Matchbox Lesney 8f Wildcat Dragster Original Box

Matchbox Lesney 8f Wildcat Dragster Original Box

This car replaced the by now aging 65 Mustang in the range in 1971, designated 8f. Lesney gave us a big V8 sticking out of the bonnet and some whacky colours turning it into a dragster. Through its whole production life it was available in orange, for the first year of production only, 1971, it was also available in pink. Seats are consistently yellow and the windows always green, but there are a lot of variations of base colour and to the stickers applied to the doors. Mostly the stickers show the profile of a big cat with 'wildcat' overprinted, however they can have Rat Rod labels as seen on the Mercury Cougar dragster or sailboat labels as seen on the VW camper.

Most versions are pretty well priced, the best being the ones with sailboat labels, lowest value is orange with wildcat labels and a black base