[Marty]

Ever since I found my first ZEE toys 1/32 Silhouette I pay more attention to die cast cars at shows, flea markets, garage sales, etc...

This one is 1/24 scale and weighs a ton! The body is die cast, not plastic.

Does anyone know if it was released with regular sized wheels?

Here is the rest of my ZEE and Roxy Toys collection:

http://smg.photobucket.com/albums/v521/mrtc4w/Silhouette/

It is not my complete collection. I have a bunch of the race cars, especially Chaparrals also.

Marty
Marysville, OH

 

[Lummox]

Those are pretty interesting, and some are kinda bizzare!
I have an Austin Mini that is very similar. Very well detailed and proportioned casting but with giant wheels. Different brand though. The brand is "Krazee Wheels".
Also have a Krazee Wheels brand car that is a Formula 1 racer with huge wheels. Excellent detail. It's a Matra F1.
Both are 1/64 though.

Sorta think maybe Krazee Wheels and ZEE Toys could be the same brand possibley.

 

[Marty]

Yes they are the same.

I have a 1/64 Jaguar XKE Krazee wheels. Weird lokin'!

Marty
Marysville, OH

 

[Lummox]

They are. Ok, cool. Thanks for the info, good to know!

 

[1970AMX]

I was wondering how you lift 2000 lbs? lol Cool car

 

[Marty]

I was wondering how you lift 2000 lbs? lol Cool car

Bend at the knees.:wave:

Marty
Marysville, OH

 

[Lummox]

I'm sorta thinking these might be a little bit on the harder to find end of things.
I don't ever remember seeing them as a kid, and mine, and yours are the only ones I've ever seen or heard of.

Sometime maybe you could take shots of you others Marty?

Anyone else have'em???

 

[Lummox]

Does anyone know if it was released with regular sized wheels?

Well the green one in your linc has regular sized wheels, right?

 

[Marty]

The orange one with the oversized wheels is a 1/24 scale die cast body. The green one with the regular wheels is 1/32 scale plastic body and chassis.

Marty
Marysville, OH

 

[Marty]

I lost the link to this page and couldn't find it. I was looking for ZEE and it is listed as Zylmex. It has a lot of pictures of different cars in it.

http://www.zylmex.com/

Marty
Marysville, OH

 

[Lummox]

Nice linc!
I really liked the 1974 catalog.
Of course the cars in the later catalogs sorta sucked imo.

I also realy enjoyed the photobucket pics of your collection!

 

[Marty]

Sometime maybe you could take shots of you others Marty?

I have more pictures of other ZEE Toys in my photobucket album

http://smg.photobucket.com/albums/v521/mrtc4w/Silhouette/

I still have more around here, I just have to unearth them.

One of the more interesting ways to package the cras is the ZZEE'S Garage. You will see it in the album with a chrome chaparral in it.

Also there is a picture of a 1/43(?) scale die cast Silhoutte. It has molded in the bottom:

Made in Italy
Silhouette Mattel Inc 1967
Mebetoys
6616
Sputafuoco
Hot Wheels
Heisse Rader

Is this a hard car to get? What other cars did they make? I have heard of Mebetoys but never Sputafuco or Heisse Rader.

Marty
Marysville, OH


Marty

 

[72challenger]

Made in Italy
Silhouette Mattel Inc 1967
Mebetoys
6616
Sputafuoco
Hot Wheels
Heisse Rader

Is this a hard car to get? What other cars did they make? I have heard of Mebetoys but never Sputafuco or Heisse Rader.

Same toys, just different names. Check out this site http://sputafuoco.com/

Heisse Rader is German for "Hot Wheels"

 

[SMS88]

Great catalogs, especially 1979,thanks for sharing the links! I have seen many of the 3 inch castings but not these larger ones.

 

[BTTFDMC1984]

here is one i found awhile back called Bubble