Collection Snapshot - Rover 3500 Police

Chevy Camaro Z28 Police - Model of the Day

Today's Model of the Day is a 4th generation Camaro police car, from the wonderful old Matchbox Premiere series. The 1999 Premiere Police Collection, to be exact. While there were many great cars from the long-running Premiere line, the police cars always stood out to me. The Camaro was included in all the police series I believe. Other models included the old Ford LTD police car, the Crown Victoria, and the Chevy Tahoe. I only have a handful of these, but am alway on the lookout for more. 

I found this picture online. Looks like Matchbox did a fairly decent job of replicating the Wyoming Highway Patrol livery on the Camaro. Those Premiere-specific wheels don't look good on everything, but I think they suit the Camaro pretty well. 

Matchbox Ford Crown Victoria Police Restoration/Custom

I've been wanting to do one of these for a long time, take a police car and turn it into something "civilian." I got this Crown Vic in a big lot a while back and thought it would be perfect. As you can see, it was pretty rough when I got it:

So, after some body filler applied to the roof and a fresh coat of paint, here it is now! Not too bad for my first use of body filler, I'm looking forward to making similar cars in the future and making them look even better!

Lesney #59c-Ford Galaxie Fire Chief

Good evening folks! Here's tonight's restoration, an old Galaxie fire chief. The final piece took parts from 4 different cars! I'd gathered them over time, all in far too bad of a condition to display. I'd hoped to restore all of them eventually, but 3 of the 4 had missing pillars and bent roofs. Repairing that is beyond the scope of my ability. But they all had at least 1 good part to donate, so here is the finished product. Sorry, no before pics, I forgot to take them. But the other 3 cars should be appearing in my upcoming junkyard diorama!

Project Wrap Up: Lesney #55d Mercury Police Car

Well, this one isn't my best work, but it'll display well. I'm probably just being too OCD anyways. I think the sticker on the hood is crooked LOL. Anyways, this car was pretty far gone and I'm glad to give it a new lease on life!

I painted the hubs black for two reasons. One, I thought it looked better that way, and two, I wasn't sure how to go about re-chroming the plastic hubs! Any tips would be much appreciated.

Before

And after..

Original Project Post

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New Project: Lesney #55d Mercury Police Car

Good afternoon everyone! This one turned up at the workbench today on a trailer. It's in pretty sorry shape, it has definitely led a hard life as a police cruiser. But the wheels are good, windows are good, and the gumball on the top is even pretty good. This will be a pretty straightforward redo, I should have it finished by tomorrow. I already have the decals and everything!

The Matchbox Well is NOT dry after all! New stock found tonight

Hello everyone! I've just had a rather exciting trip to my local Walmart. I've been hearing these rumors for a week or so now that Walmart is clearing out all their Matchbox stock. It's sure been dry around here for ages, and it sounds like a lot of other places is the same story.

So sure enough, there were 5 basics on the pegs, marked down to 50c, and 5 5 packs, marked to $3.50. Sad day. But then I noticed that all sorts of other stuff in the toy aisle has been marked down as well. Loads of stuff in the blue section, M2 Machines, Jada, EVERYTHING. So that gave me a little more hope. I picked up several of those Hot Wheels cars in the little baggies, they were marked to 75c. It's so much fun standing there for 30 minutes peering through the little window in the baggie trying to determine what car is inside haha. I felt like a regular Sherlock Holmes. I grabbed about 10, as well as a couple MBX cars to use as wheel donors and left. Then out of the corner of my eye I caught glimpse of a pallet full of new cases. A closer look showed a box of new MBX 10 packs! Hallelujah!

And not only 10 packs, but new basics as well! I opened it up right there and found a treasure trove of new product. So all hope is not lost folks. It looks the big box stores aren't giving up on us after all.

I'll post some close-up pictures later, but a great haul!

What did I pay for all of this?

Under $14! 10 basic and 10 HW mystery cars. What a great night. 

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Matchbox Ambassador's Report February 3rd

Good morning everyone. Sorry for the lack of posts the last couple days. I've been slammed with school and the weather has been too bad for painting!

I know you can get the Ambassador's Report from a number of other sources, but I thought it was worth sharing here this week.

Ambassador's Report on HobbyTalk

I'm looking forward to more police cars! That Charger Pursuit looks fantastic.

And yes it's a real livery! I love it.

That's all for now folks, hopefully I'll have some new stuff to post soon! Thanks for the read. 

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