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GHOSTHUNTER wrote:... It still has the waistline 'trim-strip', not always easy to see in pictures, but in your hand, no question about the detail being there. This strip is missing from later narrow 'Superfast' versions, because they made a whole new body casting and left that detail off the tooling.

GHOSTHUNTER.

An excellent model, Ghosty, I really must look out for one! The quality of the casting is simply superb.. and a beautiful colour too. I think I can see the 'trim-strip' in your middle picture, or is that just a highlight? Thanks for the info about the versions, you're the Rolls Man!!

Cheers, Ken

Here is an enhanced detail picture of the near-side of the model, there is now a shadow under the actual 'Trim-Strip' which on the real car is a Chrome plated 'Trim-Strip' running along the whole waistline of the car.

GHOSTHUNTER.

The kids all know which cars are the most HTF, they are the ones in the worst shape!

ford_a_30 wrote:The kids all know which cars are the most HTF, they are the ones in the worst shape!

Great lot of models...and yeah they know...

Another of my favourite bangers

GHOSTHUNTER wrote:Here is an enhanced detail picture of the near-side of the model, there is now a shadow under the actual 'Trim-Strip' which on the real car is a Chrome plated 'Trim-Strip' running along the whole waistline of the car.

GHOSTHUNTER.

i have been looking for one of these off and on...well your post got me to look on ebay for one and i found one for a BIN for 8 dollars! thanks for inspiring me to go look!

Brad Pittiful wrote:i have been looking for one of these off and on...well your post got me to look on ebay for one and i found one for a BIN for 8 dollars! thanks for inspiring me to go look!

It's interesting that you found one of these so readily since other posts on the Forum had given me the impression that the RW body with an SF baseplate was certainly htf and perhaps even rare. Time will tell, but I'm now wondering is this could be another one of those cases where the variation has simply been overlooked and, as a result, is almost unknown. Be that as it may, it's an excellent find - well done!

Idris wrote: It's interesting that you found one of these so readily since other posts on the Forum had given me the impression that the RW body with an SF baseplate was certainly htf and perhaps even rare. Time will tell, but I'm now wondering is this could be another one of those cases where the variation has simply been overlooked and, as a result, is almost unknown. Be that as it may, it's an excellent find - well done!

thanks!...that very well that they were over looked all this time...but i have been looking for a few years and this was the first i saw to buy

Hello Brad, glad you found one of those #24c Silver Shadow models with the 'Trim-Strip'. Can we have a picture of it for full identification, as there are four main versions with the 'Detail' and a few 'sub-versions' with mixed wheels.

Three versions have the small rear wheel-arch, and three have the large rear wheel-arch and it would be nice to know which one you have. The example in my last pictures has the small rear wheel-arch and is literally the previous 'Regular wheel' body casting, given a new baseplate for the 'Superfast' wheels. The rear wheel-arch on this model, was enlarged for the new wider wheels that for some reason were not used until 1971, that's why most of the Matchbox Superfast models made through 1970 to 1971, look funny with large wheel-arches but narrow wheels (especially the smaller diameter ones), the BMC Pininfarina being a good example of narrow wheels, in large-arches.

Regards,
GHOSTHUNTER.

GHOSTHUNTER wrote:Hello Brad, glad you found one of those #24c Silver Shadow models with the 'Trim-Strip'. Can we have a picture of it for full identification, as there are four main versions with the 'Detail' and a few 'sub-versions' with mixed wheels.

Three versions have the small rear wheel-arch, and three have the large rear wheel-arch and it would be nice to know which one you have. The example in my last pictures has the small rear wheel-arch and is literally the previous 'Regular wheel' body casting, given a new baseplate for the 'Superfast' wheels. The rear wheel-arch on this model, was enlarged for the new wider wheels that for some reason were not used until 1971, that's why most of the Matchbox Superfast models made through 1970 to 1971, look funny with large wheel-arches but narrow wheels (especially the smaller diameter ones), the BMC Pininfarina being a good example of narrow wheels, in large-arches.

Regards,
GHOSTHUNTER.

i wasnt sure of your variation as the attachment photos gives me pains haha...what i was looking for was the door handle being back to the door edge...the retool has a bigger gap from the door handle to the edge of the door...ill post a pic when the car arrives