[Closed] PIC - New in my collection

Nice ones Keko. My first Corgi was the Herald Coupe.

PIC of real car - With tilting bonnet and fenders that revealed the entire engine. Cool.

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Logic might suggest ...

...that the only possible reason Richard's "bent" Neo is now straighter would be if these models warp with age!

Or maybe he's just got used to the way it looks and doesn't notice it so much. I hope that's the case, otherwise all our "straight" Neos might be in danger of going bent over time.

Yes, that front end looked a great idea for accessibility. But in fact ...

... it was born of necessity. Triumph couldn't find a body supplier willing to build them a conventional one-piece body with a conventional bonnet/hood for their new small car. A company called Pressed Steel could have done it but was owned by BMC (British Motor Corporation, later British Leyland, the makers of Austin and Morris cars, amongst others), who regarded Standard-Triumph as a rival, so I believe they found some way of ensuring Pressed Steel "didn't have any spare capacity" to supply bodies. So Triumph had to resort to a separate chassis structure and a body made up of lots of separate panels bolted together.

They took advantage of that to come up with the hinged front end arrangement, which they also adopted for the Triumph Spitfire 3 years later. It certainly made for a neat USP, though.

Or--perhaps we are bending with age and everything we perceived to be bent now looks normal to us;)

Congratulations

A great find, Keko. Wish I had purchased this model, in this color combination, when it came out. I had an uncle who had the 1:1 in essentially this color. Glad to hear it has turned out without the "banana" look - guess I'll put this on my list of models to look out for now!

Luv that camper

Fascinating info. Thanks for sharing it.

So was mine! I was 8, and kicked off my collecting of detailed, [roughly] 1:43, little gems

Well this was supposed to be a secret from the lab where I work, but the cat's out of the bag.

ORNL was working on a way to exceed light speed but instead warped the space-time continuum. Well, at least the space part of it. See you guys on the other side.

Here's some pics of the Corgi and Dinky Heralds.

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Not my original toy, it was a little ragged and got replaced with a mint boxed one when I considered myself an "adult" collector. I remember playing with that little air cleaner, taking it off and putting it back on like I was servicing the car. Someone in Nashville owned a real one, but it was a cabriolet in red - the father would drop off his daughter at my elementary school in it.

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A comparison with the Dinky saloon version.

Very nice! I was lucky enough to be given one in the correct green and white...

A family friend was a salesman at the local Standard-Triumph garage and each garage was sent a model in Litchfield Green and Sebring White, either by Dinky or Standard-Triumph, I'm not sure. He kindly gave it to me and I still have it somewhere.