Hong Kong 1970's models MOC

[tjlglass]

Picked these up Saturday, made in Hong Kong.

[SMS88]

Lovely Hotwheels Redline inspired art - please show back of the cards and some side views so that I can see the sort of wheels fitted and guess the maker- are they 3 inch scale or smaller? Are they for sale?

[tjlglass]

Will post more pics when I get home Mick and yes they are for sale.

[tjlglass]

Rear of card.

[tjlglass]

Side view with 5 spoke wheels.

[SMS88]

These are Tin Toys, the T prefix on the back of the cards proves that,and its great to see a full list of their range for the year that the card was printed.
I havent seen these 4 models before ,they look rather small!

[GHOSTHUNTER]

These are 'TIN TOYS' and originally produced towards the end of the 70's. Most of the range were catalogued with 'WT' numbers, but the later re-issues in Tim's pictures are blister carded by 'IMPERIAL TOY COMPANY' and marketed on 'T' numbers, as shown on the back of the card.

Tin Toys are the type of product line distributed and marketed by many companies over the years including some well established stores like K-Mart in the U.S.

I am not aware of the Imperial versions coming to the U.K. so these are nice to see here.

GHOSTHUNTER.

[tjlglass]

Thanks Computer head lol, they are more or less Matchbox sized Mick.

[tjlglass]

They are for sale and I will take them to Huntingdon with me unless you want them Mick ?

[SMS88]

They are for sale and I will take them to Huntingdon with me unless you want them Mick ?

Do both the Lambos have metal baseplates? If plastic I will have to say no thankyou.
The wheels look Corgi Junior inspired, I wonder if they really do have suspension? The range listed on the back of the cards would most likely have been all in production by the mid 1970s, no telling how long this card design remained in use but clearly inspired by 1969-72 Hotwheels Redline cards
These models were originally produced in the early 1970s with T series diecasts originally packaged with the DTS logo seen on these - how does Ghostie tie DTS to Imperial or was Imperial the company that took over the T series tooling in the late 1970s and issued some of them alongside a new cheap and nasty range with WT codes on the baseplates???