Re: MOTORMANS FINDS
Posted: Fri Sep 11, 2015 11:34 pm
A special thanks to you bonnie lass!! 
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Re: MOTORMANS FINDS
Posted: Sun Oct 25, 2015 4:40 pm
Some recent arrivals
Re: MOTORMANS FINDS
Posted: Sun Oct 25, 2015 4:42 pm
A very unusual Merc!!!!
Re: MOTORMANS FINDS
Posted: Sun Oct 25, 2015 4:47 pm
Some great models Alex, love the grey base models. Whats your take on those Merc wheels, are they dot-dash wheels?
J
J
Re: MOTORMANS FINDS
Posted: Sun Oct 25, 2015 5:09 pm
The back wheel looks dot/dash on closer inspection. The front i recon is a 5 slot hub.nearlymint wrote:Some great models Alex, love the grey base models. Whats your take on those Merc wheels, are they dot-dash wheels?
J
Re: MOTORMANS FINDS
Posted: Sun Oct 25, 2015 5:41 pm
Some nice finds here MM and that Yellow Merc is superb....a keeper for sure
numi
numi
Re: MOTORMANS FINDS
Posted: Sat Nov 07, 2015 5:53 pm
I couldn't walk past these Lone Star buggies fot £8 the lot at Falkirk last week. I dont know much about them other than it looks like they were for a promotion. I am not sure of the year of issue either. All were in a plain box each with the leaflet shown.
I would love more info.
I would love more info.
Re: MOTORMANS FINDS
Posted: Sat Nov 07, 2015 6:01 pm
Also picked up this minty #32 TP issue Maserati Bora for a tenner.
Re: MOTORMANS FINDS
Posted: Sat Nov 07, 2015 6:09 pm
And now the really good recent purchases. A rare metallic red #19 Road Dragster and a stunning #8 Mustang. In rare type F box. Hope you like.
Re: MOTORMANS FINDS
Posted: Sat Nov 07, 2015 6:29 pm
They were a promotion in the late 1960s/early 1970s fora brand of squash. I can't for the life of me remember the name (I think it was something like Sunkrush or Kia Ora), but the bottles had a promotional paper collar with a form you had to fill in and then send off with a given number of bottle labels (remember filling empty bottles with water and the soaking them in the sink until the label came off?) in order to receive one of the models through the post (in one of those little cardboard boxes).motorman wrote:I couldn't walk past these Lone Star buggies fot £8 the lot at Falkirk last week. I dont know much about them other than it looks like they were for a promotion. I am not sure of the year of issue either. All were in a plain box each with the leaflet shown.
I would love more info.
I have happy memories of completely dismantling these and then rebuilding them - an engineer even then! (BTW, the difference between an engineer and mere mortals is that anyone can take something apart, but it takes an engineer to put it back together again so it works!)