This is a wonderful example of a rare version from the very early Corgi catalogue. A Rover 90 in green and with a working ‘Mechanical’ element.
This example has clean, unscratched windows and very little paint missing indeed. it has survived well and looks really good.
It is rare to find this in any condition and the Mechanical version, only available from 1956 to 1959, never sold that well and is particularly difficult to get so I am very pleased with this example which is totally original too, after well over 50 years!
This is said to be one of the rarest of the M series as it was not a popular model, not being a particularly good reproduction of the real P4 shape. I had a real Rover 100 myself and do find this a bit odd but it isn’t as bad as some say.
An excellent investment.