American models of British Classics

Jul 13, 2006 9 Replies

Not very on topic, so I invite people to search for 'em (seller id: richardk66). When I was in the states a while back, I bought a little set of models of British sportscars - MGB Roadster, MGA 1500, Triumph TR3A and Austin Healey Sprite (my favourite of them).



They weren't marketed in the UK, were made by Johnny Lightning models, and were part of the British Invasion series. The ones I got were limited editions (of 7,500 - not that limited) with an electroplated and 'bare metal' version in the box.



Although six cars were made in the series, only these four were produced in the limited edition format as the other two cars had been marketed as film tie-in cars before.



I like having models of cars I own - I figure anyone UK based with one of these cars for real, might like these nice US-market models of them.



Anyway, I've decided with my car collection (like most things I collect), it's the getting, not the having I liked best, so I've put them on eBay, along with some old Dinky/Corgi cars I have (I have far, far too many).



Richard


More f*ckin ebay spam

p*ss off

No, unlike most of the other spammers, Richard is a legitimate regular poster here, so one very occasional ad is not exactly spam.

You, OTOH, make your first post here an abusive one. It's you that's unwelcome.

I wish I could get more british car models stateside. On my trip to England I jammed as many Triumph Spitfire models as I could into my bag. I ALMOST considered buying the larger(almost a foot) long Triumph GT-6 SunStar model, but had no room for it.

The talking Dalek toy was tempting too.

Richard has very nice hair though, very peodophilic, that 'real sad loser' look .

may've ( snipped-for-privacy@net.com) gurgled happily, sounding much like they were saying :

And if anybody was in any doubt as to your justification to reside in the KF, you've just provided it.

I thought Sunstar stuff was widely available in the US? I know I first saw Sunstar's Ford Galaxie Skyliner in Toys R Us in the US...

Richard

Awwww, I got my very own stalker.

Which picture did you go with?

Richard

I think some stuff is in model shops, but surely not any British classic cars. About 99% of model cars around here are "yank tanks", sadly.

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