Lincoln Continental Executive Limousine

It's a proper Corgi - even has the old spun hub wheels - and the true trademarks of Corgi; opening everything - naturally, OK but it's a stretch limo so lets give it darkened windows - and purple flock carpets, including in the boot - Oh and just to finish it off, a telly in the back where you can't really see it, requiring a whole load of stuff under the car - yep, that's the way to make a Corgi. The TV by the way comes with a set of transparencies you can swap around and is backlit using the battery powered bulb. The back window is left out so you can see the telly.

And - all of this has been put inside a finely made model. The model is a slight anachronism though. The wheels for instance, all the new models have had cast wheels of some sort for a while now, turned wheels are getting to be out of date. The car was sold in a bubble-pack, and must have been one of the first to be sold that way. In many ways though it harks back to the early Sixties, the last gasp maybe of the true Corgi?

You will find this in gold with a black roof or pale blue and tan. The blue cars get the best price. It was produced from 1967 to 1969