by Baskingshark
on Jun 23, 2010
In The Great Book of Corgi, Marcel Van Cleemput lists the Corgi Classics 9041 Rolls-Royce Silver Ghost among his top twenty models. He also takes a dim view of the fact that, just four years after its 1966 introduction, the painstakingly-engineered model was, as he puts it, "soullessly sacrificed to The Hardy Boys."
Re-issued in "an awful combination of so-called Psychedelic colours," he explains, the Rolls now provided transport for a five-piece rock group consisting of Frank and Joe Hardy, "Chubby" Morton, Wanda Kay Breckenridge and Pete Jones, figures of whom (complete with instruments) now came with the car, clipped to a green plastic platform which snapped onto the roof.
by Baskingshark
on Jun 04, 2010
Here's Corgi's Rolls-Royce Silver Dawn and Bentley R Type Convertible - these two are part of the short-lived Classics Range which, as I understand it, came from the re-organised Corgi Company which appeared following the Mettoy bankruptcy in 1983. They are both the same casting, but with different names stamped on the baseplates and different grilles. The Silver Dawn I've had since new - I bought it at a Gamley's Toy Shop in Sussex (which actually closed just about a year ago, sadly), while on holiday when I was at school, probably in the mid-late 80's. The Bentley version I saw at the time too, but had run out of money at that point of the holiday! I found the example pictured at a car boot sale last week.
by Baskingshark
on Jun 03, 2010
It would seem I'm averaging about 25 Politoys cars per six month period. I posted about having 225 in my gallery back in January. Now, I've got 250!
I'm not sure which one of these three was actually #250, but it was one of them, so here they are:
by Baskingshark
on May 10, 2010
I just bought two very nice lots of 1/24 cars for a bargain price! Here's what I got...
Burago Datsun 240Z - this is the first version, without the front chin spoiler and wheelarch extensions:
by Baskingshark
on May 04, 2010
I'm probably the only person in the world who has the Milton Berle Tin Wind-Up Crazy Car personally autographed by Milton Berle himself. I'm also probably the only person in the world who cares that I'm the only person in the world who has the Milton Berle Tin Wind-Up Crazy Car personally signed by Milton Berle himself.
by Baskingshark
on Apr 23, 2010
Having established his coachbuilding business in 1919 in Paris, Henri Chapron designed bodies for some of France's most elegant vehicles. From the 1920s through the 1940s, his creations clothed chassis from Talbot, Delage, Delahaye and others of their ilk. But when in the 1950s the need for coachbuilt luxury cars started to dry up, Chapron found a novel way of diversifying, turning his attention to the trailblazing new Citroen DS.
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