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23 with filler cap
Posted: Sun Dec 08, 2013 12:16 am
by fixer
Picked these up today vw with filler cap not as nice as motorman's but happy to have one at £2.60 off ebay
36c from a flee market, grabbed it as it is minty then noticed the grey engine and painted underside of the bonnet once back home
Re: 23 with filler cap
Posted: Sun Dec 08, 2013 12:25 am
by motorman
Reg i love the #23 camper and it's always nice to find one! I was very lucky when i picked up another one a few weeks ago at Falkirk for a five pound note!!! and it is mint!!!!!
Still looking for a mint box to put it in though.
As for the Opel, that is a nice find to get a model that has missed the engine chrome!!! i would be very happy with that Reg, nice one!! RESULT!!!
Re: 23 with filler cap
Posted: Sun Dec 08, 2013 12:32 am
by fixer
mm
they remind me of holidays in the devon and dorset areas in the 70's when my dad had one
looking out for an affordable orange with orange interior one day ... one day
Re: 23 with filler cap
Posted: Sun Dec 08, 2013 12:36 am
by motorman
fixer wrote:mm
they remind me of holidays in the devon and dorset areas in the 70's when my dad had one
looking out for an affordable orange with orange interior one day ... one day
Re: 23 with filler cap
Posted: Sun Dec 08, 2013 12:49 am
by motorman
Reg, be very careful!!
There are lots and lots of fakes out there!! The only ones that i would consider buying are the blue filler cap variants with the off white interior, solid thin tyres which i understand were lesney colour trials. The orange #23's with the orange interior are more than likely (in my opinion) to be interior swaps and i would not have one for that reason.
Re: 23 with filler cap
Posted: Sun Dec 08, 2013 1:35 am
by SMS88
motorman wrote:Reg, be very careful!!
There are lots and lots of fakes out there!! The only ones that i would consider buying are the blue filler cap variants with the off white interior, solid thin tyres which i understand were lesney colour trials. The orange #23's with the orange interior are more than likely (in my opinion) to be interior swaps and i would not have one for that reason.
Due to the often loose rivits its actually extremely easy to make your own for pennys with just a standard orange and a standard blue!
Re: 23 with filler cap
Posted: Sun Dec 08, 2013 1:43 am
by motorman
SMS88 wrote:motorman wrote:Reg, be very careful!!
There are lots and lots of fakes out there!! The only ones that i would consider buying are the blue filler cap variants with the off white interior, solid thin tyres which i understand were lesney colour trials. The orange #23's with the orange interior are more than likely (in my opinion) to be interior swaps and i would not have one for that reason.
Due to the often loose rivits its actually extremely easy to make your own for pennys with just a standard orange and a standard blue!
And yet despite that they still sell for big money on Fee bay!!!!!!!
Re: 23 with filler cap
Posted: Sun Dec 08, 2013 6:20 pm
by carb
Hi fixer, nice models you got. The #36 has not missed its engine being chromed, it is the grey variation and a hard one to find. Well done.
Re: 23 with filler cap
Posted: Tue Dec 10, 2013 10:07 pm
by motorman
Thanks for the correction Carb. At first glance i thought it was the green engined SF version of the #36. I now realise that it is the RW #36 that Reg has posted an image of.