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09/10/2024 9:14 am
09/10/2024 9:32 am
A very cool model of a very cool, well known, race car! 😎 😎 😎 I've never seen this before.... wheels turn, doors open, seats fold back...wow-wee. I thought possibly that top-mounted light might work.... but I don't see where a battery might go.
09/10/2024 10:53 am
A very cool model of a very cool, well known, race car! 😎 😎 😎 I've never seen this before.... wheels turn, doors open, seats fold back...wow-wee. I thought possibly that top-mounted light might work.... but I don't see where a battery might go.
@chris Chris, spot light doesn't light up just rotates - model also had spring suspension - very useful for a rally car going over East African 1:42nd scale dioramas!
Autominologist residing in the Robin Hood County
Nottinghamshire England UK
09/10/2024 10:54 am
I have this one in my collection as well and love it.
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09/10/2024 10:57 am
@mg-harv Harv, shame Dinky Toys didn't provide a charging elephant or at least a galloping giraffe with this model. If so it would have made a perfect companion with Corgi Toys VW East African Safari Rally which was supplied with a charging rhino.
Autominologist residing in the Robin Hood County
Nottinghamshire England UK
09/10/2024 10:59 am
@chris-sweetman Corgi always did have more of a tendency to include figures and various themes to their models back in the day.
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09/10/2024 4:35 pm
09/10/2024 5:09 pm
@mg-harv Harv, shame Dinky Toys didn't provide a charging elephant or at least a galloping giraffe with this model. If so it would have made a perfect companion with Corgi Toys VW East African Safari Rally which was supplied with a charging rhino.
I did have the Hillman Hunter with Take-Off Wheels as a kid, but never the VW 1200 East African Safari. I do have it now courtesy of the Corgi Model Club! Corgi had some great animals! 😎
09/10/2024 5:26 pm
@chris I'm reminded of a Dinky Toys Cadillac Superior ambulance that had a neat mechanism comprising a cylindrical connector between battery and light conductor that was set off-centre on an axle that rotated with the wheels, so that - theoretically, at least - the light would flash as you bruummed it along! I also had a BMW with indicators that similarly connected when pressure was applied, turning this way or that.
09/10/2024 5:33 pm
Those Dinky Cortinas look excellent and a very good release in their series. The Hillman and VW are also fine examples in this line from them.