RAC International Rally B.M.C. Mini Cooper 'S' (333)Based on a car driven by Tony Fall and Mike Wood in 1966s RAC SUN Rally, Corgi added a sump guard to their Mini Cooper casting and gave it an impressive six jewelled headlights. Unusually, it came in a Corgi 225 Austin Seven box with a 1966 RAC International Rally label stuck over the top. The lack of a dedicated box didnt help off the shelf sales thats if shops even stocked Corgi 333 as it only appeared on order forms for eight months. By late 1967,

A Yellow Submarine TM Product

Also in all-white it omits the door crests for ‘Polizei’ stickers

production ending in 1962

as Corgi 210S

The first issue of the model

The figures were deleted from the later model for production cost reasons

by which time racing cars looked very different indeed

so that children could queue safely on the pavement for their Wall’s ice creams and ice lollies and not in the road

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the early Corgi Bat Boat can be distinguished from the later ‘Whizzwheels-era’ version by the graphics and Batman logo on the fin

Both were given Corgi’s patented ‘Trans-O-Lite’ system whereby light from the bulb illuminated the model’s front and rear roof lights

pop-out machine guns and overriders