Dodge wreck truck

Now these Lesney Matchbox trucks must fetch a mint on eBay actually i saw one go for £4000.

Then in 1970 unknown to the Lesney bosses some fake reverse colour dodges were assembled by lesney workers at the Lesney factory, these were made to sell to collectors and have crimped axles instead of rounded and also have the thicker crane booms, B.P. labels were fitted instead of decals and these models have gone on to become collectors items in their own right.The regular issue of wreckers had decals on the first issues and paper labels on the later and mask sprayed silver trim was only applied to the first run, the windows are tinted light bluish green and the roof beacon light is red, they used a variety of labels and decals and also the hooks used can be different colours and designs

No one knows whether the dodge wreck truck was ever issued with yellow hooks but as the hooks are easy to swap so the yellow hook version undoubtedly does exist, only one type of wheel was fitted to the dodge that was 11.5 x 45 black plastic and these were on dome head rounded axles with the exception of the ‘factory fake’ reverse colour version which had crimped axles even though by 1970 when the fakes were made crimped axles had not been used by Lesney for about 10 years or so the Lesney Matchbox 13d Dodge wreck truck was in the range from 1965 until 1970 when it was converted to superfast wheels, It was deleted a year later, it was sold in ‘E’ and ‘F’ type boxes, the earliest ‘E’ type boxes have a picture of the reversed colour variant on them, it was quite a good seller and was a very popular model. The rarest models are now fetching over £5000.