i believe the pink volswagen back then wasn’t described as a pre production. it may have been one and was attempted to be passed off as a store bought model. some were then sun faded and were identical to each other.
the supplier of the silver land rovers in the early seventies never revealed his source for the models.
some of these were dismantled and were noticed to be painted silver all over the inside. scratching the silver paint on the inside of the cab showed a coat of blue paint. this is the rw model, don't know about the sf version.
there was so much information that couldn’t be written in public for various reason, so word of mouth was one way to spread information about certain models. corresponding via cassette tape was also a good way of communicating and a better way of describing variations that were hard to describe in writing .
i could never understand the ego and jealously within hobbies. i admire collections and consider it to be one big collection. the knowledge shared amongst collectors is what i find most enjoyable
. theft among collectors is one thing i will never tolerate. some models that i don’t have any more i believe went that way, i don’t remember selling or trading them. i think i lost a few at collector meets too, sometimes it’s hard to remember what you brought to the show and what you sold :freak:
