Chevrolet Taxi Cab (480)


$76.99

In 1965, Corgi produced an update of the tooling for 1960’s Chevrolet Impala Taxi (Corgi 221) by introducing a Chevrolet Police Patrol Car (Corgi 481) and the brightly coloured Chevrolet Taxi Cab (Corgi 480).The police car was by far the bigger seller, with well over 500,000 produced, making Corgi 480 something of a rarity – especially when accompanied by its original box.

Based on American cars, each model included a driver figure in the left-hand seat. More notably, each had an unusual horizontally split die-cast body – a casting that allowed the top and bottom of the models to be painted separately, without the need for masking.This meant less wastage at the factory due to paint errors and allowed Corgi to create the taxi’s striking red and yellow scheme.

Size: 
Length: 106mm Width: 42mm Height: 35mm
Length: 4 1/8in Width: 1 11/16in Height: 1 3/8in

Scale: 1:50

All our Corgi Toys replicas are authentic and faithful to the originals and come with their own numbered certificate of authenticity.

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Customer Reviews

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Albert Girmus
Chevy Taxi Cab

Love it! It's beautiful!

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Mark Dowler
Excellent!

Great mode!

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Dan Friedman
Taxi!!!

Growing up in Manhattan, this lovely and whimsical yellow taxi is a delight to have in my collection. Keep new stuff and new old stuff coming!

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Michael

Excellent Retro Cab!!!

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Philip Mccormick
Chevrolet taxi cab

Excellent model, nice detail. Similar to the one I had as a young child. Keep producing nice models like this one.

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