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Howdy Idris, As far as your comment about flaking, if you take a loop, or can see very well up close, I've noticed very tiny flakes on certain bases that have succumbed to corrosion. Maybe more so on later '60s SF's with thicker/shinier plating. You have to look very close, and may have to search th...

Thanks for the idea and the linc. From what I've read, I wonder if the system was highly developed enough in the '60s to electropolish bases without removing details (lettering). I read electropolishing is used to de-burr and smooth out parts. Also, if it was electroplating that was employed, as we'...

Hey all,
Wondering what the metalurgic make-up of the electroplating that was used when in the early '60s, Lesney made use of their bases as shiny details like bumpers and grills in place of masked silver paint as seen on earlier castings.

Thanks!
Dave

Found the butterscotch one w/silver top. Well done.

But it really illustrates how much the rear roof pillars need to be raked forward and thinned out a bit.

I'm dying to make a Park Ward hard top Coupe using the roof from #24. I've done the eye-balling and everything will BASICALLY line up fine, and have the two donors in the bone yard. Main problem is the angle of the sedan's C pillar is a bit steeper than the coupe's. That will take some serious slici...

I have to like the Draguar being E based and Cali custom culture, and rock n roll combined. #38 was a bit late with the bubble top craze being long gone before 1970. But I'd like to think Lesney got it's inspiration from Bobby Freeman's new '62 double-bubble top Jag full custom. Was one of the coole...

Ha...have a silky smooth Silver Ghostly evening Commander ~

David Vincent Burd

A big 10-4 to that good buddy. Or as you may say in English, thanks for the education and clearing that up! Few companies such as Rolls Royce have such a deep, fascinating, and surely complex history. (Seems to me) My head is so full of facts, specs, and such that I hope to take one of my books and ...

Wow, what a treat.

Thank you for posting these wonderful images!!!

(BTW, the 3rd guy in the top pic appears to be smoking too)

Good info, Ghost-man. All these decades gone by and I just now find out a major Lesney model has been mislabeled as an ought-six. Real nice to have such Ghostly expertise for us all to benifit from. ;) Such a strange mistake. Makes me wonder how this serious blunder came about! As to it not being ba...