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| Car Of The Day: January 24, 2010; Lledo '34 Rolls Royce Phantom II Playboy | |
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| Swifty | Jan 24 2010, 12:27 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 Lledo's '34 Rolls Royce Phantom II Playboy. ![]()
![]() For more information and pictures of the real car please visit: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Audi_100 ![]() An interesting Rolls from Lledo. A bit larger than 1/64 but not by too much. This is a big model but these were big cars. This model has managed to reside with at least three different members of this forum in the past few years but this shall be its permanent home. ![]()
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| NoirGuru | Jan 24 2010, 02:00 AM Post #2 |
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The All Original Gentleman
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That's an interesting colour for a car of that generation? |
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| james_autos | Jan 24 2010, 05:10 AM Post #3 |
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Minivan
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I'd put that one at between 1:50 and 1:55. The 'Days Gone' range which it came from was so over-produced that these days nobody wants these models. They mostly produced vans from the 20's, 30's and 40's advertising well-known companies of those eras. Every time I go to a car boot sale or toy fair, I see piles of them just sitting there. They can't even give them away. |
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| Sak | Jan 24 2010, 09:28 AM Post #4 |
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Ezekiel 25:17
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Same here. I can find DGs for only a couple of dollars apiece. I found a newspaper truck that was clearly inspired by the the 42A Bedford 'Evening News' van, it's awesome. I also found a Chevy panel in Krispy Kreme livery when the franchises were still open, it's very nice. |
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| ivantt | Jan 24 2010, 11:08 AM Post #5 |
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New casting? Quick! Take it apart!
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If these are that easy to find and are cheap, then I'd think taking a few and detail painting them would be a good improvement. Ref what NG said above, I doubt a metallic lavendar paint existed then, or would have been offered if it did. Even the color of the blue fenders would have been considered "bright" for cars of that era. |
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| Swifty | Jan 24 2010, 04:34 PM Post #6 |
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The Mustang II is a Mustang too!
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Thanks for the info. I was wondering about that! |
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| craftymore | Jan 24 2010, 10:39 PM Post #7 |
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Support your local demo derby.
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It's fit for the finest pimp to cruise in.
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| Sak | Jan 25 2010, 05:31 AM Post #8 |
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Ezekiel 25:17
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Truth was, with Rolls-Royce, you could have whatever color you wanted. All you had to do was suggest. If you were paying $15,000 in depression dollars for one, you should have a say about what color the car should be as long as they were hand building it. However, given that the clientele of that period was mostly peers and peer-dowagers (some who specified in their order a strict limit on the car's speed through a governor, to keep the chauffeur from giving into his more human instincts), you got more sombre colours. There wasn't anything specially done about the Phantom III in Goldfinger...that was the real car, in the real colors. There was no color chip sheet. |
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| james_autos | Jan 25 2010, 02:56 PM Post #9 |
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Minivan
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And it still is. The current Phantom can be made to order in around 250,000 different colour combinations. |
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