Custom Matchbox Capri found after 50 years

[Wes]

Wow. What are the odds?
Just like to point out that I still have my Matchbox CSL and it's un-chipped and OEM. Guess I was a boring kid

Australian man finds his childhood Matchbox car – five decades after it went missing in England

From a strawberry patch in Somerset to a post office in New South Wales, an ecstatic Tim Goodwin is reunited with his customised Matchbox Ford Capri

www.theguardian.com

 

[eriknetherlands]

Funny story.
And it goes to show that nowadays almost everything is available through ebay.

 

[Nachtycoupe]

I always liked the raced out Ford Capri's. But stock they weren't much of anything, known as the Ford Crapi's...

 

[mulberryworks]

I have an Inka CSL Matchbox I found at an estate sale a few years back. It's rough and it's got a broken windscreen, but I'm happy to have it.
Maybe I'll restore it when I'm done with my Chamonix 2800cs.

 

[Wes]

I have an Inka CSL matchbox I found at an estate sale a few years back. It's rough and it's got a broken windscreen, but I'm happy to have it.
Maybe I'll restore it when I'm done with my Chamonix 2800cs.

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With the rare fixed perspex rear windows. The door gaps are up the put and not convinced the wheels are Alpina though