Subject: identifying toy cars
08/10/2014 @ 02:00:11: dsl: identifying toy cars
The yellow 1800 Pininfarina is very rare variant (usually described as orange) - most were metallic gold. The "white" Capri with black bonnet behind the caravan is odd - should be pink, unless it's faded. All the others are normal mid-late 60s Matchbox around the transition to Superfast in 69 - I probably had 75% of them at one stage or other of childhood. Someone's very carefully pealed the racing stickers off the Mini and VW Beetle. I don't recognise the blue truck in last thumb - a foreign intruder??
12/10/2014 @ 19:51:14: cl82: identifying toy cars
To me it looks rather British because I don`t think it`s a MB.
12/10/2014 @ 21:28:36: Gamer: identifying toy cars
@Mark99: the name of the car is usually written on the bottom. :wink:
13/10/2014 @ 18:13:29: Mark99: identifying toy cars
Thanks, Gamer :wink:
08/11/2014 @ 21:59:38: Mark99: identifying toy cars
Three cars found in my house (there's no name written on their bottom) so can you tell me their name? Thanks
1)A (really American looking) green car;
08/11/2014 @ 22:00:26: Mark99: identifying toy cars
2)An Airport bus;
08/11/2014 @ 22:03:54: Mark99: identifying toy cars
3)An ambulance
08/11/2014 @ 22:43:35: Gamer: identifying toy cars
1) Tucker torpedo with restyled nose
2) Jonckheere unknown
3) converted Ford Bronco
08/11/2014 @ 22:46:51: Gamer: identifying toy cars
The yellow 1800 Pininfarina is very rare variant (usually described as orange) - most were metallic gold. The "white" Capri with black bonnet behind the caravan is odd - should be pink, unless it's faded. All the others are normal mid-late 60s Matchbox around the transition to Superfast in 69 - I probably had 75% of them at one stage or other of childhood. Someone's very carefully pealed the racing stickers off the Mini and VW Beetle. I don't recognise the blue truck in last thumb - a foreign intruder??

I have the BMC 1800 in gold, with white paint splattered all over it (real paint, no design) and the green Dodge Charger three times - two times in green, one with and one without door and once in metallic magenta.
27/09/2015 @ 21:37:44: Mark99: Identifying toy cars
Little quiz: do you recognize these four Ferraris?
27/09/2015 @ 21:38:56: Mark99: Identifying toy cars
Little quiz: do you recognize these five Ferraris??
27/09/2015 @ 21:51:15: Gamer: identifying toy cars
599 GTB, F40, F50, 550 Spider and F430.
28/09/2015 @ 05:45:36: Mark99: identifying toy cars
Very good, Gamer! I've recognized only the F40:about the four others, I don't know them and I wanted to ask help here
28/09/2015 @ 16:38:43: Mark99: identifying toy cars
Four fire trucks of several ages (the first one reminds me a Seagrave). What about the others?
29/09/2015 @ 14:18:01: Exiv96: identifying toy cars
The fourth one is a Mercedes T1.
29/09/2015 @ 14:51:12: Lateef: identifying toy cars
The first one is a Mack CF
29/09/2015 @ 16:25:15: Exiv96: identifying toy cars
2)An Airport bus;


2) Jonckheere unknown


I have one of these since I was a kid, and its origin has puzzled me for a long time, but I don't think it's a Jonckheere. On closer inspection, it appears the Majorette modelmakers have been inspired by the Irizar coaches from Spain, especially the Korosti and Urko models. It's basically an Urko with the front end of a Korosti... but all squeezed into a midi coach format.

Korosti : https://www.flickr.com/photos/irizar_coaches_and_buses/12237452213

Urko : http://www.fotobus.es/data/media/20/Irizar_Urko_002.JPG
30/09/2015 @ 08:36:19: Mark99: identifying toy cars
Two police cars: the first one is a Fiat Tipo, the second one I think it's something Russian (VAZ?)
30/09/2015 @ 13:02:39: ingo: identifying toy cars
Two police cars: the first one is a Fiat Tipo, the second one I think it's something Russian (VAZ?)


Yes, a Lada Samara.
30/09/2015 @ 14:18:22: Mark99: identifying toy cars
Little quiz: do you recognize this car (really common in Italy)?
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