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I like collecting Majorette cars since they are still easy to find around here and since not too many collect them, the prices are very reasonnable. They also do castings that nobody else does. I love those funky euro cars that we never got to see here. I'll be posting some in this thread, feel free to post yours as well.

Let's start, found this last week in a bag at Goodwill. Never saw it before. It's some kind of raid truck, real or not, for the legendary Paris-Dakar rally.

Gerry

 

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Talking about trucks, here's a cool pair of Toyota Hilux pick ups. They made the regular and 4X4 of that most indestructible vehicle.

Gerry

 

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Here's another one. It seems that Chrysler had some european specific cars. This is the Chrysler 180. What year, I don't know!

Gerry

 

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I'm happy that some of you actually played with these cars. Here's another red car, French made Simca. I don't think that those were ever marketed in North America (Thank God!).

Gerry

 

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Here's a Renault 18

Gerry

 

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A Renault 5 but look closely, it's a four door. I think only majorette ever made those in a 4 door. I use to own a 2 door and it was dirt cheap on gas. It also handled amazingly well for such a small car. The only problem is that it would fall apart and fail to start often. For some weird reason, Canadian models were sold with the 5th gear removed from the tranny. It was plenty fast with only four gears, I can just imagine how fast it would have gone with that extra 5th gear! Renault's are also well known to give mechanics nightmares. This one requires removing the entire front end of the car to replace the clutch since the transmission sits in front of the engine that is mounted in a North/South fashion.

Gerry

 

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Keeping with Renault, here's a pair of Alpine's. One serving the law and the other for emergency medical services.

Gerry

 

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A trio of European deliveries.

Gerry

 

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A weird looking (from what I'm used to anyways) Fire Truck

Gerry

 

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Majorette cars are great for wheel swaps. Just remove the clip, swap wheels and put the clip back. Here's a Toyota van that got a repaint and wheel swap.

Gerry

 

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Lemans Porsche, didn't come out too good in my opinion.

Gerry

 

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Majorette also made castings of American cars like these Wagonneer's. My fav is the Indian Chief. The two 4X4's don't have the dog in the back.

Gerry

 

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I just realized the dog looks like a Poodle! Made in france, mais oui.