by Baskingshark
on Jun 25, 2009
The longest of Dinky's road cars was also one of the longest-lived. The 128 Mercedes-Benz 600 was 14.8 cm long and had a production span of 15 years, being inroduced in 1964 and remaining in production until 1979. This rivalled the production life of the real car, which was produced from 1963 until 1981.
by Baskingshark
on Jun 24, 2009
A while ago, Tales of Toy Cars covered the Dinky-KIDCO connection, with some great pictures of the KIDCO issues, I thought I would expand on that article a little with the focus on the Dinky versions.
In 1980, Dinky had been bought by Airfix and was teetering on the edge of bankruptcy. In an attempt to stay afloat, Airfix seemingly decided to try and grab some of the Matchbox 1/64-scale market, with a range of small-scale Dinky-branded models produced in Hong Kong by Universal Products.
by Baskingshark
on Jun 16, 2009
I know lots of people prefer the 40's/50's Dinkys, but I like the 60's/70's ones, probably because there were still some around in shops when I was young in the early 80's (should have bought more of them, but I was only about 5 so had little spare cash!)
One of my favourites is the 190 Monteverdi 375L. This was issued as number 190 in 1969/70 and made until 1974. It had opening doors with chrome window trim, a chrome racing mirror on the driver's door, four jewelled headlights, very apt Swiss number plate decals, opening bonnet and boot and the nice cast Speedwheels with rubber tyres. There was also a good model of the Chrysler V8 that powered the real car under the bonnet.
It photographs pretty nicely too!
by Baskingshark
on Apr 30, 2009
So, whenever I see a T-Hunt in a shop, I usually buy it by force of habit even though ( a) right now I rarely see any Hot Wheels anywhere except on the internet because all the shops that used to sell them have closed down and (b) when I can find Hot Wheels, Regular T-Hunts aren't actually that difficult to find anymore.
In fact, I'm sure Mattel make plenty of money out of people doing just the same!
Anyways, last year, the Rockster was one of the 2008 T-Hunts. I came across two of them in separate shops (I can't even remember which shops) and bought them both. Because the model doesn't interest me, I didn't take either of them off the cards as I do with regular T-Hunts that I want to keep, I just put them in my Box of T-Hunts That I Bought For No Reason.
This last week, though, I've been having a clearout, so I got my mountain of T-Hunts out and sorted through them to put them up for sale, putting like with like. And I put the two Rocksters together, and realised something. Here's the first one...
by Baskingshark
on Apr 29, 2009
The Majorette 1970 Plymouth Fury Police Car. Paint adherence optional.
by Baskingshark
on Apr 08, 2009
It's been the most prolific few weeks ever for rare Politoys colour variants. First of all, the second blue Alfa 2600 GT showed up. That already got blogged about here. Then, along came the Mercedes 230SL in silver, the Iso Rivolta in dark green and the Ford Taunus in red.
The Mercedes was previously only known in orange-red and anthracite green-grey. Also interesting is the fact that even though it does not ever appear to have been dismantled, it has the same wheels as the Export-Series Iso Grifo and Corvette Rondine and later examples of the Ferrari 250LM.
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