Standard Vanguard III Saloon - 207
PAGE LAST UPDATED: 11 September 2007
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Standard Vanguard III Saloon - 207 PAGE LAST UPDATED: 11 September 2007 |
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| Good solid British metal, the Vanguard was a fine car - a plodder
rather than a flyer, sharing as it does an engine with the Ferguson
tractor! My 1957 Observers Book of Automobiles shows the facelifted
version with an altered grille and more chrome and it is listed as the 'Vignale'
Vanguard - did the Italians design the car or just the face-lift I
wonder? My model is just about OK - there is evidence of an attack with a paintbrush around the grille and I think the red may have been touched up a bit too. This looks like the first car to get a die cast bottom on all versions. This is the non-mechanical two-tone version, It also came as a mechanical and in RAF livery as a staff car, with free running wheels. All of my models have the cast base. The known first here though was red painted rear lights. |
