Mercedes-Benz 280GE - 30/149

 I have found a website with 47 varieties of this Matchbox. The Military Ambulance below is number 18. One would be very hard pushed and do little else with their life if they one was to build a definitive collection of Matchbox toys. This is a post Lesney model.

It is worth though talking briefly about the G-Wagen. At the peak of the UK's love affair with 4x4 vehicles in one year Mercedes managed to import only one G-Wagen into the UK. Not a towering success. One of the few vehicles to make the Land Rover Defender look a, good value for money and b, comfortable. Not a favourite of mine.