The Dinky 130 Ford Corsair with chauffer used to be on every serious Dinky collector list and carried quite a price premium.
The latest price guidebook still quotes it at nearly ten times the value of an unoccupied version.
Said guide also lists the chauffer car as being red, now the Corsair came in bright red, metallic red, light blue and as a 2000E version in silver but that has a different number (169).
I was pleased to acquire recently a bright red model with chauffer but then I saw a copy of the advertisement for ‘ The New Breezy Fun Ahoy Set’ (125) which says in the copy that it contains a Healy Sports Boat with two figures and a Corsair with chauffer in metallic red, all for just 9/11 (which I think works out at just less than 50p? total bargain!).
I have since purchased chauffeured cars in light blue and metallic red so it looks like they are not as rare as all that.
Does anyone know for sure if you could get all three colours with a driver figure in the Fun Ahoy set?
It seems odd that the ad would state metallic red then they make them in all the colours.
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