Advertising Last completed movie pages 1971 Ford Cortina GXL 2000 MkIIIClass: Cars, Sedan — Model origin: 
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Minor action vehicle or used in only a short scene
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◊ 2011-11-13 00:29 |
![[Image: 5086.1255.jpg]](http://pics.imcdb.org/0is560/5086.1255.jpg) |
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◊ 2011-11-13 00:30 |
Cortina MKIII. GXL? |
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◊ 2011-11-13 00:40 |
Yes - 1971 GXL Mk3 2 litre. DVLA details for GLB 811J are: Date of Liability 01 09 2012 Date of First Registration 01 05 1971 Year of Manufacture 1971 Cylinder Capacity (cc) 1993cc CO2 Emissions Not Available Fuel Type PETROL Export Marker N Vehicle Status Licence Not Due Vehicle Colour BROWN Vehicle Type Approval Not Availab |
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◊ 2011-11-13 00:49 |
Same MY as![[Image: img0404p.9118.jpg]](http://pics.imcdb.org/0is233/img0404p.9118.jpg) ?Oh, now, after more than 35 years, I've noticed, that on the sticker on the siren-box is written "POLIZEI" in German. This toy has irritated me back then. Once I took it down to the garage-yard, to hold it besides the Taunus GXL of our neighbour to check the details. Despite my young age of 5 years, I've noticed, that there're some discrepancies... A propos 5-year-old boys: last week, when I've parked besides ur local sport-centrum, there was a boy in that age, who shouted after an attentive observation of me in my Vauxhall: "Hey, this man is totally the wrong way up!"  -- Last edit: 2011-11-13 00:50:30 |
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◊ 2011-11-13 01:05 |
Very interesting - I had never before seen an actual Polizei version of that Cortina - it's listed as a variant but never spotted. Anorak questions - is it RHD or LHD, and is the steering wheel gold or black? It was released in UK with Police stickers (and is a rough Thames Valley Police livery) as #402 http://www.diecastlovers.com/view.php?id=8562 based on the 2 door GXL #313 http://www.pixelmatic.com.au/cortina/models/corgi.html . Apart from the Germany-never-got-Cortinas glitch, the other irony is that 2 door GXLs solld in very low numbers and were quietly dropped from the range fairly quickly. |
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◊ 2011-11-13 01:08 |
It's RHD and the colour sheme was British, as shown in your first link. So the only "made for D"-feature was the sticker on the siren. P.S. The steering wheel is goldemetallic. -- Last edit: 2011-11-13 01:08:58 |
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◊ 2011-11-13 01:47 |
@ingo - thanks. |
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◊ 2011-11-13 07:29 |
Weird how they stuck a "Polizei" logo on a British-schemed car.  |
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◊ 2011-11-13 20:32 |
Same car as /vehicle_237504-Ford-Cortina-1971.html . |
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◊ 2011-11-13 20:42 |
Early-mid 1970s Corgi were quite successful at exporting models to Europe and creating "local" market police and other emergency liveries. In many cases this was just a sticker in the new destination language placed on an otherwise unchanged UK model/livery. Because these variants never sold in UK they are a bit mysterious (never shown in UK catalogues) and fairly rare/expensive now. |
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◊ 2011-11-13 20:54 |
The one to have is the maize yellow version given away at the launch of the real car! |
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◊ 2011-11-13 21:05 |
Yes. Very expensive now and interesting because it has both RHD and LHD versions - an insight that Ford were very serious about exporting Mk3 into Europe. As far as I can tell the RHD/UK model came with the grotesquely deformed Graham Hill figurine, but this was omitted from LHD. |
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◊ 2011-11-13 21:49 |
This one was sold in the UK, because I had one. You steered it by twiddling the noddy-light. http://www.flickr.com/photos/7479294@N07/4670474283/in/pool-968670@N23/ |
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◊ 2011-11-13 22:17 |
I never had that one, but wanted the Safari Beetle with the rhino and similar steering. There were some liveries/models - like the Polizei Beetle, Porsche 911 Targa and 924 - which were sold in UK as Polizei as well, but - understandably - these never had UK police cousins. |
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◊ 2011-11-13 22:20 |
Over here you hve better chances to get them. I have seen this model a few times at dealers on spare parts-markets and meetings of toy-collectors, rarely even mint and original boxed. Although not many local collectors over here are focussed on Corgi (mostly preferred are German makes, as WIKING, Schuco, GAMA, etc.), the prices have increased. Since eBay-times they went down a bit, but mainly for West German mass-products, not for rarities. My knowledge about this stuff is weak (I even don't collect K 70-toy-cars), but I've noticed, that the prices for Majorette-toys were really exploded in the last years. Often they are more expensive than same-aged SIKU's. 20 years ago SIKU-cars were already collectibles, but Majorette just seen as cheap kiddies-toys for the sandpit. |
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