This one was a long time favorite:
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and in case you wanted something legal to drive to the grocery store:
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Nice, I certainly wish I’d taken better care of my DB5…
Though for reasons unknown, I preferred the preposterous Lotus from Spy Who Loved Me, played with it for hours…
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Of course Corgi > Hot Wheels, being much bigger and expensiver and detailed. The Batmobile had a retractable knife blade. A switchblade on a children’s toy.
I remember Michael E____'s birthday party when he accused me of being a Nazi and sliced open my scalp with the Batmobile that I had just given him and I bled copiously all over my new white Izod shirt. /digression
What I really wanted were Dinky cars. Somehow I had come into possession of a catalogue, which I spent countless hours poring over. All kinds of functional moving parts and references to mysterious British television shows.
To this day I don’t know who the hell Ed Straker or Joe 90 or Lady Penelope were. But I still want their cars.
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I meant to put this in the TV themes thread. Filmed in VIDECOLOR and SUPERMARIONATION.
Reminds me that an old friend had a Thunderbird 2 [including, as per the illustration, Thunderbird 4] as a child, but I didn’t. It still hurts. And he never fails to remind me of this when we meet. /anotherdigression
10/10, would DD.
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