K21A Mercury Cougar

[charliep]

K21A Mercury Cougar Issued 1968. All England castings.

Body: Metallic gold or dark metallic gold.
Base: Silver plated.
Wheels: Black rubber tires with chrome plated hubs. Steerable front wheels.
Windows: Clear.
Interior: Off white or red.

1. Metallic gold body/silver pleated base/ off white interior/no opening in front of tow guide.
2. Dark metallic gold body/silver plated base/ red interior/no opening in front of tow guide.
3. Metallic gold body/silver plated base/ red interior/with opening in front of tow guide.
4. Dark gold metallic body/silver plated base/ red interior/with opening in front of tow guide.

[GHOSTHUNTER]

This is another model I want to put back into my NON Rolls-Royce models collection. I loved my example and consider this a great example of classic Lesney production. Bringing regular wheel range details upto a bigger form to compete alongside the current Corgi and Dinky models.

I notice one of the models with red interior is suffering from the dreaded chemical reaction between the tyres and wheel rims. Once the sticky plastic starts oozing out from between the tyre and rim, there is nothing to be done to stop the process. I strongly reccommend the tyres are removed from the other examples and stored in paper bags to save the good rims on the other models.

Ghosthunter.

[charliep]

I followed your advise and removed all the tires. Many times I had opportunities to buy these beautiful models but passed because of this issue. I could not figure out why some of them are fine and others have this chemical reaction.
I used to think perhaps the models were not stored properly. However, there may be two types of hubs. The worst I have seen are examples of the K6B Mercedes Benz Ambulance. Fortunately the other regular wheeled cars seem to fair
much better. All of my K22A, K23A and K24A are good.

[Diecast]

Nice summary Charlie. I am adding some more variations:
http://vintagebritishdiecasts.co.uk/for ... ury#p35516
Antonin