Das Haul Up Close

 Here's a closer look at yesterday's German car boot €10 bargain haul of old cars and VHS.

Lots of SIKU, some Matchbox and a Japanese Hinshei crane.

The SIKU vehicles, like the yellow tow truck and the orange trailer, are really solid. All of them say made in Germany so are post-unification in 1989. Exact dates I'm unsure of.

I love the SIKU ADAC Prufdienst trailer, in which cars drive through to be checked! The Crane to the right is Japanese, my first MINI Power vehicle.

Here's some odds n odds too. Apart from the helicopter rotor I don't recognize any of the spare parts. You?

For the old big box* VHS videos I got - one of my collecting passions -  I chose this lovely 1880 cabinet in the flat to photograph them.

Eh voila!

I had thought they were all unrated, i.e. no age limit marked on them, which in the UK is known as pre- cert or pre-certificate and typically early to mid 1980's, but these German big boxes are all age rated. 

At this point I'm sure if unrated videos exist in Germany. Do they exist in your country readers? 

* Big box refers to the much bigger boxes of early VHS video cassettes from the 1980's. They can be solid plastic/ thick card or slightly padded plastic clamshells.

Have you got any readers?

Glimpses of a Flohmarkt

 Another German car boot/ Flohmarkt stand under our belt today. Our best this visit, we shifted lots of my Wife's parents stuff and made £250 profit to boot! We'll use it well and go on a short holiday next week! 

This was our stall after the goldrush.

Here are some short walkabouts I took to give you a geschmack of the sale.

Are they just the same as yours?

OH ROMEO! WHERE ARCH THOU?

 Slim Pickings at Leeds' Thorpe Arch boot sale today. It was a complete wash-out.

I did pick up one decent die-cast, a Corgi Rockets Alfa Romeo sand spoiler. 50p poorer and back home I touched it up with a purple sharpie and it ain't half bad. It has some residual decals on it - are they original? Did the Rockets Alfa Romeo have decals?

After filling my cabinets with tons of Superfast I'm now limiting myself to collecting Corgi Rockets and old Hot Wheels in the future. I've run out of space for any others.

In a Wetherby charity shop I went mad and lashed out a fiver on this 1978-1980 Matchbox Play Track, all loose in a placcy bag. I love the spearmint track livery. Having looked online the orange plates make up different levels of a high rise car park. 

Anyone know the name of the set in the UK?

February Finds

Slim Pickens at the February boot sale. Still, very enjoyable and with a cooked breakfast tasty too!

Here's what I got

Left to right: Walter De La Mare Ghost Stories Folio Hardback 1958, Corgi Batmobile on the ropes, Corgi DB5 and a Bandai 1990s Transformer. £3 total.

Any good?

SUNDAY WITH SCULLY

Today's catch at Donny car boot. A decent bag. See what you reckon.

LtoR:

Back: unknown figure, two Nacoral oldie cars, Scully

Middle: Gen1 Optimus, two mini Gen1 Transformers, unknown figure, Gen1 Optimus

Front: Speed King Cougar, Mattel 1968 Plastic Chitty Chitty Bang Bang with raft

Any good?

Any idea about the two unknown figures?

The Mattel plastic Chitty is a new one on me. Alas it's missing it's grille and figures but I was chuffed to find it with its inflatable raft. Is it a toy you know?

SHAZAM! CAR BOOT BOUNTY!

 I was quite chuffed with this morning's catch down the boot sale.

We burst through the early fog into decent weather in Wetherby.

Here's what I picked up. See anything you would have got?

There was a whole jar full of about 50 small plastic American football helmets. I bought one, 50p. Not sure which team that is. The small digger is by Tomica but the toy line is unknown to me.

I was pleased to find this Shazam Corgi car from 1979. Don't think I've seen one before. I'll try to spruce it up.

These packs of model decals and papers were going for a song at 50p each. I got two. No idea what's in them yet!

This big modern Batmobile was a snip at £1. It so reminded me of the Kenner Super Powers version that it had to come home to Gotham.

The red Barbie MG? is dated 1998 and the silver spaceship is for Junior. I think its Roblox maybe.

Last but not least, my biggest purchase at £8, this old case full of various bits and pieces from 1980's toys like M.A.S.K and Manta Force, plus a couple of Ghostbusters ghosts and more bits to keep me amused for a good while. The case itself is likely to be 1980's, as its covered in Transformers puffy stickers.

See anything you like?

Motley Crew

 Picked up some action yesterday.

A nice motley group of figures looking for a shelf.

Do you recognise any?

One I do know, General Custer!