Scale: 1:45

Box notes: "This Dutch car will, of course, be familiar to those thousands of people who saw the film 'Genevieve', it being selected as the opposition to the Darraq of that name. It has a four cylinder, 2456cc engine, and the price in England in 1904 was £460" I remember Genevieve being shown at school as an end of term treat, which shows how old I am.

The Yesteryear car was made from 1961 to 1968 and was always (nearly always) yellow with green plastic seats. There were a very few cars made in maroon, early in the production run, and these are vanishingly rare and worth good money. It is the same maroon colour as was used on the Santa Fe locomotive. The early cars are pale yellow, almost cream. The colour gets darker through the production run with the later cars almost a mustard colour. Early cars have the bolt head detail on the wheel rims emulating split rims on the full size car, these were replaced by the usual brass spoked stepped rims. Tyres started off grey knobbly, then black knobbly and later black smooth tread. Other than that the main variations are whether or not the hand-applied gold trim is complete.

It's a nice model and clean examples in good early boxes will still fetch a decent price.

Boxes: All the early cars, pale yellow paint, split rims and knobbly tyres will be in type D1 and a few in type D2 boxes. The pale yellow fine tread tyres will be in type D1, D2, D3, E and E1 boxes. The darker yellow cars will be in type D3, E, E1 and F boxes.