[Diecast/Models] Models/Toys You Have (or You Wish You Still Had.....)

[Hobson]

http://www.majorette.fr/main_gb.html

Wow, the cars still have the same wheels as all those years ago!

[TimD]

I bought a Majorette model of a Simca 1308 (Chrysler Alpine to the Brits) from a car boot sale the other day. Needs a little work, but it will come up quite nicely I think.

The thing I remember about Majorette in the seventies was that in true French-car fashion, they had yellow headlights. I recall having a few - a green Fiat 127 and a blue Volkswagen K70 if I remember rightly.

[KA]

Originally posted by TimD
I bought a Majorette model of a Simca 1308 (Chrysler Alpine to the Brits) from a car boot sale the other day. Needs a little work, but it will come up quite nicely I think.

The thing I remember about Majorette in the seventies was that in true French-car fashion, they had yellow headlights. I recall having a few - a green Fiat 127 and a blue Volkswagen K70 if I remember rightly.

I definitely had the 127 and the K70, and I'm sure I had the 1308/Alpine although think I had different colours- seem to remember a red K70, but I think they were sometimes available in a variety of colours at any given time. I can remember a few others- an orange Mk2 Capri, a Renault 17 Coupe, a Merc SL cabrio, a Beetle, a VW van, and another Simca- think it was an 1100.

[KA]

Originally posted by Hobson
http://www.majorette.fr/main_gb.html

Wow, the cars still have the same wheels as all those years ago!

Not just the wheels- if you search on the 'Mini' range, about the third one that comes up is a VW Beetle that (apart from the colour) looks very much like the one I had 25 years ago, open sunroof and all....

[egor]

Just got back from a holiday in the States, where I saw in the new Exoto 1/18th model of the Sauber C9 - silver arrow.
You get two cars for your money, one with full body work (with some being removeable), and the second which I have not seen produced by anyone else is of the comlpete chassis with no body work at all, so you can see all the detail.

From what I could see it looks an excellent ready built collectors model set which would look nice on anybodies shelf/desk.
But there is a down side, the price tag in the States was US$299, which is circa 170 of our British pounds and to make matters worse they are a limited eddition of 1989 peices I think.

Well another one for the wish list!!!!

Oh and if you want to have a look at one, there are a couple for sale on e-bay.

[egor]

Sorry folks posted the above in the wrong thread, any mods watching can you please move it to the thread titled "New model releases(any scale)"

Many thanks egor.....

[Aysedasi]

Sorry, I'm struggling to do that egor. I can edit it, delete it, or move the entire thread, but I don't seem to be able to move one post. I can copy it, but then it would come out as if I'd posted it. Perhaps you could copy and paste it to a new post in the correct thread?

[Aysedasi]

As this thread hasn't been posted to for more than two weeks, I don't think it really justifies its "sticky" status - for the moment at least. I'm removing it, therefore. It can be "stickied" again in the future if more interest is generated.