Bluebird Dauphine Caravan - 23c
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Bluebird Dauphine Caravan - 23c |
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| Tow bars were very fragile.
Hooks broke off cars and rings from trailers so easily. I don't think
any of the makers ever really came up with a sensible solution. Like so
many other of my toys this one lost its towing ring, however the repair
you see here is my own. As a kid I removed the base and drilled it
adding the fuse wire solution shown - this must have been pre-1970 and I
would have been about 10 years old The Bluebird Dauphine Caravan was added to the range in 1960 and continued in production up to 1965. The bodywork is metallic mauve or lime green, the base can be mauve or crimson, wheels can be grey, black or silver, sometimes the door is black and some late examples have windows. This wide variety of versions leads inevitably to there being scarce and valuable examples. The top value caravans are mauve with crimson base, black door & grey wheels or mauve with silver wheels & green windows. Lime with grey wheels and mauve with black wheels are both also scarce and worth hundreds of pounds. |
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Metallic mauve, mauve base, grey plastic wheels, no windows |
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