corgi aston martin db5

Very addictive those corgis

Now thats what I call true friendship from people who have respect for each others needs, to just offer a spare part to finish off someones projects is just humbling. I am truly proud of my forumites, you are "all" an inspiration to me

I'm not a Corgi collector, but my son happened to be going through a 1960's Batman phase when he was 18 and the 1960s Sean Connery James Bond films when he was 21. The perfect excuse to indulge myself and buy him a Batmobile and DB5 for his 18th and 21st birthdays! I bought the Batmobile with help from a member on here who also collects Corgi and knows his onions, so I'm sure it's all genuine. I took a punt on the Aston. It seems genuine enough to me, but I probably couldn't tell if the box was a good repro rather than an original. They are proudly displayed in the "nursery".

Very nice Mike,the sixties boxes are superb great graphics

exactly iain we all help each other out when we can

thanks all for the responses , colin161 i'll pm you my details later lmk if there is anything you are looking out for yourself , daz sadly it doesnt have the revolving no plates but for 50p you cant have everything , mraction the paintwork on yours is better but i wont be doing a respray job . like you all say it helping each other that makes this a truly great forum . hip hip hooray for us

Interesting that Blueboxier has started a thread about die-cast cars (nice find re the Aston btw, mate).

I took Mrs Hound to one of our local antique centres on Monday (she collects silver vesta cases) and I came away with three Matchbox Models of Yesteryear cars, all mint in early 1970's boxes for only £2 more in total than I paid last Saturday for the newly released Corgi DB10 from Spectre.

The Models of Yesteryear range is, I suppose, one of those things that you either like or you don't, but while they might not have much by way of "play value", they do look nice, they can now be bought for next to nothing - and they were all made in England!

I had some as a kid and also collected them for short while in the late 1970's and early 1980's before getting a little tired of buying the same van over and over again with just different livery.

Actionsepecat is also right in what he says above because I am now starting to get the bug again and am considering adding more models with the 1970's boxes to my collection.

Not sure if they still do them, but last year Corgi re-issued the DB5. I managed to get one for £10 but they were going for £20+.



My Batmobile is vintage/original but the box and bits are repro, you can see how well they can make these boxes...