a new fitting to the roof. This is usually red with yellow skis and poles but it also seems to have been issued with a yellow ski rack and there are red skis and red ski pole too. Perhaps every conceivable variation was available at the time or have items since been swapped around? The rack is not easy to replace, however, and both colours do exist. (There will be another, also numbered #475 but with a Corgi Ski Club motif on the bonnet issued in 1965, just to confuse us all!)</div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgUbt8jSm5ulQeVKHKrCesFGa9RPaBBswSQ5jFVx6BTHe97wdwsVKX_CxcdEkjssMRq4G01dVS5n60Nmucmz8SAgyCB_BPdRFp2C5-NF8xL2c-Fc2brhJjoe6JTQCWYrWss5c0FiF80yPtEkmgeD2odxDi5MhJO-q1TXpuA26khTFOnVNDXQ2IUgcs1kAqU/s1600/475-1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1200" data-original-width="1600" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgUbt8jSm5ulQeVKHKrCesFGa9RPaBBswSQ5jFVx6BTHe97wdwsVKX_CxcdEkjssMRq4G01dVS5n60Nmucmz8SAgyCB_BPdRFp2C5-NF8xL2c-Fc2brhJjoe6JTQCWYrWss5c0FiF80yPtEkmgeD2odxDi5MhJO-q1TXpuA26khTFOnVNDXQ2IUgcs1kAqU/w640-h480/475-1.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">This model and the extras all came in a fairly normal-looking box. It is only the second to feature a separate character other than a driver or animal inside. (The first was the Jeep F150 with Tower Platform which had an electrician chap - but even was in the basket and not a standalone display like this one).</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><p></p>Andrew Hillhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00976984938460821874noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1067948387688151749.post-62372326789612395022023-12-23T06:00:00.001+00:002023-12-23T06:00:00.135+00:00Merry Corgi Christmas<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhyKWadQeNTkPal92jye9dmlszHxpuXr0xr-HP9vUgpEB9O0ASdeYKsd0AX2qOh4kNqQgz_rm3i5qHqVWzzHtqiKYCooat0vrF9YBap9_TMAH8UWWcBKQvLEI6ICZb0ayqvVAgwhj6VDBFBLmOoTJM6tkRuSaBVtfE9X7RJRIEUijXk81OqlrsynPaQX3bo/s2480/corgi-tree.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2480" data-original-width="1748" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhyKWadQeNTkPal92jye9dmlszHxpuXr0xr-HP9vUgpEB9O0ASdeYKsd0AX2qOh4kNqQgz_rm3i5qHqVWzzHtqiKYCooat0vrF9YBap9_TMAH8UWWcBKQvLEI6ICZb0ayqvVAgwhj6VDBFBLmOoTJM6tkRuSaBVtfE9X7RJRIEUijXk81OqlrsynPaQX3bo/w452-h640/corgi-tree.jpg" width="452" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><h1 style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: red; font-family: Architects Daughter;">I wish all my Corgi friends</span></h1><h1 style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: red; font-family: Architects Daughter;">and customers, wherever you are,</span></h1><h1 style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: red; font-family: Architects Daughter;">a very merry Christmas and</span></h1><h1 style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: red; font-family: Architects Daughter;">a happy New Year.</span></h1><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">I am glad to hear that so many of you enjoy my articles on things Corgi. I have had one or two enquiries as to why I had been quiet for a while recently. Firstly there were no new issues in December 1963 so I got a break from the <i>Corgi toys @ 60</i> series. Having a much greater impact, though, has been the need to move house. My house in Astcote here in England is falling apart and it has been necessary to find a new home, not the simplest of tasks when you're as ancient as me and have boxes and more boxes and yet more boxes (as well as the usual bits and pieces one accumulates over 70 odd years!)</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">I am delighted to say that, after a great deal of searching and form-filling, we shall be moving to the village of Bozeat, a few miles further east, over the Christmas period and hopefully up and running again as from the beginning of 2024. I have not had a chance to make the 2024 Calendar pages yet but will get these done sometime in January if you can hold on for a while.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">You shouldn't notice much of a change in any of the web sites, email or stores where you'll find the new mailing address if needed. The landline number will stop working so use +44 07712 817958 should you need to call.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Hoping for some peace in 2024 and, with particular thought for Ukraine, whose people are about to enter a third year of war's uncertainty and anguish, all profits from Corgi.Toys in January will go towards helping our friends and families there.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEir78B8FdKEEKzNRRTTp8OJwiNjiCVzpDEb71jNxJ9DaIhDd-8ncER3RUUqNDYyAba5nkyaeL9w7tHihFazs8kCj_8RxJ63VbhNUaYHtb3FZfEahjsobOT5IZADxNVB6-Lte_JFT6U5QX1meLt0V6hUMxLbFqX3oBoVipC7Z9iuCvHVejUtI12WwVYRf2V0/s256/ukraine-4682_256.gif" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="144" data-original-width="256" height="113" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEir78B8FdKEEKzNRRTTp8OJwiNjiCVzpDEb71jNxJ9DaIhDd-8ncER3RUUqNDYyAba5nkyaeL9w7tHihFazs8kCj_8RxJ63VbhNUaYHtb3FZfEahjsobOT5IZADxNVB6-Lte_JFT6U5QX1meLt0V6hUMxLbFqX3oBoVipC7Z9iuCvHVejUtI12WwVYRf2V0/w200-h113/ukraine-4682_256.gif" width="200" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><p></p>Andrew Hillhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00976984938460821874noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1067948387688151749.post-20309084187839042652023-12-22T07:00:00.001+00:002023-12-22T07:00:00.239+00:00Could this be the rare Gift Set 2 model?<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEibx8T-nDrh_Bxca0hEBZo0Kl6EYgER1P-_ikmU2vO5yq8WJxNCM-A-8Su1nrx00aWMDxI2oLMQriVt9Wmgu70DZsyuJuuGU-dVPyJU01jQ2EGvLXGpxgWzCxhI7D4XYf26OBRI1dsZAme1XUtiQpLMnqqeHOvB80GAz5uvKUgQlI7G5yP6TxNWcMaHTD3J/s4096/IMG20231221133945.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3072" data-original-width="4096" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEibx8T-nDrh_Bxca0hEBZo0Kl6EYgER1P-_ikmU2vO5yq8WJxNCM-A-8Su1nrx00aWMDxI2oLMQriVt9Wmgu70DZsyuJuuGU-dVPyJU01jQ2EGvLXGpxgWzCxhI7D4XYf26OBRI1dsZAme1XUtiQpLMnqqeHOvB80GAz5uvKUgQlI7G5yP6TxNWcMaHTD3J/w400-h300/IMG20231221133945.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">I've been looking everywhere for a fawn Land Rover with yellow interior. It's usually red but there are a few around with yellow. I did have one but I sold it and almost immediately afterwards wished I hadn't and there is a space where it needs to go in my collection.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">The fawn edition first appeared in late 1962 and is only found in Gift Set 2, towing a fawn and cream Pony Trailer. </div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhA9mOkPpMl2Ai2R6q9KtrNlnQ3xJTVeDuxmE2J6DFN4490R01wMyxdmpNpjk9gB1z-BEThu3iZRbc1tCeLNi046fySv3-WSrmsjUN2uA1x_LshEAbEIEhNNcMigoZ9z-LbiK4JgmqaD8lVa28Bi4M0VJpYdOQAJBDqbCdrm-Fn6vpcDyG4RYp0JmSKW3FT/s4096/IMG20231221133951.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3072" data-original-width="4096" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhA9mOkPpMl2Ai2R6q9KtrNlnQ3xJTVeDuxmE2J6DFN4490R01wMyxdmpNpjk9gB1z-BEThu3iZRbc1tCeLNi046fySv3-WSrmsjUN2uA1x_LshEAbEIEhNNcMigoZ9z-LbiK4JgmqaD8lVa28Bi4M0VJpYdOQAJBDqbCdrm-Fn6vpcDyG4RYp0JmSKW3FT/w400-h300/IMG20231221133951.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">You will probably have already noticed that this is a repainted model. I know, you're asking me why on Earth I should buy a repainted fawn Land Rover. It's really not something I would normally do but this one was intriguing. From what I could tell from the pictures provided with the listing, this Land Rover had not been taken apart. The base had not been taken off as the rivets were looking sound and original and the best evidence for me was where the owner had not been as careful as he should have been with the brush, one stroke covering both a small piece of the base and the lower edge of one side.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhNLOkBwrTrxYBUOSVNH1nzv3N-fhToMt860PbDBzN7LZD-0e1D6lZhCwinpfv-kf4LsP4_Qw9w-kY4pMexuziCAy8sL_kzBs76WO0X0MnAoOepRLDu6glRVZNjcoxG_jvmwweQaEQ3EZlmS2TJmxnZISDRUiNEjSzNi9_2c6DWvKnPRbuCEgqxzYxIHGIY/s796/IMG20231221134041-001.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="650" data-original-width="796" height="261" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhNLOkBwrTrxYBUOSVNH1nzv3N-fhToMt860PbDBzN7LZD-0e1D6lZhCwinpfv-kf4LsP4_Qw9w-kY4pMexuziCAy8sL_kzBs76WO0X0MnAoOepRLDu6glRVZNjcoxG_jvmwweQaEQ3EZlmS2TJmxnZISDRUiNEjSzNi9_2c6DWvKnPRbuCEgqxzYxIHGIY/s320/IMG20231221134041-001.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjrHb91me7IGLodjj07AJrvUDi1UUQtMUPSNqqrhFItPPBX3mlqprgBBcJk5yqRHfBE3pM4syXpWuPLaQlvG2zNLf8Qju-1wichtuv_CdsjIE9Ut5FTQNRkvb78i0ECaoHdu3hkzrQZo4zT8wUPai_Kh7W2EZipJGMLhunzuL8AIbK0AYyPxRMIOEK9oEmq/s4096/IMG20231221134006.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3072" data-original-width="4096" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjrHb91me7IGLodjj07AJrvUDi1UUQtMUPSNqqrhFItPPBX3mlqprgBBcJk5yqRHfBE3pM4syXpWuPLaQlvG2zNLf8Qju-1wichtuv_CdsjIE9Ut5FTQNRkvb78i0ECaoHdu3hkzrQZo4zT8wUPai_Kh7W2EZipJGMLhunzuL8AIbK0AYyPxRMIOEK9oEmq/w400-h300/IMG20231221134006.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">With no other way that the interior could have been changed, I reckoned that this could well be what I was looking for and, whilst the repainting is a bit annoying, it will do for now until another comes along.</div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiLy7nCH6iY56MYb9ZQGsOgttWnTxDhpauIq06_re2-1ocVl9AI34APjcnnEhfx6hOF7i7FO9i-nYUUiz3rKyiV6hwAAHCzCuYGOvQv-6HUpfEU8ILtfxtdTbOcTjwNAUmE9LbJiXqYmGtS4ksG7SkRRN9PUfxkomjgaIHXoSa9917uLO-SGllrmBu296VV/s4096/IMG20231221134015.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3072" data-original-width="4096" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiLy7nCH6iY56MYb9ZQGsOgttWnTxDhpauIq06_re2-1ocVl9AI34APjcnnEhfx6hOF7i7FO9i-nYUUiz3rKyiV6hwAAHCzCuYGOvQv-6HUpfEU8ILtfxtdTbOcTjwNAUmE9LbJiXqYmGtS4ksG7SkRRN9PUfxkomjgaIHXoSa9917uLO-SGllrmBu296VV/w400-h300/IMG20231221134015.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">The model itself arrived yesterday and, whilst the painting isn't great, with brush strokes evident here and there and dust has been allowed to spoil the finish in places, the colour is a good match. There is what looks like an original fawn colour under the wheel arches and in places which would be very difficult to reach with the brush so I was quite pleased with this purchase. </div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjMUgr9-Zqiq9LDzznUvrP3Fc2hF2RTkfRdnRCiVeF3dbCMu8eHElz8z9Vdiqxjn08hhQjR6qZzpurVrSTuD48CGXp-NSbgBEI-kFSS4VVn0gXZ6NFGi0g2xrm0xl9YE0lkU6zB8Ntom4jHg6ZTQqXzicSHbGBws5GaHt_Ni8GSxp0WV3FrQ9xjNxUqK4uI/s4096/IMG20231221134041.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3072" data-original-width="4096" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjMUgr9-Zqiq9LDzznUvrP3Fc2hF2RTkfRdnRCiVeF3dbCMu8eHElz8z9Vdiqxjn08hhQjR6qZzpurVrSTuD48CGXp-NSbgBEI-kFSS4VVn0gXZ6NFGi0g2xrm0xl9YE0lkU6zB8Ntom4jHg6ZTQqXzicSHbGBws5GaHt_Ni8GSxp0WV3FrQ9xjNxUqK4uI/w400-h300/IMG20231221134041.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Underneath, everything looks pretty fawn in colour and the rivet intact - even with a hook that hasn't been bent or broken.</div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhlQlwSS2ZPiztXZHcrRdLbYjLZjSGnGPGI-2-mSsq7ZYUy_aguyUMsL9hK0R_ssSYMeCaLWLQlpGRI6fzWPL9VUQ95cXYZBVbHYxXNuOz6Xf23GR8NCynZYIBAPObw8PLFn6UE9GxTwwOlRnKIG10jtnw0ywNF_hxV3Yt9aECalb1Y0M9pNTHAwKK6G0fI/s4096/IMG20231221134048.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3072" data-original-width="4096" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhlQlwSS2ZPiztXZHcrRdLbYjLZjSGnGPGI-2-mSsq7ZYUy_aguyUMsL9hK0R_ssSYMeCaLWLQlpGRI6fzWPL9VUQ95cXYZBVbHYxXNuOz6Xf23GR8NCynZYIBAPObw8PLFn6UE9GxTwwOlRnKIG10jtnw0ywNF_hxV3Yt9aECalb1Y0M9pNTHAwKK6G0fI/w640-h480/IMG20231221134048.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Then I looked at the other end . . . Oh dear. Now you'll see what I'd missed earlier and which was not visible in the seller's photos - that little bit of red in the gap between the base and the front bumper. </div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgAMVrI8tvbce8IekL8TG0Q8-6N_Iwj0qVPGmx806lkddhyg2pv2di4zloxVe542gm-DbQ2_dpEgdKdqphH8RIB6SSLxRVtYWa6ICZ5k9-O2UZAbP4rSloNax0lyP5V8X45q20c-Er8jkeexz0XCrD_k_Vp84uUFbkWSLgBnBI8_A5HPZVa_pHBWZb-Gk2E/s4096/IMG20231221134103.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3072" data-original-width="4096" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgAMVrI8tvbce8IekL8TG0Q8-6N_Iwj0qVPGmx806lkddhyg2pv2di4zloxVe542gm-DbQ2_dpEgdKdqphH8RIB6SSLxRVtYWa6ICZ5k9-O2UZAbP4rSloNax0lyP5V8X45q20c-Er8jkeexz0XCrD_k_Vp84uUFbkWSLgBnBI8_A5HPZVa_pHBWZb-Gk2E/w640-h480/IMG20231221134103.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj8TU2P_FeIV1wySuxqnJmlI7nPJlnVj5mOpGKg-lIb4BYmKB6YnfNGhopVoejT1qGjv9NQTDjBmNaEHR8VVrFAePjyfG-hxCQ6gQ4RNcm9qokWt-kPRniuekEVSNCLv8oSlxP_NqK9kzd472OXk38ORkrU_HL1Kt4Ea77srNYWmrbEuUZE8p6YapCqKklj/s1470/IMG20231221134103-001.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1470" data-original-width="1150" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj8TU2P_FeIV1wySuxqnJmlI7nPJlnVj5mOpGKg-lIb4BYmKB6YnfNGhopVoejT1qGjv9NQTDjBmNaEHR8VVrFAePjyfG-hxCQ6gQ4RNcm9qokWt-kPRniuekEVSNCLv8oSlxP_NqK9kzd472OXk38ORkrU_HL1Kt4Ea77srNYWmrbEuUZE8p6YapCqKklj/w500-h640/IMG20231221134103-001.jpg" width="500" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">And I looked again at teh rives and they have that little dot of red too. This was, once upon a time, a red Land Rover from a Chipperfields or Ferrari Gift Set and is not what I had hoped for after all.</div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEirKrPU10YPRAglPEX7uL7mWjthtWqSyMneLd_HDDbKFG4CuVSjtQq3fGzgLpecRTcU9-N0Esx1xHbD_xygGGM7ooCeFmOYyMAH_Cus7Ex1l4wOyxFWCWzm3xWGUmO2csdJjQG7EU8r0vXfyOrwCIt7rzBiPJ84hJvl4sVG_yQoherdRp9YmQBy1Qf_G64u/s4096/IMG20231221134117.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3072" data-original-width="4096" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEirKrPU10YPRAglPEX7uL7mWjthtWqSyMneLd_HDDbKFG4CuVSjtQq3fGzgLpecRTcU9-N0Esx1xHbD_xygGGM7ooCeFmOYyMAH_Cus7Ex1l4wOyxFWCWzm3xWGUmO2csdJjQG7EU8r0vXfyOrwCIt7rzBiPJ84hJvl4sVG_yQoherdRp9YmQBy1Qf_G64u/w640-h480/IMG20231221134117.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">I have to say that the painter did a very good job as that is the sole evidence of the model's original colour and even now I look twice to check that the red is really red and not just fawn looking dark in the shadows!</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">So there is another warning to us all - not everything may be as it seems at first, or even second - take a good third look too to avoid disappointment.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Yes, I am disappointed but, as I said to a friend at the time I bought it, I really would prefer that I hadn't seen it because I didn't really want a repainted model but . . . it had that yellow interior and I couldn't resist the temptation to have a closer look. However, I am not particularly sad. it only cost £20 and I do have a decent Pony Trailer with the scarcer fixed wheels (and a pin that hasn't been broken!), a good pony and a reproduction box which might help sell one of my other many Gift Set 2s.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">The Land Rover will be £5 if anyone's interested!</div><br /> <p></p>Andrew Hillhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00976984938460821874noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1067948387688151749.post-26773995478302357142023-12-21T14:29:00.003+00:002023-12-21T14:29:26.669+00:00Corgi Model Club - a magnificent Mini Magnifique<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgp3dRRnj9Y3sQQKCg5DLA-GT7oybIb3Fq8nNszejJsYwY_l94XyWwuzdHcAtdXikT-Tjz-GBaAge9svqC8BHYVW6dd5V0fIQ5A0I5PzI9trzxdievqft1Z4JSSmQIy6TrkveRuzY3Dowf_VWLp_Mq-7FOwDrJDcCx9sxTeXfCjmzbbXM8M5ywNE4XK888z/s4096/IMG20231215120330.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3072" data-original-width="4096" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgp3dRRnj9Y3sQQKCg5DLA-GT7oybIb3Fq8nNszejJsYwY_l94XyWwuzdHcAtdXikT-Tjz-GBaAge9svqC8BHYVW6dd5V0fIQ5A0I5PzI9trzxdievqft1Z4JSSmQIy6TrkveRuzY3Dowf_VWLp_Mq-7FOwDrJDcCx9sxTeXfCjmzbbXM8M5ywNE4XK888z/w640-h480/IMG20231215120330.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">The Corgi Club have really excelled themselves this time. Their reproduction is fabulous and, so far, I cannot fault it.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj1p3-6RWgobDj2fYTE1EhBCvZLe4qZjHuvtfxo0Zw-Zy9fES0ru-4o_BUTtsw1qJlXTEiWBTSWmj8MFmjAveX8U_ekfkxtcPZOpb-687nOwEuptMfsGMM7zGCtJwiENe7aM6HuQNCPl-Dl-9x9nyDYrYa14k8kstKif08j7Drg6xl2c3qBVIEk5x2iLvBj/s4096/IMG20231215120006.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3072" data-original-width="4096" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj1p3-6RWgobDj2fYTE1EhBCvZLe4qZjHuvtfxo0Zw-Zy9fES0ru-4o_BUTtsw1qJlXTEiWBTSWmj8MFmjAveX8U_ekfkxtcPZOpb-687nOwEuptMfsGMM7zGCtJwiENe7aM6HuQNCPl-Dl-9x9nyDYrYa14k8kstKif08j7Drg6xl2c3qBVIEk5x2iLvBj/w640-h480/IMG20231215120006.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">They have chosen the metallic blue edition which is my favourite of the two original colours issued. This is model #334 and was issued in a window box with a header card included in the design rather than as a separate insert. This has been very well copied, including the slightly awkward folds at each end of the tray! The model sits firmly in its place and there is no protective included this time anywhere.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgCPSzElfYbgLryb3X5z3-KZsGHbKM9fN9SXfVZsJyjPeJFvPWRYjIDScVEqpH_MMasG3cWBLNi4nLjGVyQPJvNPuWhASCCJluIx0wRZbWOFM_4dw7Mb6IEvmlIiY4C_5sBbpUcq_UPdOGVW50zqdEY_oO5ELgfiS2psZ29y_M563DCKv37c4-BOnuIH_tt/s4096/IMG20231215120012.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3072" data-original-width="4096" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgCPSzElfYbgLryb3X5z3-KZsGHbKM9fN9SXfVZsJyjPeJFvPWRYjIDScVEqpH_MMasG3cWBLNi4nLjGVyQPJvNPuWhASCCJluIx0wRZbWOFM_4dw7Mb6IEvmlIiY4C_5sBbpUcq_UPdOGVW50zqdEY_oO5ELgfiS2psZ29y_M563DCKv37c4-BOnuIH_tt/w640-h480/IMG20231215120012.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">This is an intricate model with everything opening and closing, and quite precise chrome elements. they looked good in the original model and, with new production techniques, are possibly even better now, with super grille and bumper corners as well as the strip running around the wheel arches and sills. I remember that this seldom stayed in place for long on the real Minis that I knew!</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">You'll see that the headlamps still have a rather too plastic-looking 'jewels', although I have to say that on this example one 'jewel' is remarkably better than the other, which makes me wonder whether they have found a new supplier or changed to something that looks more like the glass of the original, this one getting one of the new ones and one of the old ones.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhyzrDa5TxzVYI63XZiq4yavMHRIu0MJJCtFvPc_MiJnVhkSjbJjAlR_ALzl8TfMdLA15aSPnf4s2Mv9Hk0WbF6oi9x0CIGtClTqW6h8bKLN7Z8cG5sLnZpnutQ8PK3p_UEMGgLOoCtyjsHS5Lnb4FZCP95MI1Fmcp14hQM6KgXZiCoaBdfSh7gMuh6z8d6/s4096/IMG20231215120202.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; 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text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">One of the features which did cause trouble with the original is the boot. Often difficult to open or, in some cases, difficult to close. This new model does present a minor challenge and there is a knack to making opening successful by pressing in at the bottom to create a small gap which you may then, large fingers permitting, use to pull the top down. Mine worked well, if a little stiff, but I have read reports of people having trouble with this again.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">The little cast wheels are super and look exactly right. I haven't counted the 'spokes' yet. I think this is the first Club model with this style of wheel. (No, the Ambulance had these, although they were larger).</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhDTPwEZuMyWInc_ofScfZsza4J5S-CYLwfQqc4uubaQ-iYtQuTJSdTBn6Yduuy7Qqm5HULnKg0cT8QETcdV20LF_dDYpbkHx6okFZLaxsfe4f-OtBLrj9N_9a4AGvzAaTrMwu44bC_uIZX-fpPNguhRhuf9JzVDsNtYLLE5tsvfL1wnBwO-2Cn181kmEYH/s4096/IMG20231215120620.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3072" data-original-width="4096" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhDTPwEZuMyWInc_ofScfZsza4J5S-CYLwfQqc4uubaQ-iYtQuTJSdTBn6Yduuy7Qqm5HULnKg0cT8QETcdV20LF_dDYpbkHx6okFZLaxsfe4f-OtBLrj9N_9a4AGvzAaTrMwu44bC_uIZX-fpPNguhRhuf9JzVDsNtYLLE5tsvfL1wnBwO-2Cn181kmEYH/w640-h480/IMG20231215120620.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi6p08LGjySJCICRF8-kus3ojL9hn3LZ3boiF2gdjNrpiHD7_lbCz3gtjOaShemEKGNiEkQZw0O9HhMD_SlAtDYk8Kr8kIG2EZM1XsG1NtoTPCG0TvixRggPdrBoUZcUHg1sU6EG_wBfnsLxaGYin8s_MHX_nzkfKTYgsoucDkbItDQ7CHHDZBqKobs8Lzy/s4096/IMG20231215120351.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3072" data-original-width="4096" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi6p08LGjySJCICRF8-kus3ojL9hn3LZ3boiF2gdjNrpiHD7_lbCz3gtjOaShemEKGNiEkQZw0O9HhMD_SlAtDYk8Kr8kIG2EZM1XsG1NtoTPCG0TvixRggPdrBoUZcUHg1sU6EG_wBfnsLxaGYin8s_MHX_nzkfKTYgsoucDkbItDQ7CHHDZBqKobs8Lzy/w640-h480/IMG20231215120351.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">The Corgi Model Club used the version with narrower stripes in the sliding roof which I believe to be the more commonly seen. There is a version of the original which has thicker stripes but I have only seen this in metallic green to date.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">All in all, a great reproduction.</div><br /><p></p>Andrew Hillhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00976984938460821874noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1067948387688151749.post-76295248191610181722023-11-10T14:12:00.003+00:002023-11-27T19:34:48.147+00:00Corgi Model Club: Mercedes-Benz 600 Pullman<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjKsr9fdGRI8MMROeHLeXasVk3wjljowc-aM0msEjwR7e-meHyUV83ufC22wkn6YSrt-D0ZaL0Z7tAzCC3B_l7dC-4mj_WaY9u-xWELz-86KihiwvWrPvtg49tToExtE9j-bfp0ov2QilFrfi6c-I9RQFN4QhYfFwx9drh3KLoVWBKVQYtix43FjNxz6yYx/s4096/IMG20231110123120.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3072" data-original-width="4096" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjKsr9fdGRI8MMROeHLeXasVk3wjljowc-aM0msEjwR7e-meHyUV83ufC22wkn6YSrt-D0ZaL0Z7tAzCC3B_l7dC-4mj_WaY9u-xWELz-86KihiwvWrPvtg49tToExtE9j-bfp0ov2QilFrfi6c-I9RQFN4QhYfFwx9drh3KLoVWBKVQYtix43FjNxz6yYx/w640-h480/IMG20231110123120.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Here's the latest Corgi Model Club issue, the Mercedes-Benz 600 Pullman, #247 in the catalogue, first issued in 1964. I guess everyone knows that this had a unique special feature - the windscreen wipers that could be switched on and off. I am none too sure that the exclamation of the box that this was <i>By Repeated Requests</i> was really true but we'll let that pass. What I do remember is being a little disappointed with this when I had mine at the age of 12. The fixed rear wheels meant that it was useless to race round corners so it tended to be something that just sat on the layout looking very nice but not really something I wanted to play with.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh34lFBKqxOVN-JF81LTHkjrOvGChqTQWN-IwmkuaGKK9b5tNzPpqgEGbDp5eRTdGnHX86VnQDjDtOsavNJTtvAswD8j0510BWHQ4cr3EuLB6O7k_mihxc_eX5GggjdzsMfDcShDxxrjgsNpM2kvQdCsvEXjQ7y3Jc9Xtz9UJl5-T4zY92KLreNwreaAZRR/s4096/IMG20231110125759.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3072" data-original-width="4096" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh34lFBKqxOVN-JF81LTHkjrOvGChqTQWN-IwmkuaGKK9b5tNzPpqgEGbDp5eRTdGnHX86VnQDjDtOsavNJTtvAswD8j0510BWHQ4cr3EuLB6O7k_mihxc_eX5GggjdzsMfDcShDxxrjgsNpM2kvQdCsvEXjQ7y3Jc9Xtz9UJl5-T4zY92KLreNwreaAZRR/w640-h480/IMG20231110125759.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">The Corgi Model Club issue is a little similar - it looks very fine, beautifully finished in the medium metallic crimson shade. The original was issued in this shade as well as a much deeper maroon shade. The wheels do look quite smart but they're not right as the front should be free-spinning. </div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgQmZBP7bNuATQPzbP_n_7WUZfOAKVzbqOmTOCNFroc-VN5CKWohmB43qL7JDX-rhBXjYDKfLM3HDFpn6ylMFRWWm0TCg5s5V2Fk5mWkGbo3htMrcvlwnOR9Ujvc9kfvjYezufQxqYkOjVoyJWr0okBYaoJpdcxnmurPfh1Q3z-kLPkWlJpItpnzObrn3zS/s4096/IMG20231110125738.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3072" data-original-width="4096" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgQmZBP7bNuATQPzbP_n_7WUZfOAKVzbqOmTOCNFroc-VN5CKWohmB43qL7JDX-rhBXjYDKfLM3HDFpn6ylMFRWWm0TCg5s5V2Fk5mWkGbo3htMrcvlwnOR9Ujvc9kfvjYezufQxqYkOjVoyJWr0okBYaoJpdcxnmurPfh1Q3z-kLPkWlJpItpnzObrn3zS/w400-h300/IMG20231110125738.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">There is also something not quite right about the roof profile. I was immediately struck by the difference - the upper frame seems too thick. On the original there was a sort of step as the photo below shows.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgX11NeRvpHRK1WvonOn5SY90lbfrFLHgvDewJW_9cMYzrQf27iPvtMe6sIi1rQUeV_sWWuP2r_A9OAne3CElvZmEveP9i6xav_Ke8aWprkSF0ucZUy-6Nr4BDIaywnI6EPSf65acHvEXe0-Ap0JanYazXWf_8CvvCp-2prAkQRqxWoKsbwpWsRNpu0UVw6/s1600/P1600284-1600.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1200" data-original-width="1600" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgX11NeRvpHRK1WvonOn5SY90lbfrFLHgvDewJW_9cMYzrQf27iPvtMe6sIi1rQUeV_sWWuP2r_A9OAne3CElvZmEveP9i6xav_Ke8aWprkSF0ucZUy-6Nr4BDIaywnI6EPSf65acHvEXe0-Ap0JanYazXWf_8CvvCp-2prAkQRqxWoKsbwpWsRNpu0UVw6/w400-h300/P1600284-1600.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">The design of the front screen is also incorrect. The original had 'raindrops' along the lower part of the screen. I also find that even when the switch is set to OFF the wiper will often engage as the gear mechanism is not completely disengaged. This is a minor matter however but not the roof-line which does spoil its appearance in my opinion.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEikaDxaflHE6vP7jk6OG5uGHj8KpdUILnRI6S38ecG1gy2sq_T8EpTkPZ9_Uk-dyNWPkW3KPBpcrTY-EUNgO_5RaCfBAT7Caeii1yxnJe52BBm6nTlRZXVHQQ0PHzFo-zXqHaqNuKGNZpnVstuBAfv7Vt-4MTLj4HnrjhGjZr773DMRqkO3Pjkikm9Rngw3/s4096/IMG20231110125804.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3072" data-original-width="4096" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEikaDxaflHE6vP7jk6OG5uGHj8KpdUILnRI6S38ecG1gy2sq_T8EpTkPZ9_Uk-dyNWPkW3KPBpcrTY-EUNgO_5RaCfBAT7Caeii1yxnJe52BBm6nTlRZXVHQQ0PHzFo-zXqHaqNuKGNZpnVstuBAfv7Vt-4MTLj4HnrjhGjZr773DMRqkO3Pjkikm9Rngw3/w400-h300/IMG20231110125804.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">At the back you have the usual near-perfect finish and painting of the chrome lines and orange lights.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhLANSnxJ38e712VNRZExysfTXbLw4qNqIXVvKTqEjNjzZtH2EQ8lj9m3BG6LPUyfeneemrUqzm48eoWSEWzaOxof1UxTzm6KmLsVJHxREI7tyD0AzFcbmnx85O_HNU50LGvkvxo-IN4HGXqPf16rJhz6gAVt_Tb3KwExpUXVPZvRk4TmFNFqyYBYK6O6r0/s4000/P1360598.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3000" data-original-width="4000" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhLANSnxJ38e712VNRZExysfTXbLw4qNqIXVvKTqEjNjzZtH2EQ8lj9m3BG6LPUyfeneemrUqzm48eoWSEWzaOxof1UxTzm6KmLsVJHxREI7tyD0AzFcbmnx85O_HNU50LGvkvxo-IN4HGXqPf16rJhz6gAVt_Tb3KwExpUXVPZvRk4TmFNFqyYBYK6O6r0/w400-h300/P1360598.JPG" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">In the box is an instruction sheet, printed just like the original on one side. The other side, of course, would not now be relevant but I might have thought that the Club people could have written something similar to print, promoting their Club even if there would not be much to replace TV21 promotion.</div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEijvopt0xMuICBCRI3VmSpdr9H14tdDZfek0eBnpYdPtrOlbKHf3QH9MSQGqrGB2NW4AzJ4RdHFUEe5jOd6EWBpMESOL4ORmekJBSTVt4IFPZnfa9pb_LxIhM1SeQBvGdJ7Tsx4ASihSshleVlLmr_OHdh3d5w7fRFGtvC6SC2qBtbb3TyYu3Ko5oH5OtHW/s4096/IMG20231110125421.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3072" data-original-width="4096" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEijvopt0xMuICBCRI3VmSpdr9H14tdDZfek0eBnpYdPtrOlbKHf3QH9MSQGqrGB2NW4AzJ4RdHFUEe5jOd6EWBpMESOL4ORmekJBSTVt4IFPZnfa9pb_LxIhM1SeQBvGdJ7Tsx4ASihSshleVlLmr_OHdh3d5w7fRFGtvC6SC2qBtbb3TyYu3Ko5oH5OtHW/w400-h300/IMG20231110125421.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhwM7XfrkqDlXOUcjqWh3dc9_0zFGtQxb-dEIf7BbvHpV4X_j4S_hwyVP4Zeyeodmp6c8zlUkNf2Ux6_OcBkFMbuDMQTOjk6rEOgiEOY5e9OJSMjd-9HUZBFpu2TpWTVhctKw0MJHOfh7UcZFOiLLXomnuIBXOcTqQzJ5tmGeFB0oX8nKOOBffGK1kjAzd1/s1600/P1360601-1600.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1200" data-original-width="1600" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhwM7XfrkqDlXOUcjqWh3dc9_0zFGtQxb-dEIf7BbvHpV4X_j4S_hwyVP4Zeyeodmp6c8zlUkNf2Ux6_OcBkFMbuDMQTOjk6rEOgiEOY5e9OJSMjd-9HUZBFpu2TpWTVhctKw0MJHOfh7UcZFOiLLXomnuIBXOcTqQzJ5tmGeFB0oX8nKOOBffGK1kjAzd1/w400-h300/P1360601-1600.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">The box is very bright and shiny but we have got used to that now. The same font errors pertain to this production as they have done throughout these re-issues which is a pity as it should be an easy fix.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">The model itself comes nicely wrapped in a decent sized piece of tissue paper instead of the thin film we have had before. I welcome that change and wonder if it will be permanent. I know originals had no protection and just rattled around inside their boxes, often leading to marks on the roof so it's nice to have this with the re-issue.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjVli-9UsehJNIgXvDEFTxTkjDNj5kPObR39RuORyV418vhcnNVXuJdIbvIwHMlpETYcAClt5KcVZ81bdYdEWbNrACKWN5627vE81SZQoWcbuQMG1e27SExKL1R4COqGFjveE88tJ50moN05lKkvxAvr0vTiVUQ_sLNmBSKAxcyhFAumKgcF6LWrn_JW3QC/s1600/P1600285-1600.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1200" data-original-width="1600" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjVli-9UsehJNIgXvDEFTxTkjDNj5kPObR39RuORyV418vhcnNVXuJdIbvIwHMlpETYcAClt5KcVZ81bdYdEWbNrACKWN5627vE81SZQoWcbuQMG1e27SExKL1R4COqGFjveE88tJ50moN05lKkvxAvr0vTiVUQ_sLNmBSKAxcyhFAumKgcF6LWrn_JW3QC/w400-h300/P1600285-1600.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgO6FCJfKNSHj_u6ueVxCOSkwVqdbM9C22FIk7JMjqY0Fwu2JrlMquDUGZ-eDsZ7Bv43KJS-47-mSX7DsTrxSgMoz9-v97-cgI_5yTW9ywTBU0qAGQ1B28LuFD5lnjDtXQ3toEJ5I91lBy91a5iQZT_zlweY5_xtyhRNPcyQbKeFnwvfpXMoOEnvgVW3Vca/s1600/P1360591-1600.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1200" data-original-width="1600" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgO6FCJfKNSHj_u6ueVxCOSkwVqdbM9C22FIk7JMjqY0Fwu2JrlMquDUGZ-eDsZ7Bv43KJS-47-mSX7DsTrxSgMoz9-v97-cgI_5yTW9ywTBU0qAGQ1B28LuFD5lnjDtXQ3toEJ5I91lBy91a5iQZT_zlweY5_xtyhRNPcyQbKeFnwvfpXMoOEnvgVW3Vca/w400-h300/P1360591-1600.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgzr90Si-kXFW0A-mZ5_K9f_k3QddVhY0bpBIAvRIoPMxTBydPuLWA55LREOlGihiqGyYUlVD5RFGAwmtr_evT6ylohWCGQK4Tvkk5N3cSM6p_zkz1piKcvi4DEILFTgn_3i5EBZopoCOdFIiT10ip6-QHzMinLRXJv-f8zV3t8YWxsvw_sYsQZHTR5GMAp/s4096/IMG20231110125745.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3072" data-original-width="4096" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgzr90Si-kXFW0A-mZ5_K9f_k3QddVhY0bpBIAvRIoPMxTBydPuLWA55LREOlGihiqGyYUlVD5RFGAwmtr_evT6ylohWCGQK4Tvkk5N3cSM6p_zkz1piKcvi4DEILFTgn_3i5EBZopoCOdFIiT10ip6-QHzMinLRXJv-f8zV3t8YWxsvw_sYsQZHTR5GMAp/w400-h300/IMG20231110125745.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">There's something I can't quite put my finger on about this model that isn't quite right, other than the top of the front screen. Not having an original to hand I can't put them side by side so it may just be my imagination.</div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjlps70b2ckKpB_0J4fBsXvcCONh7U0IzQr-IvoJcQgVhN3kOeP14jKU2k65c3P4xksE24p7X6GTdwB-8I030_8nORxdjx_KyG_sU-sO-52DxOOOwvIboJVjNqN_ebtMgo8OQnE9nDBSx6Nneg0Ygr-21V7P8h6rHfpQUjJ14as2BseoTOBSpVoMZQPK352/s1600/P1360597-1600.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1200" data-original-width="1600" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjlps70b2ckKpB_0J4fBsXvcCONh7U0IzQr-IvoJcQgVhN3kOeP14jKU2k65c3P4xksE24p7X6GTdwB-8I030_8nORxdjx_KyG_sU-sO-52DxOOOwvIboJVjNqN_ebtMgo8OQnE9nDBSx6Nneg0Ygr-21V7P8h6rHfpQUjJ14as2BseoTOBSpVoMZQPK352/w400-h300/P1360597-1600.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">It does look very fine sitting on my desk here on its own and I do compliment the Corgi Model Club team on the effort made with this and they have made a great job with the mechanism and controls as well as the finish and general stance of this model. Not my favourite, though.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><p></p>Andrew Hillhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00976984938460821874noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1067948387688151749.post-18320016012407240612023-11-09T18:33:00.001+00:002023-11-09T18:33:57.280+00:00Colour confusion again<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEihenIzxTGA4gVEiuXCFzU0s-i7Imk9LZWyZ-FaCUW73uA9r0dr7M0LkgZpiOVniTALAaVfvHWqPPnyQsei1lf2Jc-QwhwirsX_5IYbQb7yDPDlqoNOE-zrfYo0QDPNxzh9-gmcoanTktCg7imzZmalhmYqp6xqbGqJ3UluHtbHIk0mYoVfwi5ZMP2sgYKK/s4096/IMG20231027094629.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3072" data-original-width="4096" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEihenIzxTGA4gVEiuXCFzU0s-i7Imk9LZWyZ-FaCUW73uA9r0dr7M0LkgZpiOVniTALAaVfvHWqPPnyQsei1lf2Jc-QwhwirsX_5IYbQb7yDPDlqoNOE-zrfYo0QDPNxzh9-gmcoanTktCg7imzZmalhmYqp6xqbGqJ3UluHtbHIk0mYoVfwi5ZMP2sgYKK/w640-h480/IMG20231027094629.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">This Citroën DS19 arrived a week or two back. It didn't cost very much and I was interested as it was all green. </div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhGnjfrn0YXwsGxwdJt7XATgkfQSFoOJ3WO1KKo0UDdIPsQGVuh7QaoRMx9v6mzWnnOsG4wQVBN7wNxRURmimobFkHZc49r-AKq4qJqIviVSPvFq8hfNIpqZyyyN6Fw9gTa6hq_1zVZiPdj6py9ZqnV9yUXQCQ6YjBICiqXeXevy_wPfkjOqo6DptiUIQB4/s4096/IMG20231027094652.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3072" data-original-width="4096" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhGnjfrn0YXwsGxwdJt7XATgkfQSFoOJ3WO1KKo0UDdIPsQGVuh7QaoRMx9v6mzWnnOsG4wQVBN7wNxRURmimobFkHZc49r-AKq4qJqIviVSPvFq8hfNIpqZyyyN6Fw9gTa6hq_1zVZiPdj6py9ZqnV9yUXQCQ6YjBICiqXeXevy_wPfkjOqo6DptiUIQB4/w640-h480/IMG20231027094652.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">I could understand that something like this could occur, simply a batch missing out on the final black spray during production.</div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjPDQxt-gZT99Lo2hsfywFZ8OhPnwMU1YVR5r9c5jmBDVEU7D6VPlCVbp7kloaelIXkQzroTFyYSscnun0CymTHiFmK3yUgRO4rtW6skT1uZsEYzlzawhuWw219zTMrzHrH2nT-3RTg-p6RA0uL31fNiuS7q6kW0S5Pcnb0GD6wuCVO4YXI0h2mOW4xaAQT/s4096/IMG20231027094756.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3072" data-original-width="4096" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjPDQxt-gZT99Lo2hsfywFZ8OhPnwMU1YVR5r9c5jmBDVEU7D6VPlCVbp7kloaelIXkQzroTFyYSscnun0CymTHiFmK3yUgRO4rtW6skT1uZsEYzlzawhuWw219zTMrzHrH2nT-3RTg-p6RA0uL31fNiuS7q6kW0S5Pcnb0GD6wuCVO4YXI0h2mOW4xaAQT/w640-h480/IMG20231027094756.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">There was something about it, though, which troubled me. The roof was noticeably more shiny than the rest of the car. I could also detect very fine lines in the paintwork but there really was no black anywhere. What you might think you can observe in this photo is merely shadow or just tricks of the light. Believe me, there is no black. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">My artist wife is remarkably good at identifying paint and colours and she was convinced that not only had the top been painted but she reckoned the whole car had been too. I really hadn't thought the main body had been painted and even if the top had been painted, it had been a pretty good job not to have made even the slightest error and missed a bit or touched the windows somewhere. The base had not been touched.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">We agreed to differ as I really could not imagine that someone could possibly have painted the whole car so well. and if they'd merely done the roof, they had been very lucky to find the exact match of colour which, for a metallic shade in particular, as it was genuinely identical, apart from the lacquer.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhI8rRAOD8PpJ_JL54Ni37eZ8PjJjj5bXfblr5koDeq9zQjUaX6iQIlLWIEidN_Rd3jV_q6W-JJ1d_fXy70DusT4V_9Yr-oqvHDeIc6yg_qBM4PV_4chNcFehTTzuM-tOA9q_1E-52kMiGuryYCXZwU-Ow97aIoYHTwa6z6kkzR2MCVkIzCnDS5COtXhJKT/s4096/IMG20231027094807.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3072" data-original-width="4096" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhI8rRAOD8PpJ_JL54Ni37eZ8PjJjj5bXfblr5koDeq9zQjUaX6iQIlLWIEidN_Rd3jV_q6W-JJ1d_fXy70DusT4V_9Yr-oqvHDeIc6yg_qBM4PV_4chNcFehTTzuM-tOA9q_1E-52kMiGuryYCXZwU-Ow97aIoYHTwa6z6kkzR2MCVkIzCnDS5COtXhJKT/w640-h480/IMG20231027094807.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">There was nothing for it. I had to buy another one and that might help me decide what might have happened. Luckily there were a couple for sale or auction and I obtained them at very reasonable prices. One was the same vintage - with the 'differential' bulge - the other has yet to arrive but was also all green.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh1SBEUMvtgUWIbx99rMRAkchsKSSMtGe6qa6hnp6Wf9Es3JmhE_hPdLOS3mFXch1L2ycjgynYjKxLpBEZkb9TTWTcjIVJUj59bDloOrZlwRkGAOIc8SdGuTuE-RrP_S_8ROoli9b3c1eKkKNva0hNPlYHw1-ivm0pFXU1Z6Z6aVjxD1X41pBQTyxZPP5Ic/s4096/IMG20231102200039.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3072" data-original-width="4096" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh1SBEUMvtgUWIbx99rMRAkchsKSSMtGe6qa6hnp6Wf9Es3JmhE_hPdLOS3mFXch1L2ycjgynYjKxLpBEZkb9TTWTcjIVJUj59bDloOrZlwRkGAOIc8SdGuTuE-RrP_S_8ROoli9b3c1eKkKNva0hNPlYHw1-ivm0pFXU1Z6Z6aVjxD1X41pBQTyxZPP5Ic/w640-h480/IMG20231102200039.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Now, of course, it is quite clear! My wife was right. The whole car had been painted. The shade is, indeed, consistent from body to roof but it is not the same as the colour of the one that I am sure is a genuine 210.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">I do still find it remarkable that someone has made such a good job of the painting, although looking at the pictures now I do see more faults but nothing was particularly perfect in the 1950s either. People repainting invariably get the silver parts wrong, with too much more often than not, and they are so tempted to add something while they have a brush in their hand. I had noticed some red tail lights on this which I had thought might be incorrect but I see that the genuine one has them too so that was OK after all.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">The difference between the two greens is quite clear when they're side by side but not at all when observing a single model.</div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhbP5l8w-hS85EZrx-65ip3KjbbwU93XM3P_iMkK6im87V1ASwWbEPJz1KKqM7aq2B3oWsmhQnEVqtNWR_2pNc-HalJdCnQA-D3E5Z5tZSnUnIkIV5qn0k65ep4EDqJjtohM6OkxEU3-uxk6f-V5Iu-2QQPi9cdiYBw-WxFBcphVXsr92tWBrt8cTLz2J_e/s4096/IMG20231102200122.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3072" data-original-width="4096" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhbP5l8w-hS85EZrx-65ip3KjbbwU93XM3P_iMkK6im87V1ASwWbEPJz1KKqM7aq2B3oWsmhQnEVqtNWR_2pNc-HalJdCnQA-D3E5Z5tZSnUnIkIV5qn0k65ep4EDqJjtohM6OkxEU3-uxk6f-V5Iu-2QQPi9cdiYBw-WxFBcphVXsr92tWBrt8cTLz2J_e/w640-h480/IMG20231102200122.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhh-QsJ6NZH6601tDlBRf8aXACOTaXs2tyjULZAORcB9-cOyb82zWtb3TSNBzg2H9Lv6-LcmmRsRfWEWO6U8vaVMRNWSPAOH4Ryq3nuTx6qvDPnJFLCN2dLJrdyAOTtBDF6ngdDZcxEy5wMQLYKsjvBounf93vBdN1xXdN_7THsqVjDEspJz0ilg8izdLWt/s4096/IMG20231102200137.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3072" data-original-width="4096" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhh-QsJ6NZH6601tDlBRf8aXACOTaXs2tyjULZAORcB9-cOyb82zWtb3TSNBzg2H9Lv6-LcmmRsRfWEWO6U8vaVMRNWSPAOH4Ryq3nuTx6qvDPnJFLCN2dLJrdyAOTtBDF6ngdDZcxEy5wMQLYKsjvBounf93vBdN1xXdN_7THsqVjDEspJz0ilg8izdLWt/w640-h480/IMG20231102200137.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiy7ztF_CFznUKcc-niO6F1mzVCrk4zv4mPA7jHSlnTyeItmJqmcq0warliPSohJ6BPKRZFkRgZn7dtjAuJBZFAaSs8HNVaa6HDMPdb2N9aywFaHe6DSrxS26E2M-r1fOu3PDaVvnboCUIYDb6LxC1wI_c-vofQbPt3zWDrLQtJOZevOENHWD_c-Pg3aOpQ/s4096/IMG20231102200201.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3072" data-original-width="4096" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiy7ztF_CFznUKcc-niO6F1mzVCrk4zv4mPA7jHSlnTyeItmJqmcq0warliPSohJ6BPKRZFkRgZn7dtjAuJBZFAaSs8HNVaa6HDMPdb2N9aywFaHe6DSrxS26E2M-r1fOu3PDaVvnboCUIYDb6LxC1wI_c-vofQbPt3zWDrLQtJOZevOENHWD_c-Pg3aOpQ/w640-h480/IMG20231102200201.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">I am now waiting to finish this article with the arrival of the second one that I won at an auction and which appears pleasantly all green in the photos. One colleague spotted some black on the roof but the marks were very similar to the 'black' on mine so I await the real thing before commenting any more. I do feel that there ought to be a few all green Citroëns out there, and all yellow ones too for that matter. I just haven't, after all, found any yet.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">And now I can continue as the third green 210 has arrived, the other 'all green' one.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhnAxgwrzHsSmC5DVrHaS0-zWESIPngjc5P6WgMpReQoAzYMMae0ezbINWGwvvqaNnO0AmP6EABiYSCPsMnrlo9rPl4dpWud8R9mnHmPzw7N2NMlGyzguwY9Vnf9L4LKtN93o8BdHBAODphPIFuUcBtUCzrEIwlum1IhKCIG7YOYD8FXSZMqOZ-0baH68Xs/s4096/IMG20231109172949.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3072" data-original-width="4096" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhnAxgwrzHsSmC5DVrHaS0-zWESIPngjc5P6WgMpReQoAzYMMae0ezbINWGwvvqaNnO0AmP6EABiYSCPsMnrlo9rPl4dpWud8R9mnHmPzw7N2NMlGyzguwY9Vnf9L4LKtN93o8BdHBAODphPIFuUcBtUCzrEIwlum1IhKCIG7YOYD8FXSZMqOZ-0baH68Xs/w640-h480/IMG20231109172949.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Well, if I hadn't seen the others my first thoughts would be that this looks pretty damn genuine, not something anyone has tampered with and still wearing its stick-on wheel trims from one of the Corgi Accessory packs. (Usually these have been attached off-centre or they've worn badly or one is missing and I prefer to remove them. That's not easy as the glue is really sticky, incidentally. But these look OK so they'll stay.)</div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhv2YC8NBj1zVDb5FT3aNC6wV5WWaLaBEzZPoXLhk8WzxQFXvdwd_jfOLTMYnhFNFkU8v8ELNzMasZW5ypjoUWSNg3IFnMq-bNIv0cxPpaxIrfW1lWe70rnX6fgR-jGPE7YxDa3Q0ihb4angrRy8SzvVKjZeG5sKVMJaSOGYjk6giD3Nkw6JJe1bgVL30ys/s4096/IMG20231109172953.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3072" data-original-width="4096" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhv2YC8NBj1zVDb5FT3aNC6wV5WWaLaBEzZPoXLhk8WzxQFXvdwd_jfOLTMYnhFNFkU8v8ELNzMasZW5ypjoUWSNg3IFnMq-bNIv0cxPpaxIrfW1lWe70rnX6fgR-jGPE7YxDa3Q0ihb4angrRy8SzvVKjZeG5sKVMJaSOGYjk6giD3Nkw6JJe1bgVL30ys/w640-h480/IMG20231109172953.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiXsdT8pomMfuxs0mVGnhg2WtDj7yZxe8_JUvqXCb3_eW-M1Nhn66qz4K7psmCzia0nACZEpCqjIbwv4zHN8rEiSUfoxy_mAdjZpYAhlj8vbRDTwJq3TcP9Y8fnsXwQbl844TOzuAGXa4G631nGo_-L99eqw7dspJzE0q0UYmuTYkDU7y17z_lDEoyFz5bY/s4096/IMG20231109173016.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3072" data-original-width="4096" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiXsdT8pomMfuxs0mVGnhg2WtDj7yZxe8_JUvqXCb3_eW-M1Nhn66qz4K7psmCzia0nACZEpCqjIbwv4zHN8rEiSUfoxy_mAdjZpYAhlj8vbRDTwJq3TcP9Y8fnsXwQbl844TOzuAGXa4G631nGo_-L99eqw7dspJzE0q0UYmuTYkDU7y17z_lDEoyFz5bY/w640-h480/IMG20231109173016.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjog23csJLsYYKrBP5OQ22VO7fFpXWq85TvZynf2n8X2_pJdNVekF0GIngN5cPnvb1pM849u8WSVTBWu8BqJk7l7iw_pQb4RP2EqaP5SKGAoiKINf0gi59oiFZNKDjUA1-J0-RpR-KryEOhyphenhyphen65-iJkEXtSwDJMCCBi9Dom9uWA9KKQ6gLY1ASKLVMEMI8SV/s4096/IMG20231109173020.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3072" data-original-width="4096" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjog23csJLsYYKrBP5OQ22VO7fFpXWq85TvZynf2n8X2_pJdNVekF0GIngN5cPnvb1pM849u8WSVTBWu8BqJk7l7iw_pQb4RP2EqaP5SKGAoiKINf0gi59oiFZNKDjUA1-J0-RpR-KryEOhyphenhyphen65-iJkEXtSwDJMCCBi9Dom9uWA9KKQ6gLY1ASKLVMEMI8SV/w640-h480/IMG20231109173020.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Everything's looking good and then we look at the roof. </div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgzmnRa3GzFo2GhTrN77U0xqSFuFwdfuF_9_I1lXEmkV8cj_GDrwPbo80mvMgk1i0nQs17dKSGthxMjI1MXDCs6emI-IpQvkC9jMTx4v6zvukJhXUixEj5zX4YPQHcARcU-1Y3LSxsb6dMEHrkWKwOE6FRZA4R9oqAeIVbcghaqaxrDCmkit1GrrQPBzl-r/s4096/IMG20231109173039.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3072" data-original-width="4096" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgzmnRa3GzFo2GhTrN77U0xqSFuFwdfuF_9_I1lXEmkV8cj_GDrwPbo80mvMgk1i0nQs17dKSGthxMjI1MXDCs6emI-IpQvkC9jMTx4v6zvukJhXUixEj5zX4YPQHcARcU-1Y3LSxsb6dMEHrkWKwOE6FRZA4R9oqAeIVbcghaqaxrDCmkit1GrrQPBzl-r/w640-h480/IMG20231109173039.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">It has a distinct 'black' look about it - as if there were black underneath or a coat of black had not been entirely removed.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">So I have to wonder all over again just what is going on, or coming off, here. Help!</div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEienkbIGcVcpHa8-dY_rRTE323oxkvrhjWCyGDxObkQC5P-tfSXDYbqW8O2hnA7boAmKpOqiDjzsgTBI33Mr_aBhm-vPKq9-Jw-QM0ecnYFikMBrRBawYO7YIVj0vnCAbgMp2xI0cKGKbJC7wPypjOiroFd6T-KE4hNrG4KnJph3gLqN29s3UVzMig7WYMr/s4096/IMG20231109173052.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3072" data-original-width="4096" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEienkbIGcVcpHa8-dY_rRTE323oxkvrhjWCyGDxObkQC5P-tfSXDYbqW8O2hnA7boAmKpOqiDjzsgTBI33Mr_aBhm-vPKq9-Jw-QM0ecnYFikMBrRBawYO7YIVj0vnCAbgMp2xI0cKGKbJC7wPypjOiroFd6T-KE4hNrG4KnJph3gLqN29s3UVzMig7WYMr/w640-h480/IMG20231109173052.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">The base looks fine. I have to believe that they're the original rivets. That dab of silver on the front valence is a little odd but nothing we haven't seen on totally original factory models when the brush slipped, and I think it would have been a brush for this model.</div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi_2qoN4w80VN1Mb93rXjcqMFFC7bR2Ol9WfGImgtNEIHErEQb2fO_i_fh8cdCq9OZBSvGmwmtyVvFqXaKtCXBnwvT79fombSGtvKWdZ0o1NpYXIzvxzyavJFnEFgTiXYX_SL7lJqUqv-9xDhQyV_-5MJudIxu22LM31YBNu7Jp5wgA278wFsOE8nCH_KKa/s4096/IMG20231109173149.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3072" data-original-width="4096" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi_2qoN4w80VN1Mb93rXjcqMFFC7bR2Ol9WfGImgtNEIHErEQb2fO_i_fh8cdCq9OZBSvGmwmtyVvFqXaKtCXBnwvT79fombSGtvKWdZ0o1NpYXIzvxzyavJFnEFgTiXYX_SL7lJqUqv-9xDhQyV_-5MJudIxu22LM31YBNu7Jp5wgA278wFsOE8nCH_KKa/w640-h480/IMG20231109173149.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">I dug out the other two in the hope of some inspiration. The latest 'all green' does look very much like the earlier one. The paint texture is very similar and quite different from the black-roof 210.</div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjGlniw0e5OVao0Apw2rrok9v6tCuuS4FpsERNsAzxflFn8kfqJgVGwO08I10ls07fmfrd2mT8OTA1TlEKcI_7NOWAMUfYLVOymRYkEWEKukSU9MVjQnzKoNaZtgfSGWIMy-ugjFF_TemQar9TkP1Oxz-XhicJ3BYydUB9URvtknbEaOIKqAes788J6Nowh/s4096/IMG20231109173307.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3072" data-original-width="4096" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjGlniw0e5OVao0Apw2rrok9v6tCuuS4FpsERNsAzxflFn8kfqJgVGwO08I10ls07fmfrd2mT8OTA1TlEKcI_7NOWAMUfYLVOymRYkEWEKukSU9MVjQnzKoNaZtgfSGWIMy-ugjFF_TemQar9TkP1Oxz-XhicJ3BYydUB9URvtknbEaOIKqAes788J6Nowh/w640-h480/IMG20231109173307.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhP92tU8u6ofgwqbxG_LDB9SUiINv1A_97TSxi-J7gsJweLDxJsjC_yWN5MNyv1IiOEhZpU3YWDFS975sDXLDBQnmqWlt_GZSvZbyZAir035vbggExMMGg734e4-ZtL7zTK08xbE7gIT9oofh0cPiZnoYHpFjRSW78SY0nVuC9qZk2urQxnOdNl2PGghjHv/s4096/IMG20231109173323.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3072" data-original-width="4096" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhP92tU8u6ofgwqbxG_LDB9SUiINv1A_97TSxi-J7gsJweLDxJsjC_yWN5MNyv1IiOEhZpU3YWDFS975sDXLDBQnmqWlt_GZSvZbyZAir035vbggExMMGg734e4-ZtL7zTK08xbE7gIT9oofh0cPiZnoYHpFjRSW78SY0nVuC9qZk2urQxnOdNl2PGghjHv/w640-h480/IMG20231109173323.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgBD0HwN6vNS6ecIDrFyOUDZjvWN1yLGX8glBdqbfSKxuynoInI-Q1tunb_GUpN6zlmPt4bX0tnxyRQH3_p4Qbu5ImrQ-Lxzn7nuHLWj_dHfVZve0n_7gM-cYv__lNGGjlaE6P5OVElwWYRqHUivEEZ_r0Zjd9QzOq0MehluiGnNLJNhG-F2JmW-DBe0o_T/s4096/IMG20231109173328.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3072" data-original-width="4096" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgBD0HwN6vNS6ecIDrFyOUDZjvWN1yLGX8glBdqbfSKxuynoInI-Q1tunb_GUpN6zlmPt4bX0tnxyRQH3_p4Qbu5ImrQ-Lxzn7nuHLWj_dHfVZve0n_7gM-cYv__lNGGjlaE6P5OVElwWYRqHUivEEZ_r0Zjd9QzOq0MehluiGnNLJNhG-F2JmW-DBe0o_T/w640-h480/IMG20231109173328.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEit5K9exOFJNn3OiCaWOwegFoM1uoyDVk63nupzqAvNLTCzAXUvIT1OnQObg6h9F0UvDzkD5XKEZHMtoGz1qOmYsQzSLqQZvUvTZX62EaDeFLBlrGw6KEvGBa6gyGpyXSt3HB9UajqhXPUbHgr0TyHVddW5m_rSDO8E_TxApg07ZTg7gDws5qcq0eRfpxuZ/s4096/IMG20231109173422.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3072" data-original-width="4096" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEit5K9exOFJNn3OiCaWOwegFoM1uoyDVk63nupzqAvNLTCzAXUvIT1OnQObg6h9F0UvDzkD5XKEZHMtoGz1qOmYsQzSLqQZvUvTZX62EaDeFLBlrGw6KEvGBa6gyGpyXSt3HB9UajqhXPUbHgr0TyHVddW5m_rSDO8E_TxApg07ZTg7gDws5qcq0eRfpxuZ/w640-h480/IMG20231109173422.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">The two shades are not identical but very close and distinct from teh genuine article shown here. I am inclined to think that this is is the work of the same person. Few can have the ability to be so precise around windows, or skilled with the masking tape. Surprisingly, though, the splash of green on the silver at the front on one shown here is not what one would expect from such a perfectionist. There is a slight difference in the rivets on the genuine article but I have seen many other genuine 210 models with the more regular finish as the two on the left below display. We know that professional restorers now often use a similar rivet but it is very fresh-looking and always stands out and to those of us used to looking at these things it is always obviously a case of the base having been removed. You can been buy soft metal rivet heads to stick on but, again they're invariably in an incorrect design.</div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhCMPbu6saxwgqHeCnK9xMZgLccLmCF-OIqftFkjh7YgQB-ngAD1jR-GmOeoK_Ut-zvL9cbaQEq16M2dwzHX9O7IZHX1iJWUuA1rzYblYuEixyLt1aBmfLTdhkRLQ7zfV4eRliMOCzn3rCsUKvO4oUs1rvwPqnpE8pHb-HcBYO5ej1b4Ik0c-mO9BH2EL6R/s4096/IMG20231109173453.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3072" data-original-width="4096" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhCMPbu6saxwgqHeCnK9xMZgLccLmCF-OIqftFkjh7YgQB-ngAD1jR-GmOeoK_Ut-zvL9cbaQEq16M2dwzHX9O7IZHX1iJWUuA1rzYblYuEixyLt1aBmfLTdhkRLQ7zfV4eRliMOCzn3rCsUKvO4oUs1rvwPqnpE8pHb-HcBYO5ej1b4Ik0c-mO9BH2EL6R/w640-h480/IMG20231109173453.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">I have to believe these are all genuine, original rivets and that the bases have been in place since leaving the factory. Which means there has to have been someone out there with a good, but not quite right, shade of metallic green and a very, very steady hand.</div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">I had hoped one of the 'all greens' would be a nice variation and still wonder, even at this last stage of writing, that maybe there was another batch of paint used by Corgi and that these may be more interesting than repaints. However I have to conclude that they're nothing more than an interesting couple of models which someone has spent some time on.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">I'll have to sell the first 'all green' as a repainted model now instead of as a scarce find but I think I'll still get my £10 back. The latest one I may hang on to for a while. Its holiday triangles in the rear window, registration plates, CD plate and tax disc all tell me that, if it had been messed around with, it was a long time ago - before they were added. Now that's a thought. Yes, I will hang on to this one.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><p></p>Andrew Hillhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00976984938460821874noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1067948387688151749.post-44247248157764011592023-11-03T00:00:00.006+00:002023-11-03T00:00:00.137+00:00Corgi Toys @ 60: Gift Sets!!<div>I finish the posts for the vast array of November 1963 issues with these four Gift sets. Two have become real classics and are the most sought after, and valuable, of the whole Corgi range.</div><div><br /></div><div>First, the Gift set 15 Silverstone Layout</div><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjuec9dEzpm7ISu9y6JY_wenpIjiwhZ3skv6cULd52z68N2J5axMJ95Ojf21fMKsNscNtzQIBuwpjU10Tp4_zEl-J_ug_2L9U74lZZIxcPQhqynK0zwKufkRoVvRCw6CGT-eChLUqic0PH1IhyM3D0a_d-r14SftGcYXUKOjFgQBPCsLLFkcZGriTr1_fmB/s945/GS15-layout.jpg"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjuec9dEzpm7ISu9y6JY_wenpIjiwhZ3skv6cULd52z68N2J5axMJ95Ojf21fMKsNscNtzQIBuwpjU10Tp4_zEl-J_ug_2L9U74lZZIxcPQhqynK0zwKufkRoVvRCw6CGT-eChLUqic0PH1IhyM3D0a_d-r14SftGcYXUKOjFgQBPCsLLFkcZGriTr1_fmB/w640-h426/GS15-layout.jpg" /></a><div><br /></div><div>Here's what the set included:<br /><br />Kits: 602 AA & RAC Boxes, 603 Pits, 604 Press Box, 605 Club house & timekeepers box, </div><div>Cars: 150S Vanwall, 151S Lotus XI, 152S BRM, 215S Ford Thunderbird Open Sports, 304S Mercedes Benz 300SL Hard Top, 309 Aston Martin Competition, 417S Land Rover Breakdown, </div><div>Figures: 1501 Racing Drivers, 1503 Race track officials, 1502 Spectators.</div><div><br /></div><div>There would also be a large, quite flimsy plastic mat and a set of enamel paints and glue for the kit constriction. These items are extremely hard to find now and usually only then in complete boxed sets.<br /><br />The next is the Gift Set 25 Garage Layout</div><div><br /></div><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhvM9T4R8HfAUdXhdd8mBKI0NV3HBlzEl3LtxalBThSsDdNYyXFbbe_W4IpuQOo3KyZnAfXtB_iOWBmTwfSs8EItvP7hcuq266ZL7TAy54589Hh08da4zAEus_QdFdHJR56nVQMZYHw8HVz5Y_d9Q99VuzBkiaB6HPpvdJkrqf_dCal6DaGvF-sstYQVlVV/s1038/1963-13.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="773" data-original-width="1038" height="476" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhvM9T4R8HfAUdXhdd8mBKI0NV3HBlzEl3LtxalBThSsDdNYyXFbbe_W4IpuQOo3KyZnAfXtB_iOWBmTwfSs8EItvP7hcuq266ZL7TAy54589Hh08da4zAEus_QdFdHJR56nVQMZYHw8HVz5Y_d9Q99VuzBkiaB6HPpvdJkrqf_dCal6DaGvF-sstYQVlVV/w640-h476/1963-13.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div><br /></div><div>This is a wonderfully detailed set of kits and a few cars with a layout mat, glue and paints as for the previous set.</div><div><br /></div><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhMu6gz-SZpisNi5P3nEW30a9I8qtmmStxnHL9X6AZieTuGlaHsokySHSwe2aXfEmbECWYTGTMQdV1d-Ldb1Rl5cdh3ahDhPnuS5ThqexwWMwn1wr2kCQVChpVYuTocy6ce08q2rl7kU8pS6lsiFJQg0qrsGFl1uebDxUxWbHdXYVB-DZY2KRSjIpkrL1eB/s1541/P1540989-1600.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="693" data-original-width="1541" height="288" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhMu6gz-SZpisNi5P3nEW30a9I8qtmmStxnHL9X6AZieTuGlaHsokySHSwe2aXfEmbECWYTGTMQdV1d-Ldb1Rl5cdh3ahDhPnuS5ThqexwWMwn1wr2kCQVChpVYuTocy6ce08q2rl7kU8pS6lsiFJQg0qrsGFl1uebDxUxWbHdXYVB-DZY2KRSjIpkrL1eB/w640-h288/P1540989-1600.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div><br /></div><div>I have never had either of these sets but have acquired all the components, except the glue and paint. The 'mat' here is a board that someone created that is not quite the right size. I have since found someone who makes the mats - not the flimsy plastic but a nice hard-wearing and strong textured plastic which lays completely flat and should be excellent as a display as and when I get all the bits and pieces out again. For now, here are some photos of the lovely display as it was. I have tried to reproduce the Corgi Catalogue image.</div><div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEghOF3xtO-nm2lU6PceZgi-KIA9OUZx80LRWQS0O1sdVuAAM9bhvBDWrIeL3_5Q3iFhXaSsmgyw0rKsva_ML_seWawNz4KpR5ZdUoeNw68QY20q4iDJLmJyWGD4c0TFjZ_Uok-KR3dH7j8PRp_W3XccxgJZvWepDOn_-nCEXm37S5Pw0igt308D6VSTkcH-/s1600/P1540996-1600.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1200" data-original-width="1600" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEghOF3xtO-nm2lU6PceZgi-KIA9OUZx80LRWQS0O1sdVuAAM9bhvBDWrIeL3_5Q3iFhXaSsmgyw0rKsva_ML_seWawNz4KpR5ZdUoeNw68QY20q4iDJLmJyWGD4c0TFjZ_Uok-KR3dH7j8PRp_W3XccxgJZvWepDOn_-nCEXm37S5Pw0igt308D6VSTkcH-/s320/P1540996-1600.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh9OZFsrt5TllSVL_8SGKDUn4hgLgMf03yoeBbL2PR3Q3RgI-F-qjoxR7kl-Sfv40v0m6zYKganoXJ-mmpQPhaLN5_wLPgVrYhYbPrXI2FutTTIj5ZC975eoOxxeErP4xQr1Vv-I51K3lPXP_RwVyMP53TSguAHsDE8KjqtV3HgNT77oID2NcyUeNRurriv/s1427/P1540995-1600.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; 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Well, a man can dream. . . . The price that must be paid to acquire a complete set now is simply way beyond my means. Here is the list of contents:</div><div><br />Kits: 602 AA & RAC Boxes, 608 Shell/BP Service Station, 609 Forecourt accessories, 606 Lamp Standard x2, 601 Batley Garage x3, </div><div>Cars: 224 Bentley Continental - Black, 225 Austin Se7en - Red, 229 Chevrolet Corvair - Bright Blue, 234 Ford Consul Classic - Beige/Red, 419 Ford Zephyr Police - White</div><div><br /></div><div>There were two more Gift Sets at slightly lower prices that year:<br /><br />GS29 Tractor & Trailer 50 Massey Ferguson 65 Tractor, 51 Massey Ferguson 30cwt Trailer, Driver figure. This is basically the same as Gift Set 7 from 1959 but with Farmer George now at the wheel. Corgi certainly got value from these two models over the years!</div><div><br />GS28 Car Transporter Set 1105 Bedford TK Car Transporter, 222 Renault Floride, 234 Ford Consul Classic, 232 FIAT 2100, 230 Mercedes Benz. This is also an update of the old Gift Set 1 with the newer Bedford cab and a new set of models on board. It's an odd set of models listed in the Corgi documents and, as you will see from the illustrations, the contents not only changed but were freely changeable provided the total value remained the same.</div><div><br /></div><div>So whilst illustrating the models stated above, the content was completely different!</div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgzbM3tZWUTbShBspO3sxy5laPGT_S6kbVqkUgfMhbZw29P8ltc4SSVLN-NU281g_9NMG_63BqUHjqwv97yynXDFdLJLE8Vvq6oqprpvFk2GOBQUMkKaBAxSP69yHK5r0ZR_EoposQk9k01sTIt2QKBWFMQ-QAsOpcu5Llcr35qqugAtzYoEKSkGYqRd83_/s1600/gs28-3.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1200" data-original-width="1600" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgzbM3tZWUTbShBspO3sxy5laPGT_S6kbVqkUgfMhbZw29P8ltc4SSVLN-NU281g_9NMG_63BqUHjqwv97yynXDFdLJLE8Vvq6oqprpvFk2GOBQUMkKaBAxSP69yHK5r0ZR_EoposQk9k01sTIt2QKBWFMQ-QAsOpcu5Llcr35qqugAtzYoEKSkGYqRd83_/w640-h480/gs28-3.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi6S3Dw9bvrCQRlw7Abhtwi_b2eIa64wW1BGf6_74relagvZTGfTdXTkUZP8L3C774iuyjudWSKDT85LBBEyq72ZFUq2ZY4T-b_mIgykRZrGtkAPMNIDqICfy_jix1Md8O4Z5pGuoCVo4q6NGKrpv7xT6pBAlTUHecnvWHddtpx3q6uOYzl5t44nEPWVzYO/s1600/gs28-2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1200" data-original-width="1600" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi6S3Dw9bvrCQRlw7Abhtwi_b2eIa64wW1BGf6_74relagvZTGfTdXTkUZP8L3C774iuyjudWSKDT85LBBEyq72ZFUq2ZY4T-b_mIgykRZrGtkAPMNIDqICfy_jix1Md8O4Z5pGuoCVo4q6NGKrpv7xT6pBAlTUHecnvWHddtpx3q6uOYzl5t44nEPWVzYO/w640-h480/gs28-2.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjFJrEsrd_uRTYszIHYfQQy96-tPxA2uyLnGhY6rgML125mr-e7ahaKCFO4TQsbmAUHakYx0stIlQ8-vyWzhkAY-3FQWLQ2NwBxCDGfxgw9dvm3qKs1t1ki07jH_PH8qHxbwWSIn2ZH3S66DlMu2Wn0N8hDUOTS6oj138lNJ-YxrfoDRv1pXFzfLu6hCImB/s1600/gs28-1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1200" data-original-width="1600" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjFJrEsrd_uRTYszIHYfQQy96-tPxA2uyLnGhY6rgML125mr-e7ahaKCFO4TQsbmAUHakYx0stIlQ8-vyWzhkAY-3FQWLQ2NwBxCDGfxgw9dvm3qKs1t1ki07jH_PH8qHxbwWSIn2ZH3S66DlMu2Wn0N8hDUOTS6oj138lNJ-YxrfoDRv1pXFzfLu6hCImB/w640-h480/gs28-1.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div>And that completes November 60 years ago!<br /><br /></div>Andrew Hillhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00976984938460821874noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1067948387688151749.post-59571144412944348322023-11-03T00:00:00.004+00:002023-11-03T00:00:00.137+00:00Corgi Toys @ 60: US Army Land Rover, Bedford and Euclid upgrades<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhsKcBHL7biYKEkkvNZh_Fub9FsK9yWp0s9764pLZa3B80qbVbo0G1jAgMLV5wZmdrlbC0YrOkmwPGpzTbqGQrI3vwY19gUZroKm7FYAoDSvxlaDIGrE_GzNtTW6cKn_njYF-CZ-pGUq8WBWZ_diItKpSnLCDPqhjDfDudwTE4_EThpDjy6lcEuUHGC7Hm_/s1600/P1360035-1600.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1200" data-original-width="1600" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhsKcBHL7biYKEkkvNZh_Fub9FsK9yWp0s9764pLZa3B80qbVbo0G1jAgMLV5wZmdrlbC0YrOkmwPGpzTbqGQrI3vwY19gUZroKm7FYAoDSvxlaDIGrE_GzNtTW6cKn_njYF-CZ-pGUq8WBWZ_diItKpSnLCDPqhjDfDudwTE4_EThpDjy6lcEuUHGC7Hm_/w640-h480/P1360035-1600.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Still in November 1963, and the new issues continue! Now we have two upgrades -the Bedford Machinery Carrier #1131 and the Low Loader #1132, now with the later type of cab. The one above is my own model, one that my dad will have bought for me, and it is a little unusual in having a paler blue cab and a yellow rear axle. (The Castrol transfer is my own addition!)</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Most models had a brighter, darker blue cab and a black rear axle. I am not aware of any colour variations for the Low Loader, not a model I have ever had, strangely. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhTOrtTvlY1PBye-h4nHTPj-hR_4-tbnAzunZcQghFHzTUgcjRbASA7HtgVmUcaxiPlA838Jvql-9AC1DceTVHHwNQ6cbOcBL6mrqU_9ebdMLL8ScZ3K0dxxW027NBMhgxDWZ9CADXR_a-5mFscYf9BqslaLz2uDMlOO_8v-zq0QZLQZLQFHNUirzYX9sLN/s400/1132.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="207" data-original-width="400" height="332" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhTOrtTvlY1PBye-h4nHTPj-hR_4-tbnAzunZcQghFHzTUgcjRbASA7HtgVmUcaxiPlA838Jvql-9AC1DceTVHHwNQ6cbOcBL6mrqU_9ebdMLL8ScZ3K0dxxW027NBMhgxDWZ9CADXR_a-5mFscYf9BqslaLz2uDMlOO_8v-zq0QZLQZLQFHNUirzYX9sLN/w640-h332/1132.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Another 'upgrade' issue was the phenomenally heavy Euclid Tractor with blade. Now it gets a driver who also looks suspiciously like the Mercedes driver and Roger Moore as well as a lever to operate the blade. My version was in a fetching lime green but it was also issued in a very bright yellow.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEir2kW8s1CWemIdTbSCFn_odk5dDDxYllFnGqYcMdH1RgSOS15iuagQrmSwOS6WRoOkrey4weOsvMsqEtt4Q7M9HvWdD6_x5eKDOlXqP7GfCHTEZNS4uZlKSo8t8WrqaELaWuRNBRkhHPNFuS3Pl5J4en1CljLwyDl5M3QULozDPOIOWgbWgYFrGvKRcQPp/s1600/P1310770-1600.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1200" data-original-width="1600" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEir2kW8s1CWemIdTbSCFn_odk5dDDxYllFnGqYcMdH1RgSOS15iuagQrmSwOS6WRoOkrey4weOsvMsqEtt4Q7M9HvWdD6_x5eKDOlXqP7GfCHTEZNS4uZlKSo8t8WrqaELaWuRNBRkhHPNFuS3Pl5J4en1CljLwyDl5M3QULozDPOIOWgbWgYFrGvKRcQPp/w640-h480/P1310770-1600.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhRDBAgF41Z5v6T6f7BW6dUQTnJBmltPah6uCexs0ji461q-SRKpahsEl6EKyXHI3TXqPaNoI1siCAvSIaWNGH6cDJK6UpgClZiwwG-4jrBejntx6oLqlZGO33wlqEwTjss9x5W_r9nY_iw78Og3tzes_bPkGq3bfYblTZzqNVs6PmPNn09ki3-XLaLKmRj/s1000/1107.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1000" data-original-width="813" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhRDBAgF41Z5v6T6f7BW6dUQTnJBmltPah6uCexs0ji461q-SRKpahsEl6EKyXHI3TXqPaNoI1siCAvSIaWNGH6cDJK6UpgClZiwwG-4jrBejntx6oLqlZGO33wlqEwTjss9x5W_r9nY_iw78Og3tzes_bPkGq3bfYblTZzqNVs6PmPNn09ki3-XLaLKmRj/w520-h640/1107.jpg" width="520" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Last of the individual models issued in November 1963 is the very scarce US Army Land Rover, catalogued as #500 and available only as an exported model to the States at the time. Well, maybe a few found their way to dealers but that was not the intention.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjQHtPwOybVTY5O-r5psI8FrKgatJtLu5uAfL_bS3kMcd6z2NpkdYHiExNybaUAkwHxekMHQhefzaVGCzkPUsGG-pehP9pf1m22rUdcLY_E0duk4cr9xvV1QQm-N3eOn0FRqEMPTjRWb4j6V9gpSqT5oWSwOV4iYFUZqa6_juf6EmS4Tz3LfbwMfBQAFay2/s2048/P1050206.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1536" data-original-width="2048" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjQHtPwOybVTY5O-r5psI8FrKgatJtLu5uAfL_bS3kMcd6z2NpkdYHiExNybaUAkwHxekMHQhefzaVGCzkPUsGG-pehP9pf1m22rUdcLY_E0duk4cr9xvV1QQm-N3eOn0FRqEMPTjRWb4j6V9gpSqT5oWSwOV4iYFUZqa6_juf6EmS4Tz3LfbwMfBQAFay2/w640-h480/P1050206.JPG" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">As far as I can tell there were no illustrated boxes produced, just the standard box with the number and model name stamped on the end flaps.</div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh8XkwjjsVKavF0nOVYkKk8kj5_nfpPcNDRGFi7HNJf8JKBm5zbzameXkJfGnJXMW4NVjEAUEyVIfUaEzPR_7kFgGn5P4OqDw8yMU5NybcPUAWmE5nQ-sGCu_M2kTVqAIhd4VL7wNbtD0Kcr2Yg4FYDsNoaxN2dR2VaCbGbWh0rmuO5xP-_VGlolap8QkvD/s1600/P1050207-1600.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1200" data-original-width="1600" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh8XkwjjsVKavF0nOVYkKk8kj5_nfpPcNDRGFi7HNJf8JKBm5zbzameXkJfGnJXMW4NVjEAUEyVIfUaEzPR_7kFgGn5P4OqDw8yMU5NybcPUAWmE5nQ-sGCu_M2kTVqAIhd4VL7wNbtD0Kcr2Yg4FYDsNoaxN2dR2VaCbGbWh0rmuO5xP-_VGlolap8QkvD/w640-h480/P1050207-1600.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">I have written a lot before about this model and how it can very easily be confused with #357 the Land Rover Weapons Carrier issued in 1965. Both may look the same at first glance but you can distinguish the #500 by the rear cab window, which should have a sort of 'frame' showing and which fits to provide a flush finish to the rear of the cab. Later window units are simpler and do not fit into the rear space at all. The other thing to check is the colour of the star transfers. Even well-preserved originals are slightly or very cream in colour whereas #357 models are invariably white.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Now, of course, with the availability of many transfers which can be added this is not as definitive a guide as one might like as someone could change the transfers. But the window should seal it one way or the other.</div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEilolb2ELC251Z7RoAiRHCaSYdaDhW4ib975G7qgbylT5wprUV1-qgd0X5Oy3wc5msbHg7R4P9f9SmizZey-Oasfw5cca4lB16bgMuzhAtg2ntdPNndAuYtOi3yiun25QKekueKJ9AjLaEekNhn9R_ZlxFaMQZO-CmguAbl-MZe2CWxFsG67vFxaZLxDAYk/s1600/P1600630-1600.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1200" data-original-width="1600" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEilolb2ELC251Z7RoAiRHCaSYdaDhW4ib975G7qgbylT5wprUV1-qgd0X5Oy3wc5msbHg7R4P9f9SmizZey-Oasfw5cca4lB16bgMuzhAtg2ntdPNndAuYtOi3yiun25QKekueKJ9AjLaEekNhn9R_ZlxFaMQZO-CmguAbl-MZe2CWxFsG67vFxaZLxDAYk/w640-h480/P1600630-1600.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg-rz3NHJp9ldnn2e_M98WNTuBUjnfV6AppyLrc5RSQu_MZre6aWTjtg18Zty-O6vFLsFritaTMv7efbjVOVvCVj3Yjp97c7onKI0txNE8jr84xzzAvukfYKHrAP_03j0mxr2RokvNIPlO2ohrwAFnqqaymVXLDvvuyAAmbUUdATUVke9dsndmjp8YaAsEM/s1600/P1600624-1600.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1200" data-original-width="1600" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg-rz3NHJp9ldnn2e_M98WNTuBUjnfV6AppyLrc5RSQu_MZre6aWTjtg18Zty-O6vFLsFritaTMv7efbjVOVvCVj3Yjp97c7onKI0txNE8jr84xzzAvukfYKHrAP_03j0mxr2RokvNIPlO2ohrwAFnqqaymVXLDvvuyAAmbUUdATUVke9dsndmjp8YaAsEM/w640-h480/P1600624-1600.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">There are both red and lemon seat versions of the #500 but the lemon seems, from my experience to date, to be the more common of the two. Neither, however, are easy to find here in the UK. All my examples have come from the States.</div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><p></p>Andrew Hillhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00976984938460821874noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1067948387688151749.post-43659716731735463142023-11-02T00:00:00.001+00:002023-11-02T00:00:00.135+00:00Corgi Toys @ 60: NSU Sport Prinz and a Mercedes update<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjBUGY-InMYB5nfICmx5zo1w-OjOOAK11KfEnaHslecxNwCJ78B8tu4q1vD5qT0hpVbW5fZTBsToHLlvI-KVT6wymt3tyN7XwfjL4EvC2xSKfXRjgA7uLsEDQ6Puduyo5eRwNBN17N_NrDFCkd856u3PeoEUZ5xaMXV2e6X96tBQeh-EVJWudwCqQjrsHOH/s2048/P1030908.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1536" data-original-width="2048" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjBUGY-InMYB5nfICmx5zo1w-OjOOAK11KfEnaHslecxNwCJ78B8tu4q1vD5qT0hpVbW5fZTBsToHLlvI-KVT6wymt3tyN7XwfjL4EvC2xSKfXRjgA7uLsEDQ6Puduyo5eRwNBN17N_NrDFCkd856u3PeoEUZ5xaMXV2e6X96tBQeh-EVJWudwCqQjrsHOH/w640-h480/P1030908.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Another arrival this month in 1963 was teh curious little NSU Sport Prinz. Now I am pretty sure that no-one will have seen one of these on the British roads but it did have a certain charm and I bought one. The illustration shows the one I actually had too, and its box.</div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh1nMf_UAiT3wu667YworYkbwot_nC_BHZSvcVmCu-FmbEtPHUEYq9g21cda5CJ8qozeSp8z4gFDgnoC64tzaV8uIqAmvJzHWC3zoaGRqScSZh-VFfcXgdsNwj9Pphndrct9DwWKe0ZxJayJmpjkR6DeVT8L8WIpQR2lSR4o_40E1m54Pnp_ZYjbYCnYNwD/s2048/P1030911.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1536" data-original-width="2048" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh1nMf_UAiT3wu667YworYkbwot_nC_BHZSvcVmCu-FmbEtPHUEYq9g21cda5CJ8qozeSp8z4gFDgnoC64tzaV8uIqAmvJzHWC3zoaGRqScSZh-VFfcXgdsNwj9Pphndrct9DwWKe0ZxJayJmpjkR6DeVT8L8WIpQR2lSR4o_40E1m54Pnp_ZYjbYCnYNwD/w640-h480/P1030911.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">I have since read that Corgi had the idea of producing a range of models without any special features that were expensive to include. So these might just have windows, an interior and suspension but that's all, and the range would have a single price of 3/9d (compared to 8/6d for the Ghia L6.4) The Renault Floride and Simca 1000 may have been part of this group but it never went any further.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">In this month a driver was added to the Mercedes-Benz 300SL #303S</div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg-zeyEne4Bb79gAstRisSrfZU93OylAg25GKI-WPbg2eknGXJgN3vpJdwYWSjQQZo5M-pbkTcq_9mnmgxDUzvcBqro9yk_hFtmtsTVJzJjGOdYu7_3mapMVjpgRjT2aqMB8pCBmEmJFAaJU-cu99YVYQgCsPkYXLTizSraqwAfmI-H2o4-DO-D2PJHp52y/s1600/P1410153-1600.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1200" data-original-width="1600" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg-zeyEne4Bb79gAstRisSrfZU93OylAg25GKI-WPbg2eknGXJgN3vpJdwYWSjQQZo5M-pbkTcq_9mnmgxDUzvcBqro9yk_hFtmtsTVJzJjGOdYu7_3mapMVjpgRjT2aqMB8pCBmEmJFAaJU-cu99YVYQgCsPkYXLTizSraqwAfmI-H2o4-DO-D2PJHp52y/w640-h480/P1410153-1600.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">This illustration is of a later and very rare edition with spoked wheels which came out the following year but you can see that Roger Moore makes his first appearance here, looking rather too tall for this model!</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">It will have been the white and pale blue models which will have been the most commonly encountered at this time but I don't have any white ones with drivers!</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjaMrhUWmGa344NoE2lYUOFxNnWWtYiIo3bMLZtC3Y2nDHzqB-F4LRFdDQlS6iiYcs7lSHMv1ceItuYLmRzm5Y0budsOGC7rdA-Hkn13Oi4yxwu52PXRwHkE19pRcQY-q_x24KRe1xFd_RAYbEfX0B5uKio6gU9hSsvky8Ld3ecQc1afyPNt9RwAy9xYZZs/s1600/P1440002-1600.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1200" data-original-width="1600" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjaMrhUWmGa344NoE2lYUOFxNnWWtYiIo3bMLZtC3Y2nDHzqB-F4LRFdDQlS6iiYcs7lSHMv1ceItuYLmRzm5Y0budsOGC7rdA-Hkn13Oi4yxwu52PXRwHkE19pRcQY-q_x24KRe1xFd_RAYbEfX0B5uKio6gU9hSsvky8Ld3ecQc1afyPNt9RwAy9xYZZs/w640-h480/P1440002-1600.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhIkJvhZ0_0SlxvLnuu0SPaRqz6EzplJo7F-xWSQbSVOmRbOsSWgfDM96vLQ9CbLz-VF7bdlCyYfwB43YQNW3ji-UUJ9g4BAbdE4LzHps5asyceAmaBxS4VrGRx7VhcY5dInsD67LijBYDuERv-q666mRO7sVLzURMrudGCCtjvIJH0SkmBLP3aj7js-KE0/s1600/P1440561-1600.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1200" data-original-width="1600" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhIkJvhZ0_0SlxvLnuu0SPaRqz6EzplJo7F-xWSQbSVOmRbOsSWgfDM96vLQ9CbLz-VF7bdlCyYfwB43YQNW3ji-UUJ9g4BAbdE4LzHps5asyceAmaBxS4VrGRx7VhcY5dInsD67LijBYDuERv-q666mRO7sVLzURMrudGCCtjvIJH0SkmBLP3aj7js-KE0/w640-h480/P1440561-1600.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><p></p>Andrew Hillhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00976984938460821874noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1067948387688151749.post-43576326728225577362023-11-01T00:00:00.001+00:002023-11-01T00:00:00.155+00:00Corgi Toys @ 60: Hillman Imp<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgKU6PbZDaIQfkwYdSJkY6H7hNz_D8yt7wC5bSCvN3XokZt19Y7KFIAC3eizZV-N6eYXrcAa8nLjC70s3AGT5PsLzav6vO8gPXuYEq08a1MK-MaGfDPEaa138kXKbKSS-pY78MPJzMNYcUpkchEh53tyk_oQ-DsP0MqP2LiiM8gMoqQZzXnb5OUsZIY0ElJ/s1600/P1600731-1600.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1200" data-original-width="1600" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgKU6PbZDaIQfkwYdSJkY6H7hNz_D8yt7wC5bSCvN3XokZt19Y7KFIAC3eizZV-N6eYXrcAa8nLjC70s3AGT5PsLzav6vO8gPXuYEq08a1MK-MaGfDPEaa138kXKbKSS-pY78MPJzMNYcUpkchEh53tyk_oQ-DsP0MqP2LiiM8gMoqQZzXnb5OUsZIY0ElJ/w640-h480/P1600731-1600.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Another November 1963 release was the lovely little Hillman Imp. This was invariably in metallic blue but there are quite a range of shades to be found. The interior, though, should always be a quite startling yellow.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjposb4G2nTLfvc9FCEDpNYxNU_9yywVFvEK4GVrFAqvg5xEcitTlqajv8N_gr5VG-wvYWWuG1vVy8KJzuwAO77LCnIhllkMcvc7tqcoj7yscu-IXxXOju00GyjzbmChHgYjk1t5cyE55Lf4xQ9Xfq0xcXRuMnjewKFSqow3MghxzwCVAreNpHWhHRR6jXd/s1600/P1600734-1600.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1200" data-original-width="1600" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjposb4G2nTLfvc9FCEDpNYxNU_9yywVFvEK4GVrFAqvg5xEcitTlqajv8N_gr5VG-wvYWWuG1vVy8KJzuwAO77LCnIhllkMcvc7tqcoj7yscu-IXxXOju00GyjzbmChHgYjk1t5cyE55Lf4xQ9Xfq0xcXRuMnjewKFSqow3MghxzwCVAreNpHWhHRR6jXd/w640-h480/P1600734-1600.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Probably not available at the start but appearing in boxes at some stage was the metallic bronze edition with a pale cream interior and a white side stripe. This was the version that was put with the Car Transporter in Gift Set 41/48 some years later. When it actually first appeared is anyone's guess.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjNSicJebUidPaA-gWWa3wl-RYdCblCCe9eQnfLquIZ_RyY9TBLSnyfoLnIVY_OXT8O5znW6XRr8eYtZbxVUMu0CWrUCDQWe_1Iim7E9nZDhfSS2ZAib3G1w4jVHnu4-BkKVnnKJMvgKaF8LmeFlKhT554bGjQJHXmzaRX31X1ybzoswTMWsuWm0-Cd6ggF/s1600/P1200692-1600.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1200" data-original-width="1600" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjNSicJebUidPaA-gWWa3wl-RYdCblCCe9eQnfLquIZ_RyY9TBLSnyfoLnIVY_OXT8O5znW6XRr8eYtZbxVUMu0CWrUCDQWe_1Iim7E9nZDhfSS2ZAib3G1w4jVHnu4-BkKVnnKJMvgKaF8LmeFlKhT554bGjQJHXmzaRX31X1ybzoswTMWsuWm0-Cd6ggF/w640-h480/P1200692-1600.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">The Hillman Imp suffered from poor suspension, especially at the rear where we were encouraged to press down hard in order the engage the cog wheel that turned to move the rear seat back up and down. All good fun and a nice feature but it took its toll on the suspension that was provided by a simple folded piece of plastic which also is now often very brittle. So if you have suspension that has survived, do not be tempted to try it out and turn down the rear seat yourself!</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">The front suspension eventually followed suit, faster it we were enthusiastically braking on our layouts!</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Below I have illustrated a couple of scarer Imps.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjsmg2Rx3oj7ASZwK4Vzf0FhZO3lLqeOhnlHQ_4sed3HszZsrxXJAwpqJGg9bU17Prb6kbe9YbRVZlbANt-g0A-hr5t80MgP28hM596dcYlx8IpZTDV9eG8KbJRpdAx9ap2DCVyATCEAnRFoY2NPoEXclxlL7ViC9de2fuRSS8hReO_1NBvvjOwL_SoDlGN/s1184/IMG20220916123546-1600.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="889" data-original-width="1184" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjsmg2Rx3oj7ASZwK4Vzf0FhZO3lLqeOhnlHQ_4sed3HszZsrxXJAwpqJGg9bU17Prb6kbe9YbRVZlbANt-g0A-hr5t80MgP28hM596dcYlx8IpZTDV9eG8KbJRpdAx9ap2DCVyATCEAnRFoY2NPoEXclxlL7ViC9de2fuRSS8hReO_1NBvvjOwL_SoDlGN/w640-h480/IMG20220916123546-1600.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">First is a bronze edition with jewelled fog lamps. This is essentially what would become the Monte Carlo edition #328 but it metallic blue some years later. This came without the transfers which I sued merely to cover some wear to the paint on the bonnet. You may spot the later style of windscreen which incorporates horizontal 'heating element' bars not included in the unit supplied with the #251. Quite what this model is all about I do not know but I have seen several with these lights, always in bronze.</div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi4ucyNa9x50_4HpWxxUPDxDcnUYMhOyDK7SHFSpnsH_7mmwLZ4E1H-KzmbCvAQP2k8D_xNMUK6dmwlhOcDWr-LmbqQix3FoQmnoN5S4UM9UlaDj4tcv61kHCEnZrjpCK8twKan8_i8d_q9sZIlqwVntpqrtfIo49d9teJ0GCAHrQt2IdvBb4Y-Uc7fwU6x/s1600/P1320978-1600.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1200" data-original-width="1600" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi4ucyNa9x50_4HpWxxUPDxDcnUYMhOyDK7SHFSpnsH_7mmwLZ4E1H-KzmbCvAQP2k8D_xNMUK6dmwlhOcDWr-LmbqQix3FoQmnoN5S4UM9UlaDj4tcv61kHCEnZrjpCK8twKan8_i8d_q9sZIlqwVntpqrtfIo49d9teJ0GCAHrQt2IdvBb4Y-Uc7fwU6x/w640-h480/P1320978-1600.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">The other is this special edition produced for Jensen's a meat firm in Denmark. These are valuable with only a few produced.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Later you will find the Imp casting used for a second Monte Carlo model (as a 'Sunbeam Imp') and a further twice for various versions of a Police 'Panda' Car. You'll need to wait until 2029 for the last of these!</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><p></p>Andrew Hillhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00976984938460821874noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1067948387688151749.post-40168433682035373132023-10-31T16:38:00.003+00:002023-10-31T16:38:00.140+00:00Corgi Toys @ 60: Ghia L6.4<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">November 1963 was an extraordinarily bumper month for Corgi releases! There were so many that need more than just a descriptive note that I have split the posts into as many as will be needed to cover each one one at a time.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">We'll start with what has to be the star of the whole series for many, the fabulous Ghia L6.4. Catalogue #241 and with the added title 'with Chrysler Engine'. This was a beautiful model with almost every feature you could imagine included. There were opening doors, opening bonnet, opening boot, chrome fittings, jewelled headlamps, folding seats, a detailed dashboard and mirror and a Corgi dog on the rear shelf!</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgUs9Pd-v3qjaG1ajh3cbxdsk8wNu2oVqxLuZ5Sn5VLleO6WIjTws4M3j-XHlETgnySmCJxgtpukOQ3gP1z-r0nq-VoYVpIjFGANAkfoz4vuk1ARlP7Xn3LCKEwDbjw5EwcAc_FBIVrER0536fhuo3RocgBZt_Ks6O1UHPO8ibzI8GSc5vVVF7Qk_jEeskO/s1600/P1600591-1600.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1200" data-original-width="1600" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgUs9Pd-v3qjaG1ajh3cbxdsk8wNu2oVqxLuZ5Sn5VLleO6WIjTws4M3j-XHlETgnySmCJxgtpukOQ3gP1z-r0nq-VoYVpIjFGANAkfoz4vuk1ARlP7Xn3LCKEwDbjw5EwcAc_FBIVrER0536fhuo3RocgBZt_Ks6O1UHPO8ibzI8GSc5vVVF7Qk_jEeskO/w640-h480/P1600591-1600.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">It first appeared in a metallic blue-turquoise with red interior. I don't know which of the other colour combinations were also issued at the start but, in time, you could buy the same shade of turquoise blue with a cream interior, a metallic sage-green with cream interior and a metallic gold with either cream or red interior and a very scarce copper finish with cream interior.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Much later there would be a slightly revised model with better suspension provision in a more silver-blue shade and red interior and a lemon-gold edition with bright yellow interior and cast wheels.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Sometimes you would find that there is a combination of red and white parts for the interior with red door inserts often found with a cream interior. The spring for the boot and lifting element for the bonnet were also provided by a plastic section in either red or cream and this may not always have matched the interior, with a different colour visible inside the boot or bonnet to the seats. I expect there will b someone out there who collects these variations too! I stopped at the colours for paint and interior combinations as that provided plenty enough for a nice display.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh8ZVeMVQw-IC_IZ1xolBUOSmtXzJg6d0kprrHuVw4F7-DlL2ZaL7nm9crXc1yUwP5u7R6o3_D2t_N18hNH8kQFoSUWI4_l4DS1UIHHwokJa3bAJLWcwUMlaUWwyEAscJgW1pF_fJiFCvVQFjGnRQzwHc4k4eGoNHUQV3e7d2LIrzdLr5Ht-mnpqgQzKUNt/s1600/P1190041-1600.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1200" data-original-width="1600" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh8ZVeMVQw-IC_IZ1xolBUOSmtXzJg6d0kprrHuVw4F7-DlL2ZaL7nm9crXc1yUwP5u7R6o3_D2t_N18hNH8kQFoSUWI4_l4DS1UIHHwokJa3bAJLWcwUMlaUWwyEAscJgW1pF_fJiFCvVQFjGnRQzwHc4k4eGoNHUQV3e7d2LIrzdLr5Ht-mnpqgQzKUNt/w400-h300/P1190041-1600.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Here are the two different bases.</div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhm1s6W4cMRYLXHuzAdZsIv3wMzOWHIqMhRyRQSqr9v60_6_AHsT0BWgefA5T1LUGby0xVP1F0fo5C83f9wunwYeEQ2ORntOuCg_edD5P3KS8rBLKloUd7c29WT0cd9SZgJ5mdSdUEXOyoPrubdcN40jcL_SAscI93Bi1Lqc5y5cQWQMYlPmL_czE2muIec/s1600/P1180960-1600.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1200" data-original-width="1600" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhm1s6W4cMRYLXHuzAdZsIv3wMzOWHIqMhRyRQSqr9v60_6_AHsT0BWgefA5T1LUGby0xVP1F0fo5C83f9wunwYeEQ2ORntOuCg_edD5P3KS8rBLKloUd7c29WT0cd9SZgJ5mdSdUEXOyoPrubdcN40jcL_SAscI93Bi1Lqc5y5cQWQMYlPmL_czE2muIec/w400-h300/P1180960-1600.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEim8pfGNWtauHwA-HOSu1rDJwDMmHDLuSMDECrGZ0I06i91yN_snWV2MtHUZWqZeSVz8AyQQDqg0womSc15z-2R2614QuB7GorxailhO-Qlk-ChKKgExo0BxQUKxrP3qpmKide4SnBokHfIThmNmjU_RygFR_5q0lOkLdfoW8xp1Zimwu0e2nwCMMoiFgAy/s4000/P1190211.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3000" data-original-width="4000" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEim8pfGNWtauHwA-HOSu1rDJwDMmHDLuSMDECrGZ0I06i91yN_snWV2MtHUZWqZeSVz8AyQQDqg0womSc15z-2R2614QuB7GorxailhO-Qlk-ChKKgExo0BxQUKxrP3qpmKide4SnBokHfIThmNmjU_RygFR_5q0lOkLdfoW8xp1Zimwu0e2nwCMMoiFgAy/w400-h300/P1190211.JPG" width="400" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">There are at least two different box designs too, one of which displays the features incorrectly but is quite commonly encountered. I shall have to dig out the box and add a photo. For now, here is teh correct one.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhIFLf9zhjyI15gQ59lu6QKfMWoNnrxiALHQBWi9CuWLdZp8M5UtmeHefJHT4-h49PshBVZiFoBbhJheeRFHOzSpRtB47E1OoTtQF35kj4FOaBuruPW772voQSIG-PZJQOyfAwm_67MYq93VnDiLRfnK9EfZ-SsaaXpuia69LUXtFl9DtDfRV5yFRgeUI5z/s1600/P1570965-1600.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1200" data-original-width="1600" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhIFLf9zhjyI15gQ59lu6QKfMWoNnrxiALHQBWi9CuWLdZp8M5UtmeHefJHT4-h49PshBVZiFoBbhJheeRFHOzSpRtB47E1OoTtQF35kj4FOaBuruPW772voQSIG-PZJQOyfAwm_67MYq93VnDiLRfnK9EfZ-SsaaXpuia69LUXtFl9DtDfRV5yFRgeUI5z/w400-h300/P1570965-1600.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgWS35kLsT8eNH4pz5TrJj4_GuqZlvi65TOdGyu1VLowg_V1lXRGeNZ5jLOZmtsN4ko3z8qqLrZle5M06qPaL8k_nGna-LQOJhpZG7LsFrjqLZ9weK4kcNcPbj-Vaia1It3d-WVIP3NwcR-b5m2VTDMTkVW9TSmOXG5rmq3983dcSGP6_eI00RNtYbLJ7Z_/s1600/P1450027-1600.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; 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text-align: center;">Next you'll read about #251 the Hillman Imp, #316 the NSU Sport Prinz, a revision of the 303S Mercedes-Benz 300SL, #1107 Euclid TC-12 Tractor, #1131 Bedford Machinery Carrier, #1132 Bedford Low Loader, #500 US Army Land Rover and Gift Sets 15, 25, 28 and 29!</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /> <p></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><google-sheets-html-origin><table border="1" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" dir="ltr" style="border-collapse: collapse; border: none; font-family: arial, sans, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; table-layout: fixed; width: 0px;" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><colgroup><col width="45"></col><col width="205"></col><col width="120"></col><col width="163"></col><col width="233"></col></colgroup><tbody><tr style="height: 17px;"><td data-sheets-value="{"1":3,"3":241}" style="border: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); overflow: hidden; padding: 0px 3px; text-align: center; vertical-align: bottom;">241</td><td data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":" Ghia L 6.4"}" style="border: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); 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margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4096" data-original-width="3072" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhT8BhXy89JPcFF-po5k25ZT2tHhYznGU-K0-IYv2HBiS_SfED6ffpuVnByRg1suiWn7xVvseS599mlX0jFEC9IvwZustEcArP4gagRFAHRikQQ-NeETz_QdbpeUdYTBmanbVklrWpEQ6O0WLBvug8vD9EtR-XI1wziSX7HQ4-R5pvdCYoEUw179esTEs4X/w480-h640/IMG20231013141813.jpg" width="480" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Here is the latest issue from the Corgi Model Club, the Lotus Elan #318. A quick review (<i>updated now - see below</i>) because it is a little late because I have been away and only today had a chance to open the package.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Inside is the car in a pleasantly exact and very fresh-looking shade of metallic blue, well-packed in the box, protected by a piece of tissue paper this time, not the flimsy near-soluble in air stuff of other recent issues and two squares of foam, one at the front and one at the rear to prevent damage to the windscreen. Also in the main parcel is a small plastic envelope containing four stickers on pale brown backing, very much like the original.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">My numbers are 3. Just about every original model I've seen has had the number4. Quite where the fourth, whichever number you may have, is supposed to go I am not sure. One you have plastered the bonnet and doors there is nowhere obvious left due to the "I've got a tiger in my tank" transfer on the boot lid. This transfer looks a little pale to me and very white. Perhaps that is how it did look in 1965 but all the originals I see now have the slightly creamy-yellow off-white shade. Is that just age?</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEijlCbLj72Si18FAEkEM7siaETKlmWQEZyhC6BfqNetelRbb0HZyws-IAYljMQdzwz_tTT_pmZZ1TQIwPML-cAx4Qohs7wZNz7Al18ioB8uEi5lGyHYc36WdHOnaZ-JLzkv4ztKZ2BxxhAtIbmKPZEU0Yq2qruXMG0ug_-iMNAN7Qb2Ha8U2YHmGl82mHgd/s4096/IMG20231013141845.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3072" data-original-width="4096" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEijlCbLj72Si18FAEkEM7siaETKlmWQEZyhC6BfqNetelRbb0HZyws-IAYljMQdzwz_tTT_pmZZ1TQIwPML-cAx4Qohs7wZNz7Al18ioB8uEi5lGyHYc36WdHOnaZ-JLzkv4ztKZ2BxxhAtIbmKPZEU0Yq2qruXMG0ug_-iMNAN7Qb2Ha8U2YHmGl82mHgd/w640-h480/IMG20231013141845.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgvWOIh1EeJ1WKhl5rbEsFa_oUYHTSMPz79mw-TPO7hWnJ4LnHmIATHJFH53jbT9YhvNH0xb16aFL1k_TmzYwXbWvPT3jNBICneVR539SmuDedVt69A58ympkh4ENYOBOn1t0y0ZYB7pEdWvrk2Et9dPnZepjizCYy62NyWmz3Zgy5uErKOL4FcxOReAFkd/s4096/IMG20231013141903.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4096" data-original-width="3072" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgvWOIh1EeJ1WKhl5rbEsFa_oUYHTSMPz79mw-TPO7hWnJ4LnHmIATHJFH53jbT9YhvNH0xb16aFL1k_TmzYwXbWvPT3jNBICneVR539SmuDedVt69A58ympkh4ENYOBOn1t0y0ZYB7pEdWvrk2Et9dPnZepjizCYy62NyWmz3Zgy5uErKOL4FcxOReAFkd/w480-h640/IMG20231013141903.jpg" width="480" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">The first thing you may notice is that the driver falls out. He really is not a good fit. I guess the original was a bit odd too with arms that didn't reach the steering wheel but he did seem to be made of sturdier stuff and certainly I have no recollection of him falling out so easily. I have an excellent original which I shall dig out and experiment with, reporting later with more comparison pictures too which I know readers appreciate.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEijAqLxQ-_be70QPUnWM1zmENDiGCOn_ZXegDRgVjEknHSS1JeSR9D0FhFUvubcNXqlSZfXqsTcN8QHuGwQVDQxbODsBEIdxAZdLzBYolcy53yAfZ5nZ7RoS6vcmRlGVKQcYtOBO4qS_o4GjdLmLdqVEC0-GfKep-aqNrUueLQCkgt6LMgQx-F4rS4WSLJt/s4096/IMG20231013142011.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3072" data-original-width="4096" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEijAqLxQ-_be70QPUnWM1zmENDiGCOn_ZXegDRgVjEknHSS1JeSR9D0FhFUvubcNXqlSZfXqsTcN8QHuGwQVDQxbODsBEIdxAZdLzBYolcy53yAfZ5nZ7RoS6vcmRlGVKQcYtOBO4qS_o4GjdLmLdqVEC0-GfKep-aqNrUueLQCkgt6LMgQx-F4rS4WSLJt/w640-h480/IMG20231013142011.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">It should be immediately clear, however, that this is yet another first class production by the Model Club people and all credit to them. In the certificate text they refer to this model not being produced for very long, something I hadn't appreciated before. It appeared in July 1965, ceasing sometime in 1967, although not before cast wheels had begun to be fitted, so quite late in 1967. Despite that it sold over ½ million, more or less matching the Ford Mustang of similar vintage but which was actually produced for a much shorter period (as 320).</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjN3beVypqfI73i32Cqd4KEVDdj-8iu1d6bdCqXElY6X3zX5HdQpCG6SfEFUxeq0AR7-XVgpcGiJ33EvICCyZCPSmY3lmXINNoHGMcUFxuFNWq2cBCBm041a1r3faFXe75QHR2Pz_dNOYck4T6I7aJZqcKfKw0A3x5fJWaeERguZx0kGOTsM0n9iVn1aiIN/s4096/IMG20231013142114.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3072" data-original-width="4096" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjN3beVypqfI73i32Cqd4KEVDdj-8iu1d6bdCqXElY6X3zX5HdQpCG6SfEFUxeq0AR7-XVgpcGiJ33EvICCyZCPSmY3lmXINNoHGMcUFxuFNWq2cBCBm041a1r3faFXe75QHR2Pz_dNOYck4T6I7aJZqcKfKw0A3x5fJWaeERguZx0kGOTsM0n9iVn1aiIN/s320/IMG20231013142114.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">The bonnet opens in an almost springy way when pressed at the front and is a much firmer hinge than all the originals I have encountered which seem invariably quite loose. I really must get that original out soon as I seem to recall a slightly different view under the bonnet with some black showing somewhere.</div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjLUOVTREVNUG0yeI0qg5E6_G_mALKEEacTS1TCCi7jRd0PnkoguS3hSspBLTP07jeC1HDraY5LAhkh8tMaOa9DFu6-TyYGUbFgqFWFhzLO4_EUlkz283uY5u6SH1OQBuN9AGvgcZ6KlhvLg8JgOvbf5iGQ3vcjV-Cj8V6I05QQk0W_7nMDmlIQtP90dn5Y/s4096/IMG20231013142100.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3072" data-original-width="4096" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjLUOVTREVNUG0yeI0qg5E6_G_mALKEEacTS1TCCi7jRd0PnkoguS3hSspBLTP07jeC1HDraY5LAhkh8tMaOa9DFu6-TyYGUbFgqFWFhzLO4_EUlkz283uY5u6SH1OQBuN9AGvgcZ6KlhvLg8JgOvbf5iGQ3vcjV-Cj8V6I05QQk0W_7nMDmlIQtP90dn5Y/s320/IMG20231013142100.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">The interior is an excellent match with tilting seats and side windows smoothly moving up and down.</div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgIyFczPkaVGJ9YiKFzFUkwgJtT1hM9oGmFnokT74Q_FU8f5VhrsJ08MWpW6bgYjQq39NTVQit9Rz3kK5P2z8X_N57o4otimrKx5hKo3PrhUcV-opI_t0MidCvJQ4FiaQfN8yjgjj3S4XIZkPoQVdhW5x0rp72EbhEmJBOt6eP8Ob4eRXgq6q-baVBr5ZSE/s4096/IMG20231013142054.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3072" data-original-width="4096" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgIyFczPkaVGJ9YiKFzFUkwgJtT1hM9oGmFnokT74Q_FU8f5VhrsJ08MWpW6bgYjQq39NTVQit9Rz3kK5P2z8X_N57o4otimrKx5hKo3PrhUcV-opI_t0MidCvJQ4FiaQfN8yjgjj3S4XIZkPoQVdhW5x0rp72EbhEmJBOt6eP8Ob4eRXgq6q-baVBr5ZSE/s320/IMG20231013142054.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Its stance is lovely - a car that I feel looks better as a model than the car itself did. I saw one a while ago and it just seems smaller and more bulbous than the model. It may have been an earlier Elan, I suppose.</div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjNGqTfMzaKkfJwirGeam8ZObVLnB9FaQa-v0EP3Xyd4mBBGP-cVbBKomtWGaEi311fP2-b-AEYaiqnywbrtkVgG95joOU67voW7s3dv9CitCMiU1xzr5hHG1oXlne_kqbYsOcOc1L_fBfJYjER95-ijAFerm5mTiKhZlUhaWZVRmcFYeR7z-uSj3iwFQhB/s4096/IMG20231013142040.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3072" data-original-width="4096" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjNGqTfMzaKkfJwirGeam8ZObVLnB9FaQa-v0EP3Xyd4mBBGP-cVbBKomtWGaEi311fP2-b-AEYaiqnywbrtkVgG95joOU67voW7s3dv9CitCMiU1xzr5hHG1oXlne_kqbYsOcOc1L_fBfJYjER95-ijAFerm5mTiKhZlUhaWZVRmcFYeR7z-uSj3iwFQhB/s320/IMG20231013142040.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">I am surprised that the Model Club did elect to 'correct' the steering wheel. This is the only difference that I can quickly spot and I recall some discussion about this in the social media posts when they first talked about this model being considered. They even had a poll of some sort as I remember and the vast majority of respondents on that particular branch of social media were requesting that they retain the original version, that is with the vertical bar at the top, not at the bottom.</div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhf70pCDRG5YpUiuZKVZucYBYs27sMItcSaXaUZ-9HAAnkYFbw_b72eNlUDsKvDWoD4tf_kHAkHX7jqmD3AiH-KkxpkJUE2oeKbzInpIC2AqP1EyuAy0wrJsLfDZ0hn917wWXNy6DfNjft8o39_7ZBHlgOotzR_mcHyhqo9f-Hg-BPvR32zueBGq0zo1iJW/s4096/IMG20231013142031.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3072" data-original-width="4096" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhf70pCDRG5YpUiuZKVZucYBYs27sMItcSaXaUZ-9HAAnkYFbw_b72eNlUDsKvDWoD4tf_kHAkHX7jqmD3AiH-KkxpkJUE2oeKbzInpIC2AqP1EyuAy0wrJsLfDZ0hn917wWXNy6DfNjft8o39_7ZBHlgOotzR_mcHyhqo9f-Hg-BPvR32zueBGq0zo1iJW/s320/IMG20231013142031.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEitmx0hBv6jurEv6EwjX3m6umRQ6Gs9Ut4GcxxihdMAnHctYyAz0m5UF15Vz-ts0rvalciVmnKp0ZsDZi_kDcwVhKAqsJ_IDdIeLQOvQ2LAN9ViZeaOwKCm-3O1ag6vxQTOyN_nJHR7kwrJlU2uHR32tIVccDNk3yurIgJbwJrJA0OGaLBTnPQgEDGF4Ccj/s4096/IMG20231013142024.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3072" data-original-width="4096" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEitmx0hBv6jurEv6EwjX3m6umRQ6Gs9Ut4GcxxihdMAnHctYyAz0m5UF15Vz-ts0rvalciVmnKp0ZsDZi_kDcwVhKAqsJ_IDdIeLQOvQ2LAN9ViZeaOwKCm-3O1ag6vxQTOyN_nJHR7kwrJlU2uHR32tIVccDNk3yurIgJbwJrJA0OGaLBTnPQgEDGF4Ccj/s320/IMG20231013142024.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhQHPnm7QWDw3-jFqGbQ0Gx3TLJH8SFwJ2Jhsd7yLexR9s9gQ47TtBctud-yctWOjxJ9ZgtA_NvFub5r5tQBjQobe9VvJWsbmE-wxr8L04a8RyrXk0HbsET_ych90ie9EqLBiaHe-lHl9kRDbsr7GnMO2HWXpUDbOJDUUikyTYq0Ig6MjHUi8GAeyMp9lFN/s4096/IMG20231013142019.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3072" data-original-width="4096" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhQHPnm7QWDw3-jFqGbQ0Gx3TLJH8SFwJ2Jhsd7yLexR9s9gQ47TtBctud-yctWOjxJ9ZgtA_NvFub5r5tQBjQobe9VvJWsbmE-wxr8L04a8RyrXk0HbsET_ych90ie9EqLBiaHe-lHl9kRDbsr7GnMO2HWXpUDbOJDUUikyTYq0Ig6MjHUi8GAeyMp9lFN/s320/IMG20231013142019.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">So, once again, full marks to the Corgi Model Club. Another nice model to add to this rapidly growing collection. At this rate they'll have a good proportion of the range available!</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Something I am sure many will be wondering is whether there will be a white one! Maybe from Horny-Corgi with a transfer on the boot but my money is on the Club creating The Avengers Gift Set 40, Steed, Mrs Peel, brollies and all in the not too distant future. Even now I can see this being utilised for the set with a respray as it is cheaper to acquire than an original. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">I am intrigued to know how the suspension has been provided. It feels quite firm and not like the flimsy and very vulnerable original piece of brown plastic. For all sorts of reasons I see this selling very well.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Now I have had a chance to see the Elan side by side with an original.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi5IGsZTwtMNiucmIOTloL__i7S_XyimjbNz8S9NkdL_P4kEj810FmJ7DtLnun00sefGzjL8C4K8s2BuzUGCFgOXvgpLnEK5W5cDQtvV4dNCFFWEd5Yvlg18RdJvGXMGy54b8ak3B76lNUtvK4824mY_2qj1iDlO9pGCu9gNt1oILhf9ZI_g2zAHtrrnoQf/s2726/IMG20231019190942.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2154" data-original-width="2726" height="506" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi5IGsZTwtMNiucmIOTloL__i7S_XyimjbNz8S9NkdL_P4kEj810FmJ7DtLnun00sefGzjL8C4K8s2BuzUGCFgOXvgpLnEK5W5cDQtvV4dNCFFWEd5Yvlg18RdJvGXMGy54b8ak3B76lNUtvK4824mY_2qj1iDlO9pGCu9gNt1oILhf9ZI_g2zAHtrrnoQf/w640-h506/IMG20231019190942.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Firstly the colour is spot-on, really good, and with just the right 'metallic' sheen too. My second model had RN5 stickers, by the way.</div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhoVv1otLNYhPrFJ7mfYmwcEMyiVYEVaWlO4i-oV3BhJSUC8gD8DPrNOg9TOZx9XEoVSnKrWOFA7dvPZYaPkGZoZIAuU2OmGq5_S8Ol5_d9zi2lKOcY-40D88YlKZ7r_wbziPe-nhfrjAJ3KpMxmTHKIqCaM9Rmy-2yOnRJZ-1qWMsg8QAvcxkj7UUPoT4L/s3749/IMG20231019191004.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1916" data-original-width="3749" height="328" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhoVv1otLNYhPrFJ7mfYmwcEMyiVYEVaWlO4i-oV3BhJSUC8gD8DPrNOg9TOZx9XEoVSnKrWOFA7dvPZYaPkGZoZIAuU2OmGq5_S8Ol5_d9zi2lKOcY-40D88YlKZ7r_wbziPe-nhfrjAJ3KpMxmTHKIqCaM9Rmy-2yOnRJZ-1qWMsg8QAvcxkj7UUPoT4L/w640-h328/IMG20231019191004.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Absolutely nothing to distinguish at the front other than that wonderfully detailed grille.</div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhl6RortIKvCztBZD8ttYqgkOMKxjYNfqyF4y4hchen6cppy6OevftygCLb_gGcgJyGcKlzgNOWpZNjIg8NZXjqkN8pDe5tS-waDBksvGjqPSAl2enin-gGsOmVEGJtHTS1sCFf4ZUBNr2udspRsiNoi9KAx9Hq9p6NZCE0wDPPNGYuUaTRSuzs3u2qZ0bz/s3753/IMG20231019191020.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1923" data-original-width="3753" height="328" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhl6RortIKvCztBZD8ttYqgkOMKxjYNfqyF4y4hchen6cppy6OevftygCLb_gGcgJyGcKlzgNOWpZNjIg8NZXjqkN8pDe5tS-waDBksvGjqPSAl2enin-gGsOmVEGJtHTS1sCFf4ZUBNr2udspRsiNoi9KAx9Hq9p6NZCE0wDPPNGYuUaTRSuzs3u2qZ0bz/w640-h328/IMG20231019191020.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">More at the back, however, to tell them apart. The edge of the boot seems slightly higher on the new issue and, of course, that very white transfer.</div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjfd3k6cP_FEGQZZQwEUPJ3E6ueQbi9LdH56Qjk05Vsh6d83IHqPwqBSow7UMe1bM3SI6NpVFZ1PRYv1pMNPhvLWA-5zAg90AhA_VnxJLaIBkt3gAlpkokvg_En29i5yWMT3v04pRmLQEmyZk2021Z7DyK0YQgVvYLeEVX5x4Rq7mTwIOM4R_zYvWDUzQh3/s4092/IMG20231019191042.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2018" data-original-width="4092" height="316" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjfd3k6cP_FEGQZZQwEUPJ3E6ueQbi9LdH56Qjk05Vsh6d83IHqPwqBSow7UMe1bM3SI6NpVFZ1PRYv1pMNPhvLWA-5zAg90AhA_VnxJLaIBkt3gAlpkokvg_En29i5yWMT3v04pRmLQEmyZk2021Z7DyK0YQgVvYLeEVX5x4Rq7mTwIOM4R_zYvWDUzQh3/w640-h316/IMG20231019191042.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Yes, the Club decided to break with their policy of attempting an exact match by turning the steering wheel round. This is, of course, a more natural position (with the wheels facing straight ahead as they are) but still not right as a reproduction.</div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjeJMbcA3-Sre5Hh_VYpXUsKlfapwQGZvOgnaLoQk0DHapo9Gq3GwN_Nd6xsz46rryraJ0o1Z5kcNePsq2jcMFHYJYHwFm-dc2nv17l_TzVkkPJsY-v7rcyklQs-fUqviuheL7e8yXcd_d5I4AyzRJeGpXy4RqSkop5uB9lEKM0-deReZS1uwsgkF5h1ygi/s4032/IMG20231019191057.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2033" data-original-width="4032" height="322" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjeJMbcA3-Sre5Hh_VYpXUsKlfapwQGZvOgnaLoQk0DHapo9Gq3GwN_Nd6xsz46rryraJ0o1Z5kcNePsq2jcMFHYJYHwFm-dc2nv17l_TzVkkPJsY-v7rcyklQs-fUqviuheL7e8yXcd_d5I4AyzRJeGpXy4RqSkop5uB9lEKM0-deReZS1uwsgkF5h1ygi/w640-h322/IMG20231019191057.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">One surprising difference is the lack of definition on the re-issue when compared to the original. That's definitely not the way round one would have expected!</div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhEta1ozupDvl3id2Wg0-lenEdQMa8ee3GnO4MuXLyn-Lex-5wdfDygA2p1xfvbheuwW6cCa3uol9896ARKezYmWyWb6FKdQO3mo30QsJe0yqMNa-Vl7rq1zVv5gn4vX4nbeyr6abapOWe3b5asHw313uSJNyH2yE02y6rRzyEaVEktwsLeRuh5akArca_Q/s3386/IMG20231019191138.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1704" data-original-width="3386" height="322" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhEta1ozupDvl3id2Wg0-lenEdQMa8ee3GnO4MuXLyn-Lex-5wdfDygA2p1xfvbheuwW6cCa3uol9896ARKezYmWyWb6FKdQO3mo30QsJe0yqMNa-Vl7rq1zVv5gn4vX4nbeyr6abapOWe3b5asHw313uSJNyH2yE02y6rRzyEaVEktwsLeRuh5akArca_Q/w640-h322/IMG20231019191138.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">The engine is, indeed, all silver, as my original (although I am sure later editions of the original had some black elements, not that I can recall more than one example which would have been a white GS40 issue). The writing on the top covers is much clear too.</div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgIS_wxdA3HP8jzhCZSsdwK2oykRpFbaXMFc1xY3z78AM_CiO-nQP4aiimBcJWAoLjDDthcm9vd7_MoIZ32PwtTt4AH2L8GpSjbzr0xLwx4aH1BW8uNTk-r_AmwcyE5ddREeitkrEivcVYDsMf2FDEIPz01AlGTf_THWdeXCtugWv1UMTkpB6CiRby9_C9A/s4096/IMG20231019191203.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3072" data-original-width="4096" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgIS_wxdA3HP8jzhCZSsdwK2oykRpFbaXMFc1xY3z78AM_CiO-nQP4aiimBcJWAoLjDDthcm9vd7_MoIZ32PwtTt4AH2L8GpSjbzr0xLwx4aH1BW8uNTk-r_AmwcyE5ddREeitkrEivcVYDsMf2FDEIPz01AlGTf_THWdeXCtugWv1UMTkpB6CiRby9_C9A/w640-h480/IMG20231019191203.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">The box is really the only item which I was disappointed with as the model itself is a superb effort. I accept that modern printing processes may have to create the shinier surface but the illustration is much more gold than it should be, my box not being faded, and showing the true illustration colour. More importantly, though, is the continued failure of whoever does the text part of the design to recognise how wrong the font is, especially for the list of features. That section is quite wrong and really easy to have corrected. The title bit bottom right is always not quite right on the re-issues too, in this case a fraction too big which, again, is easy to spot and correct. The numerals they now get pretty much right so, come on guys, more attention to the text next time, please.</div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><p></p>Andrew Hillhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00976984938460821874noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1067948387688151749.post-1935829399548386782023-10-01T01:00:00.003+01:002023-10-13T19:05:42.772+01:00Corgi Toys @ 60: Rover 2000<p> It's October 1963 and you need to rush down to your local toy shop to buy the wonderful Rover 2000.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgd2J5HR6RUekh8ZcGZqIwgQeziU4yRrsdYOPITav8elw7gA8QkjvFxl4f_x-7C_KPc7kLue0tW4z5TBiqpt8ROy37mMsIJy4D0ai-Y3k8QlPlY_JL2NUfh_Q5uUNEP2vA6FFKGe5S_1HCazjIF_JZUjgvd6HkbdHdsQHy-WH1R3r3fKyRS_99z50inkRIO/s1600/IMG20230420175835-1600.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1200" data-original-width="1600" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgd2J5HR6RUekh8ZcGZqIwgQeziU4yRrsdYOPITav8elw7gA8QkjvFxl4f_x-7C_KPc7kLue0tW4z5TBiqpt8ROy37mMsIJy4D0ai-Y3k8QlPlY_JL2NUfh_Q5uUNEP2vA6FFKGe5S_1HCazjIF_JZUjgvd6HkbdHdsQHy-WH1R3r3fKyRS_99z50inkRIO/w640-h480/IMG20230420175835-1600.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">This was the first saloon car to get <i>Trans-o-lite</i> headlamps, and we got twin headlamps too! This system had been used in the VW Toblerone van and Commer Pick-up where an opening on the roof did not look odd and the tubes could be easily hidden. With the Rover, Corgi incorporated the input as a section of the rear screen.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhazvEwkzK3DifZ_yN8kiXUPQ9aMHe4-4LIolWgMXKOcfdXcDO0qrlyubSjuPyQo972VB0k0PeahATTaXPFxuOqEDAK4qUqNPdRL3Mi8YfJ9hjeMgXZry0Xon7Hf0Uu5Fw4nXjeBJf76gc_fp25wfP6fxC3ucthjukiLCio-nRxLmQ9IdhKfG6Eg7fFrpRX/s1600/IMG20230420175841-1600.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1200" data-original-width="1600" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhazvEwkzK3DifZ_yN8kiXUPQ9aMHe4-4LIolWgMXKOcfdXcDO0qrlyubSjuPyQo972VB0k0PeahATTaXPFxuOqEDAK4qUqNPdRL3Mi8YfJ9hjeMgXZry0Xon7Hf0Uu5Fw4nXjeBJf76gc_fp25wfP6fxC3ucthjukiLCio-nRxLmQ9IdhKfG6Eg7fFrpRX/w640-h480/IMG20230420175841-1600.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">The lights were great and, for many who did not get the van or pick-up truck, this was the first model where they experimented in the dark with a torch and flashed the lights quite realistically.</div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhNyKnEWchjJliNFIBcLPyzreUjLAtvpAeFpgLtx1DPfS-Es4ghAMNyQZU4uhxAUw2lxJ1-pB5GpKHMACMhRQ5xDl4iV-N2yqI5XsSKAZd9Gy5t5SoHauZ1SIdExrb5f1IbkyJ2m6OXNIPP6k6JdZTWApQqpjZo29SwqElaI5DkXEf31LTlDRTYFa3aUSMb/s1600/IMG20230420175903-1600.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1200" data-original-width="1600" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhNyKnEWchjJliNFIBcLPyzreUjLAtvpAeFpgLtx1DPfS-Es4ghAMNyQZU4uhxAUw2lxJ1-pB5GpKHMACMhRQ5xDl4iV-N2yqI5XsSKAZd9Gy5t5SoHauZ1SIdExrb5f1IbkyJ2m6OXNIPP6k6JdZTWApQqpjZo29SwqElaI5DkXEf31LTlDRTYFa3aUSMb/w640-h480/IMG20230420175903-1600.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">The rear screen was somewhat weakened by the need for a rectangular element to be fitted and now you'll find many models with small cracks around the area where the light enters.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">The Rovers in a 252 box were mostly a metallic steel blue colour with a red interior but there was also a maroon edition with a white interior. This was issued quite a lot later and first seen in the December 1966 Car Transporter Gift Set 48/41.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgvbZ4UlNmhDX1TYWEtZtdraULYx7Y7blps3vLDYyvUKm1dBkfGFbsczGEcaYzcasHhaW_oi8iEbduavV-xPGJ7GSfTL2CkuYJyGDm3nOK1b94DGct-ieklgk16OHZoCRD8dHa26CATelzmcAoeskZTj3kX1ue_4rdfaLkawhvz-Kp3f1-cM_T76269fsCB/s1600/P1130734-1600.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1200" data-original-width="1600" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgvbZ4UlNmhDX1TYWEtZtdraULYx7Y7blps3vLDYyvUKm1dBkfGFbsczGEcaYzcasHhaW_oi8iEbduavV-xPGJ7GSfTL2CkuYJyGDm3nOK1b94DGct-ieklgk16OHZoCRD8dHa26CATelzmcAoeskZTj3kX1ue_4rdfaLkawhvz-Kp3f1-cM_T76269fsCB/w640-h480/P1130734-1600.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">A very scarce maroon edition also exists with cast wheels, produced for late issues of the Gift Sets.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh2LHRoOzvWK-sGT_ABG8OeEptCfBLdrFKJ3gi2SsTkkC8YGM8k2eHwQKJv4ei5tF1uULHwNywnAWxDtWOgP_l8TNLhT_yaymENkNtBbEfXIvbxBYxOrbs-DjWerqGDmjUBf3RtVBNkkeCCbBxN7VS7vPdEOtMMKiY2hO5NmHKdVfqfySFvGwR0sMsVKSza/s1600/P1570481-1600.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1200" data-original-width="1600" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh2LHRoOzvWK-sGT_ABG8OeEptCfBLdrFKJ3gi2SsTkkC8YGM8k2eHwQKJv4ei5tF1uULHwNywnAWxDtWOgP_l8TNLhT_yaymENkNtBbEfXIvbxBYxOrbs-DjWerqGDmjUBf3RtVBNkkeCCbBxN7VS7vPdEOtMMKiY2hO5NmHKdVfqfySFvGwR0sMsVKSza/w640-h480/P1570481-1600.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">A gold-plated 252 model was made in very limited numbers, some, but not all, being attached to the lid of a cigarette box and distributed to selected Rover customers and senior executives. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhVEGRp0yuOnAQLLoyrGNh_NGiCjp2yM7eyKM5Cqyck1xyPAAUfngQaOsyL2cri-dpidEsYqWL8hJin7UHoDnS7XLVTXU60TqHnAEGk-Uch1nCcr_047GWpwugheVJFVuCq3IXhXf7QWy0jFwm89HJeEqm1LLsuAsu6y66wRW5-y89uQjSiWKxAflOknx6S/s1600/P1280866-1600.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1200" data-original-width="1600" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhVEGRp0yuOnAQLLoyrGNh_NGiCjp2yM7eyKM5Cqyck1xyPAAUfngQaOsyL2cri-dpidEsYqWL8hJin7UHoDnS7XLVTXU60TqHnAEGk-Uch1nCcr_047GWpwugheVJFVuCq3IXhXf7QWy0jFwm89HJeEqm1LLsuAsu6y66wRW5-y89uQjSiWKxAflOknx6S/w640-h480/P1280866-1600.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><p></p>Andrew Hillhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00976984938460821874noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1067948387688151749.post-1688852168358468982023-09-16T14:11:00.000+01:002023-09-16T14:11:44.360+01:00Meet the 406 Land Rover<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjnpFtzTz-qic1TpkBDgCubkL6zlFcraOpHt-F0pla4RviXYemt8ZVAK-gUfb3auxTwSv4lakSPy1sY7ncCjPHLHebwx7wj18iZaxttILahZc-aKr_5bCfP000YmxYlaCbwINi3g6xeLXz9GIYu5wHGYw55Uu8NXuHqjQ6RpkLUHjw06CwigNtCf73hgiy4/s4096/IMG20230916131426.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3072" data-original-width="4096" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjnpFtzTz-qic1TpkBDgCubkL6zlFcraOpHt-F0pla4RviXYemt8ZVAK-gUfb3auxTwSv4lakSPy1sY7ncCjPHLHebwx7wj18iZaxttILahZc-aKr_5bCfP000YmxYlaCbwINi3g6xeLXz9GIYu5wHGYw55Uu8NXuHqjQ6RpkLUHjw06CwigNtCf73hgiy4/w640-h480/IMG20230916131426.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">This delightful late model 406 Land Rover arrived here in the village today. It has barely a mark on it and was simply irresistible when I spotted it at a very modest price last week.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">This joins the ranks of another dozen 406 models currently available, or 13 if you include the 406S! The first one shown below is also quite unusual being fitted with smooth wheels but having the later type of body without 'handles' at the rear.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Generally there are just two types for each of the three colours: smooth wheels with 'handles' and shaped wheels without 'handles' - until, of course, someone comes up with a fourth variation! The only models issued in boxes were the yellow/black and blue/cream ones and they did not have canopies. The green models were issued with a 102 Pony Trailer in Gift Set 2 and these did have a tan tin canopy.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">You can view my <a href="https://sites.google.com/view/corgitoys/home/farming/land-rovers" target="_blank">catalogue at this link</a> or buy any <a href="https://corgi-toys.myshopify.com/search?q=406" target="_blank">models from this link</a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiPt2xr79YYqkH3T95PziQoaL-UpPUudEz1bdJSeezo_SoRIXx3hSorbVyoo8gsQAwfOsBRpUrlTIyD4y5w3owR9XwqgJ5pod32yFhwVHv1ld3u4x7PAeuZQlDgQFkRB9bqOkjNtjI_2wT1spX3eslm5MQaD7QjDBJp_lZFbu8brLnxvsbAooi_UjjlPwWS/s4096/b1-1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; 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Similarly, customers will not have to pay as much either as I am reducing my own store prices to ensure they're more competitive.</div></div><p></p>Andrew Hillhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00976984938460821874noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1067948387688151749.post-15053423323776209192023-09-14T15:15:00.002+01:002023-09-14T15:15:37.259+01:00Mechanical model colours update<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiQjatzp3dkwOe7qlPkvmoyBKPDi8CpQ1pCzDDDX67CX09l3Bn6GasO-fnFvA9_r2mT9ykgXFvCUOhsA-dNELmONyMzAt_fX14835oGYDXg6phX8Y48k3sYlckVobGeKlZ_P1cSIUvfgrhLxMsojpoJsJ6cEMVc3JivhV0Q5jMuVTiRFNHcwkeyOkfEZAIj/s1023/Screenshot%202023-09-14%20150019.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="509" data-original-width="1023" height="318" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiQjatzp3dkwOe7qlPkvmoyBKPDi8CpQ1pCzDDDX67CX09l3Bn6GasO-fnFvA9_r2mT9ykgXFvCUOhsA-dNELmONyMzAt_fX14835oGYDXg6phX8Y48k3sYlckVobGeKlZ_P1cSIUvfgrhLxMsojpoJsJ6cEMVc3JivhV0Q5jMuVTiRFNHcwkeyOkfEZAIj/w640-h318/Screenshot%202023-09-14%20150019.png" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">I have recently updated the table of colours which I have found on early Corgi issues. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">The orange Austin Cambridge, red Riley Pathfinder and turquoise Hillman Imp are particularly rare as Mechanical issues. All the non-mechanical issues in 'M' colours are rare as these were only produced when the last of the already-painted bodies for an intended Mechanical model were paired with a normal issue base when the friction motor bases were discontinued.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">If you have any other variations, do let me know. I have just added the blue 200 Ford Consul.</div><br /><p></p>Andrew Hillhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00976984938460821874noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1067948387688151749.post-51697684243755931502023-09-14T13:45:00.004+01:002023-09-14T13:45:25.639+01:00Another unusual Studebaker Golden Hawk<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhLjdLor2FxVXk84lN6TutwaPfCkpatU2htiJjdyveit893RO8MigdTpr7Kg5_ZtSh6Y3aAxxh6pmj_cMvoO29P48OTIMpYph2wGqnvm40Kn88czZ1xXyQ3x4_s048jYgVSEllVpaDN8n9IqRqNTkPp9K4TXWmeL-VfReu2vnTIGAxjYT6Sc26lj0RzU83Z/s1326/s-l1600.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="500" data-original-width="1326" height="242" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhLjdLor2FxVXk84lN6TutwaPfCkpatU2htiJjdyveit893RO8MigdTpr7Kg5_ZtSh6Y3aAxxh6pmj_cMvoO29P48OTIMpYph2wGqnvm40Kn88czZ1xXyQ3x4_s048jYgVSEllVpaDN8n9IqRqNTkPp9K4TXWmeL-VfReu2vnTIGAxjYT6Sc26lj0RzU83Z/w640-h242/s-l1600.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">This picture was all I had to go on but the price for the four models was very low, with little apparent interest from anyone on Ebay a few days ago. Looking at the Studebaker, Chevrolet and Jaguar, I suspected some repainting. Quite good repainting, maybe, but still that I would perhaps only find the Ford to be original. I might well have moved on and left them to the restorer community but I was also intrigued by the Studebaker which might have been a nice example of the 211M edition so set a fairly high bid limit as that one would worth it alone.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">I won the auction for a very modest £38 including postage and wondered what would arrive in the post.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhJ-a377BR5XSebhKg0n2Ti3kS5IyY_P7UkAvG1WeiBVoWU2LKcE9xTwdnsmjbKtifHArYv8sjNbKMfY9TnPh-8klJtmgryzLp-eoMlUnNdPjJ1CvXNAnvLzwG7KFnCLFajonCqUPsQKy2xAIYotlb2cEaVrgUbFiLLDG4cuQmX2v1FFONYJJWU6UT9R8ux/s4096/IMG20230911125708.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3072" data-original-width="4096" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhJ-a377BR5XSebhKg0n2Ti3kS5IyY_P7UkAvG1WeiBVoWU2LKcE9xTwdnsmjbKtifHArYv8sjNbKMfY9TnPh-8klJtmgryzLp-eoMlUnNdPjJ1CvXNAnvLzwG7KFnCLFajonCqUPsQKy2xAIYotlb2cEaVrgUbFiLLDG4cuQmX2v1FFONYJJWU6UT9R8ux/w640-h480/IMG20230911125708.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">The Studebaker was in superb condition but it's not the 211M! Something much more special!</div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhxgsDqUb2vP95FKCdA1vHrMEbe5Yxj2Lv0Egb2PC79812wVyZH9UJ5WzbxJUFpHdX5K971N2tzmhHdMRCAKOtjIsa1ZfbWhucTqPvyNJPLULKZ2W3ZZQCaDXlj_cbXIPG1USR7dwGG8oDpV52W40h5ytl190TFmzL1lx70BObcC4Ru21LrRngeAucnYYmn/s4096/IMG20230911125737.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3072" data-original-width="4096" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhxgsDqUb2vP95FKCdA1vHrMEbe5Yxj2Lv0Egb2PC79812wVyZH9UJ5WzbxJUFpHdX5K971N2tzmhHdMRCAKOtjIsa1ZfbWhucTqPvyNJPLULKZ2W3ZZQCaDXlj_cbXIPG1USR7dwGG8oDpV52W40h5ytl190TFmzL1lx70BObcC4Ru21LrRngeAucnYYmn/w640-h480/IMG20230911125737.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">The base is the 211S base which might seem very dodgy but I knew about a small number of models that had been made. They were a batch of 211 bodies that were painted in the 211M colour scheme but for which the M base and friction motors were no long available, production having being discontinued. The 211S was the first 'S' model by some considerable time and there would have been the new bases in early 1960 so the odd compilation is understandable, although one might have expected an interior and suspension to be provided too. I haven't take one of these apart but it must be the case that there is a different method for retaining the axle than applies in the usual 211S base. Peering through the window I can see the support pillars for an interior and twin prongs for suspension wires are present and I think a small addition has been made to limit the movement of the axles.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">There really are not many of these around. It is entirely original and a genuine rarity. </div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhRsPwu3kiW0zATcr9MiHEjYgVlcvq_E6mp0zlczVXb6qJEyzHTx1WSJ77DPBNy5H705nB3hT8pN1GeksznsbFPutb0SKm-VWpEEKwz08yrx_2mu_IRL8tpv_ke7pDm8PBdpKkv8sHo_tumeDpAiIJX7OErfdOn-_82Nx2d4DwCfwvW_Z_4A9Dh_s2ZdeKM/s4096/IMG20230911125806.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3072" data-original-width="4096" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhRsPwu3kiW0zATcr9MiHEjYgVlcvq_E6mp0zlczVXb6qJEyzHTx1WSJ77DPBNy5H705nB3hT8pN1GeksznsbFPutb0SKm-VWpEEKwz08yrx_2mu_IRL8tpv_ke7pDm8PBdpKkv8sHo_tumeDpAiIJX7OErfdOn-_82Nx2d4DwCfwvW_Z_4A9Dh_s2ZdeKM/w640-h480/IMG20230911125806.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">As if that wasn't enough of a delight, the Jaguar was not a repaint but a scarce dull, deeper red variation of the 213S model which is already scarce with smooth wheels, the vast majority having shaped wheels. The 213S was released in March 1961 and shaped wheels were fitted to new issues from July 1961 so these smooth wheels will have only been fitted during the first few months of production, probably just the first batch issued.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi3BE--sFAyopl-0Ln7W5rPFm8pQdfnThBykYLlSAbz_2PM2-x2_23Pjw_ny5xkVAOhgffdwSg_-EiqHZ-5OSPTHxO5MPybDjKWvRtLLh5gw0rxwv0UJCOOx_APTBERjBnVBPpQ5Vmto_oZwayQbb5HUTirjWxIOM1Ystw9bagqcOagF81TkSlTq7WjgFNu/s4096/IMG20230911125933.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3072" data-original-width="4096" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi3BE--sFAyopl-0Ln7W5rPFm8pQdfnThBykYLlSAbz_2PM2-x2_23Pjw_ny5xkVAOhgffdwSg_-EiqHZ-5OSPTHxO5MPybDjKWvRtLLh5gw0rxwv0UJCOOx_APTBERjBnVBPpQ5Vmto_oZwayQbb5HUTirjWxIOM1Ystw9bagqcOagF81TkSlTq7WjgFNu/w640-h480/IMG20230911125933.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">The duller red shade I had not encountered before but it is quite distinctly different. This particular model needs a bell for the roof architecture but it is otherwise excellent, with an original aerial and door transfers intact.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi6riDGDI6utExEMFCvWuJJuk6M23LRVPw0wRxsuRigsP88Ka3gV9sAAPgymD9bUiquN0ByAUWrCQBwdYAKZSMhKbbm2pQizMxH-Ov5sladkLdFPjESIDBuzt-GXhV2sZsUYeOyJ0j37B9ogGqFod3N5XOpdx_TqalYFB5K8R6Y6VTmF7-2cm7UXcOUIZSw/s4096/IMG20230911130057.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3072" data-original-width="4096" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi6riDGDI6utExEMFCvWuJJuk6M23LRVPw0wRxsuRigsP88Ka3gV9sAAPgymD9bUiquN0ByAUWrCQBwdYAKZSMhKbbm2pQizMxH-Ov5sladkLdFPjESIDBuzt-GXhV2sZsUYeOyJ0j37B9ogGqFod3N5XOpdx_TqalYFB5K8R6Y6VTmF7-2cm7UXcOUIZSw/w640-h480/IMG20230911130057.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">The Chevrolet Impala is not some child's attempt at a two-tone version but what I guess is the result of the model being left in bright sunshine for a long time. It has some casting flaws but is otherwise as near-pristine as the other models in this collection of models which clearly were not much played with, if at all. There's not much I can do about the paintwork, unfortunately, but maybe someone would like a pink and salmon version!</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjVy298XPIP2sgjbk6JG5BBMKTPull2JdlKCFkSxh035YihuaL9khzz9Ozfy2WqgiR-DDbWWrCqMJ57oJ73DcEGO87XJVNcIdbrVPI96dKicGHD4ctVdQ67y4e0QxawianT5HO-gOHeDmXwGwDqC-GrlzU3wKrGV2N0MueygmQD1dtGCZCMGW8EFxM0J3jq/s4096/IMG20230911125824.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3072" data-original-width="4096" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjVy298XPIP2sgjbk6JG5BBMKTPull2JdlKCFkSxh035YihuaL9khzz9Ozfy2WqgiR-DDbWWrCqMJ57oJ73DcEGO87XJVNcIdbrVPI96dKicGHD4ctVdQ67y4e0QxawianT5HO-gOHeDmXwGwDqC-GrlzU3wKrGV2N0MueygmQD1dtGCZCMGW8EFxM0J3jq/w640-h480/IMG20230911125824.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Finally there is the early edition of the Ford Zephyr Estate. This has lovely paintwork but the windows have suffered - not from the usual exterior marks and scratches models often pick up but these marks are inside! There is a piece of white plastic about the size of the rear seat base which is free to rattle about and generally cause trouble. I've no idea how that got in there, with no route through to the inside from the base or wheel arches for something of those dimensions. So I have to assume that this made its way inside during production.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">So, an odd collection indeed, but every one is interesting in its own way, as so often is the case with Corgis. They are all available to buy, although prices for the Studebaker and Jaguar will be high as they form part of my own collection now and you'll need to pay what I would have to pay for another!</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><p></p>Andrew Hillhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00976984938460821874noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1067948387688151749.post-14537361883062174632023-09-09T15:14:00.002+01:002023-09-09T15:14:59.038+01:00Corgi Model Club: an unusual Studebaker Golden Hawk<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiPiFfDPZOoXeMMvLRs2D81VEVm4hZk5pU8SQwEqwz4CkUArXHZaIktX-9CsKwEVp5VYNjxo2XUf6tMb169hWG3NGf4pNtfVKk6syJYQmyCYBSq6A2qQKAQiHOjeknMcmBFCP-FUwV2eqexUOHOjJ1UEf8aObQWuQbQr7UhqWaIWM1pxMOartMSvSFoaLr0/s1600/IMG20230908134406-1600.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1200" data-original-width="1600" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiPiFfDPZOoXeMMvLRs2D81VEVm4hZk5pU8SQwEqwz4CkUArXHZaIktX-9CsKwEVp5VYNjxo2XUf6tMb169hWG3NGf4pNtfVKk6syJYQmyCYBSq6A2qQKAQiHOjeknMcmBFCP-FUwV2eqexUOHOjJ1UEf8aObQWuQbQr7UhqWaIWM1pxMOartMSvSFoaLr0/w640-h480/IMG20230908134406-1600.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Here is the latest addition to what is now a substantial range of Corgi models from the Corgi Model Club, the 211S Studebaker Golden Hawk.</div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgFryRy8DtdE3Z7960PLPI7tjsk6RzAlbtaGpJLHXBgJGVX75wPHTRi15wdqMzqnGDKMJEf9v1owJ-eYo4wL_eakKBzdl2uvqav5nOL6cquS-a21sANgUiLKDeD5n5na9tY3nd-9FOJacUUGQK4-8Or3dLhTo9pZ2Hzdx_A_4BU2hrzXwQOv6T6KflMspIb/s1600/IMG20230908134352-1600.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1200" data-original-width="1600" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgFryRy8DtdE3Z7960PLPI7tjsk6RzAlbtaGpJLHXBgJGVX75wPHTRi15wdqMzqnGDKMJEf9v1owJ-eYo4wL_eakKBzdl2uvqav5nOL6cquS-a21sANgUiLKDeD5n5na9tY3nd-9FOJacUUGQK4-8Or3dLhTo9pZ2Hzdx_A_4BU2hrzXwQOv6T6KflMspIb/w640-h480/IMG20230908134352-1600.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">This is very close to a copy of the late edition which was painted in metallic gold, a slightly less common edition than the very shiny gold or silver-plated models that had been fitted with an interior and suspension. I say <i>very close</i> because this is a marvellous copy, with nothing that I can see to distinguish it from an original in the casting or as I look at it here. There is, though, one difference: you will not find an original with free-spinning wheels.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">As it happens I have been searching for one of these with smooth fixed wheels for many years. All I have found so far is a repainted one which has appeared twice; once with QDT and again on Ebay. It's been done well but has the usual 'additional elements' that restorers find so hard to resist when they have that paintbrush in their hand.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj6gD-_l0QU7tgC1QE4XPg0kbUlEgWffe4JS3upEY4ieRevuFrGkhSySfRuzqM_BPasPYdk36aelN-tovdq1KXLDVuQ0ipC9dirOZWEsufG4VkYfGFIaDxSUQn6CPU_t-xGff_4Tf8b9Z1lWfuYhdb6aTx47Z87pdhP9qTK9t3J1C27N1g00BEtiXADdJc0/s4096/IMG20230909092856.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3072" data-original-width="4096" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj6gD-_l0QU7tgC1QE4XPg0kbUlEgWffe4JS3upEY4ieRevuFrGkhSySfRuzqM_BPasPYdk36aelN-tovdq1KXLDVuQ0ipC9dirOZWEsufG4VkYfGFIaDxSUQn6CPU_t-xGff_4Tf8b9Z1lWfuYhdb6aTx47Z87pdhP9qTK9t3J1C27N1g00BEtiXADdJc0/w640-h480/IMG20230909092856.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">This re-issue is otherwise very faithful indeed with no silver on the rear panel nor red on the lights. Perhaps the silver on the bumpers fore and aft is a little 'heavy'-looking but that is really extremely minor and probably no different to another issued model than the only one I've got at the moment to compare it with.</div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">In the box you get the now familiar thin plastic sheet wrapped around the car and the usual certificate.</div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjGCpNte7z14DLP-iI6BxfrZVzVzzcKjzhx4cqmBV92TeeVumfPu87LKJKiymimSKAE9PIuwKZYFLf2NbAWRYPp5QKc_iUg7Hl9D1Nl79lE_kFO5uLI5vZbu5eiLK5ITzUCUdFxunYvLMgejYs-jr9kYG29tklHUMbkLO75tfTuZ2yZmuegxXh7yQX9oV92/s1600/IMG20230908134313-1600.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1600" data-original-width="1200" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjGCpNte7z14DLP-iI6BxfrZVzVzzcKjzhx4cqmBV92TeeVumfPu87LKJKiymimSKAE9PIuwKZYFLf2NbAWRYPp5QKc_iUg7Hl9D1Nl79lE_kFO5uLI5vZbu5eiLK5ITzUCUdFxunYvLMgejYs-jr9kYG29tklHUMbkLO75tfTuZ2yZmuegxXh7yQX9oV92/w480-h640/IMG20230908134313-1600.jpg" width="480" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Try as hard as I might, I cannot see anything other than the wheels to distinguish this on display.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiPxTOFWOtiA4_cohWd3CgaSz4Ry9rJh-EVeKB-2a7r0_Dzj0GgdNqsgjwbNeF1YnKmCkPMOKQ0Kmfy7xAkyhyU2QWMMSDig4doqWTk8HU3FRpGjlGUlBNx-ho_h93Q0RgMOPuPH1odvT-OazljASdolRFQiqBUqmhsPdgxlVlKYRKgIBsAtcRVa1ynr5Sa/s4096/IMG20230909092841.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3072" data-original-width="4096" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiPxTOFWOtiA4_cohWd3CgaSz4Ry9rJh-EVeKB-2a7r0_Dzj0GgdNqsgjwbNeF1YnKmCkPMOKQ0Kmfy7xAkyhyU2QWMMSDig4doqWTk8HU3FRpGjlGUlBNx-ho_h93Q0RgMOPuPH1odvT-OazljASdolRFQiqBUqmhsPdgxlVlKYRKgIBsAtcRVa1ynr5Sa/w640-h480/IMG20230909092841.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Are those side lights just a tiny bit fatter?</div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEghELeiz0psT8Td8XOY3fATBbb7hemfU4Z5Uto8l_npAsPn3vaVrHCrK9hbElNnkJ1U0pYwDOK3xMwUS0y1cFG5FDFryQNbbPUWeOf1tvpU0PbXHksPyvugBX-M8trk7OG-J4W-AjHWR6p8CBVgChmLt6KenrU6-OUnxwB74OKHM_n4zGcCu4evI3CLb6SA/s4096/IMG20230909092856.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3072" data-original-width="4096" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEghELeiz0psT8Td8XOY3fATBbb7hemfU4Z5Uto8l_npAsPn3vaVrHCrK9hbElNnkJ1U0pYwDOK3xMwUS0y1cFG5FDFryQNbbPUWeOf1tvpU0PbXHksPyvugBX-M8trk7OG-J4W-AjHWR6p8CBVgChmLt6KenrU6-OUnxwB74OKHM_n4zGcCu4evI3CLb6SA/w640-h480/IMG20230909092856.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Could that rear badge be a little too low?</div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjBawVYvYUEFs-fe_9qEAG0Vr28FU5J6CFzjeqcjQbQGV4PP-TvHZXqY4Ry2kojUsh-FWlQxXtCBlpZtUoDuKRK__8pFvZ47eMoyNQIqTQgZOI7oP8IG71WFe0Vuf-m6JePkQ1rWEvDm4ktSjDN3UdUTMDXGq4IHgtp_iShBk7j2AACpCIUP4-W7-EwZyXV/s4096/IMG20230909092929.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3072" data-original-width="4096" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjBawVYvYUEFs-fe_9qEAG0Vr28FU5J6CFzjeqcjQbQGV4PP-TvHZXqY4Ry2kojUsh-FWlQxXtCBlpZtUoDuKRK__8pFvZ47eMoyNQIqTQgZOI7oP8IG71WFe0Vuf-m6JePkQ1rWEvDm4ktSjDN3UdUTMDXGq4IHgtp_iShBk7j2AACpCIUP4-W7-EwZyXV/w640-h480/IMG20230909092929.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhEUmsFFSDr2RhnJQ-IuShFaCo42yjW0aj6otavb-sYYbmZC9OZz429dZ_7Zbp09UlnlgVk4_PG1BiuAXfdxZtC0tYxkpEYOgLPRuLN0gBnZHwlBy3FbVHhK2kEkClm48lMYhYD9V83bWPuYUqrcbCoD3NqtrRMG4MwdFUh7qyfI5ZKKj88Q-eKoJgd9KM9/s4096/IMG20230909093042.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4096" data-original-width="3072" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhEUmsFFSDr2RhnJQ-IuShFaCo42yjW0aj6otavb-sYYbmZC9OZz429dZ_7Zbp09UlnlgVk4_PG1BiuAXfdxZtC0tYxkpEYOgLPRuLN0gBnZHwlBy3FbVHhK2kEkClm48lMYhYD9V83bWPuYUqrcbCoD3NqtrRMG4MwdFUh7qyfI5ZKKj88Q-eKoJgd9KM9/w480-h640/IMG20230909093042.jpg" width="480" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">It all looks very good to me. I was looking for an original in better condition than mine (as well as the possibly non-existent smooth wheel variant) but this will do fine in the meantime!</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Another super bit of work from the designers at the Club and their distant manufacturers.</div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><p></p>Andrew Hillhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00976984938460821874noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1067948387688151749.post-26082449540817774522023-09-08T13:17:00.002+01:002023-09-08T13:17:59.991+01:00New items in stock for September.<p>There were no new issues in September 1963 so my next Corgi Toys @ 60 post will be in a few weeks time. So I thought I would share some recent arrivals here in the village and tell you about some changes to my sales outlets.</p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjZ3tjoll0okR1mq2INGeICcAeMR1OwyEPaem4BTmxYqVzEbzXO2SkcBb4w4PzUv8LoKbQPHdwDbJCXXM4anjV6oS-ZtSlZ2eCBcjnp_s-JWDjMez-VB2rxL9E0OJgSq9rJq_kYpjW5MEVf3M9QfeSieWfByLvXM7m0AZoPRXqzkYgn8_1SXXijwItzwvYB/s1600/IMG20230908092502-1600.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1200" data-original-width="1600" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjZ3tjoll0okR1mq2INGeICcAeMR1OwyEPaem4BTmxYqVzEbzXO2SkcBb4w4PzUv8LoKbQPHdwDbJCXXM4anjV6oS-ZtSlZ2eCBcjnp_s-JWDjMez-VB2rxL9E0OJgSq9rJq_kYpjW5MEVf3M9QfeSieWfByLvXM7m0AZoPRXqzkYgn8_1SXXijwItzwvYB/w640-h480/IMG20230908092502-1600.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">A delightful model from the initial launch range, the Ford Consul in mushroom.</div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhYF3XP_p7QF1bNL-gMCvWy4AnAJsCLDN4gs2LVp84W7YlxmOIZr6PBeJRUQ6mRBQx6Kjeo1BZgMm5tFVq5C1Y-2KoC4zHYGrAuKNK46PRv7sYEz4zkvPoiiHET2fLHFMa7i0y34s-XDwPklkzYUZalpzZFA1fIW7WDtN2qpSrFVsJrbuWRu36brWSInsPe/s1600/IMG20230901145131-1600.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1200" data-original-width="1600" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhYF3XP_p7QF1bNL-gMCvWy4AnAJsCLDN4gs2LVp84W7YlxmOIZr6PBeJRUQ6mRBQx6Kjeo1BZgMm5tFVq5C1Y-2KoC4zHYGrAuKNK46PRv7sYEz4zkvPoiiHET2fLHFMa7i0y34s-XDwPklkzYUZalpzZFA1fIW7WDtN2qpSrFVsJrbuWRu36brWSInsPe/w640-h480/IMG20230901145131-1600.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Waiting for a suitable trailer is this fawn Land Rover from Gift Set 2. I want to pair this with a similar coloured Pony Trailer, one with fixed shaped wheels, the scarcer edition as most appear to have free spinning wheels.</div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjcbruwm3E9ixsENGZSYY4fKMURVYfFUr4xjsTAnL3V0Vpm_lhQicNQN-nVzQ7fHI4_OQE28AAIPbWB7HxfRArC4EmuNXxXxT-3HW3acd1YuYT9WtGxxg66BjiDMFcpoGecHGkq5M2y828C-CoI4li2ilFBMGFr_uBJKvQi1hM0D1EiwxsSGTXlipdFvtl1/s1600/IMG20230901144820-1600.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1200" data-original-width="1600" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjcbruwm3E9ixsENGZSYY4fKMURVYfFUr4xjsTAnL3V0Vpm_lhQicNQN-nVzQ7fHI4_OQE28AAIPbWB7HxfRArC4EmuNXxXxT-3HW3acd1YuYT9WtGxxg66BjiDMFcpoGecHGkq5M2y828C-CoI4li2ilFBMGFr_uBJKvQi1hM0D1EiwxsSGTXlipdFvtl1/w640-h480/IMG20230901144820-1600.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">From a late Gift Set 4 in 1972 comes the last 1:43 scale tractor from Corgi pulling a trailer with a pile of hay and two very funny looking characters on top. There should be some fences, sheep and a dog too which I need to find to complete this. This is the last time Farmer George will be seen too. This set didn't last long and the kids were dropped too in the 1973 Gift Set 5.</div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhDGp401DhuxUaRIn_6zuOZ1CSxBT22QzL4CIkWD7y_CQkG7YkAfLKiBiN2QlAcdxQZbjTN7XOh8k_4sJp7pLrVGOrsC9FkzZL9YpzJitmOBXKv-W9ByJAVJpZixB-odM2xP1UJPmoutk9u8JB96d4ItAuh83DdjyIhCXQd_QS3JerPHxMj4mjeaPY2h93-/s1600/IMG20230901144441-1600.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1200" data-original-width="1600" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhDGp401DhuxUaRIn_6zuOZ1CSxBT22QzL4CIkWD7y_CQkG7YkAfLKiBiN2QlAcdxQZbjTN7XOh8k_4sJp7pLrVGOrsC9FkzZL9YpzJitmOBXKv-W9ByJAVJpZixB-odM2xP1UJPmoutk9u8JB96d4ItAuh83DdjyIhCXQd_QS3JerPHxMj4mjeaPY2h93-/w640-h480/IMG20230901144441-1600.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">The Renault 16 has one of the shortest production periods of all Corgis, issued first as a saloon in February 1969 only to be replaced by the blue Whizzwheels edition in May 1970. It looks lovely if you can find one with good paintwork, which is very susceptible to chips. Remarkably, within that short period there are two different base types This one has RENAULT 16. The one below has RENAULT 16TS. The blue one has RENAULT 16 "TS".</div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh9_ChSqlMo8PBn9g_OioUjp2-Tw3ZhM8CV2E1GZh8kff7XK12TT0CQd4wHvnK6EGkRkgXl5arUtWkpurKJ3fXT3PUTfg0g_Fu7o0v12BZ7dzHbHBBgrBG1KVe4-icl_xz_UwJQQMKcp8wlOg3KLEaoHyrLX1gG4L6svSwe0V5JlgdxN7oFZS4xWHUyE3uj/s1600/IMG20230901144255-1600.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1200" data-original-width="1600" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh9_ChSqlMo8PBn9g_OioUjp2-Tw3ZhM8CV2E1GZh8kff7XK12TT0CQd4wHvnK6EGkRkgXl5arUtWkpurKJ3fXT3PUTfg0g_Fu7o0v12BZ7dzHbHBBgrBG1KVe4-icl_xz_UwJQQMKcp8wlOg3KLEaoHyrLX1gG4L6svSwe0V5JlgdxN7oFZS4xWHUyE3uj/w640-h480/IMG20230901144255-1600.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">The colour of the ring holding the rear hook in place also changes from red to grey.</div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgCUCp9O3EWsv4GxKBO27r_STPwSJRt4T4qI2PEtMKLar4WyC4MBsFyyN5Z54DNYRkzXP6kUo_xKqEq8v8nlMmnse1L0QsMP8y5gjuEWyBSu8mSqD0EzDbl7cfgPlk9dtEFqLyKZaJOdPlTQyd4DtSNadUqTEvPtRG3tvaDctwskiRtlnkJarPX2XmT9jcT/s1600/IMG20230901144057-1600.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1200" data-original-width="1600" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgCUCp9O3EWsv4GxKBO27r_STPwSJRt4T4qI2PEtMKLar4WyC4MBsFyyN5Z54DNYRkzXP6kUo_xKqEq8v8nlMmnse1L0QsMP8y5gjuEWyBSu8mSqD0EzDbl7cfgPlk9dtEFqLyKZaJOdPlTQyd4DtSNadUqTEvPtRG3tvaDctwskiRtlnkJarPX2XmT9jcT/w640-h480/IMG20230901144057-1600.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Here's the blue one with 'pepperpot' Whizzwheels. You may be lucky and find a few with the later '4 crown' style but this didn't last much longer than the purple one, being deleted itself in 1973. I always have to smile when opening the bonnet and finding the original cast wheel spare!</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjmLtVfVygKq5MqOJH2FanTc3pZXjBs75l7aUr2eeHjrzLzbSLieZ9kREFy_tVzdIsa6kCmESFTNb8AeTSDJAwW73Qft4prMhuOQtXUeARuzU_S38pRAxMiV96_Sej3-arQXpl6_0yTHEiZ2CR4hblHaIYyOBm2BeHNjN068ATMXJqhwCDIEVb6fyqumI8M/s1600/IMG20230901144219-1600.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1200" data-original-width="1600" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjmLtVfVygKq5MqOJH2FanTc3pZXjBs75l7aUr2eeHjrzLzbSLieZ9kREFy_tVzdIsa6kCmESFTNb8AeTSDJAwW73Qft4prMhuOQtXUeARuzU_S38pRAxMiV96_Sej3-arQXpl6_0yTHEiZ2CR4hblHaIYyOBm2BeHNjN068ATMXJqhwCDIEVb6fyqumI8M/w640-h480/IMG20230901144219-1600.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgBHXGchYNzRbedTwU4OxyN0QCESt7mlqcMY9PUT_gxZRLf0nPXWKa1DLSclKODT9j0538_s9U-xcueOpwNW0xQJrfdBdtjSc9TYitdbaXqKSY-DpYrDFhJ7j0_0hDxN0BiHD28pIXfQcCVc50f7RTINANGaYudnNngMJ33GiOQ4SxMT1s1lvraj91a1vKI/s1600/IMG20230901144005-1600.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1200" data-original-width="1600" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgBHXGchYNzRbedTwU4OxyN0QCESt7mlqcMY9PUT_gxZRLf0nPXWKa1DLSclKODT9j0538_s9U-xcueOpwNW0xQJrfdBdtjSc9TYitdbaXqKSY-DpYrDFhJ7j0_0hDxN0BiHD28pIXfQcCVc50f7RTINANGaYudnNngMJ33GiOQ4SxMT1s1lvraj91a1vKI/w640-h480/IMG20230901144005-1600.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">The old Plymouth was the first model to get an interior (excluding open top models) and this too had two types of base - one has grey and this one has cream.</div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiGQKcNPLk5fJioUU-QQchit6rs5DbZ4rx0cNpt6oJDCrjKsTTUWsI7wBzaJTeegjo_7MlM5FAXmdVc4SdNwQbY_wBl-PBe49OXWpGokAW8O1Hu9O3ZqgCxzqtojzNsmX-xEUXzyGrQFvKr6LGyzsxOZX8IzCZYgQ3WtAbdPp8Tol3O7S-srsqu_QxT6zSw/s1600/IMG20230824111127-1600.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1200" data-original-width="1600" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiGQKcNPLk5fJioUU-QQchit6rs5DbZ4rx0cNpt6oJDCrjKsTTUWsI7wBzaJTeegjo_7MlM5FAXmdVc4SdNwQbY_wBl-PBe49OXWpGokAW8O1Hu9O3ZqgCxzqtojzNsmX-xEUXzyGrQFvKr6LGyzsxOZX8IzCZYgQ3WtAbdPp8Tol3O7S-srsqu_QxT6zSw/w640-h480/IMG20230824111127-1600.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">You need to look underneath this Ford Consul to see that it is a 200 and not a 200M! I like these examples where there will have been a few painted castings lying around when the friction motor type was discontinued and so they had a tin base fitted and put in a 200 box and sent to the dealers for some lucky kid to find.</div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiEot7FqgTFzr7n_3wUBONUzpw-p7Bv_WnLy6s71g_sAF6DLC5l_JQ7zbBZCKuw6nL876DIgN9knlAu6zNimqZsIzQ5pENVXJKzxnQu-pKAxCM-pxremq2Jb5IEvTaqdRhEUztxPZJofuA6ialbnCESac3F23z9RYn5fJQCtQtIQif_lwevVXqRNElAbw_-/s1600/IMG20230824111050-1600.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1200" data-original-width="1600" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiEot7FqgTFzr7n_3wUBONUzpw-p7Bv_WnLy6s71g_sAF6DLC5l_JQ7zbBZCKuw6nL876DIgN9knlAu6zNimqZsIzQ5pENVXJKzxnQu-pKAxCM-pxremq2Jb5IEvTaqdRhEUztxPZJofuA6ialbnCESac3F23z9RYn5fJQCtQtIQif_lwevVXqRNElAbw_-/w640-h480/IMG20230824111050-1600.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgMdVxNCDCcG9kgXXcRSN73EW77OVu92J2l_jNBTtf1vW6IsRiyKec2LhUfJVC5kH5cgcvza8XaQmRYMbMrLdgO-IKr-9AlsItNgwT36TN0ssTz5PoVvUHyJSydsNLntQHhyGaKPFaG0hNxIG5wm5i6xXFiOeoAmF5Uii5QT-qMC6dqdpla4h_3RPpWpwdC/s1600/IMG20230824110956-1600.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1200" data-original-width="1600" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgMdVxNCDCcG9kgXXcRSN73EW77OVu92J2l_jNBTtf1vW6IsRiyKec2LhUfJVC5kH5cgcvza8XaQmRYMbMrLdgO-IKr-9AlsItNgwT36TN0ssTz5PoVvUHyJSydsNLntQHhyGaKPFaG0hNxIG5wm5i6xXFiOeoAmF5Uii5QT-qMC6dqdpla4h_3RPpWpwdC/w640-h480/IMG20230824110956-1600.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">The first model with suspension was this Renault Floride. This is a later edition with shaped wheels and not easy to find now. (I had hoped it would turn out to be one with free-spinning wheels which is much less common, but I shall have to keep looking for that one!)</div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh5Tn94OpE5Bj8Crf4dqaQf_OXeg6Pfuwf_EeFnHVhv7FItBhYT_eUw2t5phWplqQWmiQe4GksVP1DqUfKhfipBkaxvfj9D4RdThWsAheW7EWj961TN6F64PYYr1AVLuVfVggt0WV7VrzFjGeSSk2xBSWo18btTT433PySGlTajQ80OMoeC7PEeRPKmye24/s1600/IMG20230824110935-1600.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1200" data-original-width="1600" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh5Tn94OpE5Bj8Crf4dqaQf_OXeg6Pfuwf_EeFnHVhv7FItBhYT_eUw2t5phWplqQWmiQe4GksVP1DqUfKhfipBkaxvfj9D4RdThWsAheW7EWj961TN6F64PYYr1AVLuVfVggt0WV7VrzFjGeSSk2xBSWo18btTT433PySGlTajQ80OMoeC7PEeRPKmye24/w640-h480/IMG20230824110935-1600.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjNiEMsyKHyuZI4nvkQh1YJqpxQ49yhGFvYgIjgYox4yzHOjzpzmxF0Z1D3O_qi4xts0hD1OwVFYE2ciDcYgd0tbzq8AZi9nCnAqHrHhEDyZPkSXvwQEIh-5ALVJSFvGBuJIJ7HWZIodZxUaaJQ0VXfvU01FuV9ib2PqtIH_C4usypHSJ3zM-93eS-f-Y_V/s1600/IMG20230824110820-1600.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1200" data-original-width="1600" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjNiEMsyKHyuZI4nvkQh1YJqpxQ49yhGFvYgIjgYox4yzHOjzpzmxF0Z1D3O_qi4xts0hD1OwVFYE2ciDcYgd0tbzq8AZi9nCnAqHrHhEDyZPkSXvwQEIh-5ALVJSFvGBuJIJ7HWZIodZxUaaJQ0VXfvU01FuV9ib2PqtIH_C4usypHSJ3zM-93eS-f-Y_V/w640-h480/IMG20230824110820-1600.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Both the Chevrolet Impalas above are the less common editions with shaped wheels rather than cast wheels. Because these two were around in the catalogues for many years, cast wheels became dominant, in marked contrast to another of my favourites, the Taxi edition and saloon which were extremely short-lived and for which cast wheels are scarce to see.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">You can find these on <a href="https://www.corgi.toys/" target="_blank">my web site</a> and <a href="https://corgi-toys.myshopify.com/" target="_blank">in my own online store</a>. Some may be on Ebay but I am finding Ebay a bit expensive now, having rather more items listed than I am entitled to have without charges. Accordingly I am cutting back what is listed there substantially, with the aim of just one item to represent an issue with a request that people visit my online store for similar models to that shown. Now that they permit 24 photos per item, I can also add some photos of other models. Ebay's fees on sale are also quite substantial and, whilst it is by far the most popular place for collectors to seek models, I am hoping that I can encourage more and more to come to my place where I'll offer lower prices and get to keep the payments made by people.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">This does mean I shall be publishing a few more posts to promote my items but I will try to make sure they're still entertaining and interesting too!</div><p></p>Andrew Hillhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00976984938460821874noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1067948387688151749.post-29797696871056616852023-08-24T17:22:00.001+01:002023-08-24T17:22:20.732+01:00Tractors<p>I've been looking at tractors. I knew there were some variations but I had not really looked very closely before or made much of an effort to review them. The Corgi agricultural range is small but really nice and well-made - well, at least, the models from the 1950s and 60s are. Things went downhill rapidly in the 1970s but we'll leave that for another day.</p><p>First there is the Massey Ferguson 65 tractor, issued in May 1959.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhiX38oOEwHjzrVswvY9SZ3wZEfk16e64HEEMNN8PS6HR-i9BRJ4zb8LiiHSw2PgfqqpcZDWKmzuDhbkBBMuKO9teY9bCrAtS3PjnAjMbV2Tqf9EoXV7fOKVOXzTEaJQAphChWXtAt6R2OqwBLDJoJ1itqYpYP7toTLfkOK563UAXgqbwuo_ooebF-G2HnJ/s1600/IMG20230824092252-1600.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1200" data-original-width="1600" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhiX38oOEwHjzrVswvY9SZ3wZEfk16e64HEEMNN8PS6HR-i9BRJ4zb8LiiHSw2PgfqqpcZDWKmzuDhbkBBMuKO9teY9bCrAtS3PjnAjMbV2Tqf9EoXV7fOKVOXzTEaJQAphChWXtAt6R2OqwBLDJoJ1itqYpYP7toTLfkOK563UAXgqbwuo_ooebF-G2HnJ/w640-h480/IMG20230824092252-1600.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">At first it has a black steering wheel and metal wheels. The very first also had gold lettering and a red seat.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi3QfFoINaf7hfTdOFXXkcRLghy7MJlpikRCcZvWfp3VH_fnVEp1WqdqjOp9l7Zw-iMUs5y-nTsbutau_LYvHBdxyq1-4AgFg46h0dAcFkvRhxOzFduLgzHf1-Xy_J6suHBx8DecuEX-X8jE86WP26goEBKE6p6QuHJU1qPjHVLPKl-9_0vhmGrDEbkmQp_/s1600/IMG20230824102336-1600.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1200" data-original-width="1600" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi3QfFoINaf7hfTdOFXXkcRLghy7MJlpikRCcZvWfp3VH_fnVEp1WqdqjOp9l7Zw-iMUs5y-nTsbutau_LYvHBdxyq1-4AgFg46h0dAcFkvRhxOzFduLgzHf1-Xy_J6suHBx8DecuEX-X8jE86WP26goEBKE6p6QuHJU1qPjHVLPKl-9_0vhmGrDEbkmQp_/w640-h480/IMG20230824102336-1600.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Later it gets plastic wheels and a slightly pink shade for the previously cream parts. Most you'll find will have silver or, more rarely, cream painted seats.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">The trailer also has similar variations for the wheels.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhPTjqB_B4Pq7klEwRFt8l7GUv9fGyE7S21OvwEOY5Z0raAhcDj2ZLanOPq8SuB9fVBBNA18BH5AY3U3l-CkB_knUm04dfXNBa0BwAe0WgdBWZ7Veg8sfGSGwjpeq-qUGpn8aNlBsbdd6wvK5jxIewZCcngX-6TuXGOYBKT8qrIWygiPjMBVlOYwNmc9_OK/s1600/IMG20230824094723-1600.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1200" data-original-width="1600" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhPTjqB_B4Pq7klEwRFt8l7GUv9fGyE7S21OvwEOY5Z0raAhcDj2ZLanOPq8SuB9fVBBNA18BH5AY3U3l-CkB_knUm04dfXNBa0BwAe0WgdBWZ7Veg8sfGSGwjpeq-qUGpn8aNlBsbdd6wvK5jxIewZCcngX-6TuXGOYBKT8qrIWygiPjMBVlOYwNmc9_OK/w400-h300/IMG20230824094723-1600.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">The early trailer had metal wheels and the pin holding the mechanism in place on the chassis has its head on the right side.</div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg1aVEDHarMvz3t0cOVhCj6wApVyakAZBYvz3jDIm6N2122DgpgD5bUEs28A85TCV5Cfzf3z-ZTH80UarpWs0Sme9osjZ6wrUn8oKwvfHTMy-GAJRGST9VAut8cZHoDCp7Q0mUNR2fWb4TfLD2zdPeZc-f3KMngxUcar5g7epSKNv3KjxrGrsK7N2-0HWN9/s1600/IMG20230824094854-1600.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1200" data-original-width="1600" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg1aVEDHarMvz3t0cOVhCj6wApVyakAZBYvz3jDIm6N2122DgpgD5bUEs28A85TCV5Cfzf3z-ZTH80UarpWs0Sme9osjZ6wrUn8oKwvfHTMy-GAJRGST9VAut8cZHoDCp7Q0mUNR2fWb4TfLD2zdPeZc-f3KMngxUcar5g7epSKNv3KjxrGrsK7N2-0HWN9/w400-h300/IMG20230824094854-1600.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Later trailers had plastic wheels and the pin head is on the left side. It is unlikely that the change of pin direction and wheel type happened at the same time so a third variation is possible although I do not know which change came first.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">I also find there to be a distinct colour difference between the metal and plastic wheels on both the tractors and trailers with the metal ones being a brighter red and the plastic slightly deeper red.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Next came a Fordson Power Major Tractor and a plough, in May 1961.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh0Qnrzsf4NG_VxxOjCFy261afD1MAjAO_ZnrTfdKDYH3AfixCjg_6Jk8YmdjduWAPzVURIIJ5SMuNR8EfGZL3FoFtBT3zgQtfO8MXZqReE3gohOFb5CkoJD1RP6j3mCwdwLDsBzEl5hHB065WaBxXlKyUhsxYyml940cRpvDuf8TspLAoo6DFl5feBNe6C/s1600/IMG20230824091138-1600.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1200" data-original-width="1600" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh0Qnrzsf4NG_VxxOjCFy261afD1MAjAO_ZnrTfdKDYH3AfixCjg_6Jk8YmdjduWAPzVURIIJ5SMuNR8EfGZL3FoFtBT3zgQtfO8MXZqReE3gohOFb5CkoJD1RP6j3mCwdwLDsBzEl5hHB065WaBxXlKyUhsxYyml940cRpvDuf8TspLAoo6DFl5feBNe6C/w400-h300/IMG20230824091138-1600.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">It is always 'Fordson' blue and is first issued with pale orange metal wheels.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjD8M-Fl_7UOnjRpR02c4oWP6y8aY1RB6Z0ZnWKcIhaV5IIJ4t_RLHpdVomBBJPHdxkbEGCRAyfIkdaZsmXMsmdaCkKD0AgTQn9cXHr7jFzprj6RKs43gKCIkYZjw9l-g2kx2LgoOWY22vKB-nmT26Q82PY-EKacgQR7X1JhUmu0oRuZub3mjCs1iiLilvu/s1600/IMG20230824090900-1600.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1200" data-original-width="1600" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjD8M-Fl_7UOnjRpR02c4oWP6y8aY1RB6Z0ZnWKcIhaV5IIJ4t_RLHpdVomBBJPHdxkbEGCRAyfIkdaZsmXMsmdaCkKD0AgTQn9cXHr7jFzprj6RKs43gKCIkYZjw9l-g2kx2LgoOWY22vKB-nmT26Q82PY-EKacgQR7X1JhUmu0oRuZub3mjCs1iiLilvu/w400-h300/IMG20230824090900-1600.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">The plough has three linkage points and can only be used with this tractor. It can be quite difficult to fit but can then be very nicely lifted and lowered using a lever by the seat, operating very realistically. There is also a tin hook fitted to the first Fordson - the same type and size as can be found on Land Rovers and various other trucks at the time.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhqWCyTcg026ichoLq5jxlCO74QKQfCtsKJcrXW0jfkM4BL33oCnWyD8rhMqqus4yZ8Es9jLimRro_DihZ4Aw6eBh4Hkx0LKX6LWxeybUTmoTo-Z_eXybzomrUeOUKseIrZgR3sJJrxpjefJX7lQCSUZF2LoKdWtT9sIO9rXU3QyRw2jP07sNqhehptteSi/s1600/IMG20230824090805-1600.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1200" data-original-width="1600" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhqWCyTcg026ichoLq5jxlCO74QKQfCtsKJcrXW0jfkM4BL33oCnWyD8rhMqqus4yZ8Es9jLimRro_DihZ4Aw6eBh4Hkx0LKX6LWxeybUTmoTo-Z_eXybzomrUeOUKseIrZgR3sJJrxpjefJX7lQCSUZF2LoKdWtT9sIO9rXU3QyRw2jP07sNqhehptteSi/w400-h300/IMG20230824090805-1600.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Later models have much brighter orange, plastic wheels.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjn4cc_KVEd50eQvHqocJsTxzi-dNonnMLDbzmpxwgRAupnZgsZ3mBxuiBCXFym9HJr_WqVmAKL9scqLEcZ20tP_5NdSyt2HjzdF3a97Wm0XF6in7lhorqFahwfEy2fheyAAtcj9R_6aawQWRsVFHHmNp6XmwVJM4ANGSZ93gtD3kTuZ5jbsQGsghgLtTPS/s1600/IMG20230824091247-1600.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1200" data-original-width="1600" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjn4cc_KVEd50eQvHqocJsTxzi-dNonnMLDbzmpxwgRAupnZgsZ3mBxuiBCXFym9HJr_WqVmAKL9scqLEcZ20tP_5NdSyt2HjzdF3a97Wm0XF6in7lhorqFahwfEy2fheyAAtcj9R_6aawQWRsVFHHmNp6XmwVJM4ANGSZ93gtD3kTuZ5jbsQGsghgLtTPS/w400-h300/IMG20230824091247-1600.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Model #50 Fordson Power Major has headlamps at the side of the radiator. In December 1964 there is the same name on the transfer but now the Fordson tractor has its headlamps inset in a redesigned front end.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgxG1mT869ZxPnUgDD_c5oRtSjRrnk8vFDHegNpVKFhjZdAHfJKDJITn5gp1yIZeRsIMfpF_CyIj2JBK0s3S36uuwnKSCmz4q4dciLOeAdxzzpvwc1eZ7Q4W7kBM24o4PcowpepnEy1UPzAz8ocozTgmQUc-I7v9xI89xsF5_7YbjyC2i5ghomfy6BsF8DF/s1600/IMG20230824092006-1600.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1200" data-original-width="1600" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgxG1mT869ZxPnUgDD_c5oRtSjRrnk8vFDHegNpVKFhjZdAHfJKDJITn5gp1yIZeRsIMfpF_CyIj2JBK0s3S36uuwnKSCmz4q4dciLOeAdxzzpvwc1eZ7Q4W7kBM24o4PcowpepnEy1UPzAz8ocozTgmQUc-I7v9xI89xsF5_7YbjyC2i5ghomfy6BsF8DF/w400-h300/IMG20230824092006-1600.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">The new one, #60, also has a much more realistic traction rod-controlled steering and a redesigned rear linkage section, a much simpler device to which a new plough could be more easily attached. The tin hook also is replaced by a smarter type with the same lever controlling its release.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjpUw9fFUzOUvBGh3U5LDlXfFx0i1e4B4TWwtHwTNA-jve0Q3HCyNbGqDB-JG3QjRymYgBY4PX2yp1_2DONqvTMld8JzwAKk5WcpTzoJ_h2U9G0MxclYd9KD8_SIqDQhCdijxH0HhSQCEPL9xnQZsIJ-eOywKnEdi6r68cgat0doFth4LjV4TkdyeFO5lZG/s1600/IMG20230824091929-1600.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1200" data-original-width="1600" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjpUw9fFUzOUvBGh3U5LDlXfFx0i1e4B4TWwtHwTNA-jve0Q3HCyNbGqDB-JG3QjRymYgBY4PX2yp1_2DONqvTMld8JzwAKk5WcpTzoJ_h2U9G0MxclYd9KD8_SIqDQhCdijxH0HhSQCEPL9xnQZsIJ-eOywKnEdi6r68cgat0doFth4LjV4TkdyeFO5lZG/w400-h300/IMG20230824091929-1600.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">The #60 Fordson Power Major always has plastic wheels and was issued with a driver.</div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgrUIAeKRoflcGhcn2UC2u2c_v0v4sLLQKrC6cZDaWIFNX1wBBcHZYMxXUWI-dF-NJqTTiXfXSaGFjtPSnJma3e4kSm4ca3XDo6vF_waCLTgbdp8ohxza3JlfQDx6E6TV765ewUvwKZknQH4WzYJIIhVC6yLt0rrTGkH7Zv_BmlR2GLjkD-M-Lg5NdxDe4t/s1600/IMG20230824091654-1600.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1200" data-original-width="1600" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgrUIAeKRoflcGhcn2UC2u2c_v0v4sLLQKrC6cZDaWIFNX1wBBcHZYMxXUWI-dF-NJqTTiXfXSaGFjtPSnJma3e4kSm4ca3XDo6vF_waCLTgbdp8ohxza3JlfQDx6E6TV765ewUvwKZknQH4WzYJIIhVC6yLt0rrTGkH7Zv_BmlR2GLjkD-M-Lg5NdxDe4t/w640-h480/IMG20230824091654-1600.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">At the same time #61 Plough was issued which is the same basic design for the chassis and shares as before but now in blue and shiny chrome with no upper linkage. [Note that in this illustration one share is missing - there should be four.]</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Normally, Ferguson tractors had the red wheels and Fordson tractors had orange wheels but you will find examples where the reverse is true. These are quite scarce and worth looking out for.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiIlp7GvDu-6fqkDZs4pPJVwCHxKeQKGVbvZfZ1jLj7yplWysRIbcrHEie5WgAr-c-u4ePk4MXTyigUL4autuuGwQwZpl4sKCUBbF0VrfncSLMNBWaBC3JeTJU9ICVSbYg1vg-_c1vW1M2lL22Veqhr7qmRdsVM4g5bk1VgAxjnZUin2fM3XyRrdLAZaLim/s1600/P1590649-1600.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1200" data-original-width="1600" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiIlp7GvDu-6fqkDZs4pPJVwCHxKeQKGVbvZfZ1jLj7yplWysRIbcrHEie5WgAr-c-u4ePk4MXTyigUL4autuuGwQwZpl4sKCUBbF0VrfncSLMNBWaBC3JeTJU9ICVSbYg1vg-_c1vW1M2lL22Veqhr7qmRdsVM4g5bk1VgAxjnZUin2fM3XyRrdLAZaLim/w400-h300/P1590649-1600.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">July 1966 sees the arrival of the Massey Ferguson 165 tractor. This is a good-looking model but, like its predecessor, Massey-Ferguson still miss out on the 'extras' as the only feature this one gets is a slightly pointless whirring noise from the front axle when it is pushed along. It does have a new driver, though.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiVlHPokDmaqQCsKsN69OvizFX7yHOGnie-AUKh5fcjXF3AbxestTbLgc9hJL8cduOO9iyISgje0BiGYR-vMEftaTbX3TrKmf7QR55ySBc64DiXV-OErSToj8oTsbGpvprIxZkLXVLPgCPJvayJKRkM3X2r1MvHx90-SLXmI5p6slqeKs3_iZQLAZQUz6wN/s1600/IMG20230824092710-1600.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1200" data-original-width="1600" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiVlHPokDmaqQCsKsN69OvizFX7yHOGnie-AUKh5fcjXF3AbxestTbLgc9hJL8cduOO9iyISgje0BiGYR-vMEftaTbX3TrKmf7QR55ySBc64DiXV-OErSToj8oTsbGpvprIxZkLXVLPgCPJvayJKRkM3X2r1MvHx90-SLXmI5p6slqeKs3_iZQLAZQUz6wN/w400-h300/IMG20230824092710-1600.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhHsS8kkfTpD7ZMUU5jiK0H5uuYSBqbWQd9FfU5qwAKVt9J5_8w1YQgPt76FC8_NalBBIP3VxeeQW5WeZb6eBlobzxvxqVvkh36zcZfQ4to9kC9Tr9MzBBQNiMrH1AwR4fA1LkVtkZNHsfFcCs1t1Wy5LuvGprTF8tspdvHyGNfRMA3hZD2a_MCLQJ6XuwV/s1600/IMG20230824092715-1600.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1200" data-original-width="1600" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhHsS8kkfTpD7ZMUU5jiK0H5uuYSBqbWQd9FfU5qwAKVt9J5_8w1YQgPt76FC8_NalBBIP3VxeeQW5WeZb6eBlobzxvxqVvkh36zcZfQ4to9kC9Tr9MzBBQNiMrH1AwR4fA1LkVtkZNHsfFcCs1t1Wy5LuvGprTF8tspdvHyGNfRMA3hZD2a_MCLQJ6XuwV/w400-h300/IMG20230824092715-1600.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">The rear hook is very simple so this would not be suitable for ploughing tasks.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">January 1967 brings the new tractor from the 'Ford' stable - the Ford 5000 Super Major.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhwoDv2Sgx5rct-fqkImMHvqdQKGkwLKdQWLO19zQA54uxl2Imw1imTRtmETpoYc0Kmja9Hfreu2TlKzA6ZDvgJFClU4HRROLkIIRApAnJJtzBvJyCNo57Yo4qQJDs-cOxrGa6ZM-6fVa814J7Q1BHFuFqh_o6V65Mn61oDoDjm1KCZDCc2moHOT4v8X5NY/s2048/P1030972.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1536" data-original-width="2048" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhwoDv2Sgx5rct-fqkImMHvqdQKGkwLKdQWLO19zQA54uxl2Imw1imTRtmETpoYc0Kmja9Hfreu2TlKzA6ZDvgJFClU4HRROLkIIRApAnJJtzBvJyCNo57Yo4qQJDs-cOxrGa6ZM-6fVa814J7Q1BHFuFqh_o6V65Mn61oDoDjm1KCZDCc2moHOT4v8X5NY/w400-h300/P1030972.JPG" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">This is a nicely detailed model and Ford must have been more generous to Corgi as it gets jewelled headlamps and steering as well as silver plated exhaust and other bits. However, they cannot have been that generous as the steering reverts to the dreadfully ugly pivoting axle type. No doubt a lot simpler to manufacture but it made it much more difficult for us to criticise Dinky Toys' sad steering style when Corgi come up with this! Especially as we had such fond memories still at the time of the Bentley Continental, Mercedes 220SE and Ecurie Ecosse Racing Car Transporter!</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">The Massey Ferguson did get a shovel #53 (April 1960) and a fork #57 (May 1963) attachment on the 65 model and a shovel #69 (March 1967) on the 165 model and it could pull some additional items: a more substantial Tipping Trailer with two extra side inserts as #62 in February 1965, a Beast Carrier #58 in November 1965 and a Disc Harrow #71, quite a surprise issue in July 1967.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjCqT46NdldFi05zC9wnMThMAxVCQ8pecD_twH8YD0FB0I3bIhaIA8WlBN1k9M4PfmfIBnXJVu59zecyZzeIM2C8gUauDsvqxNYI97ecmS7BLPosRz3HPh7qHWNtgb80pJEPM8p4NziFwMtwfdUd1N3heejGmVpaELkKeAwl5DUNBFA_wtFX86FkwjUDxxU/s4096/IMG20230824092538.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3072" data-original-width="4096" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjCqT46NdldFi05zC9wnMThMAxVCQ8pecD_twH8YD0FB0I3bIhaIA8WlBN1k9M4PfmfIBnXJVu59zecyZzeIM2C8gUauDsvqxNYI97ecmS7BLPosRz3HPh7qHWNtgb80pJEPM8p4NziFwMtwfdUd1N3heejGmVpaELkKeAwl5DUNBFA_wtFX86FkwjUDxxU/w400-h300/IMG20230824092538.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">There are so many variations of the shovels and fork that they will have to wait for another article! there was only one Disc Harrow, though. Even this had a special feature - the lever would raise or lower the main axle.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">In September 1969 we see the first of three very detailed models, the Ford 5000 Super Major with a Hydraulic scoop attachment at the side.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEggm-64wBytrrxAZImUOS6o2Q9Rra2uP2uB8i0xwXiZ7ZzF8cYGNpxT3HMQHpkOdSKWjNqmAzRCiUkr27MCEuPItnSlsb17hQews5i9bksxdEsV2gU4cMBAKCvBORENX1_Kih3YiVzGgKYO7exeJippvNy15RgbwAX2Duk7TmOFqK_mCvWNTC-aSg4vBftj/s1600/IMG20230824092825-1600.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1200" data-original-width="1600" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEggm-64wBytrrxAZImUOS6o2Q9Rra2uP2uB8i0xwXiZ7ZzF8cYGNpxT3HMQHpkOdSKWjNqmAzRCiUkr27MCEuPItnSlsb17hQews5i9bksxdEsV2gU4cMBAKCvBORENX1_Kih3YiVzGgKYO7exeJippvNy15RgbwAX2Duk7TmOFqK_mCvWNTC-aSg4vBftj/w400-h300/IMG20230824092825-1600.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Lots of detail including all the hydraulic hoses and an operation box.</div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh0SznarfJTCyKjZRbIWsfdFZADfpMUY1PjJewXov2Q5wFtGAnzFjxf4Gs-MrDwUmwFbEKRWPG0QAWiQg3tAGFAKb7_UFz-QLqtuoNFnR2PgDPzXA9JEaFIjOOSIwpfBGwkWHPdrvzm4lyTdZRahJgK4keJ2elQk1gskFzRJfgfhNxIRNkD4gmKc6sEs-G_/s1600/IMG20230824093000-1600.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1200" data-original-width="1600" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh0SznarfJTCyKjZRbIWsfdFZADfpMUY1PjJewXov2Q5wFtGAnzFjxf4Gs-MrDwUmwFbEKRWPG0QAWiQg3tAGFAKb7_UFz-QLqtuoNFnR2PgDPzXA9JEaFIjOOSIwpfBGwkWHPdrvzm4lyTdZRahJgK4keJ2elQk1gskFzRJfgfhNxIRNkD4gmKc6sEs-G_/w400-h300/IMG20230824093000-1600.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">In March 1970 Massey Ferguson finally get something a bit special with the addition of a mechanical saw attachment to the 165 model.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhKlqbPwhtsvFmbqtkMwT25CTcBb4hmyJbusBKiw7Jfq2is0f-kVOlmkpQi35_Y_Wggd472d167JQ2_0eDUO8IATKmlT9NriIh6jNa8fwbnPjsHyUpQJOUoSuYOj80qb39Lh21lCJh1abrfHqkjnsCaQSPEOkPEqeED7md7wUfQxpn8RYQeJiYH-B7MmWxr/s1600/IMG20230824093102-1600.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1200" data-original-width="1600" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhKlqbPwhtsvFmbqtkMwT25CTcBb4hmyJbusBKiw7Jfq2is0f-kVOlmkpQi35_Y_Wggd472d167JQ2_0eDUO8IATKmlT9NriIh6jNa8fwbnPjsHyUpQJOUoSuYOj80qb39Lh21lCJh1abrfHqkjnsCaQSPEOkPEqeED7md7wUfQxpn8RYQeJiYH-B7MmWxr/w400-h300/IMG20230824093102-1600.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">The saw element actually rotates when the tractor goes along, driven by a most inventive spring which acts like a gear against a toothed inner edge to the tyre and translates the wheel rotation to the saw unit. Quite extraordinary. [This should have a driver.]</div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgciwi5T9w76Wtt59Y4iu86UN9ag9XzBtD-6blHaJa28mLZDzZQPbjyYddSVmnV0trZ8ZdJDY0GTtXc_z_P0vKEjMBNIWqWcZM6ofeSF0IxyauTt9VmAzBahIwbmC9PjmzUQsoD45R4sU0oYYrN2PTOoH-ns0ZkzZ3G1K6Tt1MnIa5vDvgQfIKUNUZdjBk6/s1600/IMG20230824093235-1600.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1200" data-original-width="1600" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgciwi5T9w76Wtt59Y4iu86UN9ag9XzBtD-6blHaJa28mLZDzZQPbjyYddSVmnV0trZ8ZdJDY0GTtXc_z_P0vKEjMBNIWqWcZM6ofeSF0IxyauTt9VmAzBahIwbmC9PjmzUQsoD45R4sU0oYYrN2PTOoH-ns0ZkzZ3G1K6Tt1MnIa5vDvgQfIKUNUZdjBk6/w400-h300/IMG20230824093235-1600.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Finally, in January 1972, a rear-mounted trenching bucket is the 'new' attachment to give extra life to the Ford 5000 Super Major.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiYnQzEj4aAYEmWOCxoDMW5FwCx59m80hWFoB3YBCmkNMxQTbeXkNT6xk1cH5cuGN1iegwzc2QvHZzRQtT6Tr2LWmvbicmyVodCaU1Y0kTNYTnoCVyxz6_CxO3hjojgDCV5UOmOORNRQcFc0t4sXDo3XYWUhfZ5sZcXkuKiAjtb2jacTSyaC2LV5CTtTiA6/s4000/P1220479.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3000" data-original-width="4000" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiYnQzEj4aAYEmWOCxoDMW5FwCx59m80hWFoB3YBCmkNMxQTbeXkNT6xk1cH5cuGN1iegwzc2QvHZzRQtT6Tr2LWmvbicmyVodCaU1Y0kTNYTnoCVyxz6_CxO3hjojgDCV5UOmOORNRQcFc0t4sXDo3XYWUhfZ5sZcXkuKiAjtb2jacTSyaC2LV5CTtTiA6/w400-h300/P1220479.JPG" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">You will see, of course, that it is merely the device used in the 1969 model with a couple of stabilisers added and fitted at the back instead of the side. All these last three models had a short life and sold only in modest volumes, farming in the 70s not having the appeal it had had in the early 60s. The last one, in particular, had a very short production period before being withdrawn in 1973 and is something I now need to replace in my own collection.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">In June 1973 the last 1:43 scale tractor (with an attachment) is issued and you can see it is a very poor model indeed. It does still have young Farmer George inside but that's about all that can be said for it.</div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhk-jOYTy-PBn1iat8FURZ-yexTkAQBXf7f7E0TILKMrMr3OexcxE7NiTF3m0hXFljgFXMHCMWoui06jBTLU3RpjruOX9lZeqacO1St_tdEk1yHDFeQu__Q-VGb4BCKzwVx-U3-2d0aRyAFiqmk3asCthW4_OLRD7tfxirZzm5Ytl3IZhGxMtWa3ZqJzLRX/s1600/P1190669-1600.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1200" data-original-width="1600" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhk-jOYTy-PBn1iat8FURZ-yexTkAQBXf7f7E0TILKMrMr3OexcxE7NiTF3m0hXFljgFXMHCMWoui06jBTLU3RpjruOX9lZeqacO1St_tdEk1yHDFeQu__Q-VGb4BCKzwVx-U3-2d0aRyAFiqmk3asCthW4_OLRD7tfxirZzm5Ytl3IZhGxMtWa3ZqJzLRX/s320/P1190669-1600.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">May 1974 sees it get a shovel attachment but, with most of Corgi's output now in the larger 1:36 scale, this is an odd release.</div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjuut_gsPWSGKPd79MeGEKZ47Fb7RAI468Bvycn9kZ7V5jsyF7zrb03GKM-RLWpTWIaH68Pc2X9FZLMSkQ5l5kF_HGZLYpo_4Sbw3fJbfKNzcEyam-SDJoEi5XsobnTsKPq4XLGLy-tvy1o1t7rZgMVZrrYxZppK1rRBsOcW1m9117LVYWjTEBzESG9uvm3/s1600/P1190728-1600.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1200" data-original-width="1600" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjuut_gsPWSGKPd79MeGEKZ47Fb7RAI468Bvycn9kZ7V5jsyF7zrb03GKM-RLWpTWIaH68Pc2X9FZLMSkQ5l5kF_HGZLYpo_4Sbw3fJbfKNzcEyam-SDJoEi5XsobnTsKPq4XLGLy-tvy1o1t7rZgMVZrrYxZppK1rRBsOcW1m9117LVYWjTEBzESG9uvm3/s320/P1190728-1600.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">September 1976 sees the introduction of the David Brown tractor in the larger scale. The 1:43 story doesn't end there, though, as, remarkably, in April 1980 the Massey Ferguson reappears six years after its initial release and now in orange! With white wheels it is also part of a 'Block' Construction Set with the 'Block' logo on the roof of the tractor. Farmer George, though, retired and is not seen again.</div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjiEk68OenRZYQpNmq8JBYNDWiIwChBsUbGYV5_QcsJ147wmeDzRSo9D1MqScBnLggvSHtpfHaO-zWjSa6d4m6qJUgOzUUgql6zHWX-zimt7fQY4bB4ckMJjmvc6a1h_nsY1MJsBoBxaF8IdJLSGUJ0vVT8SFZBLEdN3B-cFnTTQnAXb9BwgF1RAuR7gE1w/s1600/P1190948-1600.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1200" data-original-width="1600" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjiEk68OenRZYQpNmq8JBYNDWiIwChBsUbGYV5_QcsJ147wmeDzRSo9D1MqScBnLggvSHtpfHaO-zWjSa6d4m6qJUgOzUUgql6zHWX-zimt7fQY4bB4ckMJjmvc6a1h_nsY1MJsBoBxaF8IdJLSGUJ0vVT8SFZBLEdN3B-cFnTTQnAXb9BwgF1RAuR7gE1w/s320/P1190948-1600.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhQ53hUrW53KrSX827xdaA-gEEPRHcFjBaE2MMa4sn3am8kf-C7u6CUXPrTMGErLYwacSLpbejfzX92w1uYpmSOKlQjzyD8JAChvM8AaCnuhq5VmPCI_U6rMTvjr-yFXrIyg-kMVi7JcezKRIuSVDyh__qpousq7nanwZZrjwa6gTbvtXqzcnyAThRJGXJE/s4000/P1190955.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3000" data-original-width="4000" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhQ53hUrW53KrSX827xdaA-gEEPRHcFjBaE2MMa4sn3am8kf-C7u6CUXPrTMGErLYwacSLpbejfzX92w1uYpmSOKlQjzyD8JAChvM8AaCnuhq5VmPCI_U6rMTvjr-yFXrIyg-kMVi7JcezKRIuSVDyh__qpousq7nanwZZrjwa6gTbvtXqzcnyAThRJGXJE/s320/P1190955.JPG" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Seeing these last desperate efforts, one can hardly blame him.</div><p><br /></p>Andrew Hillhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00976984938460821874noreply@blogger.com0