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dutchdinky wrote:Just got these Dinky coaches , part of a "matchbox job lot " which included a nice Dennis fire engine and a Ford Zodiac for just a few pounds

Problems with your image dutch....we cant see it!!

Just picked these up very cool addition...

1st market of 2014 and i found some very nice items - Solido Thunderbird is mint boxed and steal for £22, untinted window Batmobile is 3rd rarest version after 1st satin issue and red Whizzwheels versions and there was also a playworn gray French Dinky Citroen Dyane in gray for a mere £4 which has been on my wants list ever since seeing the poster in the newsagent´s window for the gray version way back in 1972 yet all the Uk boxes contained gold ones - this is actually the 1st gray example i have ever seen in the metal so all in all a very good omen for the rest of 2014 - top of my wants list is an affordable Spot On rally VW

Very nice Mick,

I see you picked up a Black Beauty, One of my personal favourites and without doubt one of the best models Corgi ever made, i just love them and i have been looking for a long time for a factory condition minter in its box with all the box inserts and sealed envelope.............still waiting but one day i will get one!!

(I saw a #268 at auction about 3 years ago Factory fresh with everything it should have including the thin sheet of paper that covered the roof of the car whilst in the box and it went for well over £500 so it was to rich for me at the time sadly)

The first satin black Batmobile must have been patterned after the real Batmobile that was on the Car Show circuit in 1970. When it came to the Albany Show that our Drag Club TriCity Flywheelers ran, it had real fuzz as it's finish. That fuzzy finish really resembled a live Bat's fur and was a huge surprise to those of us who grew up watching the TV Show every week. The one on TV shined with it's black paint on those dark night scenes. I know George Barris made several of them back in the day, and I watched one sell at the Herbies Car Museum Sale about 15 years ago for under 100K U.S. It was one of the most hotly contested cars there that day. Herb Alpert's 'Tijuana Taxi', based on a 1909 Fiat (that was unknown to me until that day) only brought 10K that day. For Lesney Code 3 collectors, his full size VW 'Herbie the love bug' also sold, but damned if I have forgotten the price or the interest in it. I think I was madly in love with a very large 1909 Renault open front Town Car that was a bit over my expectations in the price it bought that day. I might have been salivating over that when Herbie Sold, and Love is blind....LOL kwakers

kwakers wrote:The first satin black Batmobile must have been patterned after the real Batmobile that was on the Car Show circuit in 1970. When it came to the Albany Show that our Drag Club TriCity Flywheelers ran, it had real fuzz as it's finish. That fuzzy finish really resembled a live Bat's fur and was a huge surprise to those of us who grew up watching the TV Show every week. The one on TV shined with it's black paint on those dark night scenes. I know George Barris made several of them back in the day, and I watched one sell at the Herbies Car Museum Sale about 15 years ago for under 100K U.S. It was one of the most hotly contested cars there that day. Herb Alpert's 'Tijuana Taxi', based on a 1909 Fiat (that was unknown to me until that day) only brought 10K that day. For Lesney Code 3 collectors, his full size VW 'Herbie the love bug' also sold, but damned if I have forgotten the price or the interest in it. I think I was madly in love with a very large 1909 Renault open front Town Car that was a bit over my expectations in the price it bought that day. I might have been salivating over that when Herbie Sold, and Love is blind....LOL kwakers

Corgi back in 1966 were supplied with photos showing a 1:1 matt black Batmobile to design their toy tooling and one paint run was made in satin black before the decision was taken to switch to gloss black.Not sure but earliest episodes of the TV show may also have featured the car in matt black.Either way the 1st Catwoman was hotter than the car I thought at the time!

That flat black pictured Batmobile may have had the fur on it that Corgi used as their model Mick. The one at Herbies Auction had gloss black paint, and was probably a later version. Catwoman was a bit skinny for me Mick, and I had nightmares about what she did to 'Bad Guys' like me. HE,He, He
I mis-spoke above, and I should have stated Drag "Racing" Club! You know, the 1953 Ford with straight axle, "Golden Gasser', The hot 1965 Chevelles, the 1960 Chev Bubble windowed 409, the 450 horse 454 that got 5 miles to the gallon stock in the SS Chevelle we rode in with 'HOT' Annie, my buddies squeeze (Her NEW Car in 1970 that outran anything the Police had), the 1930 Model A with a blown 350 that turned 12 seconds flat in the 1/4 mile looking full stock, etc.
The term 'Drag Club' I used above has taken on a whole new and embarrassing meaning as time has gone on.....We did NOT dress funny in our Club! Oh Oh, but we did in those Hippy years....I am in trouble and I should go to drive my Lorry now.....kwakers, a bit embarrassed with no red-faced character again But it WAS a Car Club, honest.

kwakers wrote:That flat black pictured Batmobile may have had the fur on it that Corgi used as their model Mick. The one at Herbies Auction had gloss black paint, and was probably a later version. Catwoman was a bit skinny for me Mick, and I had nightmares about what she did to 'Bad Guys' like me. HE,He, He
I mis-spoke above, and I should have stated Drag "Racing" Club! You know, the 1953 Ford with straight axle, "Golden Gasser', The hot 1965 Chevelles, the 1960 Chev Bubble windowed 409, the 450 horse 454 that got 5 miles to the gallon stock in the SS Chevelle we rode in with 'HOT' Annie, my buddies squeeze (Her NEW Car in 1970 that outran anything the Police had), the 1930 Model A with a blown 350 that turned 12 seconds flat in the 1/4 mile looking full stock, etc.
The term 'Drag Club' I used above has taken on a whole new and embarrassing meaning as time has gone on.....We did NOT dress funny in our Club! Oh Oh, but we did in those Hippy years....I am in trouble and I should go to drive my Lorry now.....kwakers, a bit embarrassed with no red-faced character again But it WAS a Car Club, honest.

Seeing the real deal in the metal really adds an extra dimension of enjoyment to the toys of these tv+ movie legends.It does indeed appear that Corgi were given photos of the car covered in fur so it survived the TV show + movie like that perhaps never appearing...... If only cars + insurance had been a cheap for us growing up in europe as they were for North Americans I suspect I would have lost interest in my toy collection permenantly at 16!

270Dkr £30 for this lot on saturday from a winter indoor fleamarket,includes the Dyane missed from last week´s photo.Some Impys here in less common colours!

Hadnt expected to find anything this week however getting these near minters for 40dkr each (£4.40) was delightful ,Zodiac especially welcome as its my first SF53 with 11.5mm tyres and the 63b is my 1st example of its kind, so now I only need 25/256 to complete one example of all RW, of which now only 2 are post 1965 but no hurry,they must be near mint and cost almost nothing!