Ford Zephir Police Motorway Patrol Car 1:48 - n°419

Conjuring up the spirit of the popular TV show Z-Cars, this typically early-60s Corgi was produced until 1965. Interestingly, Ford didn’t actually make an estate version of the Zephyr, the model being based on an Abbott of Farnham bespoke conversion. Launched in 1960, the model was also available in the Netherlands – the bonnet sticker replaced with one that read either ‘Politie’ or ‘Rijks Polite’. Detailing was excellent, with an aerial, blue emergency light, grille-mounted bell and loudspeaker, plus a red interior complete with moulded recovery tools. In 1962, the tooling was used again to produce a non- police estate (Corgi 424) in a rather fetching two-tone blue colour scheme.