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For example, http://tinypic.com/r/29nt4py/4.
If you could not find another on the internet suggest it is probably rare if not unheard of anywhere in the world.
As for its monetary value, the only way to know would be to put it up for bids at auction (ebay.com)
2001 BMW 330ci/E46, 2008 BMW 335i conv/E93
Toy cars not high on Santa's list anymore (Detroit News)
But I suspect nothing will ever match the toy car heyday of the 60s and 70s. Even when I was a kid in the 80s, most kids were gravitating towards TV-movie based stuff, and video games. Video games are everything now. A lot of diecast these days sells to middle aged collector/hoarders (who usually take a bath when it comes time to sell).
Your niece needs to learn the Seinfeld turkey trick so she can stuff you into oblivion while she plays with your cars.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oIDKrmfvLHU
I saw it at our A&P supermarket. Looking online, I see they were only sold in food and drug stores--weird.
My mother said I'd sit for hours in front of that thing. Probably partly responsible for who I am today...LOL
I remember it being roughly '63 when I got it, but several things online are pointing to it being even earlier. Born in '58, hard to believe I'd remember much of anything prior to '63 when I started school, but who knows?
I know I loved that toy! Engine sound, wipers worked, turn signal indicators lit up--magical!
Closest thing to crashed looking toy cars in my day - was this
Uplander, that's very cool. Also liked the service stations, although I don't think I've ever seen one in real life that had a ramp up for rooftop parking.
You and uplander grew up in the golden age of diecast - IMO, the best years for Matchbox, and some of the most sought after models, were made between 1960-65. A lot of profitable collecting could have been done then.
Alas, I was was drawn into the world of foreign cars by Corgi- my first being a Ghia L6.4 V8:
I also had this Motorific layout as well as this Aurora HO slot car set:
I wonder why I'm a gearhead...
Mine: 1995 318ti Club Sport; 2020 C43; 2021 Sahara 4xe 1996 Speed Triple Challenge Cup Replica Wife's: 2015 X1 xDrive28i Son's: 2009 328i; 2018 330i xDrive
Need to get Sneakers over here - iirc, he's the one that would reverse the bodies on his cars and make them FWD. They stayed glued to the track.
Back in the late 80s I had a slot car set, I think the cars were a Testarossa and a Porsche 959.
I also liked the Matchbox Lincoln Continental and '64 Pontiac Grand Prix, particularly.
I remember a metal Tonka Jeep toy. I seem to remember being cut on it one time. Of course, I was told to play more carefully! LOL
My parents bought a new '67 Chevelle in March of that year. I remember calling my grandfather across town and ribbing him, as for once we had a newer car than he did. Two months later he bought a new Impala Sport Coupe, much nicer than our low-line, four-door Chevelle. He called me back to rib me! He also bought me the promo '67 Camaro Indy Pace Car, which didn't survive my early-teen model car purge, sadly.
Mine: 1995 318ti Club Sport; 2020 C43; 2021 Sahara 4xe 1996 Speed Triple Challenge Cup Replica Wife's: 2015 X1 xDrive28i Son's: 2009 328i; 2018 330i xDrive
Some of the big value Matchbox are from the late 50s through about 1965, much more variation. It's models from that era that often get into the several hundred dollar range, and sometimes more.
Corgi:
http://billstudepage.homestead.com/files/huscam.jpg
Apparently UPI bought Wagonaires to film from the back of; hence the Corgi model.
http://i706.photobucket.com/albums/ww63/dstnkmp/1963%20Wagonaire%20Slideshow%20I- - I/cameras.jpg
The cars in the link are '63's; the Matchbox and Corgi Wagonaires are '64's or '65's.
Corgi and Dinky made other Studebakers too, probably because they were exported to the UK, and the styling was modern.
Ah, the golden age of slot cars!! I'll have to find them and post some photos
I also have the gold supercharged Avanti Franklin Mint car, but I wish I had the turquoise one they released later.
A little off the subject, but I remember seeing a Franklin Mint light green '61 Ford Country Squire, with a picnic basket and brighly colored beach ball in the back, at a store near here that used to sell them. Very neat.
I'm not familiar with that 'Bullet Nose' model; looks very nice. My brother-in-law has a real nice yellow '49 Champion Convert, real car, that won its class at our regional show near here a few months back.
Neat pics - you can view the gallery in real life if you head over to Switzerland.
Fine. It's new to me.
:-)
Miniatur Wunderland Hamburg
There's a huge model railroad layout at the Swiss Transport Museum in Luzern that I have visited - here's something I zoomed in on, an HO scale crash involving a MB W111 coupe (coupe version of my car):
Oh, today I stopped at a Wally World (bought something Made in USA there, shocking), and noticed the entire Matchbox stock was depleted, not a single car on the pegs. Hot Wheels was sparse, too. Toy cars might still be selling.
Here's a finely detailed 1:87 fintail I bought in Germany:
That green color does scream "1971" to me.
:-)
Revell has a couple fintail slot cars in that scale:
Tonka used to make pretty nice Jeep pickup and Wagoneer toys. I had a Tonka car carrier that held about five of these:
Matchbox had a lovely casting of a Jeep pickup, introduced late 1964 I think:
I always liked the old Jeep and Willy's FC pick-ups. very different looking - both of them for their time. When I was a kid you'd frequently see either of these with a snow plow at a gas station or mall. (of course that Matchbox is a newer version which I didn't like as much as the older ones - but I wonder if it's more modern looks improved sales?)
I remember that that era of Jeep pickup was called 'Gladiator'. I like them because they're different. Concerning the Jeep FC pickup--I remember a school bus yellow one that could drive on railroad tracks, always parked outside our Erie Lackawanna train station in little Greenville, PA. Also, the former Jeep dealer in our town had dementia and lived in the same assisted-living place my mother did. I mentioned to him in passing that I liked the forward-control models and right away, he said, "FC, yes" and it was like that rang a bell for him.
Slick Fisher-Price station wagon:
Cute. Before my time, but I can see the charm. Some F-P toys have collectible value, especially if in the original box.
Speaking of boxes, I want this - but wouldn't pay nearly that much for it.
I recently got this Matchbox W111 220SE (fintail coupe) in a lucky buy it now auction:
I have a couple of these already, but none this nice or in as good a box, or in this dark color (others are more red). The scale of this is quite small, I would estimate around 1:70 or so. With that color and silver wheels, was probably produced in 1963.