Thanks Nigel and Peter.
Nigel, what colour was the 98 Brookes car which sneaked out that once? Maybe there was a silver diecast after all!
I can vouch for the fact there were 92 VLR and 93 Dynamics cars from Racing Replicas as I have them both. Quality of the earlier cars seems shockingly poor to what we expect as a minimum these days but it's good to have them anyway!
Thanks for the tip on the new Minichamps issue - will add to the list...