http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y152/SteveCameron/DSC01402.jpg

the newest toy is on the top left, the 2 on the bottom are the oldest and the second oldest is on the top right.....For a bit of fun, can anyone tell me why i distinguish a age differance between the bottom 2 boxes and the top right box ?

:thumbsup: Nice ones! :thumbsup:

My guess is that the words "A Lesney Product" & the two "36"s are a bit bolder on the upper right box.

If I remember correctly, this is the car with the chromed engine bay....I've wondered why they didn't do that for other cars. It was always one of our favorite MBs because of the chromed engine, even though we never saw the actual 1:1 car in real life, of course. Are there any others that they made this way?

My guess is that the words "A Lesney Product" & the two "36"s are a bit bolder on the upper right box.

If I remember correctly, this is the car with the chromed engine bay....I've wondered why they didn't do that for other cars. It was always one of our favorite MBs because of the chromed engine, even though we never saw the actual 1:1 car in real life, of course. Are there any others that they made this way?

Off the top of my noggin I can only think of one other at the moment, it featured a opening hood (of course - stupid me LOL) with a very cool spare tire laying across the front on edge of the entire chromed engine compartment, the #53 Ford Zodiac MK IV....i have also seen the zodiack with a unfinished conpartment and i seem to recall it was green in color, which caused me to become a bit green with envy LOL. This feature was on both the regular wheel toy and the Superfast model.

On the boxes lesney first ran the Matchbox in arch with no registered "R" after the word Matchbox...they then added the R - other than the added R after the Matchbox word, they are identical for the most part, there really is no added value in what i know for them, but i enjoy the miniscule addition

I had a pair of these , one rw and one sf as a child.One was green gold and the yellow gold.It still amazes me that since age 8 I have been aware of shade variations. The engines were moulded in green plastic and a small proportion of these both for Opels and Zodiacs missed out on the plating process although I hear from experts that the fronts of Kennel trucks,Ford pickups,leyland tippers and BP tankers all appeared sometimes in white because of problems with the chrome plating equipment not being allowed to stop production.F box for the Opel is HTF compard to most old boxes,I have read

I had a pair of these , one rw and one sf as a child.One was green gold and the yellow gold.It still amazes me that since age 8 I have been aware of shade variations. The engines were moulded in green plastic and a small proportion of these both for Opels and Zodiacs missed out on the plating process although I hear from experts that the fronts of Kennel trucks,Ford pickups,leyland tippers and BP tankers all appeared sometimes in white because of problems with the chrome plating equipment not being allowed to stop production.F box for the Opel is HTF compard to most old boxes,I have read


that is fantastic that your memory take you back on the shade variations, there are so many, and yet many miss them even today ! i also enjoy them to no end.
i wanted to add some clarity to your last comment, in regards to the "F Box" I presented in this post, while the superfast F Box is semi HTF..its the F Box featuring the regular wheel model on the box that is HTF, please correct them if one says any thing else but...i would gather a 50 to 1 ratio between the 2 F Boxes my friend

that is a nice little tidbit about the boxes. any other cool box variation? never a bad time to look through boxes or models for variations. :)
shade variations look nice when placed next to each other, too bad they aren’t picture friendly sometimes
here are a few sf opels
http://img185.imageshack.us/img185/923/opelsf36groupacx3.jpg
http://img156.imageshack.us/img156/472/opelsf36blister1re6.jpg
like the rw version was there a sf gray motor?

speaking of R with and without.
the lamborghini countach 27sf base without and with R after matchbox
http://img156.imageshack.us/img156/5553/lamborghinicountach27sftw3.jpg
rivet area size
http://img517.imageshack.us/img517/466/lamborghinicountach27sfpt4.jpg

The rideheight on the rw is too low in my opinion, perhaps the SF is too high!
Either way a good casting of the real car even if it suffers from that common Lesney oversight, incorrect stance

I truly loved my #36 sf, the tread area's worn almost flat but still not a scratch on it!!!
The 1:1 Opel as you might know is based on the '64-'67 Chevelle - same windshield, inner body structure, frame & drive-train.
I think thats why I liked it so much - it looked just like our car.

I even took it apart a couple of times.
All my boxes are beat from 30-40 years in those MB cases though!
Great pics guys. Thanks.