Via another forum, a Ford one, I received a random pm, the sender asked me if I owned a java TR7, TAO208R, and if so he had some interesting information for me. I replied and said that I did own the car.
The guy then gave me a call and said he worked for a design agency that was contracted to Corgi, the company had decided to produce a Java green 1:43 TR7 and this design agency had found a picture of my car on the net. They put it forward to Corgi as the car to base the model on and it was accepted.
They then sent me all the detail design drawings and asked me to correct any inaccuracies , within manufacturing abilities.
This was followed up by several calls for info regarding the car and Speke TR7's in general for the advertising campaign.
I was asked to keep everything a secret.
Anyway last week I was again contacted and told that I was added to the list to receive free samples of the model so I thought it must be getting near production.
I did an Internet search today and found that orders are now being taken, TAO208R lives in 1:43 scale......
Unfortunately, and I am gutted, about two weeks before I got the initial message from the design agency I sent the logbook back to DVLA advising them that TAO was no more and it had been scrapped about 2 years earlier [:(]
Anyway, here's the wee car, and wife
The model
And on Corgis site
http://www.corgi.co.uk/shop/corgi-direc ... ava-green/
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