I've waited a long time for this one........

Hi Gents,22 years, 3 months to be exact! Since I got my normal Guy Slumberland van, I've tried many times over the years but these always went way too high for my budget, so when I saw this as a Buy It Now for 80 quid I had to get it.........Slumberland Guy Van with Supertoy hubs: (Sellers pic, post a better one when I get it) Chris Warr.

Not too many of them about Chris, well done, Dave

Hi Chris, this is a great find! You may like my article on my favourite Guy Van: dtcawebsite.org/dinkyarticles/36-large-c...lumbers-fill-my-eyes Kind regards, Jan

Thanks Jan, Excellent article! I will let you know if it has the turned down door handles when it arrives. Chris Warr.

Hi Gents, Here's a better picture now it's here.......

It has the turned down handles too........

The Weetabix vans have the same variations too...

Cheers Gents, Chris Warr.

Well done - a nice example, and it must feel great to get this elusive item after so long! I was pleased to add a Dinky Guy van to my collection at the weekend. It actually looks very smart in the hand, but unfortunately the photograph highlights all the blemishes!

Nice additions! For the Weetabix the equal mix of ridged en grooved hubs appearances is familiar. For the Slumberland the grooved hubs version is the much scarcer one. I believe that the grooved hubs Lyons is very scarce. This b/w pictures is from Model Collector of February 1994, page 50. Kind regards, Jan

Thanks for the pic of the Supertoy hubs Lyons Jan, I thought it may be theoretically possible,but have never seen one. I'll keep a look out, you never know one may just turn up! Chris Warr.

With the addition of the Guy Van below I now have a full set of 6. From the first to this one was probably 15 years. You have to be patient in this hobby. Dave

Beautiful addition Dave, only wish mine were boxed, a Slumberland Guy was the very first Dinky I bought when I started collecting again as an adult, thought I might as well start with a good one! Chris Warr.

Thanks Chris The only one I had as a child was the Spratts Van and my 14c Coventry Climax Fork Lift put so many loads into the back of that vehicle. The one shown above is the first Guy van I bought when I started collecting. Interestingly the Spratts and the Weetabix vans are both sitting on exactly the same box!!! The Spratts was introduced immediately after the Weetabix van had been discontinued and Meccano must have had some left over Weetabix boxes and put another label over the top to use the stock of boxes - they never wasted anything!!! It took me over an hour to soak off the Spratts label which then left me with a mint Weetabix one as it had never been out of the factory. I have since bought another Spratts box to replace the one you see above. Dave

Hi Dave, congratulations on this very special collecting milestone! And such a remarkable box-story! How did you discover that there was another label underneath and how were you so sure that it was a Weetabix-label down there, before starting to soak it off from such a pristine box? By the way, it took you fifteen years to get the six of them, but my patience is challenged much more: it took me the double number of years to find and afford two of those! I will have to grow very old to acquire all of them ... The more hardship to find them, the more satisfaction, as we will all agree no doubt! Kind regards, Jan