The 'Holy Grail' Listing.

[nickjones]

Great find Dave, That's one I have never owned,

[MOKOSEX]

Great find Dave, That's one I have never owned,

I think i was lucky with the price too,estimate was £60 to £80 and hammer price was £65,an odd superfast cortina in a unknown promo box went for around £300 a couple of lots later so maybe the collectors were saving their money for that
I am very happy with it,red victor,tan crane or cream cougar next lol!
dave

[MOKOSEX]

Very nice indeed Dave, they don't turn up very often.

Its the first one i have owned and seen in the flesh ,so i think you are right
dave

[numi]

This is a very interesting topic/thread but has this since died-off??
C'mon guys it only takes a few minutes to upload your pics and comments.
numi

[GHOSTHUNTER]

This one is just crying out to be included, not mine, so unable to answer any specific questions about it except it is the genuine item.

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GHOSTHUNTER.

[motorman]

FEAST YOUR EYES, THE HOLY GRAIL IN TRIPLICATE!!!

In combination Hugh (Idris) Reg (Fixer) and me Motorman were able to bring our holy grails together to make a triple helping of flat green Group 6's. I am just loving it. As some of you will note Hugh's model is the prepro variant with solid thin wheels. I know Ghosty was paying particular attention to the wheel codes maybe he can confirm his findings in that regard. All in, a very expensive little grouping i am sure you will agree.

Sorry about the background colouring, it was the best we could come up with whilst taking a break at the NEC.

[fixer]

ooooh don't they look good

[motorman]

ooooh don't they look good

Indeed Reg they do!!!. Now i need to find a solid thin wheel prepro variant......thanks Hugh!!!!

[MOKOSEX]

This is not a regular wheel model but theres no holy grail sticky in the early lesney forum so as its a bit quiet i thought i would post my lastest find,at first glance its a not very exciting, standard red and green early lesney but this one with the cast driver in this colour is very rare,i don,t recall seeing a photo of another but they are around has over the years i have found three
This driver version came in pale green,red,light brown and this standard green.

[GHOSTHUNTER]

That Road Roller is an odd model and I can only think that it is one of a few models that simply missed the painting process for the driver, but clearly this would be normal practice on the later versions of this model. The #1b version also had the driver painted and it was not until #1c they decided to cut out that process and left the driver in the same colour as the main body.

An interesting approach to the missing roof, where somebody has added a non standard piece of bare metal, to help support the roof, which of course has now gone missing completely, so if the model were mine, I think I would remove that and leave the model 'As Is'.

Ghosty.