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felixthevolks · Posted: Mon Jun 16, 2014 4:00 pm Post subject:

Cool! Thanks. I saw one of the shiny ones and was trying to figure out if it was original and just polished or what. The screws look like something out of the engine but where I don't know.

Everett- no kidding about the bus.. literally in the weeds:)

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Blue Baron · Posted: Mon Jun 16, 2014 7:28 pm Post subject:

HelmutofBuffalo · Posted: Thu Jul 31, 2014 1:52 pm Post subject: IRWIN rubber Oval

Found this one today, can't find another here or the rest of web, has anyone seen this one? It measures 3 3/4" x 11/2" . Marked IRWIN

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Blauchen L331 · Posted: Thu Jul 31, 2014 2:47 pm Post subject: Re: IRWIN rubber Oval

kgarchivinusa · Posted: Sun Aug 17, 2014 12:22 pm Post subject: Cox Formula Vee slotrace track

found this on e**y.

think it's rare, isn't it?
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Blue Baron · Posted: Mon Aug 18, 2014 8:56 am Post subject:

This looks like the old Eldon VW race set rebranded as Cox. Nice grab.
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Hacksaw-BoB · Posted: Mon Aug 18, 2014 9:17 am Post subject:

Here is a link for additional information about the VOLKSWAGENWERKS cast aluminum Split VW:

http://www.vintagevolkswagenmodels.com/split-window-toys-sw/item/160-volkswagenwerks-split-vw-v1

Here is a link about the IRWIN Oval VW:

http://www.vintagevolkswagenmodels.com/oval-window-toys-ow/item/238-irwin-oval-vw
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ALLWAGONS · Posted: Mon Aug 18, 2014 2:45 pm Post subject:

Bob, do you personalize toy cars? i have a tin litho square I would like restored to emulate my '65 sunroof Variant.
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Blauchen L331 · Posted: Mon Aug 18, 2014 8:01 pm Post subject:

Hi Volks!

Haven't been doing too much toy collecting lately, really trying to save my $$$$ money up for what Blauchen will need this year, because the VW show run starts soon here in Florida.

But I wanted to add some photos of a particularly odd toy I picked up about a month ago.......

Just like in coin or stamp collecting the odd misprint or stamping will create a rare collectible, such is with this seemingly innocent 1956 Volkswagen Oval Window Sedan toy from Dinky in England.

Sometime during the initial runs of this toy in January/February 1956 some supply problems occurred at the Dinky Toys (Meccano LTD) factory in Liverpool, they ran out of the marketed medium blue wheel hubs for the Light Grey toy and Green wheels were substituted.

This happened several times that first year of the toy, with odd wheel and also rare non production run colors.

Such is the norm with factory work/production, some oddities will occur, I've also checked and researched this variation and it is recognized as a true variation and just adds to the collectivity of the toy.

My Dinky expert in England says that maybe 200 of these *mismatched* Green Wheel toys were made and that it is considered by the Dinky crowd as a very rare, hard to find toy, I've seen this toy only once before, maybe 5 years ago in another collection.

Well, rather rare or not, I was just glad to find it to add to my ever-growing Dinky 181 Oval collection, I've pretty much have run out of other Oval Window toys to collect, so I've decided to try to collect up all the different colors and variations of the Dinky 181, there's got to be like maybe 20 to 25 versions, who knows?

But as I find something else interesting I'll share it here with you Volks!

Enjoy! Very Happy

Tom

P.S. Hope to find any South African version of the 181 and the Deep Petrol Blue 1956 version with Medium Blue Hubs. Smile

*pretty toy*
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USA RAM Protection/Export Overrider Bumpers - MPH Speedometer -
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Hacksaw-BoB · Posted: Wed Aug 20, 2014 1:17 pm Post subject:

Hi Tom,

Interesting info about the DINKY TOY Oval VW with the *mismatched* wheels Exclamation

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Hacksaw-BoB · Posted: Wed Aug 20, 2014 1:21 pm Post subject:

Hi ALLWAGONS,

Blauchen L331 · Posted: Wed Aug 20, 2014 1:42 pm Post subject:

Bill E. · Last edited by Bill E. on Mon Sep 01, 2014 3:58 pm; edited 1 time in total

Bill E. · Posted: Mon Sep 01, 2014 1:25 pm Post subject:

Got these last year at the same sale... love 'Folk Art', and always keep my eyes open!!

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Hacksaw-BoB · Posted: Tue Sep 02, 2014 8:35 am Post subject:

Thar was a nice MODERN TOYS Split VW find for a buck Exclamation

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Blauchen L331 · Posted: Sat Sep 20, 2014 10:44 am Post subject:

Another one of my personal "Holly Grail" toys found..... Very Happy

Corgi made a handful of toys featuring the *Trans-O-Lite* system, featuring two long clear plastic tubes with a collector lens at one end, (a primitive version of Fiber Optics), the "Toblerone" VW panel van #441 was a successful toy, especially in Switzerland were the original brand of chocolate was made.

It's not especially rare a toy (over 335,000 examples were made between 1962 to 1966) but it's a toy hard to find mint/minty at a decent price, but after about a 3 year casual search, I finally found one through a Southern Californian estate sale. Smile

One of my favorite toys as a kid, "one of the toys I always lusted for but never got" ~ I knew that toy really well as a 5 year old, but they were discontinued almost 6 years before that and every time it came up for sale someplace it was money money than I could afford, so after like 45 years of on and off playing for Volkswagen toys, I finally acquired another one of my "Holly Grail" toys, now parked next to my #819H Danish Tekno "Herbie" in the collection...... Wink

Enjoy!

Tom
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OG PAINT L331 1957 TYPE 1 OVAL WINDOW
(US Navy In Germany/ Special Ordered Car from MAHAG Munich)
Delivered with Semaphores - German "Puntchen" Cloth Polkadotted Interior -
USA RAM Protection/Export Overrider Bumpers - MPH Speedometer -
Sealed Beam Headlights and Bullet Front Turn Signals!
99.9% ORIGINAL PARTS WITH ONLY 36,500 ORIGINAL MILES/ GARAGE FIND/ UNRESTORED CAR

vwclap · Posted: Thu Oct 09, 2014 3:52 pm Post subject: Large endoh V2 bus

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oorwullie · Posted: Fri Oct 24, 2014 1:04 pm Post subject:

i tried searching but came up with nuthin', so has anyone else got a tin 1967 beetle 'vert which says on the bottom:

"VOLKSWAGAN
MADE IN JAPAN" Question


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