"Barn find" Ferraris and others

[lowdrag]

Fabulous collection, but I'm not sure that the value will be 1:43rd of the real ones!

[Keep it stiff]

I have often wondered why 1/43. It just seems such a random number to have been adopted!

[nicanary]

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 ?

[TooMany2cvs]

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

[Spanna]

Why is John Deere's deer stting blood?

[lowdrag]

The collection is at a friend's house and hasn't seen a duster since the house was last repainted in 1874 I think. As for the John Deere, the rest of the red has been polished off years back. I wonder though where the Ferrari transporter went. It always used to be there.

[S3_Graham]

They look very cool!