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.

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.

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?

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?

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?