A Civil Car Turns Into A Police Car

Although I don't collect Matchboxes with regular wheels, they sometimes appear in my restoration program. Just like this Matchbox Ford Zodiac Mk4. When I saw it the first time, I knew that it will be a police car - the Lesney only produced as a civil one.

In this case the body and the windows were ok, needed no spare parts, so I could start the work.
 

 

 

I had to drill a hole on the roof for the rooflight which was originally a miniature LED bulb.

It got the white colour, and I designed for it a unique Police Car decor, which should be somehow similar to the real UK police cars. 

At the end it got an own L-type box, too.

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.