Dinky England #147 1961 Cadillac

[Diecastmolester]

Got me this perfectly straight Caddy. Usually the fins are at least bent, but more often than not broken.
It's probably too clean to restore.

[GHOSTHUNTER]

Very nice and very displayable 'As Is'.

Ghosthunter.

[lionel-honda]

I think I would leave it as-is too.

Nice Caddy!

Scott

[Diecastmolester]

It's a difficultier decision for me than you may imagine.

It's not good enough to satisfy me, or at least borderline, but I'm in the dilemma that it is probably too good to restore.
I can make this really nice, but doing so would ruin it for the collectors.

I am putting it on the back burner until I make a decision.

In the meantime, you have the chance to talk me out of it.
I would be happy to trade it for a worse example, but at least the casting must be intact.

[GHOSTHUNTER]

If it were mine I would be happy to apply some mild restoration rather than a full resto. If however during touching up and cleaning the bright parts it turns into a full resto then nothing lost and a lot gained.

Ghosty.

[Sebastian10]

It looks good to me in its current state - I would leave as it is - as they say on the TV its only original once!

Personally if I wasn't satisfied with this model I would then try to find a better one and then offset the cost by selling this one

I see a lot of restored and sometimes overpriced models for sale on eBay - often they don't even get a single bid

Sebastian

[164Madness]

Far too good to restore.. I mean it has most of it's original paint here and is a great example compare this with some of my poor old ones and it doesn't take a genius to work out that this is rather a 'good' example indeed with it' s window unit in great order and no damage to the casting being intact, plus original dinky tyres still on the car.