Restored Corgi/Dinky cars

[ewetwo]

I've had these since I was a kit. The Plymouth I repainted peach and white but wanted to restore it back to the original blue/white scheme. The Jag I brush painted dark blue but now it's back to the original maroon metallic. The police car was a mess so I re-painted it and made the decals out of regular printer paper. They came out pretty good. 

Edited January 20, 2022 by ewetwo

[Geno]

Sweet, I really like the Plymouth but all of them look great.?

[Gramps46]

Nicely done and real treasures.

[Earl Marischal]

Nicely done. Somewhere I have a Yellow Cab version of that Plymouth. I was always baffled as to why it had white tyres...

steve

[ewetwo]

Thank you Gene, Gary and Steve. I also have other Corgi and Dinky cars along with all my matchbox cars. Most in boxes. Firehouse. Yesteryears and city. I also restored the Honda motorcycle and trailer.

[bisc63]

A couple of questions about the police car above: What is the scale? (or size?) Are they hard to find? Is it a Dinky or Corgi? I ask because I'd like to find one! I have the real thing, a fixer-upper I bought last year. If you're not familiar with them, it's a 1961 Olds Super 88 4-door hardtop.

[keyser]

Corgi 1/43. Man from uncle car, and police car iirc. 

[ewetwo]

49 minutes ago, bisc63 said:

A couple of questions about the police car above: What is the scale? (or size?) Are they hard to find? Is it a Dinky or Corgi? I ask because I'd like to find one! I have the real thing, a fixer-upper I bought last year. If you're not familiar with them, it's a 1961 Olds Super 88 4-door hardtop.

 

[ewetwo]

Yes Rusty. Like  Keyser said. Corgi 1/43. Here is another I have and a pic of all of them.

[bisc63]

Thanks, guys!

[Spottedlaurel]

On 1/20/2022 at 9:08 PM, ewetwo said:

Thank you Gene, Gary and Steve. I also have other Corgi and Dinky cars along with all my matchbox cars. Most in boxes. Firehouse. Yesteryears and city. I also restored the Honda motorcycle and trailer.

This City playset is an unusual thing, I can't recall seeing one before. Is it roughly of the smaller 1:64-ish scale?

[ewetwo]

8 hours ago, Spottedlaurel said:

This City playset is an unusual thing, I can't recall seeing one before. Is it roughly of the smaller 1:64-ish scale?

Yes Nigel. It was for the 1/64 Matchbox cars. Reason being you don't see a lot of them is because after a while. Years really. The plastic they used back then gets brittle. Mine ins't in great shape because of that reason. it's roughly 3 X 5 ft when opened. And the center building with the red roof is a place to store about 12 cars. 

[Rodent]

6 hours ago, ewetwo said:

Yes Nigel. It was for the 1/64 Matchbox cars. Reason being you don't see a lot of them is because after a while. Years really. The plastic they used back then gets brittle. Mine ins't in great shape because of that reason. it's roughly 3 X 5 ft when opened. And the center building with the red roof is a place to store about 12 cars. 

I had one as well, but it's long gone.

[peteski]

Nice job guys!

I have a Lone Star Rolls Royce I want to restore. I stripped the paint off its body, but then the project stalled (I have too many projects going on).