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No leave it up. I like the Lagonda and Hispano Suiza prepros. I don't collect these but they are very interesting models!

I don't collect those either but that IS a nice one. Regular wheels for me

This model looks great with a showmans engine has the load,its one of the models i actually remember from my childhood,my uncle had a biscuit tin with some lesney military models and one of these lowloaders ,only visited them once a year but he always got the tin out for me. :D This right here sums...

I have one of these myself, not sure which version. My Father's, bought for him by my mother, and sat on his desk for years. After he died I pinched it along with a red Y6-2 Bugatti and a white Mercedes Y-10-2. Serious nicotine stains that I mostly got off with a bath. It's the only Corgi in the col...

Love those guy Warriors too. I have several that I use to display models in order to free up space, along with three A-2's and a DAF. Of the three the guy warrior is my favorite (then and now )

I believe the model without the blade was only released with the K-8a Scammell low loader. The tractor furnished in the K-8a box was the K-3 without the blade. You can see the holes for the blade in the bladeless version, as you've noted. Judging from the many K-8a's I have seen with the wrong dozer...

It may be that e-bay is a little slow. I read on one thread where good majors are getting hard to find, yet I've picked up several nice mint boxed examples at decent prices with surprisingly little competition, and no nuking! Same with Kings.

I'm not terribly interested in fakes per se. It's sort of "cheating", and they can be sold as real either accidentally by unknowing heirs, or deliberately by unscrupulous sellers. There is/was one fellow who restored models but he put screws in place of the original rivets so there would n...

Nice. I need a blue Jag!

Happy Birthday Kay!