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Knockoff identification
Topic Started: Feb 6 2011, 07:12 PM (665 Views)
Pegers
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the first 5 are not tomicas...
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i think one is a knockoff of a hot wheel and the other is a knockoff
of the knockoff.
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Sean said the yellow tow truck is a welly.
Edited by Pegers, Feb 6 2011, 07:25 PM.
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Swifty
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The Mustang II is a Mustang too!
All of the trucks are Wellys.

Camaro- I'm not sure.

Isuzu Amigo - Realtoy

Ice cream truck- at least one is a Realtoy (the more Hot Wheels looking of the pair) and I think the other one may also be a Realtoy but with the casting modified a bit.

Volvo - Summer
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James
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I don't know but the Cattle truck is stunning, love it.

I have one of the snack trucks, they told me here it was a Realtoy
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JustDavid
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I really like the Amigo...the more I see of Real Toys, the more I like them.
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QuicksilverDC
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All the OLDER Tomica I have ever seen has "Tomica" on the base along with vehicle name, scale and a catalog number. I cannot say if that is true with current Tomica?

Some of the knock off Tomica casting are so identical it makes one wonder if they were actually produced from the same body mold, with a generic base and wheels?
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Dean-o-mite
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Swifty's identifications are spot-on. I, too, believe both ice cream trucks are Realtoys. The Camaro is a Soma.

Dean
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QuicksilverDC
Feb 7 2011, 09:29 PM
All the OLDER Tomica I have ever seen has "Tomica" on the base along with vehicle name, scale and a catalog number. I cannot say if that is true with current Tomica?

Some of the knock off Tomica casting are so identical it makes one wonder if they were actually produced from the same body mold, with a generic base and wheels?
The newer Tomica still have the name on the base - there's no mistaking that.

Some of the copies are close, but they are never quite there. Then there is the "Made in Japan" factor - I've never seen an older Tomica knock off that came from Japan.
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One more note, the blue sedan - the one that looks like a Dodge Dynasty or Chrysler New Yorker, and has an Audi symbol tampo printed on the hood, is supposed to be a Volvo 740 / 760, made by Summer, as Swifty said. Your example is old enough, that it should still have the Volvo trademark, diagonal stripe cast in the plastic grille. I swear though, that this looks so much more like one of the Mopar sedans, that someday, I'm going to try to customize one with the Dynasty front and rear details and see how it turns out.

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Feb 8 2011, 08:34 PM
One more note, the blue sedan - the one that looks like a Dodge Dynasty or Chrysler New Yorker, and has an Audi symbol tampo printed on the hood, is supposed to be a Volvo 740 / 760

Dean
This is hard to follow,

It looks like a Dodge Dynasty

It tampos say it is an Audi

It is supposed to be a Volvo

This hobby is getting weirder and weirder.....lolol
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Support your local demo derby.

I had a Green audi hatch that was made by Summer that had nearly an identical tamp/paint job on the hood from my childhood collection. I too was always under the impression that the blue sedan casting was a Vovlo as well.
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experts make your choice....
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Morphadite?
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James
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it could be a Nike! I have a shoe box that looks exactly like that, except it brown
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QuicksilverDC
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It is close but the Dyanasty and New Yorkers had a squared rear roof c pillar rather than slanted, and much smaller lug nuts.
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QuicksilverDC
Feb 9 2011, 09:22 AM
... and much smaller lug nuts.
Everything out of Detroit back then was emasculated. I blame the Women's Movement!
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