showed these before, just wanted to group them together.
http://img509.imageshack.us/img509/4066/roaddragstersf19gpeh4.jpg
a few slingshots.
http://img475.imageshack.us/img475/326/slingshotsf64grpgy3.jpg

I never did like these 2 castings, although the Road Dragster is so ugly that I had to buy a couple because owning them today reminds me how I felt seeing them in stores and on the schoolyard as a child. Perhaps this is the place for a closeup of that superb metallic bright red example that Mountain has , possibly the rarest 19b issue....

I never liked them either - especially #19, but at 10 yrs old I was happy to get ANY Matchbox!

The orange #64 - is that the last variation made? I don't remember that one.

the orange 64 was out in the early part of 1973, briefly between the blue and pink models.

close up of the metallic red
http://img86.imageshack.us/img86/4015/roaddragstersf19mtredzd4.jpg
should have put the blistered metallic purple with 8 labels in the above picture, sorry .
http://img98.imageshack.us/img98/3976/roaddragstersf19mtprlpcl6.jpg

the orange 64 was out in the early part of 1973, briefly between the blue and pink models.

close up of the metallic red
http://img86.imageshack.us/img86/4015/roaddragstersf19mtredzd4.jpg

Very nice to see this - I like metallic red toys generally much more than any other color and have made a point of buying as many different castings as I can in metallic red, which was very common on Lesneys, HW redlines and Dinkys back in the early 1970s when I was buying toys as a kid :wave: