1965 Reverse Color BP Dodge Wrecker

[TowForce]

1965 Reverse Color BP Dodge Wrecker

 

Errors created during the production of something are always highly coveted by collectors. They don't necessarily even need to be manufacturing errors, per se. Fleer released a Cal Ripken card in 1989 that clearly showed a derogatory "F" word on the bottom of the bat Ripken held, while a Topps Star Wars trading card from 1977 shows a morphed bodily appendage on C-3PO. However these "errors" made through quality control and got printed tends to drive the value of an otherwise mundane item to incredible heights. The same can be said for the reversed color found on Matchbox's "error" BP Dodge Wrecker.

 

In 1965, Matchbox dropped the Wrecker (series 13) with a yellow front cab and a green bed. But then some started popping up with the colors reversed (green cab, yellow bed). No one seems to know how many exist, if they're actual factory errors, or if they were instead test versions or prototypes that somehow managed to get into the production stream by accident.

 

An MIB (Mint In Box) version sold in 2005 for $9,500. Another one sold in 2013 via eBay for $8,499. Meanwhile, the Detroit Free Press put the value of this BP-branded tow truck at $5,911 in 2018.

 

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[thtdon]

I have one of these.  But I do not remember which paint scheme I have.  I have all my Matchbox cars from I was a kid.  Bear in mind, my Matchbox cars are not museum quality.  I played with them to death!

[mooresbp]

We have one too, not mint in box, with correct paint,