The RETURN Of The SAINT’S VOLVO – AGAIN…

The 2023 2nd model with Simon Templar’s ‘stick’ resolve on the bonnet

Funny how some psychological associations are indelible, invent no longer you suspect?  As an example, when I ponder of Corgi Toys The Saint’s Volvo P1800, I affiliate it with the ’60s and the dwelling I lived in at the time.  In my mind’s glimpse, I’m able to note it on top of the dining table in our dwelling-room, and at any time when I gape at my replacement car at the moment time, that’s easy where I affiliate it with.

Thing is, I’ve had my replacement for tons of extra years than I ever had the fresh (which wasn’t genuinely mine, however my brother’s, even supposing I performed with it), and the photograph I took of it alongside with the Corgi Model Membership’s reissue of it a couple of years support modified into once taken on top of the table (which replaced our normal one support around 1980 or ’81) in my present dwelling.

The 2021 reissue with ‘feeble’ bonnet resolve, and an normal ’60s toy with unhurried ’60s hubcaps

Thing is, taking a gape at that shut-up photograph now, I’m left with a sturdy psychological image of my feeble dwelling-room ‘out-of-frame’, as it were – as if it modified into once taken there slightly than right here.  You’d ponder I would be in a attach to envisage the vehicles of their present ‘context’, slightly than one which handed extra than 51 years within the past.  Nevertheless sufficient of such self-indulgent twaddle, it is possible you’ll well receive possible ‘rumbled’ me anyway.

What I mean is that this submit is merely an excuse to show you my newly-obtained most fashionable 2nd model liberate, on which the artificially-feeble gape of the bonnet transfer on the 2021 model has been replaced with a pristine Saint resolve, extra in maintaining with how the 1965 toy would’ve regarded when it first went on sale, lo, these many decades within the past.  What’s that, you receive no longer purchased one?

By no methodology mind – that it is possible you’ll ride taking a gape at mine.  Am I correct to you all, or what?