Eric Macleod Posted December 4, 2015 Share Posted December 4, 2015 Anybody else interested in Matchbox cars? I am working on getting the entire set 1-75 from the first edition 1969 catalog together. Here is the start. Inside every box is an additional MIB car.Not the greatest photos but there is a lot for the camera to focus on here. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
High octane Posted December 4, 2015 Share Posted December 4, 2015 Nice collection Eric, but I thought that Matchbox cars came out earlier then 1969, or am I mistaken? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dave Van Posted December 4, 2015 Share Posted December 4, 2015 I had many of those.......but when Hot Wheels came along....we destroyed most of the Matchbox. I was a Hot Wheels test kid......spent a day 'playing' with then unknown Hot Wheels and was paid with a bunch of cars and track before they were in stores....so I was lured away from the MBX....too bad...wish I had them now!!! Nice collection! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chunkypeanutbutter Posted December 4, 2015 Share Posted December 4, 2015 I've got quite a few, about $300 worth. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Greg Myers Posted December 4, 2015 Share Posted December 4, 2015 (edited) I know living in England '57-'61 we had a bunch. But just the same, nice start. Edited December 4, 2015 by Greg Myers Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BubbaJoe Posted December 4, 2015 Share Posted December 4, 2015 I'm a huge fan of lesney matchbox. I have a fair collection i also collect tootsietoy, corgi, imply, london and a few other manufactures. matchbox first started in 1953 as an offshoot of a bristish die cast company. their first issue was the Queens coronation coach . one of the original founders ,i think his name was jack odel made a small version of their companies road roller for his daughter to bring to school. she could only bring a toy to school if it could fit into a matchbox. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Greg Myers Posted December 4, 2015 Share Posted December 4, 2015 and the rest is history Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
62pyro Posted December 5, 2015 Share Posted December 5, 2015 Nice collection.I had a good share of those growing up.Wish I still did. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AzTom Posted December 5, 2015 Share Posted December 5, 2015 Nice collection.I have a bunch of them also. Never thought about getting the whole series but it's a good idea. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Greg Myers Posted December 5, 2015 Share Posted December 5, 2015 I remember when my son was little, he had a bunch of Transformers. I was talking to him about them and discovered he was just shy of having them all, about 28 or 29. I suggest we visit the toy store to see if we could finish off his "collection". Upon arriving,to my surprise, the second "Set" was just released. Nope, wasn't going to get sucked into that one, sorry Brad. He went on to collect "baseball cards. For awhile. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Junkman Posted December 6, 2015 Share Posted December 6, 2015 (edited) I still have pretty much all of the Matchboxes I had as a kid, as well as my Corgies and Dinkies. They are far from mint, though.Restored a few Corgies and gave them to my daughters to play with. Once they are done, I'll restore them again and give them to potential grandchildren to play with.That'll make it three generations playing with the same toys. So much for consume/obey/conform. Edited December 6, 2015 by Junkman Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eric Macleod Posted December 11, 2015 Author Share Posted December 11, 2015 I have two collections, one for display and another for my girls to play with. One day they can divide up the display cars and decide what they want to do with them. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Phirewriter Posted December 31, 2015 Share Posted December 31, 2015 (edited) Nice collection!! I really enjoy seeing cool collections like this. I too have most of the Matchbox cars I grew up with. Both 1 - 75 series, some Super fast and quite a few Y series ( Models of Yesteryear) My father was a causal Matchbox collector and thanks to him I now have quite a few MIB cars across the range, plus catalogs and a number of store displays. I also collect Superking and Speedkings plus various Corgis and have a sizable collection of pre - 73 Hot Wheels. Edited December 31, 2015 by Phirewriter Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
junkyardjeff Posted January 3, 2016 Share Posted January 3, 2016 The ones that survived me playing with them are not even close to being in mint condition and starting to restore them and add more detail,once I got a computer and found ebay I started buying real nice ones and started buying the older gray wheels that I never had. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eric Macleod Posted January 4, 2016 Author Share Posted January 4, 2016 It is indeed another rabbit hole in terms of collecting. My goal today is to just get all 75 mint with boxes. That is proving neither cheap nor easy. I too have restored and added details to a couple of mine. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
junkyardjeff Posted January 5, 2016 Share Posted January 5, 2016 Over the last few years I have been getting the kingsized versions since I never got any when I was a kid, for unknown reasons I got some Corgi and Dinky cars for my birthday and christmas but never got any of the larger matchboxes. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
peteski Posted January 5, 2016 Share Posted January 5, 2016 When I was growing up in Poland in the 70s we mostly had Matchbox models (and of course the various models from the Eastern Bloc countries). I did encounter few Hot Wheels cars but they always looked odd to me. Now as an adult I can clearly see that most (but not all) Matchbox cars of that era were nicely-proportioned scale models of real vehicles, where Hot Wheels were more of a whimsical fantasy automobiles rather than scale models of the real vehicles.When I emigrated from Poland I sold all my diecast cars. But I have since then rebuilt some of my collection and even added models which attracted me as an adult. I like to mention that Tomy diecast cars also depict rather well-proportioned scale replicas of real vehicles. I also have several Tomy models in my collection. I addition, I have several Matchbox Super Kings which are mostly diecast models of larger trucks which are close in scale to the standard Matchbox passenger vehicles. Most of those are fantasy vehicles (they look very futuristic), but there are few (like the gasoline tankers) which look like real trucks. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eric Macleod Posted January 5, 2016 Author Share Posted January 5, 2016 Perezky you evil man. I just looked up Tomy cars. You are correct. Those are very nicely done and would look great as an addition to my Matchbox collection. More to buy I guess! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
peteski Posted January 12, 2016 Share Posted January 12, 2016 Perezky you evil man. I just looked up Tomy cars. You are correct. Those are very nicely done and would look great as an addition to my Matchbox collection. More to buy I guess! LOL! They are nice! Some not as well proportioned as original Matchbox ones, but they have nice paint jobs and most have operating features. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AzTom Posted February 17, 2016 Share Posted February 17, 2016 It's never ending,lol Tomy sold a line of Tomica and Tomy Pocket Cars. Now the Johnny Lightning cars are in the Tomy brand also. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Art Anderson Posted March 10, 2016 Share Posted March 10, 2016 It's never ending,lol Tomy sold a line of Tomica and Tomy Pocket Cars. Now the Johnny Lightning cars are in the Tomy brand also. Not any more! Tom Lowe, owner of Round2 (and founder of the former Playing Mantis, maker of Johnny Lightning toy cars from 1992-2004) bought back the entire line of Johnny Lightning 1/64 scale diecast tooling from TOMY in early fall, there are now JL cars back in stores! (JL cars were also produced by RC-2/Learning Curve for several years before they were bought out by TOMY as well)Art Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Greg Myers Posted March 10, 2016 Share Posted March 10, 2016 The Tomy cars really had some nice detail. I got a bunch back in the day when I was in the navy in Japan, early '70's. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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