In the Bag! Will's Pro shot Golf

Hi Woodsy, I think this golf bag version predates the Arnold Palmer one. 

Will O.

UK

ASTON SMARTIN'

 

This year I've seen a couple of Century 21 Toys Aston Martins like the lovely one pictured on an auction.

I remember about fifteen years ago how excited I was bidding on a boxed one on Ebay sat on a coach going to Bavaria. I was really smartin' waiting for the auction to end, my Missus had her early 'smart' phone so that's how I bid. It cost me exactly £100, which was an absolute fortune for a toy I thought. Still I was very chuffed.

Since those heady days at the back of the coach I've seen a few red versions of this toy, which his how its pictured on its box. I must get a picture or two of one.

Have you an Aston Martin?

Has anyone out there ever driven one?

Call that a Scrap Book?

 Terranova has kindly shared his 70 year old scrap book from when he was a youngster. He reports that the Daily Mirror ran political cartoons by the cartoonist Vicky, whom Terra immediately admired. A big Eagle fan from the early days, Terra's old Woolworths scrspbook has some wonderful Lesley Ashwell-Wood cutaways and some period cartoon commentary!

Lookin' for a scrap?

Way back in the misty sixties, at the height of the space race, one of my sisters, or possibly my mum suggested I start a scrap book. As a result, I attacked the TV Times and any old newspapers with space themed articles, with a vengeance. Then about 1975, when Matchbox started making Model kits and my interest in military models peaked, I started a new volume for the box art from the kits I was buying. Unfortunately, I was a little impatient and a bit too handy with the scissors and obliterated most of the box, in order to try and isolate the actual vehicle.

As a result, I made a literal 'scrap' book with bits and pieces of boxes and packets all over the place. 

I unearthed the army scrapbook in the loft the other day, sellotape brown with age and a lot of the paper loose and curling. However, it does show some snippets of good box art, especially from the Matchbox kits.
The Matchbox kit line was vastly superior to Airfix, as besides being molded in two and three colour plastic, each model came with a small diorama for the vehicle to sit on, such as a bomb damaged bridge for the Sherman Firefly, a section of wall for the Jagdpanther and a derelict building for the Puma.
The basic kits had one vehicle and diorama and larger sets in three colours had two vehicles and a base.
Probably the best part was Matchboxes choice of vehicle - rather than copy what had come before with its main competitor Airfix, it made much more obscure tanks and vehicles.

Spurred on by the wealth if kits produced in the series, I looked further afield for other models and started buying inexpensive Hasegawa models too.

Some of the boxes in the book dont recall any models for me, so I think I must have pinched a few of my mates discarded boxes too.

Tucked in amongst the main boxes you can also see some from Scalecraft, Mintanks, Atlantic and the large Aurora Anzio Beach set.

Most of these kits 'should' be tucked away in the back of the loft somewhere, having been chucked in a box when I left home decades ago. At some point I hope to unearth them and see what is salvageable.

 

THE EVEL HEAD

I've often wondered: are Major Matt's and Evel Knevel's helmets are interchangeable?

From different companies and decades its unlikely but from memory the figures seem a similar size. Maybe Evel and Matt have similarly sized heads and therefore helmets? Maybe the figures can fit into any of each others' toys too?

As I'm without Matt and Evel can anyone test this theory out? Pics below, Matt top, Evel bottom.