Matchbox 4e; Gruesome Twosome

Well really, what on earth is this? Two V8s? That is just plain greedy. Interestingly it is actually based on a real car, the AMC Phaze II which was a design exercise that I cannot find a great deal about, I know Politoys made a model of it in 1970 and Christian Falkensteiner has a picture of it on his excellent website. But more than that eludes me. Except for the fact that it did not really have two engines.

However 4e is a Matchbox Superfast model made between 1971 and 1975, normally it is gold but later ones can be red or orangey red. The core 1-75 release from 1971-75 was gold with purple or yellow windows. In 1975 there as a series of red and orange/red releases and a graphite grey release.

The ones to look out for are the late graphite grey versions (rarest) and cars with gold bodywork and yellow windows.