K48A Mercedes 350 SLC

[charliep]

K48A Mercedes 350 SLC. Issued 1973. All England castings.

Body: Light metallic bronze, metallic bronze, dark metallic bronze or metallic silver.
Base: Silver.
Base legend: K48 or K61/K48; Speedkings or Superkings.
Wheels: Five spoke white wall, five spoke or five arch.
Windows: Clear, amber or dark amber.
Interior: White, light yellow or yellow.
Headlights: Clear or amber.
Roof label: Black; half or full size.

1. Met.bronze body/K48 Speedkings sil base/5 spoke white wall whls/dk.amber windows/lt.yellow int/amber headlights/(2).
2. Met.bronze body/K48 Speedkings sil base/5 spoke whls/clear windows/lt.yellow int/clear headlights/(2).
3. Met.bronze body/K48 Speedkings sil base/5 spoke whls/clear windows/yellow int/clear headlights/(1).
4. Lt.met.bronze body/K48 Speedkings sil base/5 spoke whls/amber windows/lt.yellow int/amber headlights/(2).
5. Met.bronze body/K48 Speedkings sil base/5 spoke whls/dk.amber windows/lt.yellow int/amber headlights/(1).
6. Dk.met.bronze body/K48 Speedkings sil base/5 spoke whls/dk.amber windows/lt.yellow int/amber headlights/(2).
7. Lt.met.bronze body/K61/K48 Speedkings sil base/5 spoke whls/amber windows/lt.yellow int/amber headlights/(2).
8. Met.bronze body/K61/K48 Speedkings sil base/5 arch whls/dk.amber windows/lt.yellow int/amber headlights/(3).
9. Met.bronze body/K61/K48 Superkings sil base/5 arch whls/amber windows/lt.yellow int/amber headlights/(3).
10.Silver body/K61/K48 Speedkings sil base/5 arch whls/amber windows/yellow int/amber headlights/full roof label/(3).
11.Silver body/K61/K48 Superkings sil base/5 arch whls/amber windows/lt.yellow int/amber headlights/no roof label/(2).
12.Silver body/K61/K48 Superkings sil base/5 arch whls/amber windows/lt.yellow int/amber headlights/full roof label/(3).
13.Silver body/K61/K48 Superkings sil base/5 arch whls/clear windows/lt.yellow int/clear headlights/full roof label/(1).
14.Silver body/K61/K48 Superkings sil base/5 arch whls/amber windows/white int/amber headlights/full roof label/(3).
15.Silver body/K61/K48 Superkings sil base/5 arch whls/dk.amber windows/white int/amber headlights/half roof label/(3).
16.Silver body/K61/K48 Superkings sil base/5 arch whls/clear windows/white int/clear headlights/full roof label/(2).

[GHOSTHUNTER]

I had this model when new and found it partnered my Corgi M-Benz quite well, so was played with but carefully, none of my models were ill-treated.

Ghosthunter.

[Matchboxer101]

Here i have one with maltese wheels

[Squid]

I've come close to owning a couple of those. Maybe one day I will have one in my collection.

[Matchboxer101]

K48 + K48/61A maltese wheels

[charliep]

I will be updating this post in the near future as I have a couple of variations to add; one of them shown below. Nice finds Squid & Matchboxer101. Looks like I have more variations to look for.
Thanks for posting the pictures.

[bobneumann]

Is the white wall version a pre-production? I have never seen one before.

[matchboxkiwi]

I'm with you on that one Bob. I was going to comment on the white wall tires too. Makes the wheels look bigger. I assume this is from the early 80's when Matchbox were doing the white wall tires on the Yesteryear models. May be a spin off from this? Any ideas ?

Steve
Matchboxkiwi

[charliep]

Just revised the post and added a few more variations. Regarding the model with white wall tires, I remember acquiring it long time ago and it
was one of the very first variations I had of the K48A Mercedes 350 SLC. At first I did not pay much attention to it although over the years I never
came across another one like it. Sorry I cannot contribute any more info.
Charlie