It's a little hard to make out the details, but the 1/18 Cobra 427 I have is by Yatming as well. British Racinbg Green, black wheels, roll bar, big masculine side pipes, and an engine large enough to drive the Queen Mary half its length up on the beach. Not a subtle car.

absolutely. I guess you met one 'alive'? "Rumble seat" gains whole new meanings then. :)

maybe your model is newer. I have this for more than ten years now, and it's deep midnight blue metallic. the other specs are the same, so it should be the same indeed, with different painting.

It's not uncommon for the same model to be repainted for later releases. Sometimes its available in several colours at once. Did I mention the white racing stripes and roundels?

I also have a '65 Daytona Cobra, which is a wild ride too. Mine is white, not my favourite colour, but it's what the dealer had and his prices were good. I forget the make -- Sunnyside? Welly? No, Yatming.

Not counting pure Shelby's, I have these Ford/Mercury/Lincolns in my 1/18 collection.

'25 Ford TT Delivery Van MB
’31 Ford Model A MCC
’31 Ford Delivery Truck S
’46 Ford Sportsman *** YM
’48 Ford Convertible YM
’49 Ford Convertible M
’50 Ford Convertible M
’53 Ford Crestline Skyliner W
’64 Ford Galaxie 500 Sun
’57 Ford Fairlane Skyliner !!!! Sun
’25 Ford “T” Hot Rot E
’64 Ford Mustang Coupe W
’60 Thunderbird Sun
2002 Ford Thunderbird Coupe M
’62 Ford Thunderbird (tonneau) W
’68 Shelby Mustang GT 500K RS
’70 Mustang Boss 429 MM
Mustang Mach III Concept M
’63 ½ Ford Falcon RS
Ford GT90 (1995) M
'04 Ford GT BS
Ford GT40 Mk. II JF
'57 T-Bird *** RS
'03 Mustang SVT Cobra conv. M
’06 Mustang GT conv. HW
’08 Shelby Mustant GT500 SC

’31 Lincoln K RO
’37 Lincoln Touring Cabriolet S
‘39 Lincoln Zephyr S
’52 Lincoln Capri S

’57 Mercury Turnpike Cruiser YM
’64 Mercury Marauder Park Lane RS
’70 Mercury Cougar Eliminator W
1965 Mercury Comet Cyclone GT RS

1958 Edsel Citation (conv.) YM

LEGEND

YM Yatming, S Signature, RS Road Signature, W Welly, M Matell, HW Hot Wheels, RO Ricko, BS Beanstalk, M Maisto, SUN Sunstar, MB Motor Max, MCC Motor City Classics, SC Shelby Collectables, JF Joueff *** Real Leather Seats, !!!! Retractable Hardtop

wow, quite an impressice collection. I have almost all of these myself, but in a wide variety of smaller scales, and from many different brands. :)

I'm planning on photographing them all one day, and display them on the net as a help for collectors. Ford germany provides my dates among two more's in case someone's looking for a specific model car, =^^= seems like I made myself a name already...

I have no idea how to operate my digital camera, so what I do is go on-line and find photos on dealer's sites. I sometimes settle for the same car, or a different colour, but normally I won't settle for anything less than the same maker and colour. I'm not often disappointed.

Oddly, it's Bburago that I'm least likely to find photos of. It's the commonest make for sure (or was until recently -- Maisto has probabl edged the Italian firm out). But maybe that's why nobody deals in them by mail order. Why bother when the product is available from the store? It may also be that Bburago isn't collected by serious people. As one of the earlier makers, their models are often rather primative. (Not to mention obsessed with small, low-powered, unattractive French and Italian family cars that few people are interested in.)

If you ever do put a gallery on-line of Ford products, I hope you remember to add a picture of the British actor who was in "Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy" in the Ford Prefect section.

my camera is rather old, so by modern comparatives primitive and crappy, but some things photograph exceptionally well.

bBurago is indeed something more toy-like than a serious model, although their scales are always accurate, as are the stickers for sports variants. Polistil of italy is much more toy-like in comparision. but I doubt many US collectors ever heard about them... bBurago is maybe not marketed outside of store lines due to licenses, hence why there are no online stores who sell them, I don't know. my insight into the market's mechanics are scarce at best.
in times I have no idea why some toys are only sold at gas stations, where they are hard to come buy. makers and importers probably wonder why they won't sell...

huh, nice thought, but it will me about model cars, not actors. =^^=

Toy cars I've seen some big American truck stops, which are more like small shopping malls sometmies carry Motor Max cars. Hadly surprisinglh considering the hundreds of other things carried -- cassette tapes, books, sunglasses, car mats, parts of all sort, ponches, sleeping bags, fishing gear, coleman lanterns, candy, chips, pop, beer, socks, underwear... in other words, practically anything a trucker might need on the road. Even a place to sleep. I've seen some such mega-stops that had sleeping bunks and showers. Of course there's a diner, with good old fashioned American style chili and crackers. I've never seen anything like it in Canada. And regular gas stations seem only to sell gas and oil, and maybe some pop and chocolate bars near the cash register. Some gas stops also have a convenince store attached though -- that's for a wider assortment of household goods and groceries, and doesn't well tire-irons, country music, shotguns. Again, that's only in the big American truck stops.

here, a gas station sells normally fuel, oil, and coolant and windshield washer additives, and with a little luck, light bulbs. the times where they also sold regular parts are long gone, their storage needed would be too big by far. bigger gas stations also sell newspapers and magazines, snacks, ice cream, drinks and sometimes toys, especially along the highways. then there are large truckstops, which are a few paces off the highways, because the building grounds are cheaper, and those sell everything a trucker might need. I'm not sure if they sell fishing gear and socks, but then again I never lookout for those, so there. :)

Sounds pretty much like the situation here then. (While I've never seen large truck stops of the sort in America, I can't vouch they don't exist in other parts of Canada.)

There's nothing like pulling into the weird self-enclosed world of one of those American mega-truck stops at 3 a.m. on a long car trip to a distant convention. Somehow everything seems to take on a significance and solidity that they proably don't posses.