Triumph Stag Mk1 Pre-Production Car (LD17) Wedgewood Blue 1:43

The automatic model Stag was completed on 10 April 1970 and is pre-production car 12, chassis number LD17. It was one of some twenty-five pilot Stags built before the start of full production; a process designed to simulate the production line and finalise the assembly sequence, jigs and tooling. LD17 was one of 12 Stags taken to Knokke, Belgium, in June 1970 for the press launch of the Stag, allowing Triumph's Gordon Birtwistle to test each one on the Jabbeke motorway before journalists drove them.