Going through my fathers stuff and found a 1958 Road & Track Road Test Annual. Tests include the: AC Bristol Austin Healey 100-6 Corvette Ferrari Testa Rossa Ford Consul MK II Porsche 550 and 1600 TR3 a handful of Fiat's and Lotus'
Even classic road tests of a Model A and a Cord 812. The cover alone is very cool. If I had a '58 auto (regardless of the model), I think I would have a poster of this cover in my garage...
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"So when you spot violence, or bigotry, or intolerance or fear or just garden-variety hatred or ignorance, just look it in the eye and think... The good outnumber you, and we always will." Patton Oswalt
Hey Geoff, always cool stuff! Just a question, how much more of your Father's stuff is there left to go through? Wow.
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Haaa! Not too much now. I was aware of these magazines and just put them off to the side to go through on a rainy day. (Turned out that a snowy day sufficed.) Oh, and I did find my old Corgi Bat Mobile, and old B/A credit card, a pair of "clackers". The largest remaining project is digitizing the old 35mm slides. That will take a long time, but I know that it'll be worth it! (Darryl, I've got to think that you'll be checking out the Green Hornet movie?)
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I'll be seeing Green Hornet. Glad you found your Batmobile! I'll have to post a picture of my childhood Corgi Batmobile .. it's been burnt, ran over by my Dad's car, etc. etc. They weren't BATclackers ... were they?
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'64 Parisienne CS "barn find" - last on the road in '86 ... Owner Protection Plan booklet, original paint, original near-mint aqua interior, original aqua GM floor mats, original 283, factory posi, and original rust.
Bat boat = plastic piece of crap. Can't imagine too many survived? Re the clackers, not Bat Issue. (Was there such a thing? LOL)
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"So when you spot violence, or bigotry, or intolerance or fear or just garden-variety hatred or ignorance, just look it in the eye and think... The good outnumber you, and we always will." Patton Oswalt
Bat boat = plastic piece of crap. Can't imagine too many survived? Re the clackers, not Bat Issue. (Was there such a thing? LOL)
Not that I know of. Clackers came out in the seventies, and if they did make BATClackers it would have been around 1966 - 69 (they made everything to do with Batman then). Even bat-ashtrays for kids.
There were 2 issues of the Corgi Batmobiles - 1966 and then again in 1976. The fastest way to tell the difference is the rims. The '66 version has the red bat spinners on the rims, the '76 version has plain "chrome" rims. The '66 Batboat has a metal dorsal fin with flames and the bat-symbol on it, the '76 version has a plain, orange plastic fin.
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'64 Parisienne CS "barn find" - last on the road in '86 ... Owner Protection Plan booklet, original paint, original near-mint aqua interior, original aqua GM floor mats, original 283, factory posi, and original rust.
Bat boat = plastic piece of crap. Can't imagine too many survived? Re the clackers, not Bat Issue. (Was there such a thing? LOL)
Not that I know of. Clackers came out in the seventies, and if they did make BATClackers it would have been around 1966 - 69 (they made everything to do with Batman then). Even bat-ashtrays for kids.
There were 2 issues of the Corgi Batmobiles - 1966 and then again in 1976. The fastest way to tell the difference is the rims. The '66 version has the red bat spinners on the rims, the '76 version has plain "chrome" rims. The '66 Batboat has a metal dorsal fin with flames and the bat-symbol on it, the '76 version has a plain, orange plastic fin.
Ahhh, we definately had the plastic Batboat. Thinking back, although it was a lightweight it was pretty tough as it always remained in one piece. Thx for the heads up re the Batmobile. I had no idea mine was the same year as my car ('66). I'm guessing the cars removable Bman and Robin figures are pretty hard to find? Ours are long gone. (Or do they remanufacture those. I saw the other day that you can get remanufactured surf boards for the Hot Wheels Deora! Re the clackers, they probably were too big to fit into the utility belt anyway.) Thanks for the info D!
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I'm guessing the cars removable Batman and Robin figures are pretty hard to find? Ours are long gone. (Or do they remanufacture those.
Geoff, the Batman & Robin figures were not supposed to be removable, but they got removed anyway (pried out by little hands). There are repros out there (but not painted exactly the same). You can get a lot of the parts repro (windshield, rockets, rivets, tires), as well as repro boxes, stickers, and instructions.
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'64 Parisienne CS "barn find" - last on the road in '86 ... Owner Protection Plan booklet, original paint, original near-mint aqua interior, original aqua GM floor mats, original 283, factory posi, and original rust.
Sounds like you are a bit of a Corgi fan Darryl. I had a pile of them as a kid. I'd get about 12 bucks for my birthday and I'd head over to the Kmart on the other side of London (better selection) and pick out one Corgi toy. I usually bought a Mack semi. I destroyed all except one (the army version with the flatbed trailer and tank which I still have). I've slowly been buying MIB examples of the ones I destroyed.
So even if a guy doesn't have a Bat Mobile, he can still get the little Batman and Robin figures, and a couple of repro surfboards from the Deora, a bucket of sand, and make his own fun! Ahhh, 2011 aint so bad!
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I'm a toy fan in general, and a huge Batman fan (stuff prior to 1989). I have about 40+ different Batmobiles from the 60s, 70s, early 80s. I have the Corgi Batmobiles, Boats, Copters, Cycles, MIB & loose ('66 & '76 series). There is a rare '76 Corgi Batmobile with red tires. The Japanese battery operated Batmobiles are my favourites, and where the real $$$ is. Some are worth at least $2500.00 MIB. I'm glad I get to use this emotican in this thread ...
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'64 Parisienne CS "barn find" - last on the road in '86 ... Owner Protection Plan booklet, original paint, original near-mint aqua interior, original aqua GM floor mats, original 283, factory posi, and original rust.
Sounds like you are a bit of a Corgi fan Darryl. I had a pile of them as a kid. I'd get about 12 bucks for my birthday and I'd head over to the Kmart on the other side of London (better selection) and pick out one Corgi toy. I usually bought a Mack semi. I destroyed all except one (the army version with the flatbed trailer and tank which I still have). I've slowly been buying MIB examples of the ones I destroyed.
That's cool stuff!
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'64 Parisienne CS "barn find" - last on the road in '86 ... Owner Protection Plan booklet, original paint, original near-mint aqua interior, original aqua GM floor mats, original 283, factory posi, and original rust.
I still have tons of my old toys including lots of HotWheels!. Luckily I rescued a bunch o' boxes from the basement of the folks house years ago before they sold it.. Always meaning to look the stuff up value wise but never have yet.. Although nowhere near the amount I had, I know my original HotWheels Custom Fleetside w/ button is there also a couple o' Deoras plus what's left of a few Sizzlers including the Juice Machine!. I haven't looked at it all in years but there's 2 boxed sets there, one the Sizzlers Laguna Oval set and the other the Dragster set, Cool-Dual or some name like that?. Pretty sure there's at least one HotBird plane in there somewhere too!.
The bulk of toys I still have are pressed steel including Tonkas etc I got new for Christmas in the 60's plus a few boxes of old fat style 30's/40's trucks that were passed on to me.. Lot's of old Buddy-L, Marx, Lincoln trucks and other similar stuff there...probably worth good $ now..
Are the Corgi Bat Boats worth very much?. My brother in law laid one on me about 20 years ago, pretty sure it's the later orange fin one but new in the package although the package bubble is cracked..
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Ghost Post wrote:I still have tons of my old toys including lots of HotWheels!. Although nowhere near the amount I had, I know my original HotWheels Custom Fleetside w/ button is there also a couple o' Deoras plus what's left of a few Sizzlers including the Juice Machine!. I haven't looked at it all in years but there's 2 boxed sets there, one the Sizzlers Laguna Oval set and the other the Dragster set, Cool-Dual or some name like that?. Pretty sure there's at least one HotBird plane in there somewhere too!.
The bulk of toys I still have are pressed steel including Tonkas etc I got new for Christmas in the 60's plus a few boxes of old fat style 30's/40's trucks that were passed on to me.. Lot's of old Buddy-L, Marx, Lincoln trucks and other similar stuff there...probably worth good $ now..
Are the Corgi Bat Boats worth very much?. My brother in law laid one on me about 20 years ago, pretty sure it's the later orange fin one but new in the package although the package bubble is cracked..
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Hey Pete,
All your Hot Wheels, Tonkas, Buddy Ls, Lincolns, etc. are worth money depending on condition, and model.
It sounds like you have a Corgi "Junior" Bat Boat (flat cardboard backing with a plastic bubble over top of it called a "blister pack"). The large size Bat Boat came in a box (in '66 it was a solid box with cool graphics, in '76 it was a blue/black/yellow box with a cellophane window). If it's a "Junior" it's worth about $35.00 mint loose, double+ that with the blister pack intact/mint.
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'64 Parisienne CS "barn find" - last on the road in '86 ... Owner Protection Plan booklet, original paint, original near-mint aqua interior, original aqua GM floor mats, original 283, factory posi, and original rust.
