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What have I not seen?
Posted: Sat Dec 02, 2017 1:28 pm
by shockwavediecast
What Am I missing? There's a couple of nice models, but £480 + tax?!?!?
https://www.vectis.co.uk/matchbox-super ... s_per_page
Re: What have I not seen?
Posted: Sat Dec 02, 2017 6:50 pm
by Idris
How about that 9d boat with a grey deck?
Re: What have I not seen?
Posted: Sat Dec 02, 2017 8:02 pm
by motorman
Could one of the racing minis be hiding cast door hinges?. Only those who were in the sale room would have been able to get a closer look.
Re: What have I not seen?
Posted: Sat Dec 02, 2017 9:10 pm
by Idris
Idris wrote:How about that 9d boat with a grey deck?
I was also wondering whether the SF60 Lotus without the bonnet label might have had the unmodified baseplate (i.e. 'Lotus Seven' instead of 'Lotus Super Seven' text).
Re: What have I not seen?
Posted: Sat Dec 02, 2017 10:22 pm
by motorman
4 spoke wheels on the Blaze buster?
Re: What have I not seen?
Posted: Sun Dec 03, 2017 3:33 pm
by ChFalkensteiner
One variation which I noticed immediately and which I have yet to see in the wild is the Code Red Mercury Fire Chief Car with blue windows.
Re: What have I not seen?
Posted: Sun Dec 03, 2017 3:38 pm
by ChFalkensteiner
Idris wrote:How about that 9d boat with a grey deck?
Looks like the normal issue from the TP-115 twinpack to me (with black trailer). Issued from 1987 to 1990, so a bit later than most of the other models.
Re: What have I not seen?
Posted: Sun Dec 03, 2017 7:50 pm
by Idris
ChFalkensteiner wrote:Idris wrote:How about that 9d boat with a grey deck?
Looks like the normal issue from the TP-115 twinpack to me (with black trailer). Issued from 1987 to 1990, so a bit later than most of the other models.
Thanks. (Well outside my comfort zone timewise!)
Re: What have I not seen?
Posted: Sun Dec 03, 2017 9:30 pm
by shockwavediecast
ChFalkensteiner wrote:One variation which I noticed immediately and which I have yet to see in the wild is the Code Red Mercury Fire Chief Car with blue windows.
That was my first thought, but I wasn't sure.
Would you pay £600 to get one though?
Re: What have I not seen?
Posted: Sun Dec 03, 2017 11:38 pm
by ChFalkensteiner
shockwavetrading wrote:ChFalkensteiner wrote:One variation which I noticed immediately and which I have yet to see in the wild is the Code Red Mercury Fire Chief Car with blue windows.
That was my first thought, but I wasn't sure.
Would you pay £600 to get one though?
Not me, but I would not pay that much for any toy car.
It is just the most interesting variation that I can spot in that lot, and I can imagine some dedicated collectors being willing to pay a three-figure amount for it (after looking for it in vain for twenty or thirty years or so). Some other models included in the lot are quite nice too (e.g. three black hubcap Pizza Vans - I wonder if they are all different variations!), resulting in the total lot being worth that much to someone.