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

nickjones wrote: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

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

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

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.
GHOSTHUNTER.

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.

ooooh don't they look good

fixer wrote:ooooh don't they look good

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

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.

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.