A Vauxhall wagon added to the collection

Great looking model Randy. I owned two full sized Vauxhall Crestas, 1958 and 1959. Loved them both but fancied this Friary conversion with the station wagon back. I have the Oxford version of this but would really like the one you have. My favourite Cresta that I have is by Pathfinder, in white metal.

@david-green For its price, that Oxford is a great model. I bought one of every color they’ve released (including the smaller scale versions). Do you have a photo of your Pathfinder model to share?

@david-green I just went back and looked more closely at the paperwork that came with the model. It was made for G & W by Pathfinder! So, maybe @karl can dig into the white metal model book that’s sitting on that side table in his living room and tell me a bit about Pathfinder…

@randyrusk 

Here are a few images that I posted a few years ago.

It came also in pink. My 1958 was a two tone in rose and grey which I picked up in 1958 in Britain, a gift for my 18th birthday by my father, standing between the pillars in the picture. I drove this 4000 miles in Britain before having it shipped to Toronto, Canada.

 Next is my grey 1959 Cresta, in Toronto in 1963.

@david-green That’s quite a birthday gift!

@randyrusk 

Yes, my parents were very generous and luckily, well to do. I was likely spoiled but I have tried to be just as generous with my family in the years since.

🙄 "G. & W. Engineering was based in Yorkshire, UK, and whose Managing Director, the late Denis Wheatley, was a keen and enthusiastic collector of model cars. They commissioned Pathfinder Models to produce 1/43 models for them." ("G W Engineering", hobbyDB)

Spa Croft has a great pathfinder archive: http://spacroftmodels.co.uk/pathfinder_models.htm

Always an admirer of the Vauxhall PA. With nicely balanced and proportioned curves to the body panels and glazing all round, it always struck me as a particularly coherent piece of styling. I have models of the sedan by Spot-On, Pathfinder, Oxford Diecast and most recently Trax of Australia. I have the Pathfinder version of the Friary with cream roof and lower body and the rest in a kind of chocolate brown. I also have the Oxford version in a couple of colours, but long before any of these became available I was attracted by the styling of the Friary estate and did a conversion of the Spot-On sedan, which at the time was the only model of the PA Cresta around.

I then got a bit carried away and did a fictional pickup version as well. Just wanted to see how it would work out, really.

Wonderful conversions Graeme. I envy you having that extensive Vauxhall PA collection.

@randyrusk Randy - do you have every color of the PA sedan issued by Corgi? That would be quite a group. It has jeweled headlights, a classic vintage touch. Alas, I only have one. I had planned on getting an Oxford estate version, but never did. 

Big wagon fan here.  Love your model, Randy.

All are really nice Vauxhalls and in every form here, too. Very good colors in each of them and the fictional "El Camino/Ranchero" type version is excellent and would seem a natural.

@mg-harv none of those for me, but yours looks great!

@graeme-ogg Graeme, your conversion is really outstanding. What a wonderful model.