65a Jaguar 3.4 litre Saloon
Posted: Mon May 26, 2014 8:42 am
As you will read, the biggest issue with this model is with the trim permutations. In addition, the timeline is unclear because, as Dick (Kwakers) has pointed out in the 65b thread, it would appear that both metallic and non-metallic blue variations were produced throughout a significant part of the model's life.
The NAMC’s “Catalog of all Series Matchbox Models” (first edition) lists a "royal blue" (whatever that might mean) model with crimped axles as variation 65-1-d, presumably slotting in between Nick's variation codes 4 and 5. Additional unlisted variations are 65-1-e which is as Nick's code 3 but with red tail lights, and 65-1-f as Nick's codes 1 or 2 but with silver tail lights.
The AIM “1-75 Series Regular Wheels” catalogue (second printing, 1983) comments that there are several shades of the body colours. In addition, standard trim is noted as "silver grille, with and without silver headlights, bumpers, with and without red=painted tail lights".
Houghton lists a model (65a-2) which is Nick's variation code 3 but with a matt baseplate.
Stannard has no variations not already listed by Nick.
U.K. Matchbox covered the model in vol 7, no. 2 (Jun '83), p42 but does not list any variations not already covered by Nick. Rob Newson noted that silver trim could also include the grilles low down and either side of the radiator, whilst the tail lights could be red, silver or unpainted. Furthermore, perhaps because he too failed to appreciate that the metallic and non-metallic colours did not follow one another in the normal Lesney fashion, he commented that there was no pattern or consistency to the trim variations.
The NAMC’s “Catalog of all Series Matchbox Models” (first edition) lists a "royal blue" (whatever that might mean) model with crimped axles as variation 65-1-d, presumably slotting in between Nick's variation codes 4 and 5. Additional unlisted variations are 65-1-e which is as Nick's code 3 but with red tail lights, and 65-1-f as Nick's codes 1 or 2 but with silver tail lights.
The AIM “1-75 Series Regular Wheels” catalogue (second printing, 1983) comments that there are several shades of the body colours. In addition, standard trim is noted as "silver grille, with and without silver headlights, bumpers, with and without red=painted tail lights".
Houghton lists a model (65a-2) which is Nick's variation code 3 but with a matt baseplate.
Stannard has no variations not already listed by Nick.
U.K. Matchbox covered the model in vol 7, no. 2 (Jun '83), p42 but does not list any variations not already covered by Nick. Rob Newson noted that silver trim could also include the grilles low down and either side of the radiator, whilst the tail lights could be red, silver or unpainted. Furthermore, perhaps because he too failed to appreciate that the metallic and non-metallic colours did not follow one another in the normal Lesney fashion, he commented that there was no pattern or consistency to the trim variations.