Thats cool. Its a "gotta have it" kind of thing.
Rich
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> From: Larry Wright[SMTP:Larry.Wright@mail.wdn.com]
> Sent: Sunday, April 06, 1997 11:04 AM
> To: Tiger list
> Subject: I mean _really_, really small
>
> I've received several inquiries about the miniature Tigers. I saw them
> mentioned in the new te/ae
> newsletter and rushed out (literally) to the toy store; in my case it
> was the Toys-R-Us chain. Find
> the aisle with the Hot Wheels and Matchbox cars, and start looking
> for cars _way_ smaller than
> that. I found them on an end cap, and they only come in multiple sets.
> The Tiger comes in set #18,
> "Super Spies". You get three James Bond vehicles: Aston Martin DB5
> (with a bullet-proof shield that
> pops up about 1/8"), a BMW Z3 and a Lotus Esprit. Then a Carnival Red
> Tiger 1A, one assumes from Get
> Smart, and a brg Bentley tourer which I figure to be Steed's from TV's
> Avengers (wrong color to be
> JB's from the old books). They also throw in five "other" cars
> (inventory cleanout?): a Corvair, the
> Phantom Corsair, an El Camino (major barfo; doesn't look much like an
> EC at all), an early MR2 and a
> Willys gasser.
>
> Oh, yes: the cars are held into the packaging with plastic squeeze
> clips; be _very_ careful.
>
> On an only-slightly-bigger-scale note, I just bought an EMCO 1/43
> Jensen Interceptor convertible kit
> from Wally Swift. That just about exhausts the possible TransAtlantic
> car kits I've been able to
> find, and the display case I put up in the garage is still about
> empty. Hey; I'll take suggestions:
> what color to paint the Jensen? After seeing that Willys, bright
> orange interests me. :-)
>
> Larry Wright "I can't get no-- Satis-traction"
>
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