J is for Jolly Jeep

Picked this up on Friday in the local independent toy shop, it used to be called Fleet Toys when I was a kid (at one point they had three shops within sight of each other; FT, Fleet Cycles and Fleet Models!), but I think it's now part of the co-operative buying group known as Toymaster? Anyway, it could have gone in next Friday's H is for..., but as it was a retail purchase, it should have a post of its own!

This is it, they had about four of them, no counter-box, no packaging, around 1:32nd scale/54mm figure-compatible and looking quite Cararama-like (but they were mostly 1:43 or HO, made in China by Hongwell) in the manufacturing quality. Separate tyres and a tampo-printed plastic windscreen which doesn't fold down.

The small load-area is filled with two ammunition crates to hide the screw-fix construction, which is driven through from the other side.

It's actually made by another of China's prolific contractors; Welly, also overprinted to Peterkin (who we last saw on the blog, hiding-out at TKMaxx) and you can see the method of fixing the wheels is a bit odd, I guess it reduced the material used in a hidden section?

A couple of bonnet-numbers from the spares-box would help, and you may have noticed mine has caught the printing pad on the edge of the bonnet (hood), so could do with a bit of weathering to hide the damage!