That GP Deuce is one of my all time favourites! Now if only I could locate a manifold and wheels to get that project going
WOW! Do you know that the New Zealand Cars weetbix cards are seriously collectible!? Folks I know in the UK grab them and in the 80's were paying enormous sums for complete sets .. I had most of the card sets going back to when I was a little kid in the 50's and my old mum had a special draw in the kitchen called the "card drawer" which was full of card albums from weetbix. At school we would swap them amongst each other,but if there were say 50 cards in an album,you could send your 50 extras to sanitarium and get a proper set with the album. Great marketing!. Mine were given to a young cousin in the 60's and his step dad being a car nut grabbed them and still has them. Cars like this were well known to me because this was one of Dads work mates, Bill Periton , The Vermillion Mk2 in the back groiund is one of my all time favorite Zed cars. Ray(?) Vincent If my memory is right had rello's living near us and would visit with them. A nice guy who would yak about caers for ages with us grubby kids and let us look at his car. it had PA tail ights.. And I remember being told to piss off when I crawled under this when it was parked in the mainstreet opposite Dads work. Another comapny also had cards but weren't as popular,although there was one set featuring trucks which had a picture of a School mates dads Atkinson which earned some cred in the playground...
Ok should have a full set of the 1971 series but the 1978 series are not in the archive. Maybe one of you guy's could could scan front and back and send me a copy?
Dirtynails, cool info. thanks. wonder what they worth now? unclechop, pm me your address and ill send you my spare album. its not complete but has 3 cards missing only. maybe your work can help you complete it. i dont have a scanner, but i can do photos.
these were cool, we had the bubblegum stickers too remember them on the headboard of the bed (sat in the garage for a bunch of years too) its no wonder kids are falling off the rails these days with the All blacks on their weetbix cards year after year.......
wow, thanks unclechop. they look real good! great way to corupt the nations youth. maybe another series would help steer kids toward real cars?
They are always sports stars these days- allthough I did like the retro metal packets they promo every now and then-they make good parts containers!
Thanks for those Unclechop. The Weetbix boxes with the cardboard Indian 4 model were pretty cool, any idea how that came about?
in the us we had Barris taking credit for everything via his Way out wheel trading cards http://www.bubblegum-cards.com/Way-Out-Wheels/imagepages/
hey Van Dutch, those look like cool cards. always loved the munster cars. anyone got more of these barris cards?
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