Saturday, June 11, 2016

Tomica Limited Vintage NEO LV-N24b Hino TC343 Ladder Equipped Fire Engine Guest Starring LV-N24a

omica Limited Vintage NEO LV-N24b Hino TC343 Ladder Equipped Fire Engine

Old photos, but since I don't have any posts on ladder trucks yet, it would be a waste not to put these pictures up.  My apologies for lower than already generally lower than average photos.  :(


omica Limited Vintage NEO LV-N24b Hino TC343 Ladder truck


tlv ladder truck fire engine

omica Limited Vintage   Hino fire engine ladder

omica Limited Vintage NEO LV-N24b Hino TC343 fire ladder truck

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tomica hino fire engine ladder truck

omica Limited Vintage NEO LV-N24b Hino TC343 Ladder truck

omica Limited Vintage NEO LV-N24b Hino ladder

omica Limited Vintage NEO LV-N24b Hino TC343 Ladder Equipped Fire Engine

omica Limited Vintage NEO fire engine hino

There are two types of Hino Ladder Trucks, and the most notable difference between the two trucks to me are the red lights.  LV-N24b, which is the more commonly available model I've seen(still generally $100 or more) has the single beacon rotating style lights on the roof, and the LV-N24a(rare/more $$$) has midget light bars.  I preferred the LV-N24a, so as soon as it came up for cheap on Japan Booster eBay store(still $139!), I jumped on it.  I sold the LV-N24b seen in this post for $99.95.

omica Limited Vintage LV-N24a Hino TC343 Ladder truck

Few more comparison shots of LV-N24a/b.

tomica limited vintage neo lv-n24a lv-n24b hino fire ladder truck 5 year anniversary

lv-n24a lv-n24b tomica ladder

tomica limited vintage neo lv-n24a ladder fire truck

LV-N24a on the right, you will notice that on the side of the ladder, it's missing the hook things.  It was damaged in transit.  Truck was more than properly packaged, and it was the only damaged item I've ever received from Japan Booster(and I've bought a lot).  Postal service must've beat the hell out of it.

tomica limited vintage ladder fire truck engine

I couldn't recommend this store enough.  Japan Booster immediately brought up that I probably wanted replacement rather than refund because of how rare LV-N24a was(CORRECT!).   

However, instead of going back to Japan, damaged ladder truck would end up getting ship to Utah.  Long story short, John from Lamley Blog(another stand up guy in the industry) wanted the damaged one, so he ended up working out the details with Japan Booster.  I got my replacement in perfect condition, everybody was happy.  More comparisons:

tomica limited vintage neo hino ladder fire truck

tomica limited vintage hino ladder truck idemitsu tank lorry

omica Limited Vintage NEO   Hino TC343 Ladder   Fire isuzu bus

LV-N24b Hino  Ladder fire truck lv-n09f isuzu bu04 nagoya

  Hino TC343 fire

omica Limited Vintage NEO LV-N24b Hino TC343 Ladder truck fire engine

lv-n18c suzuki alto white

I kinda want the LV-N24b again.  lol

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