Yet another wild fantasy model from Matchbox, once again mirroring the 1-75 range. In the Super-Kings range there is this one and Bazooka, counterparts to Pi-Eyed Piper and Big Banger which have a lot of similarities to these cars. I'm guessing that this very stylised model was based on a Mustang or a Camaro- or at least on the Matchbox view of the Mustang at the time. An interesting detail is the word Lledo cast into the rocker covers. This is the surname of the chief designer at Matchbox Jack Odell, reversed. It is also the brand he used when he went on to form his own company after Matchbox went under in the early 80s.
K-43/1 Cambuster was released into the range in 1973 and was deleted in 1981, this example was purchased and photographed in the very early days of Little Wheels, before we started trading and I was just trying to get a record of as many die casts as I could. It is very unusual in that we have not had another one to get better pictures since this was bought in 2009. The collection number or SKU of the car is 2976 we are almost at a quarter of a million at the time of writing.
