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I guess I should update my carspace sometime.
I loved the Matchbox 928...apparently the 928 is a hard car to model with its odd proportions, so most toys of it didn't look right. But the Matchbox one looked ok, I still have mine, it's blue. I also have that Audi, that was one of the last real made in England Matchbox. Was the Pepsi truck a model A Ford? I think I had that too, but I don't recall seeing it lately, so it probably didn't make it.
I guess I should dig out the modern cars sometime.
A few years ago I picked up a couple books at Wilkinson's on Matchbox cars. They're pretty neat with one book covering every matchbox from 1969 to 1982, the other 1982 to 1992. They have a color photo of every Matchbox, plus pricing on them.
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I have a similar book to those, for 1947-1969, the ones I primarily like.
Rocky
http://www.allamericantoyco.com/
One is a Capt Morgan Rum Model A van, the other a London double decker, and my sister dug up a red Dusenburg at the beach once.
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I'm sure everybody remembers the tough steel Tonka trucks. I had a LOT of these as a kid. My favorite one was of a car carrier that was loaded with a set of four 1963 Brooks Stevens-designed Jeep pickup trucks and station wagons. This past Decemer I went to Toys-R-Us to buy a Tonka truck for my little nephew for Xmas and discoverd they are now mostly plastic and manufactired in China! Ugh!
The early Yesteryears are actually pretty nice, exceptional detailing given the technology and scale of production. I have a couple examples of a steam/traction engine that is like a little jewel.
I don't have any pressed steel vehicles...I do have a Hubley Ford phone truck, but I think Hubleys are a diecast pot metal. I once had a couple old Structo trucks with wide whitewall tires, but they were sold some time ago.
Does anybody recall Nylint toys?
There were quite a few metal toy truck makers back in the day that are gone now. Some of them made very nice - or at least charming - trucks.
Here's my Hubley phone truck ($10 at an estate sale - I couldn't resist) and another promotional car I forgot about - it's a ca. 1948 International pickup.
I'm probably going to take it easy and just kick around my place today...maybe I'll take some toy car pics.
Rocky
I preferred Nylint trucks when I was a kid, had a better variety of type of trucks (Fire, Rescue, Construction, Big Rigs).
Odie
Odie's Carspace
Transformers 2007
Odie
Odie's Carspace
These old slot cars are expensive
The only model/toy of a W210 E55 I have found...and I don't like model kits
Hope the pics are not too big.
2016 Audi A7 3.0T S Line, 2021 Subaru WRX
2016 Audi A7 3.0T S Line, 2021 Subaru WRX
So, all told there are some 1500 or so of them in storage bins up in the crawl space. Some day Jr. is gonna get one heck of a Christmas present...
I need to get some pics of those 70s-80s Matchbox maybe today
If I could I'd be buying up all the newest and coolest stuff out there, but it would cost me a ton of money.
I actually like AutoArt cars but there's about $100 each around here.
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Here are some pics I took this evening, of some cars I had as a kid. Many are showing their age, as they have been stored in a big plastic tub. I picked out some more interesting cars.
Here are some oddities - some Matchbox trains, a cool Siku Unimog and trailer, and a Matchbox SuperKings Jag + trailer
Various Hot Wheels, Majorette, Siku. The '32 Ford is an Ertl, and it was on the cake at my 8th birthday
Tomy 'Pocket Cars' (save for the General Lee)
Matchbox, including the 928 and Audi you mentioned. The black Packard in the back is a HotWheels - it and the Citroen beside it were used in WWII scenes I would make out of Lego as a kid
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man, you guys are gonna force me to go take pics of my collection.
I'm into the 1:18 models mostly. I haven't bought one in quite some time since they are currently restricted to one showcase, but maybe I should install some shelves in the garage or pool room. hmmmm...
anyway, my first was a '37 Jag SS100 (just like this one). Wish I knew when it was produced, but I know I got it when I was quite young. I'm thinking maybe 7? I dunno. Could be later, I suppose. But it grew from there. I picked up most in my young teenage years and then it tapered off. The latest I have is a 350Z (in burnt orange ... but i think that one is 1:24) and a new Mini (in british racing green, of course). My wife has tried to support the habit and has given me a couple over the years, but nothing I would have picked up myself (a late model lambo, for instance).
I'd say I probably have 40-50 of the 1:18 cars, mostly bburago. Surfing around for info, I found this site. I'll have to try to use a translator on that if I have the time. And I might have 20-30 smaller cars. I'm pretty sure I have something from every decade.
I always want models of specific cars I own, but they rarely exist. For instance, I had a 350z, but in dark silver with orange interior. I had to settle for a model with the orange exterior. I've always been searching for one of my Alfa, but the only one I've ever seen is small (1:48 maybe?) and in red ... i want black.
Anyone here modify their diecast models? You see folks at carshows with them. They paint them to match their real-life cars. I just don't have that kind of talent.
'11 GMC Sierra 1500; '08 Charger R/T Daytona; '67 Coronet R/T; '13 Fiat 500c; '20 S90 T6; '22 MB Sprinter 2500 4x4 diesel; '97 Suzuki R Wagon; '96 Opel Astra; '08 Maser QP; '11 Mini Cooper S
I also had quite a few 1:24 Bburago - all of those also ruined via hard play. I especially remember a Ferrari GTO, 300SL, 190E, Bugatti, Porsche 959, and several others.
Now that I look back, I should thank my parents for being so indulgent in my car fixation. Maybe it was because I usually didn't go for whatever was popular from TV.
In any case, kind of interesting that I never played with these. They immediately went on display. well... ok, i played a little. I never ran them across the floor or anything, but i know i spent alot of time opening/closing the hood straps, turning the steering wheel back/forth, etc. I was just fascinated with the details. But I guess I was always a weird kid.
'11 GMC Sierra 1500; '08 Charger R/T Daytona; '67 Coronet R/T; '13 Fiat 500c; '20 S90 T6; '22 MB Sprinter 2500 4x4 diesel; '97 Suzuki R Wagon; '96 Opel Astra; '08 Maser QP; '11 Mini Cooper S
And speaking of bburagos I used to have a ton of them (1:24 scale) when we lived in Italy in the late 80s but I had to give some up when we were moving over here. Then in my teen years I destroyed some of them playing demo derby, and gave some others away, too bad.
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edit: just saw boomcheck's response. Mine doesn't have an H on it. boomcheck, does yours have the neon inside the rim? when i was shopping, there seemed to be some that did and some that didn't. Ours does, but I've never even turned it on because we figure it would bother my son while trying to sleep.
'11 GMC Sierra 1500; '08 Charger R/T Daytona; '67 Coronet R/T; '13 Fiat 500c; '20 S90 T6; '22 MB Sprinter 2500 4x4 diesel; '97 Suzuki R Wagon; '96 Opel Astra; '08 Maser QP; '11 Mini Cooper S
I loved the details of those cars, the steering and the removeable wheels with the detachable hubs especially. Also the fact that they had gauges, and all the engine details. I could take them apart and put them back together, or drop parts from one car into another. Kind of like a kid taking apart a clock...it means it will never be right again LOL.
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I can't remember what we paid for it from ebay. Maybe $15?
'11 GMC Sierra 1500; '08 Charger R/T Daytona; '67 Coronet R/T; '13 Fiat 500c; '20 S90 T6; '22 MB Sprinter 2500 4x4 diesel; '97 Suzuki R Wagon; '96 Opel Astra; '08 Maser QP; '11 Mini Cooper S
'11 GMC Sierra 1500; '08 Charger R/T Daytona; '67 Coronet R/T; '13 Fiat 500c; '20 S90 T6; '22 MB Sprinter 2500 4x4 diesel; '97 Suzuki R Wagon; '96 Opel Astra; '08 Maser QP; '11 Mini Cooper S
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Odie
Odie's Carspace
The white ambulance is a Pocket Cars/Tomy Toyota, the old fire truck is Hot Wheels, the truck with the blue crane thing is a Majorette, the boom truck, forklift (which has a three spoke steering wheel, I always thought it as a Mercedes star) and 4x4 van are Matchbox - the van being one of the last models introduced before Lesney disappeared. An oddball is the Firebird, which was in a line called "Lock Ups"...you'd place a cheap plastic key in the base, and could lock and unlock the doors. The key is long gone. And the real oddity here has to be the 1:43 Bburago Saab 900 rally car. The doors read "Bjorn Cederberg" and "Stig Blomqvist", who were actual Saab drivers ca. 1980.
http://www.swetrain.nu/bilar/
Paper model cars? Might be a good way to kill some time.
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When I had a toy car that had a broken axle or some other unrepairable defect (once I broke the rivets to try a repair, it would never go back together correctly), it would usually fall victim to a hammer or the foot operated part of an old treadle sweing machine to simulate a crash. Then my little brother noticed me doing this, and ruined some of my good cars! I still remember the Matchbox RR Shadow and Majorette Saab EMS he crushed. As those toys were out of production when I had them, I was really mad.
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2016 Audi A7 3.0T S Line, 2021 Subaru WRX
It was an odd car, one of their earlier models. The scale was more like 1:22, it just seemed smaller than my other cars.
White BMW 6 series (that you put together)
Silver Rolls Royce Silver Shadow
Black GTi (that I still have
Blue Rover Metro
Porsche 944
Black Ford Mustang Police car (same as on the mystery car pix thread right now)
Yellow Land Rover Range Rover 3 door with the flip up tailgate
Ferrari Boxer
I still have some left over including a white Porsche 911.
About 4 years ago when I was with my ex, she was nuts about Vipers, and we pretty much bought up any Viper model we could find.
She had a nice collection of Viper models of all scales too. Too bad she took it with her.
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