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johnboy wrote:

GHOSTHUNTER wrote:At long last I can show you my 'Yesteryear' Collection. The best way I could think of showing all the models together was to take them out of the display cabinets and put them all together in some boxes, hope you like them.

Ghosty.

An excellent collection of boxes Ghosty, I'm intrigued by the ones without labels though

Me marker pen had dried up...

Ghosty.

Hi Mike. These are mine, but I imagine there are others.

Thank you Bob,
for the interesting view of the models.

At long last I have added another Rolls-Royce to my collection, its been a bit quiet lately, so my collecting interests turned to maintaining my non R-R collection by digging out of storage what models I have had for years.

The model shown here is special because of it's wheels, there is only the one outer rim, making the spokes finish further away from the central hub than the usual rims fitted to these models.

To all intense and purpose the rims are fairly standard and fitted to other models in the 'MOY' range, like the Maxwell and Spyker, but they were not fitted to the Rolls-Royce for very long and my initial dating of this example has been 1962 into 1963, but now I have an example, I can check the date again. I have models with one or two of these rims fitted and knew somewhere there would be an example with all Four road wheels of this type, but despite searching for many Years at some well established toy fairs, one nether seemed to turn up and even this one was not at a toy fair, but at a club night for the Maidenhead Static Model club and this is where I have to stop the description, as I obtained this example via an unusual method of which I am not willing to explain here!

This certainly has been one of my 'Holy Grail' models and I am very pleased to have captured yet another Ghost, long live the Ghosthunter!
GHOSTHUNTER.

GHOSTHUNTER wrote:Right, so here is the first example of 'Sun Fade' on a 'Yesteryear'.

Y-10 Silver Ghost with brown seats.
This picture appears on Nick's guide page for these models and the original description with the picture mentions the author thought he had found a variation with brown seats, instead of the usual dark red-marroon coloured seats. but he then explains they are just 'Sun Faded' and in fact you can see that part of the rear seat has broken away because of how brittle the plastic has become.

GHOSTHUNTER.

Or this one with two different color seats, one a bit faded, one totally faded to mustard brown.