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Amsterdam, the Netherlands.
This car has the engine of a 406 and the gearbox of a 306.
Check out this video: www.youtube.com/watch?v=PX1rR5M6MCw
Brand: Kinsfun
Series: N/A
Livery: Red and blue stripes, USPS logo
Scale: 1/36
Base: Black plastic -
Collector/casting number: KT 5112
Country of manufacture: China
Place/date of purchase: Toys 'R' Us, 2022
Condition: Minty fresh 10/10
Remarks/comments:
Brand: Greenlight
Series: 2020 Canada Post
Livery: Red over white with blue stripe, CANADA POST - POSTES CANADA, "From anywhere to anyone - De partout jusqu à vous", #29889
Scale: 1/64
Base: Matte black metal - ©2017
Collector/casting number: GL126
Country of manufacture: China
Place/date of purchase: Wal-Mart, 2021
Condition: Minty fresh 10/10
Remarks/comments: I very rarely unbox a Greenlight product. But only a few occasions I have. This is one of those occasions. You may have noticed that I bought three of these. Yup, three. But I only liberated one.
These are actually not the first ones that I got. I bought my first one in 2018 from eBay when it was first released. It was a pre-order if I remember rightly. By then it was already delayed by a year I think because of some licensing issues.
I never took that one out of it's package. The package looks nearly the same but it has a Hobby Exclusive logo on the front. Which meant, it was a low production release.
I do wonder why it took nearly three years for this one to be released properly.
I've been wanting to get a photo of one of these for a long time just never had an opportunity.
This one has chevrolet wheels, why?
This is the only RHD domestic vehicle I know of.
I read that these will eventually be replaced, which is sad because they are cool and very useful for roadside access without walking into traffic.
A diminutive Canada Post mail van parked outside Dollar Blitz in the Merivale Market strip mall in the Ottawa suburb of Nepean.
I wasn't sure who made these vans. I thought it might have been Grumman like the larger vans, but then I had a close look at this photo and was rather surprised to see the Chevrolet logo on the hubcaps.
Doing a little research, I found this Adobe Acrobat pdf document from Transport Canada that calls this truck the "Canada Post Solectria-Grumman LLV Electric Postal Delivery Truck". So why does it have Chevy hubcaps, then?
Wikipedia has the answer. The body and final assembly is from Grumman, but General Motors builds the chassis.
Old Building, a bank built at the end of the 19th century. Melenci, Banat, Vojvodina, Serbia.
Melenci (Меленци) (Hungarian: Melence) is a village located in the Zrenjanin municipality, in the Central Banat District of Serbia. It is situated in the Autonomous Province of Vojvodina. The village has a Serb ethnic majority and its population numbering 6,737 people (2002 census).[1] The brackish water lake of Okanj is nearby.
This oddly proportioned but immensely charming little Matchbox van is technically a generic but is nothing more than a VERY thinly disguised Grumman LLV. The real vehicle has been out of production for a good few decades but I imagine there are still some parts of the U.S. where they are either still used or were until pretty recently.
Its been a while since I last saw this casting in the line up but it returns for very late 2019 in a new MBX Countryside five vehicle set. Sadly its body has succumbed to the dark plastic side though its baseplate is made of metal to balance things out. Its believable CarGo livery has already been seen before on other Matchbox castings and seems to suit this type of vehicle too. Found recently at Tesco. Mint and boxed.
1987 was the first year for LLV production, running to 1994 for USPS (plus limited production into 1995).
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"Les portes du ciel" exposition temporaire, Le Louvre, Paris
www.louvre.fr/llv/exposition/detail_exposition.jsp?CONTEN...
Stolen shot, the attendants were lightly asleep too :-)