Y5-2 Bentley 3-Litre collection

[GHOSTHUNTER]

OK Kerbside, no probs, thank's for the reply, at least the two 'Yesteryears' you have shown are nice examples, look after them, as I might be chasing your race number '3' example, the model on the Right...

Regards,
GHOSTHUNTER.

[GHOSTHUNTER]

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Well, it looks as if your number '3' race decal Bentley might be safe "Kerbside", picked this up for just £1 at the recent Sandown Park toy fair.

I have not identified the actual version of this one yet, to see where it comes in the production time-line, but it looks like the model shown in the earlier post from "Kerbside", but you can say that for so many 'Yesteryears'...

GHOSTHUNTER.

[GHOSTHUNTER]

I have recently had all my Y-5(B) Bentley models out of packing and lined up in their time-line, I have also checked a couple of models not previously identified and I have had chance to identify the race No.'3' model above.

I now know of 36 versions and have 35 of them and I am still chasing the last version with the race No. '3', as the model shown above turned out to be an earlier version.

Try and get a picture posted here soon.

Ghosty.

[YYS4BOB]

This is the kind of info needed for a certain reference section.........

[GHOSTHUNTER]

OH REALLY! I wonder what reference section that is then...

Ghosty.

[Moyboy]

I am waiting on one with the red 6 to arrive and that will give me the whole 2002 book listing except one with a 6 on as 2 base versions of this one so not sure which I need till other arrives. I have never found a true gold model as yet, most have been stained and when cleaned up are all silver.
I had not checked all the minute variations as I'm not into the collecting in this much detail, merely those I can see easily.

[GHOSTHUNTER]

Hello Mick, yes I remember you mentioning this to me before, but I don't know any other way of collecting, this is how I have always done it, long before any worthwhile reference books existed to help me so I just collected as much as I could and studied every last detail, casting mod, colour change etc, etc.

Two apparently identical Y-5(B) Bentley models may only (and do), have a different brake lever casting, I find odd that nobody else seems to have noticed before, the same with the Rolls-Royce collection with two Y-7 Rolls-Royce models, only being different regards the headlamp castings and so it goes on.

I have recently had all available #24c Silver Shadow models lined-up in their 'Time-Line' and it totaled 23 versions, before the conversion to 'Superfast' wheels!!

I like to think I have taken 'Obsessive Collecting' to the limit, because if I hadn't, someone will come to me and say..."the roof circles on my #24 Rolls-Royce are not level, but my other examples are, why?"...so on my models, everything is noted and recorded for posterity, I hope!

Now, I must dash, just noticed the word 'MATCHBOX' on Eight of my #44b Phantom V models are leaning slightly to the left...

Ghosty.

[YYS4BOB]

Are you sure you're not leaning slightly to the right?

[GHOSTHUNTER]

Are you sure you're not leaning slightly to the right?

Ghosty.

[Moyboy]

Ghosty
this was what they did in the old UK Matchbox club - down to the last detail. It got a bit ludicrous though as when you take the Y9 Fowlers I think from memory Ray Bush came up with around 300 different models by including all possible combinations. I'm not sure I would like a display of all these on my shelves so just go with those I can see looking at the model on a shelf. To go to the depth you do (you only collect a certain few which is ok) I would need a warehouse, not a small toy room !!