| Y1 - 2 1911 Ford Model 'T' |
| ORIGINAL VEHICLE |
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Issued 1964 |
DESCRIPTION |
SCALE 1:42 |
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| First issued in 1964, the
model sported a twin brake lever for a very short run. This soon
reverted to the single version. For some reason a few were issued
with wheels of 11.5 mm diameter instead of the normal 13mm - probably a
factory mix up. The front grille can
have one or two bars across it and the word 'Ford' on the grille appears
in two distinct types of script. The rear spring gap either side was
gradually filled in over time and the letters on the number plate were
altered so that the '0' and the '8' were larger on later issues. First
bases had 2 holes in but these were blanked off eventually and there are 2
measurements to the centres between these holes - type A are 30mm apart
and type B are 28mm apart. During the life of the red version the steering
wheel changed from metal to black plastic as a cost cutting exercise.
The next main variant was that the roof was changed from smooth black to a textured dark red and this gave rise to a rare interim version with black textured roof which can appear on both the red and the cream/red versions. The body colours changed to a red and cream followed by red and paler white. The next main issue was the all black one in the Connoisseur set. There is a very rare version, a model issued by a US club in all over black which has plastic chrome 12 spokes on. It was originally a code 1 issue as made by Lesney but has since been recoded as a Code 2 version but almost every collector still wants one in the collection. So as not to confuse the original with the new issue, the underneath of the roof was embossed on the new issue with 'Limited Edition' on the Connoisseur model. This was finally followed by the enhanced model in the Founder's Set (13) with the same roof modification on. |
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Handbrake Lever |
Base Holes - Base Blank |
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 TWIN |
SINGLE |
30mm |
28mm |
Blank |
| Rear Springs | Wheels | Radiator Script |
Full Open - Partial open - Closed |
LARGE - 13 mm SMALL 11.5 mm |
Radiator Scripts |
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Body Colour |
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 RED |
 RED & CREAM |
RED & WHITE |
BLACK (original) |
 BLACK- Connoisseur Set |
BLACK - Founders Set |
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BOXES |
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'D2' TYPE |
'D3' TYPE |
'E' TYPE |
'E1' TYPE |
'F' TYPE |
'G' TYPE |
'Hg & Hw' TYPE |
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ODDITIES or PREPRO MODELS |
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Rare interim with black textured roof
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The first model shown in black and green is a very early prepro. It has the front sump plug cast and no strengthening bracket behind the radiator. The yellow and white version is a well known colour trial based on the due to be released red & white version. Some versions sported these trial white tyres which were created to try and overcome the problem of tyres shrinking & expanding in hot shop windows and falling off the model. Other batches also had orange roofs and grilles and again plastic trials to overcome the shrinkage problems which caused some major problems for Lesney..
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PRICE RANGE
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| (All prices are in GBP and for Mint & Boxed model) | |||
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DESCRIPTION Common Twin Lever Small Wheels Black Textured roof (Note: minor price variations on smaller variations within the model range) |
GBP
20-30 70-80 60-70 80-100
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