An American Muscle Car - The Oldsmobile Toronado

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:

The Mercedes-Benz 280 hardtop - By SIKU

I totally forgot about this model, that 40 years ago I had one SIKU Mercedes 280, it occured to me, when I restored a cabrio by Lesney. I used to have one! So when I found it at a flea market, I bought it at once and I restored with the Matchbox cabrio. It's funny to analyse how differently made the two producers the same Mercedes. I like both of them.

The chassis was very shabby and the gears had to be changed for nicer wheels (made by Welly).

I painted it nice red - just like I did with the Matcbox model - and then came the details. The interior got a light blue colour.

An Opel Rekord by SIKU

This wasn't cheap even in shabby condition at a toy car fair, but I bought it, it was a must to buy and to restore - I love those models from the 1960s years.

Originally it was a dull grey car, I couldn't leave her in that look, I gave her nice gold colour!

I have never seen similar solution, how they created the suspension and fixed the axles, as well.

And the restored/customized car:

An Audi 100 From Siku

I used to have this model car 40 years ago, so I decided to get it again. This is the member of SIKU's V-series, when the scale was only 1:60, not 1:55, like later. This is a nicely produced model with opening doors, so it was a must to buy one and restore/customize it.

I thought, a new colour wold be better, than the original was - I didn't like it. 

 And of course, I didn' forget the details, too!

Hungarian Police Car 3

This is also a SIKU model, a Mercedes-Benz 240 (This model was also produced by Corgi, but only in the SIKU version had opening doors, the Corgi is shut.)

 

 

It was ok for restore/customize, only I changed the wheels. The chassis got a new paint, but not white, in this case blue and the stripe was white with the blue 'Rendőrség' (Police) letters.

And the result:

Hungarian Police Car 2

This very old SIKU Ford 17M Turnier is a rare find in Hungary, so I was glad to get it and all of the parts were fairly OK. It was in the colours of the German ADAC, but I knew that I will make something different decor for it. Only I didn't know: shall it be a doctor's car or a police car? 

I painted it white (still without any decoration) and gave it new wheels:

Then I found out, that I will continue the Hungarian Police Car series with this model: