Just been having fun with my 1970 cars today arranging them in catalog order, still missing 2 easy to find castings - Can you see which 2 catalog numbers are missing ? ;)
http://i38.photobucket.com/albums/e113/SMS369/toys/2008-Jan018.jpg
http://i38.photobucket.com/albums/e113/SMS369/toys/2008-Jan017.jpg

Love the purple VW Fastback. I've looked for one of those for a while.

That's a trick question. Ain't it?
The only ONE missing is the Iron Ferry Crane #42, right?
Or is the second one the THIN tired #33 - yours looks like a later wide tire.
Or could it be the #39 Ford tractor with a shade of blue only found with the King Size truck and trailer???? No?
OOOooook ok ok, you tricky sumbich, you almost had me - the CORRECT Combine is missing! I thought there was something weird about that one.
That's some Ninteen-eighty-whocares year MB! Get that thing outta there!;)
Cool contest! :wave:

That's a trick question! Ain't it?
The only ONE missing is the Iron Ferry Crane #42, right?
Or is the second one the THIN tired #33 - yours looks like a later wide tire.
Or could it be the #39 Ford tractor with a shade of blue only found with the King Size truck and trailer???? No?
OOOooook ok ok, you tricky sumbich, you almost had me - the CORRECT Combine is missing! I thought there was something weird about that one.
That's some Ninteen-eighty-whocares year MB! Get that thing outta there!;)
Cool contest! :wave:
Well spotted Lummox, 100% correct on all counts - I dont have the SFno42 Iron Fairy or the 65 Harvester.I do have a blistered 39 Tractor in lighter blue with the yellow hood and somewhere have my childhood lighter blue 40 trailer, and I was wondering if anybody would notice the ww 33 Muira in place of my thin wheels example -it can be boring looking at pix if things are too obvious :wave: I nearly put in a decal 61 Alvis because I couldnt find the stickered example I own........

Here is my 1970 lineup without the imposter ;)
http://i38.photobucket.com/albums/e113/SMS369/toys/2008-Jan021.jpg
Here is is again with a bunch of 1971 cars added - one new SF casting that should be here is not,and one that was certainly replaced is -which number? I have also changed 2 cars which to many eyes appears unchanged,but to the variation specialists is easily spotted -to make it easy they are NOT paint or wheel or baseplate variations
http://i38.photobucket.com/albums/e113/SMS369/toys/2008-Jan027.jpg
http://i38.photobucket.com/albums/e113/SMS369/toys/2008-Jan022.jpg

42,44 from the first photo.

42,44 from the first photo.
I certainly am missing the 42 but the 44 Refridgerator truck I have was in both the 1970 and 1971 catalogs.
I had a cheap SF42 in my hands 9 days ago but the chewed hook and chromeless wheels made me leave it behind.........
It has been a lot of fun arranging cars in number order (how i wish I had a dsiplay like Matchbox Tom´s new one :thumbsup: Perhaps this summer I will try to build my own stepped display that can park 250 cars at 45 degree angle out of acrylic as I have plenty at home and a saw that can cut it....
Here is about as far as I can get by adding in 1971 updates:

http://i38.photobucket.com/albums/e113/SMS369/toys/2008-Jan32.jpg

http://i38.photobucket.com/albums/e113/SMS369/toys/2008-Jan33.jpg

That is just too much!!!! Beautiful pieces SMS88!

That is just too much!!!! Beautiful pieces SMS88!
THANKYOU :) it is fun pulling out a lot of cars and doing something with them. Now tonight they are going back into a different order in the display cases and boxes where they live....

I'd like to be a fly on your wall, so to speak! How about some pics of your display room?

I'd like to be a fly on your wall, so to speak! How about some pics of your display room?
Here are the most interesting 1/3 of my small Lesney box collection plus the transitionals that I remember best from my childhood.There is a Corgi in plain view in this picture -can anybody recognise the casting? The gas station is the rarest Lesney item I own, probably -3 of the cars inside are repainted childhood favourites but everything else carries its Lesney paint.This is about 1/6 of my Lesney car collection -camera batteries are finished so this is the only shot I could get....
http://i38.photobucket.com/albums/e113/SMS369/2008-Jan040.jpg

SMS! - Something caught my eye! The Esso sign on the right hand side of the last photo - who made it?, is it metal or plastic?, how big is it compared to the Lesney sign :confused:

Karl-E. Denmark

The Corgi is the brown car next to the MGA in the upper level of the garage?

The Corgi is the brown car next to the MGA in the upper level of the garage?
Nope, its a 22 Cresta in bronze.The Corgi is a Mercedes bus parked next to the Setra -these 2 toys always belong side by side in my eyes as I got both castings (these are mint replacements) new and played with them together as a child.
The right side ESSO sign is plastic fitted with a decal, not a sticker, so its 1960s and came in this garage set along with the metal sign and the pumps -may or may not be Lesney - no marks to indicate brand....

I'd like to be a fly on your wall, so to speak! How about some pics of your display room?
I only have about 2500 cars of which 800 are modern HW and 400 are buses, so I dont have a toyroom, but I do have a few overcrowded displays - here are a few quick photos showing my freshly re-organised Lesneys (with the upgraded 30 rw castings that were new to me as a child top right), my favourite Corgis & Dinkies plus my overcrowded Husky/Juniors / Rockets display that is my priority to re-arrange :)

http://i38.photobucket.com/albums/e113/SMS369/toys/2008-Jan038.jpg
http://i38.photobucket.com/albums/e113/SMS369/toys/2008-Jan035.jpg
http://i38.photobucket.com/albums/e113/SMS369/toys/2008-Jan036.jpg
http://i38.photobucket.com/albums/e113/SMS369/toys/2008-Jan039.jpg

I knew that bus looked off. I didn"t want to guess more than once, but that would've been my next guess.

Very nice displays!!!

Wow!!! Outtasight collection-you sure have some beautiful pieces there. The corgi bus would have been, like my 25th guess!! But now that you've pointed it out, didnt corgi also make a school bus version of that bus? I think my bro. had it.

Wow!!! Outtasight collection-you sure have some beautiful pieces there. The corgi bus would have been, like my 25th guess!! But now that you've pointed it out, didnt corgi also make a school bus version of that bus? I think my bro. had it.
It is the school bus ! It was issued 1973 originally in metallic blue as I have here with red stripe school bus logos then in 1976 in yellow with black school bus stickers - a fine model of a common 12-16 seater euro minibus. I am very happy with my collection and I have all of the cars that I really really want - now its a case mainly of enjoying what I have and focusing on filling in gaps -

I feel blessed having just about everything that I remember from toy stores as a child, which is the focus of my vintage collection :)