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Re: Anyone here win this reverse wrecker tonight?
Posted: Tue Aug 23, 2016 5:04 am
by durangokid
Tinman wrote:Brad Pittiful wrote:durangokid wrote:Watched it, but still too high for my budget --- Went for a little over $1200 USD and had playwear plus missing bottom part of grey hook.
I guess fairly reasonable in this day and age assuming it was original..............
Bill
it looked legit to me Bill!
Looks good to me too.
Is the thin boom and the silver front trim part of the reason it looks legit? Rivets look good. Decal. What else helps determine.....?
Thanks,
Bill
Re: Anyone here win this reverse wrecker tonight?
Posted: Tue Aug 23, 2016 6:35 am
by Tinman
The ejector ring is correct. The base is correct. The only thing I can't see in the photos is if the model has the correct early wheels.
Re: Anyone here win this reverse wrecker tonight?
Posted: Tue Aug 23, 2016 11:37 am
by GHOSTHUNTER
I have done some work on the picture to ad some light on the wheels and to show the rivets.
- Reverse, 1.JPG (55.66 KiB) Viewed 779 times
The 'LESNEY' is not visible here but on slightly playworn wheels it will be hard to see in pictures.
The axle-ends are correct with both small ends showing on the correct side of the model and the front looks fine.
The front rivet also looks fine.
Again 'LESNEY' not visible here, slightly off axle-end and slightly worrying rivet indentations.
Ghosthunter.
Re: Anyone here win this reverse wrecker tonight?
Posted: Fri Aug 26, 2016 2:18 am
by jimgallegos
I think Tom Sarlitto won it. Nice buy. Looks correct to me.
Re: Anyone here win this reverse wrecker tonight?
Posted: Mon Aug 29, 2016 4:17 pm
by nickjones
It looks good to me too, I seem to remember the normal colour casting has a line across the base which the reverse colour does not have, also there's a small casting hole in one of the doors which would authenticate it being cast with low pressure as the dies would not have been hardened until after they were tested and passed as acceptable for proper production.