Very strange in the eyes of collector's is the fact, that in some countries have been toy-cars produced and sold, which were never in reality on that countries roads.
So in the Soviet Union there was made a plenty of 1:43 NSU RO 80, a Simca Coupé, too. Why?
A few days ago, I've bought that stuff at eBay:
http://cgi.ebay.de/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&ssPageName=STRK:MEWNX:IT&item=20025- 0808673
The toy-car, the Opel Manta, wasn't interesting for me, it even doesn't belong the to box. The only interesting thing for me was the flyer, because it's from the Brazilian company REI.
In 1977/78, the old, traditional German company Schuco was going into bankrupcy (the actual company "Schuco" is just the re-animated name). The tools of the actual "model-range" were sold to Brazil. For a few years they continued the production.
The fascinating thing of the REI-toys is, that the majority of the models, they made and have sold (mainly only in Southern and Northern America, USA, too, as I know), were never running on Brazilian or other American streets! Strange!
The small flyer says, that here are shown 12 of 36 models, they are producing. I don't know Portuguese, but this I could unterstand.
Shown are here: Mercedes 250 CE, Audi 100 LS, VW K 70, Opel Ascona Voyage, BMW 2800, BMW 2002 tii touring, Mercedes 350 SL, Ford Capri II, Mercedes C 111, Audi 100 Coupe`S, Ford Granada (MKII) and VW Porsche 914. In the original REI-box was originally an Opel Manta B GTE.
Nearly all of these toys must be unknown for Brazilian, Argentinian, Mexican or US-kids!
REI-toys were never sold in Germany. I even didn't know, that they were existing. I've heard about them at first in the 90ies, when my K 70-friends were very keen on the REI-K 70.
For a time, this toy was something like that for us:
http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quastenflosser
"Noone has seen it, but someone has heard, that it shall existing"
Later, since the Internet and Ebay have come, it was getting better. So some of these toys were coming to the collections. But still REI-toys are more expensive than the original Schuco's.
They even are in worse quality. You clearly can see, that the old Schuco-tools were worn out more and more.
So in the Soviet Union there was made a plenty of 1:43 NSU RO 80, a Simca Coupé, too. Why?
A few days ago, I've bought that stuff at eBay:
http://cgi.ebay.de/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&ssPageName=STRK:MEWNX:IT&item=20025- 0808673
The toy-car, the Opel Manta, wasn't interesting for me, it even doesn't belong the to box. The only interesting thing for me was the flyer, because it's from the Brazilian company REI.
In 1977/78, the old, traditional German company Schuco was going into bankrupcy (the actual company "Schuco" is just the re-animated name). The tools of the actual "model-range" were sold to Brazil. For a few years they continued the production.
The fascinating thing of the REI-toys is, that the majority of the models, they made and have sold (mainly only in Southern and Northern America, USA, too, as I know), were never running on Brazilian or other American streets! Strange!
The small flyer says, that here are shown 12 of 36 models, they are producing. I don't know Portuguese, but this I could unterstand.
Shown are here: Mercedes 250 CE, Audi 100 LS, VW K 70, Opel Ascona Voyage, BMW 2800, BMW 2002 tii touring, Mercedes 350 SL, Ford Capri II, Mercedes C 111, Audi 100 Coupe`S, Ford Granada (MKII) and VW Porsche 914. In the original REI-box was originally an Opel Manta B GTE.
Nearly all of these toys must be unknown for Brazilian, Argentinian, Mexican or US-kids!
REI-toys were never sold in Germany. I even didn't know, that they were existing. I've heard about them at first in the 90ies, when my K 70-friends were very keen on the REI-K 70.
For a time, this toy was something like that for us:
http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quastenflosser
"Noone has seen it, but someone has heard, that it shall existing"
Later, since the Internet and Ebay have come, it was getting better. So some of these toys were coming to the collections. But still REI-toys are more expensive than the original Schuco's.
They even are in worse quality. You clearly can see, that the old Schuco-tools were worn out more and more.
And the Freeway Gas Tanker.
I didn't destroy anything valuable but quite a lot of cheaper ones. There were few methods which I used. One is to put the car on workbench and slowly turn the screw untill you have a cool-looking 'crashed' car. Or put the car in vertical position on a rock and drop another rock against it. Maybe the funniest way was to stuff the car with leaves and put a driver inside (if there is room) and then ignite it and drop it from a cliff 
