Corgi Cars

[Powdered toast man]

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That American LaFrance fire truck is a work of art!

[scooby365]

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Love the American LaFrance. I bought it when my birthday money when I was about 10. I still have it and also bought another off ebay last year as it has the men and all the ladders.

I used to spend my pocket money on buying Corgi cars. They were only £2.99 for individual cars and less than a tenner for bigger models like the LaFrance. I still have them all and because I spent my money, I took care to wrap them in newspaper before storing them in the loft. Now I keep them all out on display at home. I have the Bond DB5 and Lotus - but no boxes. Probably my favourite is the DB5 as it does so much more than the other models.

I do look at ebay often, but the price of old Corgi cars can be mad. I used to have the Kojak Buick but lost it. Several times over the last 12 months I've bailed out of bidding on a replacement as the price hit £80-£100. Maybe when I'm older and retired ... maybe. I'd like to get the Torino from Starsky and Hutch back again too.

Anbody have scans of old Corgi catalogues?

[victorbrunswick]

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Yesterday, I won a #1143 American-LaFrance Aerial Ladder Truck from 1973 on eBay and will post the pics as soon as I pick it up from the seller.

Here are the pics.

[victorbrunswick]

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Just arrived yesterday from the UK.

Corgi 50th Anniversary Tin Clockwork Powered Routemaster






My Routemaster Collection is Growing!

[darren]

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i do agree its better to leave them as they are rather than restoring them.
could be a bad mistake if ever they where to be sold



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Thank you.

They look like they're from the 1950s or early 1960s. The petrol lorry is French-made. As for repainting it, the paint job looks like it's in pretty good shape so I'll just leave it the way it is. Besides it does give it a bit of character.

[victorbrunswick]

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Thank you.

They look like they're from the 1950s or early 1960s. The petrol lorry is French-made. As for repainting it, the paint job looks like it's in pretty good shape so I'll just leave it the way it is. Besides it does give it a bit of character.

[darren]

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very nice V.B.

Just how old are these mate.
the eighties perhaps id guess.

need a wee touch up if your brave enough to do it mate.

[victorbrunswick]

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I was selling at an antiques show today and picked up these two: A Bedford dustbin lorry and a Panhard petrol lorry, both by Dinky.

[HG]

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pity the pics on thios thread have been removed cant understand why.

The pics haven't been rmoved from here, the person who posted them deleted them from photobucket where they were held so they don't show up on here. Anyway I've deleted those posts, so the thread should look a bit better now

[victorbrunswick]

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Great stuff mate.

you have any more.

pity the pics on thios thread have been removed cant understand why.

Sadly, I only have only one or two of the Corgis that I had as a kid. Among the ones I originally had were the James Bond Aston Martin, the Batmobile, the VW Type 2 wrecker truck, and the Tour de France Renault set. But currently I'm trying to rebuild my collection. Yesterday, I won a #1143 American-LaFrance Aerial Ladder Truck from 1973 on eBay and will post the pics as soon as I pick it up from the seller (he has a shop in my area).

And yes, please, show us your Corgi models!

I had a Corgi Routemaster that had a battery inside and it went Beep Beep when the body was pressed down onto the wheels. Also had the Corgi JCB tracked loader, the Warner&Swasey mobile crane and the Priestman tracked excavator. Now those were real quality toys with working parts and I prefered Corgi to the Americanized stuff that Matchbox were making. Also had tonnes of the Corgi Juniors range of vehicles and some of the larger scale lorries as well but seemed to notice that Corgi were going downhill quality-wise towards the end of the 1980s. By that time, I'd grown out of toys and was getting more and more into synthesizers, Sega master system and mountain bikes

"Leave everything to me!"

From 1989 to 1995 Corgi was owned by Mattel who repackaged the Corgi Juniors as Hot Wheels. I have some examples of the rebranded Corgi Juniors such as the double decker bus, London taxi and the Porsche 911 -- they came out between 1996-98.

[Powdered toast man]

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I had a Corgi Routemaster that had a battery inside and it went Beep Beep when the body was pressed down onto the wheels. Also had the Corgi JCB tracked loader, the Warner&Swasey mobile crane and the Priestman tracked excavator. Now those were real quality toys with working parts and I prefered Corgi to the Americanized stuff that Matchbox were making. Also had tonnes of the Corgi Juniors range of vehicles and some of the larger scale lorries as well but seemed to notice that Corgi were going downhill quality-wise towards the end of the 1980s. By that time, I'd grown out of toys and was getting more and more into synthesizers, Sega master system and mountain bikes

"Leave everything to me!"

[darren]

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Great stuff mate.

you have any more.

pity the pics on thios thread have been removed cant understand why.

I found it at the flea market just this morning.

[victorbrunswick]

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I found it at the flea market just this morning.

[darren]

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in pretty good nick V.B for a quid 25 mate.

A wee bit of red paint to touch it up where its missing the red colour.

you still have her.

[shilton dipper]

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i had buckets full of corgi cars when i was a kid........didn't keep any packaging just played with them all the time.........all time fav was my blue rolls royce