Awesome Hubley Corvair. A unique and wonderful Hubley Real Toy casting.

jt3 - One of these 1960 Corvair four doors was my second car as a high school senior. It had a dangerous but very warm gasoline heater.
I need to find one of these 1/60 Hubley Real Toy Corvair four door models for a custom project to create a model of my metailic silver grey 1960 Corvair four door. Please let me know if you locate any sources.

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I've gotten the vast majority of my Real Types and Real Toys from the 'bay. I put the search for Hubley Real Types and it usually defaults to pick up the Burslems as well. Since the Corvair is strictly Hubley, you could also search Hubley Real Toys.

If you aren't fussy about scale, you might also look at Lone Star, they also make an old 4 door Corvair, though I like the front detail better on the Hubley.



This is the Lone Star, 1/50 scale, and this example technically is Tootsietoy Classics, made in England. Tootsietoy contracted a handful of models from this era from Lone Star.

Those are the only two (technically 3) moredoor Corvairs I am aware of.

Nice Corvair model!

What charm these old toys have.

I have yet to acquire any Hubley 1/64 models - they definitely had some good choices for everyday vehicles.

I feel the same, and I would add Siku V-series cars to this sweet company.
Awsome cars

You'd think modern diemaking, design, and protyping technology would give us better diecast. However, the toy grade pieces these days from a number of manufacturers seem a step below what they made in the 1960s. I've noticed many of my old Lesneys have crisp cast-in badges that can easily be read. Today, those details are usually pad/tampo printed, and what cast-in detail they have is usually a bit fuzzy, and made worse by thick paint jobs. Hard to believe most of the pieces in the 1960s were developed by hand drawings, hand-carved large-scale prototypes, which were then pantographed down into the diecasting mold and still hold up well nearly six decades later. There was no computer-aided design, 3D printing, computer-numerical control (CNC) milling machines, or heck, even a lot of the tool steels used in the molds today back then (which did not last as long as some of the harder, more wear-resistant steels of today). Large-scale automation to the degree modern factories are today didn't exist (and the molds often operated by hand--in fact, the current owners of Budgie had to modfiy the original tools as the hand-operated diecasting molds were against the British version of OSHA). But, they still looked great, and by the secondary market listings of these old pieces still being quite common, they were built to last.

Hubley period can be expensive, and the Real Types/Real Toys models I've been wanting to add, but the prices keep me from it. At the present, I have just one large scale "Army Ambulance" from the 1950s, which I got from Pastor John here for a price I could afford.

PS: I'm not an expert. I took mechatronics during a hiatus from my bachelor's 4 years ago (which mostly focused on industrial automation). I looked at taking machining in college, but ended up finishing my BS in Management and then moving on to accounting. My understanding of tool steels comes from the fact many of those steels are often used in the manufacture of pocket knives and the fact that I've read all kinds of spec sheets from the manufacturers. I also saw an old Lesney production video, but can't find it right now.

Been almost two years since I gathered what I could from the old site and checked the links. Spot check of the first vid, Matchbox, opened up and started playing so at least that one is still good:

Factory videos - Diecast Garage