Matchbox Superfast 59-c Ford Galaxie Fire Chief

Modern collectors are often surprised that the Ford Galaxie Fire chief was not deleted but instead one of the earlier conversions to SuperFast when its replacement the Mercury had already replaced the Galaxie as Lesney´s sole Police car.
It can be found packaged in ´F´ or ´G´ boxes as well as USA or Canada blisterpacks with copyright dates between 1969 and 1971.

Lesney chose a brighter shade of red for the SuperFast issues of the Galaxie Fire Chief however as with the #57 Fire Land Rover very hard to find crossovers exist with standard Regular wheels darker shade of red bodies.
A minority of Fire Chiefs also feature bonnet decals leftover from the Regular wheels production although all door shields are paper stickers.
This was one of a number of castings given a special Lyon´s tea sticker as part of a 1970 promotion but these are extremely hard to find now.

All SuperFast Galaxies featured Lesney´s plastic sprung suspension system that also retained the axle sets which were all fitted with 11 x2mm 5 slot solid or hollow hot foiled wheels.
Glazing and blue roof light were identical to the Regular wheels issues although the seats no longer needed to support the regular wheels suspension strips.
No further use was ever made of this tooling once it was deleted from the 1-75 series in 1971 upon replacement by the Mercury.