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I’m a 60-year-old Aspergic gardening CAD-Monkey. Sardonic, cynical and with the political leanings of a social reformer, I’m also a toy and model figure collector, particularly interested in the history of plastics and plastic toys. Other interests are history, current affairs, modern art, and architecture, gardening and natural history. I love plain chocolate, fireworks and trees, but I don’t hug them, I do hug kittens. I hate ignorance, when it can be avoided, so I hate the 'educational' establishment and pity the millions they’ve failed with teaching-to-test and rote 'learning' and I hate the short-sighted stupidity of the entire ruling/industrial elite, with their planet destroying fascism and added “buy-one-get-one-free”. Likewise, I also have no time for fools and little time for the false crap we're all supposed to pretend we haven't noticed, or the games we're supposed to play. I will 'bite the hand that feeds', to remind it why it feeds.

Tuesday, January 21, 2020

F is for Formula Freebee!

Well, I got into the groove and though we could have the rest of the day on vaguely HO or OO-gauge compatible racing cars, although we saw the first of these a while ago, the Tito trio should be new to Blog, and are a better 'fit' than the diminutive cereal premiums.

11 -Tyrell-Ford; 14 - McLaren-Ford M19; 3 - March-Ford 721; Cereal Givaways; Cereal Premiums; Cereal Racing Cars; Champion; ELF; Ford; Ford-ELF-Goodyear-Champion; Ford-ELF-Goodyear-STP; Ford-Gulf-Goodyear-Champion-Yardley-Lockheed; Formula One; Goodyear; Grand Prix Cars; Grand Prix Racing; Gulf; Ice Cream Premiums; Kellogg's Premiums; Kellogg's Racing Cars; Lockheed; Portuguese Premiums; Premium Racing Cars; Premiums; Race Cars; Raceing Cars; Racing Car Premiums; Racing Cars; Sanitarium Premiums; Sanitarium Race Cars; Small Scale World; smallscaleworld.blogspot.com; STP; Tito 11 - ELF Tyrell; Tito 14 - McLaren M19; Tito 3 - March 721; Tito March-Ford 721; Tito McLaren-Ford M19; Tito Tyrell-Ford; Tito's Ice Cream premiums; Yardley;
A sizer with a Hong Kong machine, from the previous post, to the left, the cereal - and other - premium in the middle and a Tito Elf-Tyrell on the right, the Tito is the odd-one-out here; being a soft polyethylene to the 'styrene of the other two.

11 -Tyrell-Ford; 14 - McLaren-Ford M19; 3 - March-Ford 721; Cereal Givaways; Cereal Premiums; Cereal Racing Cars; Champion; ELF; Ford; Ford-ELF-Goodyear-Champion; Ford-ELF-Goodyear-STP; Ford-Gulf-Goodyear-Champion-Yardley-Lockheed; Formula One; Goodyear; Grand Prix Cars; Grand Prix Racing; Gulf; Ice Cream Premiums; Kellogg's Premiums; Kellogg's Racing Cars; Lockheed; Portuguese Premiums; Premium Racing Cars; Premiums; Race Cars; Raceing Cars; Racing Car Premiums; Racing Cars; Sanitarium Premiums; Sanitarium Race Cars; Small Scale World; smallscaleworld.blogspot.com; STP; Tito 11 - ELF Tyrell; Tito 14 - McLaren M19; Tito 3 - March 721; Tito March-Ford 721; Tito McLaren-Ford M19; Tito Tyrell-Ford; Tito's Ice Cream premiums; Yardley;
As I say, we've looked at these before, and I put a couple of them together, properly,  at the time, so I've just emptied the bag for a quick shot to get across the part-count (+/-13) and colour variation (at least eight colours or shades).

I will return to these again in a year or a few, but not until I've sourced more pale-blue, orange and white examples!

Bonnet-numbers indentified so far are 2, 5, 22 and 28, but there are no vehicle types marked on them, so whether you got that from the packet-artwork or kid's comic adverts/publicity material or just have to guess them I don't know?

11 -Tyrell-Ford; 14 - McLaren-Ford M19; 3 - March-Ford 721; Cereal Givaways; Cereal Premiums; Cereal Racing Cars; Champion; ELF; Ford; Ford-ELF-Goodyear-Champion; Ford-ELF-Goodyear-STP; Ford-Gulf-Goodyear-Champion-Yardley-Lockheed; Formula One; Goodyear; Grand Prix Cars; Grand Prix Racing; Gulf; Ice Cream Premiums; Kellogg's Premiums; Kellogg's Racing Cars; Lockheed; Portuguese Premiums; Premium Racing Cars; Premiums; Race Cars; Raceing Cars; Racing Car Premiums; Racing Cars; Sanitarium Premiums; Sanitarium Race Cars; Small Scale World; smallscaleworld.blogspot.com; STP; Tito 11 - ELF Tyrell; Tito 14 - McLaren M19; Tito 3 - March 721; Tito March-Ford 721; Tito McLaren-Ford M19; Tito Tyrell-Ford; Tito's Ice Cream premiums; Yardley;
Tito's Ice Cream premiums, reading from the left and following the bonnet-numbers system with advertising moulded-on in raised-relief (in brackets), we have;

11 -Tyrell-Ford (Ford-ELF-Goodyear-Champion)
14 - McLaren-Ford M19 (Ford-Gulf-Goodyear-Champion-Yardley-Lockheed)
3 - March-Ford 721 (Ford-ELF-Goodyear-STP)

Which may mean these are Formula Ford? I seem to recall there was such a thing, although I recognise the Tyrell-Ford as what we called an Elf-Tyrell when we were kids, I'm sure it's the same one which got the short-lived (and destroyed the opposition before being banned) 6x6 conversion and they were both Formula 1?

Each comes as the same number of parts/basic components on a frame-runner, probably in a baking-paper envelope, and I assume there must be at least a forth model out there somewhere, maybe more?

11 -Tyrell-Ford; 14 - McLaren-Ford M19; 3 - March-Ford 721; Cereal Givaways; Cereal Premiums; Cereal Racing Cars; Champion; ELF; Ford; Ford-ELF-Goodyear-Champion; Ford-ELF-Goodyear-STP; Ford-Gulf-Goodyear-Champion-Yardley-Lockheed; Formula One; Goodyear; Grand Prix Cars; Grand Prix Racing; Gulf; Ice Cream Premiums; Kellogg's Premiums; Kellogg's Racing Cars; Lockheed; Portuguese Premiums; Premium Racing Cars; Premiums; Race Cars; Raceing Cars; Racing Car Premiums; Racing Cars; Sanitarium Premiums; Sanitarium Race Cars; Small Scale World; smallscaleworld.blogspot.com; STP; Tito 11 - ELF Tyrell; Tito 14 - McLaren M19; Tito 3 - March 721; Tito March-Ford 721; Tito McLaren-Ford M19; Tito Tyrell-Ford; Tito's Ice Cream premiums; Yardley;
Close-ups of two of the rear wings with their relief-moulded advertising. So - if I recall correctly - The 11-car should be a sort of Prussian-blue, the 14 a pale-blue with orange stripes (? The sports-saloons' famously were!) and I don't know on the three, lots of cars had the STP ovals?

2 comments:

Andy B said...

I had a number of the cars you identify as cereal premiums. I bought them individually in packets (very much cereal premium style) from a seaside toy shop. There were a couple of different designs, and the same design could appear in different colours.

Andy B said...

nb, bought in the late 1960s.