An Old Police Car With New Decor

It is always a joy to restore a Matchbox Mercury sedan Police car. It is not too easy to find a model for restore, but with good parts. Luckily in this case I found a proper one from the early SuperFast era.

As I disassemled it, I thought, I'd make not the usual Matchbox Police car.

The chassis was white and it is white - what else could it be - and the interior became light blue instead of the original cream colour.

It got a Missouri State Highway Patrol decor, not the known Lesney's Police car's stickers. I painted the details and the policemen, too.

Another Chevy Van - with Toffifee

And if the last post was about a Matchbox Cevy Van, let it be another custom version - with Toffifee. Although I'm not really fond of this sweet, the colours of this brand looked very similar to my brownish acrilyc paint spray.

Originally looked very worn, played, exhausted, poor truck.

I gave her an appetizing light brown colour which fits to the Toffifee (caramel, nougat and chocolate feeling).

Finished with Toffifee decor and new (Wellly) wheels:

Do You Want Some Coke?

Three years ago I restored a Chevy Van by Lesney, it became a van of a fictive non stop computer service. But when I found another one at a toy car fair, I knew, that I shall make a Coca-Cola delivery van from it.

The model was shabby, and the wheels had to be swapped.

The new colour was a nice vivid red to match the Coca-Cola design.

And here with the detailed chassis and new wheels and new stickers:

Finally its custom box has been made, too.

A cool Mercedes-Benz cabrio by Lesney

The Lesney had produced this Mercedes 280SL in white and in yellow colour. I thought, I would restore one in red colour with pale interior.

This model, I bought had no windsreen, it had to be replaced by a freshly made one. Otherwise the other parts were ok.

Beside the new bright red paint it got the details, too.

Beetles - but not Beatles

It's always funny to compare, how precisely made the producers the same model, just like the Volkswagen Beetle, a well-known car all over the world. It was always a must for the toy car producers to make any version of the Beetle.

I restored a Matchbox and a Majorette-made model the same time, so I had the chance to compare them, although they are not quite the same.

 

Which seems to be nicer? Everyone has a favourite kind of Beetle. There are Matchbox and there are Majorette fans...

New Task For A Carmichael Commando

Originally I knew only the police version of this Carmichael Commando, but later I saw on the internet, that there was a fire version, too (don't mention the countless Bulgarian copies). I thought, I would make a new one, a high voltage maintenance car.

I like this yellow colour, I think it fits to this theme.

It's complete with the custom stickers:

A Matchbox MB-57 Wild Life Truck - Not So Wild

Not so wild, because the lion is gone and I was thinking what to do with the empty back of the car... I could not get another lion, nor a canopy, so I should place there something else.

The Rola-Matics function didn't work, so it could deliver a usual load, like boxes and crates. I got them from my former H0 accessories. They fit well to the 1/64 scale models, too!