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Much lighter than light yellow IMHO

A definite colour variation , but what a shame about the incomplete steering wheel, that's gonna hurt the hand using that one...

GHOSTHUNTER.

Good spotting Ghosty, I didn't notice that.

Does it match the vanilla shade used on gold #69 Rolls + magenta #12 Setra ? Looks genuine,perhaps its a test shot interior thrown in with production??

SMS88, I will have to do the comparison shots tomorrow in natural light, it's night time here now.

SMS88 wrote:Looks genuine,perhaps its a test shot interior thrown in with production??

My thoughts exactly.
numi

I have a similar color difference on the 42B. The common lemon interior is on the far right and the cream/light yellow one is on the far left in the picture (middle two are shades of org and orange yellow). Usually if interior plastic fades or discolors, it becomes really brittle. If the plastic is still pliable (steering wheel does not crack when you gently bend it) it is likely original in my opinion. The steering wheel appears malformed to me and not cracked based on the picture, but maybe it is different in hand?

Unless it has an early casting (open front tow slot), I don't think it is necessarily an early production. I think it is just a different color plastic that was made for a short period of time during the models production years.

-David

We are seeing this a lot now with our models and Lesney would not expect buyers of these when new to buy more than one example, so minor colour changes to the models were not a problem, it meant production could continue and its only us mad collectors today that come along and find out all these colour shades because we simply have an urge to have all of them so we put several together and oh look, different colours...

Ghosty.