Ford Centennial Collection

All of the Ford vehicles seen above are part of Ford’s Centennial Die-Cast Collection issued in conjunction with the Ford centennial in 2003. I picked up the 13-piece American set at the Centennial celebration in Dearborn (kind of an expensive impulse buy). When I got home I found out that Ford had issued different Centennial Collections in Europe and Australia. I scrambled and ended up with all but two of the European models which comes to a grand total of 20 out of 22 vehicles.

All of the European and American models were created by Minichamps of Germany. The four unique Australian vehicles were created by a company called Carlectables. Here is a breakout of the three different collections:

 

USA:

1914 Ford Model T

1928 Ford Model A

1940 Ford Deluxe station wagon

1941 Lincoln Continental

1948 Ford F-1 pickup

1949 Ford convertible

1950 Mercury

1955 Ford Thunderbird

1956 Continental Mark II

1958 Edsel Bermuda station wagon

1964 Ford Mustang convertible

1969 Mercury Marauder

2004 Ford GT

 

Europe:

1963 Ford Cortina

1965 Ford Taunus 20M

1969 Ford Capri

1971 Ford Escort

2002 Ford Fiesta

+ six of the American models

 

Australia

1933 Ford Model 40 Coupe (this particular coupe being unique to Australia)

1965 Ford Cortina GT 500 (homologation special)

1967 Ford XR Falcon GT

2002 Ford Falcon XR8 Ute

+ a combination of six American and European models

 

Done