BOX FACTS

SERIES :	Regular Wheels	FIRST YEAR OF PRODUCTION :	February 1961
BOX TYPES :	C, D	SIZES AVAILABLE :	3
TOTAL VARIATIONS :	5	NUMBER OF MAJOR VARIATIONS :	4

GENERAL INFO

Appearing at the very beginning of the short C box era, 57B Impala was packaged in a C type box showing the model in red, with yellow wheels and no background or anything else around it. A second box soon came up, showing the model to the left of the picture, going over the top of the scroll, and it also have a few lines underneath it.

$C:\Users\Patrice\Documents\Pictures\Images\Matchbox Images\Matchbox\VintageLesneyOnTheWeb\NewVintageLesneyOnline2006\images\57B-CBoxNoLines.JPG$ $C:\Users\Patrice\Documents\Pictures\Images\Matchbox Images\Matchbox\VintageLesneyOnTheWeb\NewVintageLesneyOnline2006\images\57B-CBoxLines.JPG$

The model also came in D1 and D2 boxes, showing the two-tone model with appears to be grey wheels.

All boxes are size 3.

RARITY

C boxes are the less common of all boxes for this model.

VARIATION LIST

RW57B - CHEVROLET IMPALA
Front/Back	#	Type/Sub-type	Size	Top/Bottom	End Flap	Variation #
$C:\Users\Patrice\Documents\Pictures\Images\Matchbox Images\Matchbox\VintageLesneyOnTheWeb\NewVintageLesneyOnline2006\images\57B-CBoxNoLines.JPG$ (Smaller red model, yellow wheels, no lines underneath, right number closer to model)	1	C	3	Blue / Black		RW-57B-C-1a
$C:\Users\Patrice\Documents\Pictures\Images\Matchbox Images\Matchbox\VintageLesneyOnTheWeb\NewVintageLesneyOnline2006\images\57B-CBoxLines.JPG$ (Larger red model to left of picture, yellow wheels, with lines underneath, right number away from model)	2	C				RW-57B-C-2a
(Numbers without serifs)	3	D1				RW-57B-D1-1a
$C:\Users\Patrice\Documents\Pictures\Images\Matchbox Images\Matchbox\VintageLesneyOnTheWeb\NewVintageLesneyOnline2006\images\57B-DBox.jpg$ (Large numbers with serifs)	4	D2				RW-57B-D2-2a
	5	D2		Blue/Blue		RW-57B-D2-2b