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Chuck Nukem:
Love the Countach prototype

EuropaTC:

--- Quote from: lotusfanatic on Wednesday,April 12, 2017, 11:17:29 PM ---Trevor,

Matchbox! that may have been the same manufacturer, although I can't be certain - but the car, that was 100% a Lotus Europa!
I also had a gold Marcos (concept?) car along with a few others  :)

Mark   

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Ahh, the Marcos Mantis/XP model.....    a weird little thing !  There's a picture of one on the top half of this page;

http://www.marcoscars.net/scale.htm

Apparently it was one of Jem Marsh's ideas for racing but never took off. The real deal looked like this photo copied from the web and it's pretty far out today so you can imagine what it looked like to the locals back in 1968 !

Brian

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