Matchbox 28d; Mack Dump Truck

One of many quarry trucks in the die-cast pantheon, this time the Matchbox model of a Mack. It's a very little model, but the Mack radiator badge is still readable if you blow up the picture, this is very good modelling. You'll see it with red or yellow plastic hub regular wheels in orange and in the Superfast version it is usually a sort of metallic lime/pea green. That is if you remember the peas you got in school dinners in the 1960s. There are also some army green ones both gloss and matt.

The Dump Truck (28d) was released in 1968 in orange with regular wheels. in 1970 it got Superfast wheels and the paintwork was changed to pale green. The main production run stopped in 1973 but some military coloured ones were released in twin-packs in 1977-1979. The ones to look out for are the military green ones.