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No Fixed Abode, Home Counties, United Kingdom
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.
Showing posts with label 'Space Car'. Show all posts
Showing posts with label 'Space Car'. Show all posts

Monday, October 20, 2025

S is for Sandown Space Car!

 I know, but I ran out of civil, military and Wild West, so it's back-to-back space this evening! This was less of a calculated purchase than the other three (LB space cycle, Scout 2 and the Firefly), and in point of fact, I sort of let the seller of the Firefly talk me into this one at the same time!
 




The 'Space Car', more of a space liner, but scale is a moot point, entirely down to your own imagination! No box, and it's hard to love, as it looks a bit like a cross between a guppy and a knuckle-duster, but I think it will go well with the streamlined rural coach, also in metallic maroon, from Beeju/EVB, which could be parked-up on the apron, transferring passengers!
 


Because I try to only use internet scrapings in context, these have been in Picasa since 2014, that's 11-years and two laptops! But now I have a better one, there's no need for them, and they don't add much 'in context' either! Hey-ho! But we do have a black plastic motor-housing as a slight variant. It's obviously missing space-headlights and space-windscreen!
 


It's the game we love to play, and we can play it all day, Copice. This was on evilBay a year or so ago, and is also a bit chewed, but was worth a download for the box, but then, in August just gone . . .
 

 


. . . this sold to a lucky new-owner, I've only kept one of the machine images, as it's a better angled ¾-view than I took of mine! The X-20 Space Car, very much a generic, which may have been an early issue by someone who would later go on to use a brand-mark, like Hover, Hoover, Jimson, Lucky, OK, et al! And, I'd say, not that rare, given the number that turn-up? But I've never seen a blue one, still, there's always the next Sandown Park show!
 
'Images from eBay', hee-hee, and I've got thousands of them, if that's how we're gonna' play it?