thanks for the information. it’s nice discussing matchbox with you.
i guess anything is possible. it would be nice to know the history of the hard to find models that were discovered in the past 10 to 15 years. there were some that had connections and would have employees make some nice lunchtime specials for them. when ego and greed took over and they were passed off as models that were intended for worldwide distribution. luckily some were caught at the time and not too many were rip off.
that is why i will always give credit to harold colpitts for trying to make a stand against these type of models. sometimes he had to make a stand all by himself (others had money to made off of these models). he wrote about the #13 reverse color dodge wrecker in the early seventies in which some lesney employees were selling for $15.00. he also helped identify many basement produced models along with many matchbox and lledo models that had labels applied by private individuals.
some pre productions were also attempted to be passed off as worldwide models, some of these were caught and some models nobody wants to believe they were pre productions. the yesteryear line was historic for having these type of models.
the lamborghini miura is a fine model.
here are some sf with their boxes. i never really collected the box variations. most of the major variations came out in blister packs before the boxed issue. one has the red base. i have the different shades of red bases, i’ll try to show them later. also white and off white interiors.
A nice rw version
some of the sf, greenish gold to gold. there is also an off white and white interior.
the sf hood variation. model on the left has a longer raised center line on hood, slightly different ribs on hood and the headlights are higher. it also had a lighter interior shade.
If you look down the back window of the superfast models one has a red wheel clip and the other has a yellow wheel clip.