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OK Kerbside, no probs, thank's for the reply, at least the two 'Yesteryears' you have shown are nice examples, look after them, as I might be chasing your race number '3' example, the model on the Right...

Regards,
GHOSTHUNTER.

Well, it looks as if your number '3' race decal Bentley might be safe "Kerbside", picked this up for just £1 at the recent Sandown Park toy fair.

I have not identified the actual version of this one yet, to see where it comes in the production time-line, but it looks like the model shown in the earlier post from "Kerbside", but you can say that for so many 'Yesteryears'...

GHOSTHUNTER.

I have recently had all my Y-5(B) Bentley models out of packing and lined up in their time-line, I have also checked a couple of models not previously identified and I have had chance to identify the race No.'3' model above.

I now know of 36 versions and have 35 of them and I am still chasing the last version with the race No. '3', as the model shown above turned out to be an earlier version.

Try and get a picture posted here soon.

Ghosty.

This is the kind of info needed for a certain reference section.........

OH REALLY! I wonder what reference section that is then...

Ghosty.

I am waiting on one with the red 6 to arrive and that will give me the whole 2002 book listing except one with a 6 on as 2 base versions of this one so not sure which I need till other arrives. I have never found a true gold model as yet, most have been stained and when cleaned up are all silver.
I had not checked all the minute variations as I'm not into the collecting in this much detail, merely those I can see easily.

Hello Mick, yes I remember you mentioning this to me before, but I don't know any other way of collecting, this is how I have always done it, long before any worthwhile reference books existed to help me so I just collected as much as I could and studied every last detail, casting mod, colour change etc, etc.

Two apparently identical Y-5(B) Bentley models may only (and do), have a different brake lever casting, I find odd that nobody else seems to have noticed before, the same with the Rolls-Royce collection with two Y-7 Rolls-Royce models, only being different regards the headlamp castings and so it goes on.

I have recently had all available #24c Silver Shadow models lined-up in their 'Time-Line' and it totaled 23 versions, before the conversion to 'Superfast' wheels!!

I like to think I have taken 'Obsessive Collecting' to the limit, because if I hadn't, someone will come to me and say..."the roof circles on my #24 Rolls-Royce are not level, but my other examples are, why?"...so on my models, everything is noted and recorded for posterity, I hope!

Now, I must dash, just noticed the word 'MATCHBOX' on Eight of my #44b Phantom V models are leaning slightly to the left...

Ghosty.

Are you sure you're not leaning slightly to the right?

YYS4BOB wrote:Are you sure you're not leaning slightly to the right?

Ghosty.

Ghosty
this was what they did in the old UK Matchbox club - down to the last detail. It got a bit ludicrous though as when you take the Y9 Fowlers I think from memory Ray Bush came up with around 300 different models by including all possible combinations. I'm not sure I would like a display of all these on my shelves so just go with those I can see looking at the model on a shelf. To go to the depth you do (you only collect a certain few which is ok) I would need a warehouse, not a small toy room !!