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| Car Of The Day: May 28, 2018; Zylmex '14 Vauxhall Prince Henry | |
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| Dean-o-mite | May 28 2018, 02:14 AM Post #1 |
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![]() Today's car of the day comes from corvairjim's collection, and is Zylmex's 1914 Vauxhall Prince Henry. ![]()
![]() For more information and pictures of the real car please visit: Vauxhall Prince Henry ![]() corvairjim reported that he found this Zylmex Vauxhall in a box of dollar diecast for sale at a flea market on the weekend of the Keystone CARnival. The base has the now famous misprint of 1941 instead of 1914 - a typo that was never corrected over the production run of this model. The model number, D72 indicates this was from the Dynawheels series, a lower cost (plastic base) alternative to the usually metal-based and higher cost Pacesetters series. ![]()
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| juantoo3 | May 28 2018, 07:21 AM Post #2 |
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Another classic diecast in every sense of the word particularly the error on the base...no way this is a 1941 |
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| Pegers | May 28 2018, 09:33 AM Post #3 |
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i do like the casting... |
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| pjedsel | May 28 2018, 11:02 AM Post #4 |
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But we should all have a 1941 Vauxhall in our collections. This is a wonderful little classic car - wish more of this era was done in small scale besides the ones from High Speed.
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| craftymore | May 28 2018, 11:25 AM Post #5 |
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I lacked the awareness this even existed. Cool! |
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| Dean-o-mite | May 28 2018, 02:01 PM Post #6 |
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I have two wheel variations on the red, and I recently learned of a blue one (which I should be getting from another Garage member soon).![]() |
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| juantoo3 | May 28 2018, 09:23 PM Post #7 |
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Summer has a handful of brass era oldies as well, the smaller ones are comparable in size to the High Speed / Wondrie models. I find the lot of them rather crude, were it not for my fascination with High Speed I wouldn't bother. Zee also had a brass era Renault, still crude but a half step better than the HS and Summer models. This 1914 Vauxhall is the cream of the crop when it comes to the brass era in 1/64, until one gets into customs such as T bucket hot rods (redline Hot Heap is a 1914 Model T Ford). |
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| juantoo3 | May 28 2018, 09:24 PM Post #8 |
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Didn't know about blue, but I do have a silver variant. |
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| pjedsel | May 28 2018, 10:42 PM Post #9 |
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That tends to be my thoughts as well - I have some of the Summer and High Speed and others but have always dreamed that someone like Matchbox would have offered their old Model of Yesteryear range in small scale - I know that is mostly wishful thinking as there seems to not be a lot of interest in brass era cars. |
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| Swifty | May 28 2018, 10:46 PM Post #10 |
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The Mustang II is a Mustang too!
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There's a blue one? *Adds another to the ever-growing want list* |
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| corvairjim | May 30 2018, 11:39 PM Post #11 |
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Wow. I'm out of the garage for a couple of days (Downloading my pix to Flickr because of the Photobucket hoo-ha) and another of my cars makes it as Car of the Day. There's something funny about how I came to find this one: My wife was going through the box of cars mentioned above and found the Vauxhall. She asked me about it and I told her that I'd like to have it, being a fan of these antique "performance" cars. Not happening, because she liked it and found it first. So, since she had some success with that box I decided to go through it once she was done with it. Lo and behold, there was another one of these cars in the box! She hadn't seen it, so I'm glad I took the time to search through the box. I had no idea that these cars were ever made in 1:64. It's definitely in nice condition for rattling around loose in a "junk box" for who knows how long. |
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This is a wonderful little classic car - wish more of this era was done in small scale besides the ones from High Speed.


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