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Super Stock Car
Topic Started: Jan 26 2014, 03:10 AM (741 Views)
christophe francois
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Station Wagon
A funny looking Corgi from the Whizwheels line.

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Mikey 1/64
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Nice one Christophe :thumbup: This is Corgi's representation of the kind of home built oval-track stock cars that were popular in Britain in the 1960s and 70s. It's a great period item. Corgi did a small number of variations on 2 different castings. Mine are missing the racing number stickers that were originally attached to the roof sign boards.

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christophe francois
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I didn't know that. Very interesting, and I really like the purple one with the red roof.
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craftymore
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Support your local demo derby.

Really like the roof signs were casted as part of the tops!
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Interesting model of an interesting car.

The theme of a big diecast manufacturer producing a car from a small-time level of racing seems to have been explored by Hot Wheels as well...
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Mikey 1/64
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The hood on the Derek Fiske car lifts up to reveal a painted engine
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Fiske and Todd Sweeney were actual drivers of the period, and the Corgi models are accurate to their real race cars.

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This great scan from a German magazine shows not only the Sweeney car (bottom right), but also the splendid Jaguar S-Type pace car that also made its way into the Corgi Rockets range
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christophe francois
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Great story! Thanks Mikey :)
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Forever Blue Oval
Very interesting, thanks for the look and info!
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juantoo3
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I often wondered about these! Nice to know they are patterned on real cars!
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pjedsel
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Muscle Car
Wow! Once again new things learned about our little cars. I was not aware that these had been patterned after real race cars in the UK.
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