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| Car Of The Day: September 28, 2009; Siku '55 Mercedes-Benz 300SL | |
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| Swifty | Sep 28 2009, 12:22 AM Post #1 |
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The Mustang II is a Mustang too!
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![]() Today's car of the day is Siku's 1955 Mercedes-Benz 300SL. ![]()
![]() For more information and pictures of the real car please visit: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mercedes-Benz_300SL ![]() Tomica, Corgi, and others did this model back in the 1970s and 1980s. The Tomica version is the best, while this Siku seems larger than even their normal 1/55 scale. The casting also appears to be chunkier than the real car. ![]()
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| STUTZ | Sep 28 2009, 12:37 AM Post #2 |
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Diecast junkie
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Very nice casting! Another silver car for the COTW. Gold is better than silver, but I could cast my vote for this casting now. Give this casting some serious competition. CO FOR THE GOLD! |
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| james_autos | Sep 28 2009, 08:40 AM Post #3 |
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Minivan
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It does look like a superb casting all around, even down to the wheels, and of course the opening gullwing doors. I wouldn't say that it looked chunky though, but I would say it was perhaps a bit on the long side. I could be wrong, but it is actually longer than the 80's issue of the same casting. I'm sure there was one in their V-Series range in the 60's, so that would have been around 1:60 rather than 1:55 (V-Series models weren't uniformed to the exact same scale). So that means that over a period of 40+ years, they've released 3 different castings of the same car
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| craftymore | Sep 28 2009, 09:37 AM Post #4 |
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Support your local demo derby.
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I'd agree with Stutz, this would be worth a vote for sure. |
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| Sak | Sep 28 2009, 08:20 PM Post #5 |
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Ezekiel 25:17
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Marvelous choice! I'm a genuine Gullwing fan. I have always believed that it looked best, by far, in silver. |
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| accobra64 | Sep 28 2009, 08:59 PM Post #6 |
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A great choice for today. This is an automobile that I have always liked. I even built an AMT 1/24 or 1/25 plastic model of the MB 300SL when I was a kid and I painted it silver instead of red. What was amazing about the kitwas the fact that it had the tubular chassis just like the real car. That was a fun model to build requiring lots of careful assembly. Cheers. Cobra |
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| ivantt | Sep 30 2009, 08:00 PM Post #7 |
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New casting? Quick! Take it apart!
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I thought at first glance it was both longer and chunkier than the actual auto. Time for a $1 casting of this car that is reasonably accurate, so we can all own a few. Step up, please, Matchbox. |
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