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20/09/2012 1:14 pm
PIC Several HK dealers showing a new Neo model...
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I've added the photo used by one of those HK dealers!
of a '58 Buick Caballero wagon, supposedly being available on October 4th. I can't find any reference to this model anywhere. Does anyone have any info on it?
20/09/2012 1:21 pm
It is on page 12 of Neo's 2012 catalogue. #NEO45000
A picture of the actual car is shown in red with a white roof. That, of course, is not necessarily the color of the model.
21/09/2012 6:07 am
This must be a re-issue in a new colour.
I got a Caballero in metallic blue over ivory white quite a while ago.
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The Neo website also shows this one in copper/ivory. It has the lower body colour repeated on the roof and if I'm not mistaken there were grumbles on the Forum when the Neo Caballero first appeared that this 2-tone arrangement was incorrect and the second colour should be on the lower body only (and I seem to remember thinking "Well, maybe you're right, but it's perhaps prettier than the authentic scheme.")
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The red/black one seems to be a re-issue which some Far East dealers have been offering in advance of general release. Neo have retained the wire wheels which I think have also been criticised as untypical for the vehicle (but are also very good looking).
Below is the picture of the model currently shown on the neoscalemodels.com website, as opposed to the red/white version of the real car apparently shown earlier in their catalogue:
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And who knows, Model Car World may once again want to offer an alternative colour version - authentic or otherwise! - for the re-issue. J. Kuvakas may be able to offer them some constructive advice on this matter (but we'd all prefer if he didn't).
Graeme.M. Ogg
London U.K.
21/09/2012 7:10 am
The new Caballero is a 1958 - part of Neo's plan to produce all post-1950 cars known to humankind!
21/09/2012 9:20 am
(PIC) Here is a picture taken at the 2012 Nurnberg Toy Fair
That give a little idea of the 1958 Buick Caballero wagon.
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22/09/2012 5:07 am
The 58 Buick wagon red white was released.
22/09/2012 5:14 pm
And to think Neo still hasn't made one single Oldsmobile yet...