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The past year was probably my best one for turning up bottom of the barrel finds. This group lot at 30€, which had a bit of everything in it, was my last find of the year.

Happily added the 7a and 58a to my 1-75RW collection, filling some empty spaces. Had been after those two for awhile, so was nice to fill the slots. The 38b was an nice find as well, in much better condition than the one that I already had, so it will take it's place in the ranks.

My small Superfast collection gained a few models as well. The pick of the Superfast litter for me was the all Orange Capri, which I understand to be less common. It's is in very nice condition, I was able to remove the silver tape stripes added by a previous owner without much difficulty by warming them with a blow dryer.





zBret

Nice find on the all Orange Capri. I have one of these as shown here...viewtopic.php?f=20&t=2081&start=30#p24740

Ghosthunter.

That's a nice lot and a very good job on the Capri. Most of the regular wheels look to be in great condition and it's a good way to end the year.

You know I love my superfast models Gene and that Capri is a cracker, very nice mate.

I really enjoy making finds such as this one. The model was listed as a "Lesney Cat", ( but actually is a Budgie model) as such, I was able to pick it up at a Bottom of the Barrel price, no one else bid on it. The model is- the load - for Budgie #234 Heavy Duty Transport. A rather difficult model to find apparently.




The tracks are rather interesting having indentations rather than cleats as the lesney models do. they are the correct tracts and appear to be original, to the model.

For size comparison- next to a recently acquired Lesney 16d

As it appears with the Budgie 234
https://goo.gl/images/tywQ91
zBret

I have also added a couple of Yesteryear models to my small but growing collection of them.I'm really starting to like these!
The Y3-1 London Tramcar and the Y2-1 AEC London Bus join my, Y9-1 Fowler Showmans Engine, which was my first MoY.
I think they really look great together and at a bit over 4€ for the pair were pretty good Bottom of the Barrel finds



zBret

ah zBret thank you you little wonder I too got one of the (as I now know) Budgie crawlers from a local flee market
not quite as nice as yours and it still has the same original tracks as yours with no sign of "drying out" like some other brands

Pleased to have been of assistance Reg
The tracks on mine are quite supple as well still. Perhaps a material of a different composition and of better quality was used in their manufacture.. that would make sense as these were not produced in the same quantities the Lesney products, so perhaps, they could spend a little more per model.

Now we need to find a couple of #234 Heavy Duty Transporters to go with them

Interestingly the Budgie # 222 Tank Transporter was the same rig used by the #234, however, it was painted in olive drab
http://static.wixstatic.com/media/8e940 ... 00_jpg_srz

zBret

This King-Size K2 Muir Hill Dumper was a nice Bottom of the Barrel find, for just 2.50€
My collection is starting to have a bit of "everything" in it now




zBret

Gene how did you miss that at the bottom of your barrel it's huge!!!!