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.

Sedan Mercury Cars

This Mercury Park Lane is not a rare, but very popular model in the Matchbox range. The Lesney had only produced Mercury Park Lane sedan as a Fire Chief and a Police, but no civil car. So I decided to make one, but at the end I made two of them: a light metallic green and a metallic beige. (I think it is not a beige colour, but this name was on the spray.)

The hole of the roof light had to be filled and I replaced the baseplates, because the original was damaged.