"Barn find" Ferraris and others
Discussion
The Maserati 250F looks like the Matchbox "Yesteryear" model, so the scale could be just about anything, like Dinky. The Dinky single-seaters look a bit silly next to their saloon brethren. I think the SS100 could be a Matchbox, also.
The only mass-maker that stuck to a true scale was Triang Spot-On. Even their trucks were to scale, and thus pretty massive things. The scale was 1:42 and I have absolutely no idea why the makers selected this.
PS - is that a Corgi "Bond" DB5 ?
The only mass-maker that stuck to a true scale was Triang Spot-On. Even their trucks were to scale, and thus pretty massive things. The scale was 1:42 and I have absolutely no idea why the makers selected this.
PS - is that a Corgi "Bond" DB5 ?
Keep it stiff said:
I have often wondered why 1/43. It just seems such a random number to have been adopted!
Seems to have come from Europe, and results in cars about 100mm long - so probably packaging and logistics meant producing models/toys to a certain overall size, which then sort of gently set into the scale, plus a bit of tying-in to O-gauge model rail, the scale of which is set by the track gauge.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1:43_scale
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