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Sixty years of Matchbox cars
Telegraph ^
| July 18, 2013
Posted on 07/18/2013 2:24:10 PM PDT by nuconvert
This year marks the 60th anniversary of Matchbox die-cast models, which have gone from child's toys to collector's items.
I dont like to boast, but by the time I was 10 years old I owned a fleet of Ferraris, a Lamborghini Countach and a Peugeot Paris-Dakar racer. Being a child, I would smash these motors into each other and then, at the end of a hard days driving, forgo the comfort of a dehumidified garage in preference to lobbing them all in an old ice-cream tub.
These old Matchbox cars survive to this day, tucked away in my parents loft awaiting the next generation to take them for a spin. However, this year there is another reason to blow the dust from them, for it marks the 60th anniversary of Matchbox.
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TOPICS: Hobbies
KEYWORDS: cars; collectibles; matchbox; toys
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posted on
07/18/2013 2:24:10 PM PDT
by
nuconvert
To: nuconvert
I loved Matchbox Car. Me and my brothers collected them instead of Hotwheels.
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posted on
07/18/2013 2:27:24 PM PDT
by
Responsibility2nd
(NO LIBS. This Means Liberals and (L)libertarians! Same Thing. NO LIBS!!)
To: Responsibility2nd
Wish I kept my “Sizzlers.”
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posted on
07/18/2013 2:29:04 PM PDT
by
dfwgator
To: nuconvert
I had a pretty big collection of match box cars once. My mom said those are going to be worth something some day, but one by one I ended up losing or destroying them. Why oh why didn’t I listen?
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posted on
07/18/2013 2:29:13 PM PDT
by
Telepathic Intruder
(The only thing the Left has learned from the failures of socialism is not to call it that)
To: nuconvert
All of my Matchbox, Hot wheels, and GI Joe stuff was burned, blown-up, shot, smashed, or dropped from very high places. My brother had a Evel Knievel action figure that took some particularly serious abuse.
My old toys would be worth a tidy sum if I had kept them.
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posted on
07/18/2013 2:29:19 PM PDT
by
Spruce
To: Spruce
My brother had a Evel Knievel action figure that took some particularly serious abuse.You actually got the bike to work?
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posted on
07/18/2013 2:31:04 PM PDT
by
dfwgator
To: nuconvert
I still collect Hess trucks....
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posted on
07/18/2013 2:31:36 PM PDT
by
Doogle
(USAF.68-73..8th TFW Ubon Thailand..never store a threat you should have eliminated))
To: nuconvert
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posted on
07/18/2013 2:33:17 PM PDT
by
dfwgator
To: nuconvert
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posted on
07/18/2013 2:36:22 PM PDT
by
headstamp 2
(What would Scooby do?)
To: Responsibility2nd
Pretty sure I have scars from stepping on Matchbox cars left in the middle of the floor!
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posted on
07/18/2013 2:40:03 PM PDT
by
grame
(May you know more of the love of God Almighty this day!)
To: headstamp 2
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posted on
07/18/2013 2:40:37 PM PDT
by
Fresh Wind
(The last remnants of the Old Republic have been swept away.)
To: nuconvert
The cool kids had HotWheels!
To: Doogle
How much are they worth? I still have mine and the original box.
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posted on
07/18/2013 2:47:52 PM PDT
by
doodad
To: Fresh Wind
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posted on
07/18/2013 2:52:10 PM PDT
by
headstamp 2
(What would Scooby do?)
To: headstamp 2
Otherwise titled How to Handle the Corkscrew at Laguna Seca
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posted on
07/18/2013 2:56:28 PM PDT
by
skeeter
To: nuconvert
I love Matchbox cars (my favorite) as well as Hot Wheels, Corgi, Majorette, Jonny Lightning and so on. I still collect them.
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posted on
07/18/2013 2:59:50 PM PDT
by
Nowhere Man
("We have met the enemy, he is us!" - Pogo Possum - 1971)
To: dfwgator
I had Sizzlers too, they might be a tad beat up though.
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posted on
07/18/2013 3:00:15 PM PDT
by
Nowhere Man
("We have met the enemy, he is us!" - Pogo Possum - 1971)
To: Telepathic Intruder
I had a pretty big collection of match box cars once. My mom said those are going to be worth something some day, but one by one I ended up losing or destroying them. Why oh why didnt I listen?
We could each bend over and we can take turns kicking ourselves in the butt. I do have an old large Corgi model of the Jaguar from the later episodes of "The Saint." I've seen it go as high as 100 Pounds in the UK. BTW, I had the original GI Joe too so I deserve an extra kick.
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posted on
07/18/2013 3:02:24 PM PDT
by
Nowhere Man
("We have met the enemy, he is us!" - Pogo Possum - 1971)
To: Spruce
I might still have my Evil Knievel, I have to check on it.
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posted on
07/18/2013 3:02:56 PM PDT
by
Nowhere Man
("We have met the enemy, he is us!" - Pogo Possum - 1971)
To: dfwgator; Spruce
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