Found a bunch of my old Matchbox cars today

"Full of the sound of the Gran Fury, signifying nothing." (granfury) 01/03/2020 at 22:08 • Filed to: None

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Even back in the ‘70s and ‘80s I really liked German cars

arl > Full of the sound of the Gran Fury, signifying nothing. 01/03/2020 at 22:41

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Nice! I’ve got a box of old cars stashed up in the attic somewhere. Maybe I’ll look for them next time I’m up there. 

SmugAardvark > Full of the sound of the Gran Fury, signifying nothing. 01/03/2020 at 22:48

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Pretty sure my folks tossed all mine at some point in the last 15 years . Kind of a bummer, but understandable.

WilliamsSW > Full of the sound of the Gran Fury, signifying nothing. 01/03/2020 at 22:52

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Nice! I recognize a few of those - I’m sure I had the ambulance, Mercedes SL and the BMW at least. Probably some of the others as well, but who knows what happened to them.  

shop-teacher > Full of the sound of the Gran Fury, signifying nothing. 01/03/2020 at 23:10

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Good stuff!

RooseveltDad > Full of the sound of the Gran Fury, signifying nothing. 01/03/2020 at 23:12

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I have a shoebox completely filled with my cars and trucks from when I was a kid. Matchbox (mostly  Lesney) and older Hot Wheels (a few redlines). I should inventory them, see what survived 50 years.

wafflesnfalafel > Full of the sound of the Gran Fury, signifying nothing. 01/03/2020 at 23:15

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I believe my little brother had that ambulance one.  That 928 sure is cool.

Urambo Tauro > Full of the sound of the Gran Fury, signifying nothing. 01/03/2020 at 23:20

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I remember that ambulance! That was never based on a real thing though , wa s it? Doesn’t look very practical for ambulance work...

fintail > Full of the sound of the Gran Fury, signifying nothing. 01/03/2020 at 23:39

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Nice. I had a few of these, both MB s M1, and 928 in the same livery/wheels, Ferrari with later wheels.

Full of the sound of the Gran Fury, signifying nothing. > Urambo Tauro 01/03/2020 at 23:46

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It looks like it started out as some sort of amphibious vehicle; I always thought it looked like duck . I seriously doubt that there was a real prototype made as I don’t think there would be any room for the driver’s legs. That, and no front doors. The back looks pretty roomy, certainly better than the old Suburban-based ambulances of the ‘70s:

Full of the sound of the Gran Fury, signifying nothing. > fintail 01/03/2020 at 23:55

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I thought I had a gold version of the 928, with yellow windows, but it may be old age catching up with me, thinking about the one I wanted instead of the one I had. And I don’t remember the decals on the M1 making me think that this one  might have been a replacement.

fintail > Full of the sound of the Gran Fury, signifying nothing. 01/03/2020 at 23:59

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The 928 was indeed issued in gold:

It’s actually a very nice casting, a hard shape to get right, and Lesney did it well. The basic casting remained in the range with several variants until the early 90s, I think.

I recall on my M1, the stripes and 52 tampo wore off with time.

I had a ton of this era material I bought out of an estate collection a couple years ago, and sold on LaLD.  

Urambo Tauro > Full of the sound of the Gran Fury, signifying nothing. 01/04/2020 at 00:00

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Yeah I see what you mean with the amphibious-looking “ hull” . The large windows also had me thinking it might have been inspired by a bus.

It’s fun to think of it a s an ambulance though. J ust imagine the rubbernecking that would occur if ambulances actually had windows like that, where we could see them trying to revive a patient on the way  to hospital.

BTW, a quick google turned up the official name: “ Stretcha Fetcha ”

Highlander-Datsuns are Forever > Full of the sound of the Gran Fury, signifying nothing. 01/04/2020 at 00:52

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Those are great. I used to get monster trucks and drag race cars, nothing that looked remotely normal.

facw > Full of the sound of the Gran Fury, signifying nothing. 01/04/2020 at 08:21

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Kid you had good taste.

Thomas Donohue > Urambo Tauro 01/04/2020 at 11:41

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Wow, what a flashback, I had one too. If I recall correctly the back door opened up? Or maybe I had a larger version.

Would be strange if there was more than one version of that thing!