The weekend is here and a whole lot of folks will be hitching caravans, boats and trailers to their cars this weekend.Matchbox put tow hooks on a whole bunch of cars and made some fine boats and trailers to hitch, so if there are any you particularly like ,why not share them with everyone?

http://i38.photobucket.com/albums/e113/SMS369/toys/2008-May041.jpg

As you know SMS88, I'm a big guy, fighting a slight overweight :rolleyes:
so my favorites has to involve food :p
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Karl-E. Denmark

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As you know SMS88, I'm a big guy, fighting a slight overweight :rolleyes:
so my favorites has to involve food :p
:wave:
Karl-E. Denmark

http://i81.photobucket.com/albums/j216/karl-e/refre.jpg

Very nice collection, very nice indeed. I have a grey food trailer as well. Being *ever-so-slightly* overweight, I think it's a great casting.

Very nice collection.

I like that cream lunch wagon Karl:thumbsup:it has always eleuded me so far. When I was 7 or 8 I visited a friend who had just inherited a bunch of rw, including a silver lunch wagon which he chose to hook up to the no7 Ford Anglia although I can remember suggesting the 38 Vauxhall station wagon but he didnt agree - I still know this guy more than 30 years later and he still owns the very same lunch wagon and I own his Anglia from those days.It took me more than 30 years to finally own my own lunchwagon, its a bit playworn but the Anglia was the obvious towcar. I like the way Lesney livened up the colours of the Minx -turquoise & cream is nicer than 2 tone gray which was a departure from the allover grass green of the first issue
http://i38.photobucket.com/albums/e113/SMS369/toys/2008-May065.jpg
As a child my pink 23 caravan was usually pulled by my 25 Cortina -looks totally natural for me.I didnt have a yellow 23 or a red 22 as a child , but they do look good together today:)
http://i38.photobucket.com/albums/e113/SMS369/toys/2008-May063.jpg

http://i38.photobucket.com/albums/e113/SMS369/toys/2008-May076.jpg
Anybody seeing a typical Lesney store display in the early 1960s would probably see a no 22 Cresta next to a 23 caravan.The last gold & bronze cars would be alongside the 23c in lilac/brown shade,the first pink cars would be alongside a blue 23a or 23b and the gray/pink two-tone cars make a fine match with the last 23b issue in lime.Best match for the 23c that I can make is the purple 39 Pontiac convertible.Twas fun moving around the cars for these pix:hat:
http://i38.photobucket.com/albums/e113/SMS369/toys/2008-May080.jpg

nice theme topic, and some cool pictures. like the shadow effect on the picture with the purple convertible.
a few more theme topics would be nice and playing with cars too.

tough to say what would be my favorite, so here are a few combinations.
transitional hauling (well almost);)
http://img120.imageshack.us/img120/7680/sftowingkt8.jpg
a little late 70’s
http://img120.imageshack.us/img120/7664/sftowinglt70za1.jpg
not the kind of towing the makes it a fun day. poor jaguar ss100
http://img261.imageshack.us/img261/1069/pickupsk11jagy11cp6.jpg

nice theme topic, and some cool pictures. like the shadow effect on the picture with the purple convertible.
a few more theme topics would be nice and playing with cars too.


not the kind of towing the makes it a fun day. poor jaguar ss100
http://img261.imageshack.us/img261/1069/pickupsk11jagy11cp6.jpg
Havent seen that Falck tow truck before - only the Range Rover -as I live in Denmark I am surprised it hasnt turned up yet,although being a generic perhaps nobody here realises it is collectable:rolleyes:

The Grey wheel Era stands alone...Nice Pics

http://i38.photobucket.com/albums/e113/SMS369/toys/2008-May074.jpg
As a child I preferred to tow my no 9 rw boat with the 45 Corsair, although the boat on the roof of my childhood example probably was lost within days of getting the toy.Part of Lesney´s philosophy of giving a full standard size box full of car, the Corsair was scaled down to allow for the boat to fit in the box too.In reality, the 1:1 Corsair was the same size as the Cortina GT (Lesney no 25)

matchbox 1958 vauxhall cresta
http://img357.imageshack.us/img357/3794/160520082592fq2.jpg

Here is two combinations that I like too: T-bird and Impala with boats :thumbsup:

Karl-E. Denmark

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Here is two combinations that I like too: T-bird and Impala with boats :thumbsup:

Karl-E. Denmark

http://i81.photobucket.com/albums/j216/karl-e/boats.jpg

wow, that square bird is awesome!

agree, the t-bird is sweet. :thumbsup:
the yellow sk-11 truck with the AA labels as pictured on the box was the more common release.
a jag and a boat. a dozer towing the ruff rabbit.:drunk:non lesney chain:)
http://img402.imageshack.us/img402/1685/jagboatrwtowmg7.jpg
http://img513.imageshack.us/img513/2531/dozerruffsftowingal6.jpg

Perhaps the most famous diecast hitched pair of all time (and not made by Lesney:freak:) in the eyes of most diecast collectors is probably this pair,which featured as a gift set continuously from 1967 to 1981 coinciding with the non-stop reruns of the 1966 TV series.Much as I like my Lesney Matchbox cars, the Barris Batmobile is high end diecast and has been ever since its 1966 launch without the towhook......a treasured part of my collection
http://i38.photobucket.com/albums/e113/SMS369/toys/2008-May019-1.jpg

In the mid sixties Corgi gave us some of the best 1:43 toycars ever, always one step ahead of Dinky and others.
Matchbox and Corgi ruled their respective fields.
The play-value and quality of models like the 1965 007 Aston Martin and the 1966 Batmobile were almost unbeliveble high, both models were top-sellers and sold more than 4.000.000 (007) and 5.000.000 (Batmobile) and there are still a lot around :thumbsup:
I had both models when I was a kid (but lost them sometime in the 70's :freak:)
Later, after I started collecting, The Batmobile was one of the first I had to obtain, and the 007 was found cheap but needs resto of the catapult.
The Batboat is not my "cup of tea" it feels cheap (to much plastic), I had one, incl. the black plastic-gizmo that was used to connect it to the early version of the Batmobile.....I traded it for some nice Matchbox and Tomte :p

Karl-E. Denmark

http://i81.photobucket.com/albums/j216/karl-e/bat007.jpg