Although I may at times sound like an old fart I'm not actually old enough to have been bought one of these new! This Lone Star Ford Taunus 12 M dates from the 1960's and I seem to remember finding this at the second hand market in Huddersfield as a child back in the later 1980's. It was in pretty much exactly this condition when I bought it for a few Pence but even then I did see the interest in older types of vehicles like this.
Lone Star products sadly weren't very common by the time I started buying my own models, they remained in business until around 1985 but by that point were more known for their toy guns than cars and were always massively outgunned by Corgi and Matchbox. Despite its condition you can clearly see that this small company put a lot of effort into their Matchbox competing small diecasts, all metal bodies, nice wheels, working suspension and opening parts are deemed premium features these days but were part of the norm back then!
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