This autumn I got this Oldsmobile Toronado made by SIKU. I have never seen this version before, because it is a rarer one with wide wheels, made in 1974-75 in the V-series. The real car was a big one, but not as big as this model car to the other SIKU V-series models. The general V-sereis cars are in scale of 1:60, but this Oldsmobile seems to be in scale of 1:50. The American car models made by SIKU that times are much bigger than the Europen ones. But why? And then its name: 'Toronado'. Why not 'Tornado'?
Nevertheless it was a very good base to restore and customize it, the casting by SIKU is very nice and accurate.
Let alone the fact, the windscreen is cracked a bit, the car is okay. I thought, i'd swap the wheels, but they were in quite good condition, so I didn't. It is not so easy to get out the axles fron SIKU models, so I skipped it.
Although I liked the orginal yellow colour, I wanted a new, cool metallic blue, I saw somewhere on the internet.
The interior became light sand colour and then I painted the details on the chassis, too:
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