Yesterday, I was visiting one of the cheap secondhand stores near the central station, rummaging through a basket of toy vehicles, I came across a Matchbox Articulated Trailer. The base is metal the container is plastic.

Matchbox only offered the Articulated Trailer with a tractor. I couldn’t find the tractor in the basket to hitch the trailer to and one of the rear doors was missing but it was cheap (1 lari : 37¢) and it is Matchbox, so I got it.

Advertising the World Cup in France dates the trailer to 1998. The base is marked Matchbox Int’l Ltd, a name which was terminated by Mattel, who took over Matchbox in 1997. I don’t have a truck for the trailer, searching the internet reveals the original truck would have been a DAF Spacecab .

The Articulated Trailer has a ball-and-post connector replacing the original T-tab of earlier models. These trailers feature a 1981 Copyright. The only truck I have to pull it is the Yatming Kenworth Cab from my Car Transporter. The scale of the two is mismatched.

The Torque Titan in the current Matchbox line might be a better fit, I think my chances of finding a DAF Spacecab here are slim.

Torque Titan

I have other trailers but not for super rigs.

December 2017 Update… I found a tractor cab for one lari, it is not Matchbox and all the base indicates is that it was made in China. I don’t know what brand of truck it is supposed to be but it has a similar profile to the DAF Spacecab. The wheels are different but they seem a reasonable match.

Update: November 2018 In a cheap secondhand store by the central station, I found a Matchbox Ford Cargo cab for the princely sum of 2 lari, which seems a perfect fit for the trailer. What do you think?