#536 Sohbi – Lancia Stratos (D-E16) In Addition To Volkswagen Golf Game Mk1 (D-E17) (Around 1995)

MONTH OF THE BOOTLEG AT TOYS FROM THE PAST!

SOHBI is a Hong Kongese die-cast toy manufacturer that I discovered alone a few months ago. In a flea marketplace position I constitute an orangish VW Golf that caught my attention… it was beautifully casted, but on the baseplate in that location was no data at all apart from a logo alongside the give-and-take SOHBI. I idea a VW Golf would ever live a VW Golf as well as bought it. It represents the model from the mid 80s, the i at i time known every bit MK1 or start generation (1974-1983), the same that Majorette as well as Matchbox (among others) reproduced.

This model is genuinely a knock-off of the model made past times MC Toy, or maybe, SOHBI purchased the casts from MC Toy, when they didn’t postulate it anymore, which is also possible.

The Lancia Stratos is a knock-off of a Zylmex model, but it could also live the same example every bit above. I would similar to ain either the MC Toy Golf or the Zylmex Stratos to compare the casts thoroughly, but correct now, I don’t.

Both models include really prissy as well as detailed interiors, every bit good every bit windshields as well as windows, which is something really rare nowadays inwards budget die-cast models.

The companionship SOHBI was founded inwards 1984, as well as is focused on die-cast toys as well as novelties products, similar plastic playsets or keychains. They are exporting their products to every corner of the world. Despite beingness a Hong Kongese company, their manufacturing flora is located inwards DongGuan, a Chinese metropolis alone 10 kilometers away from the edge to Hong-Kong.

The wheels used are their ain design, they are non similar to MC Toy, as well as hold back perhaps similar to but about Zylmex models. Suspension uses a similar machinery to Majorette models, but it is slightly besides soft for my standards. Cars are also tampographied, although inwards the VW Golf case, that tampography is worn as well as lost.

I’d similar to cite that the tampographies of the Lancia Stratos are genuinely funny: “Sosoline Gasoline Supplier”, “Can’t Catch My Tail” as well as “The Best Gasoline inwards the World”.

The appointment is a pure estimation, I am non genuinely certain when were these 2 cars made.

UPDATE: Newly found VW Golf versin past times Sohbi alongside prissy ornament "Rettung 144", made expressely for the High German market.

FACTS AND FIGURES:

• Name: LANCIA STRATOS (D-E16) as well as VOLKSWAGEN GOLF MK1 (D-E17)
• Scale: 1:64 (approx.)
• Year: Approx. 1995
• Company: Sohbi (Hong-Kong/ China)
• Size: approx. 3’’ or seven cm