About 15 years ago Dennis Nicholson sent me some photo's of a his friend Kelly Lannan's beautiful and unique metallic gold Task Force 3. I have wondered about it ever since. Is it a knockoff or is it a colour variant from Tarheel? There is no maker's mark or number on the undercarraige so no clues there.
Years later Bill B mentioned that he had owned a rare metallic blue Task Force 1 as a kid. We were treated to a picture of the very same toy in Astronit's collection when the blog launched. Could this be related to the metallic gold Task Force 3?
Daydreaming further I have photoshopped the two toys' photographs together into the same shot to help you decide yourselves. If they are related then the next question has to be whether there is a metallic Task Force 2 as well? The mind boggles! What do you think readers?
Theres deffo a metallic TF2, my guess is metallic red
ReplyDeleteA lifetime ago, well the late 1960s-early 1970s, I seem to recall metallic versions of the toys at the local dime-store (GD Murphy, HW Woolworth, etc), such packaged on blister cards.
ReplyDeleteDon't believe any were in SWORD livery though.