Unimog

 

Another find in the box from yseterday, is this Unimog from the Tamiya 4WD Minis range. I'm sure I bought it from ToyTown in Leamington, and that shop closed in 1995. No idea why I bought it, at the time I didn't own an orange car (the colour of which is now my favourite) and I doubt I'd seen the real truck as they are uncommon in the UK. 

The kit has survived pretty well. Apart from cracked tyres, it's much as I would have put it in the box. Amazing really as the shed is open to the elements and certainly not heated!

Putting a couple of batteries in, and wiggling them around to achieve a good contact, and the model works! It zips along in what I suspect is a very un Unimog way, but it still looks great.