Ghia

241 Ghia L6.4

November 1963 - 1969

One of the Corgi classics, issued in November 1963 and the first to have opening everything. The bonnet, boot and doors and the seats folded down too. It also had nice chrome bumpers, jewelled lights and even a mirror on the dashboard. Of course, there was also a Corgi dog on the rear parcel shelf.

This model was available in several colours:

• dark metallic blue

• dark metallic turquoise-blue

• metallic silver-blue

• metallic gold

• metallic sage green

• metallic copper

• metallic lemon-gold

These had shaped wheels, apart from the lemon gold issue which had cast wheels.

The blue shades, copper and old gold cars can be found with either cream or red interiors. Most still had red door inserts, however, those with cream being quite scarce. The sage green had a completely cream interior. The later lemon-gold had a bright yellow interior interior with a tan dashboard. There are examples with tan interiors but it believed these have been affected by sunlight over the years. This may also explain the tan dashboard.

There are two types of base. One has just a single rivet which I have only seen on some silver blue and dark metallic blue editions. All others, including (from research so far) the lemon-gold late editions, have two rivets.

Amazingly, there are different sizes of dog on the parcel shelf too - what I call large and small, and these seem to be pretty randomly distributed.

The suspension on early models is particularly vulnerable.