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Hallo Linus.
Willkommen im Forum.
Mein Sohn und ich sind begeisterte Matchboxsammler und seit einigen Jahren in diesem Forum.
Es ist schön ein junges Mitglied wie dich in unserer Runde zu haben.

Grüße aus Österreich
Mike und Nico.

Good evening,

I took some pictures, put them into paint and resized them from 100% to 30%. I hope this will work.

It is not my whole collection, the missing ones are in the "sorting-process".

Comments are welcome, also if you have questions....ask!

@ Ghosthunter: the first picture show (I think) all my Rolls Royce's.

@ Mike and Nico: Danke für den herzlichen Empfang. Den Matchbox-Motorway auf Bild 7 habe ich letztes Jahr aus Österreich gekauft und er funktioniert sogar noch!
@ Mike and Nico: Thank you for your warm welcome. Last year i bought the matchbox-motorway (picture 7) from Austria and it is still working!

Greetings,
Linus

WOW! what a collection, thank's for including the Rolls-Royce models. Its going to take a long while for some of our regular forum members to identify all the choice pieces and I will start by asking you very kindly if you could take some closer pictures of just the blue Silver Shadow drop-top, in particular inside the rear wheel arches, the baseplates and the open boot.

Then the baseplates of the two gold Silver Shadow drop-tops.

Many thank's and your pictures are nice and large, making it easy to see the models.

Regards,
GHOSTHUNTER.

Super collection Linus, I am very impressed.

Hello Ghosthunter,

I tried to take pictures of the parts you want to see from the Rolls Royce's.

The blue one was sadly opened sometime, but I bought already in this condition. The paint is original.

I hope the pictures will help you...what are you looking for?

I sure there must be one golden Rolls Royce more with a broken windscreen in my collection...I will look for it.

Thank you Nick!

Greetings,
Linus

Hello Linus, Thank you very much for your time in taking those extra photos. The blue Rolls drop-top has been found with an unusual seat moulding that allows the inner plastic part to extend over the rear wheels and into the rear arch area and another version can have a satin finish baseplate, instead of a gloss finish...unfortunately you don't have either model in the pictured examples.

A version of the gold rolls drop-top can have a tan baseplate instead of the black or dark grey baseplate...you have the black and dark grey baseplates, not the tan version, never mind, despite this, I trust you will still enjoy your models and one day you may find those unusual versions.

Regards,
GHOSTHUNTER.

Hello Linus, here is a comparison of two models...download/file.php?id=622...The one on the left has the unusual seat moulding, seen through the hinge-arm cut-out inside the boot.

Ghosty.

GHOSTHUNTER wrote:WOW! what a collection, thank's for including the Rolls-Royce models. if you could take some closer pictures of just the blue Silver Shadow drop-top, in particular inside the rear wheel arches, the baseplates and the open boot.


Regards,
GHOSTHUNTER.

Are you looking for another long seat example Kevin??

Yes, of course I am, its not fare you have got two of them, I saw it first and now I want two, so until I get another one, don't you go out picking up a third one behind my back...

Ghosty.

GHOSTHUNTER wrote:Yes, of course I am, its not fare you have got two of them, I saw it first and now I want two, so until I get another one, don't you go out picking up a third one behind my back...

Ghosty.

Did i mention the last one i picked up is a total minter!!!!!