Corgi Hillman Hunter Rally

[Bill Manzke]

302-B Hillman Hunter 106mm 7/1969-1972
Body and two spotlight castings, clear windows, gray interior, gold SW, red radiator screen, black equipment box and spare wheels on roof, jewel headlights, red and jewel taillights, silver grille, number 75 and London-Sydney labels, gray diecast base, Golden Jacks, cast wheels, plastic tires, kangaroo figure.
1. Blue body, black hood, white roof, unpainted spotlights, labels on car.

[Bill Manzke]

Wish I had remembered to make the photos smaller.

[GHOSTHUNTER]

What, like this...






...Ghosty will show you how one day

[Bill Manzke]

Thanks! I'm currently traveling and not exactly fully functional at the moment.

[misterpop]

Great obscure car for Corgi to model and what a good job they did of it.Love the spots front and back..What other car had a Roo lamp.not many I'll wager..

[GHOSTHUNTER]

This is one model I had from new and it was great with plenty of play value with it. Later when I grew away from actually playing with my models I started to see them as collectors models and the Hunter to me should have been a civilian car so I started to work on mine to de-rallyfi it and turn it back into a normal road car. My modelling skills at that time were limited but fancied the challenge.

I can not show you how far I got with it, it has been long gone with all my other models when they got stolen, a story I have told here previousely.

Ghosthunter.

[misterpop]

Rather a coincidence Ghost Hunter lost his Hillman Hunter..

[kay]

Here are some pictures of an original Corgi Hillman Hunter Rally prototype that I once had in my collection - it formerly belonged to the Marcel van Cleemput collection......
Actually it must have been a later version, as the wheels are different, and there are no roof racks and additional lamps.













I sold it many years ago - sigh........

Kay

[misterpop]

I'm guessing Corgi where going to release it as a stock street car and realised it was'nt that popular so binned it..As I know of there has only been one model od that car and that was a white metal kit a few years back....Shame because I liked them,a sort of Routes version of the MK2 Cortina but I suppose they where getting ready for the next Hillman to hit the streets and that was the Avenger.That didnt get modelled either.

[GHOSTHUNTER]

These days we have a Hillman Hunter from Silas Models and the Hillman Avenger from Corgi Vangaurds, both very good models in 43rd scale.

Ghosthunter.