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Sixty years of Matchbox cars
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| July 18, 2013
Posted on 07/18/2013 2:24:10 PM PDT by nuconvert
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To: nuconvert
Always think it’s cool when my elementary school aged Son and Daughter play with some of my old matchbox cars. My Son however has a giant collection - we got in the habit of always buying 2-3 him cars whenever we went to the store. And no surprise, he’s a car nut like I am.
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posted on
07/18/2013 3:15:14 PM PDT
by
Made In The USA
(I'm not yelling, just... just talking enthusiastically..)
To: nuconvert
I remember when Mattel had a big issue with employees stealing Hotwheels and pissed them off istituting all sorts of anti-theft measures.
To: Spruce
All of my Matchbox, Hot wheels, and GI Joe stuff was burned, blown-up, shot, smashed, or dropped from very high places. Yep. I suspect the originator of the "Chevy Impala with JATO" urban legend got the idea from a favorite pursuit of mine - taping bottle rockets to Matchbox and Hot Wheels cars.
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posted on
07/18/2013 3:20:26 PM PDT
by
Charles Martel
(Endeavor to persevere...)
To: doodad
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posted on
07/18/2013 3:28:22 PM PDT
by
Doogle
(USAF.68-73..8th TFW Ubon Thailand..never store a threat you should have eliminated))
To: nuconvert
I have a bunch in near mint condition.
Still have the original boxes for most.
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posted on
07/18/2013 3:31:59 PM PDT
by
Verbosus
(/* No Comment */)
To: Nowhere Man
Lots and lots of Hot Wheels, Matchbox, and G.I. Joe, and Big Jim. But the most valuable I’ve had was the jawa with vinyl cape. Extra large kick in the rear for me, please.
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posted on
07/18/2013 3:41:14 PM PDT
by
al_c
(http://www.blowoutcongress.com)
To: nuconvert
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posted on
07/18/2013 3:42:28 PM PDT
by
P.O.E.
(Pray for America)
To: nuconvert
explains where the band, Matchbox 20, got it’s name??
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posted on
07/18/2013 3:48:03 PM PDT
by
llevrok
(The American Dream is but a catnap today.)
To: dfwgator
Slots had THEIR time too ... in the 60’s.
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posted on
07/18/2013 3:48:11 PM PDT
by
knarf
(I say things that are true ... I have no proof, but they're true.)
To: nuconvert
I still have about 40 of my old Hot Wheels from 1967-69. Also have some track. Some of them can be quite valuable.
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posted on
07/18/2013 4:08:38 PM PDT
by
manic4organic
(It was nice knowing you, America.)
To: Telepathic Intruder
Any household with a couple of boys in it during those years is usually good for as many as a dozen of those suckers in the yard when metal detecting. If I kept all of them (more often than not thrashed) I found I’d probably have a couple of 5 gallon buckets of them...
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posted on
07/18/2013 4:18:26 PM PDT
by
Axenolith
(Government blows, and that which governs least, blows least...)
To: grame
Actually surprised we didn’t scatter legos on the Ho Chi Minh trail in Vietnam, guess there must be something in the Geneva Convention about that... lol
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posted on
07/18/2013 4:20:02 PM PDT
by
Axenolith
(Government blows, and that which governs least, blows least...)
To: nuconvert
My sister’s Barbies didn’t fare well against her misogynist brothers with gasoline, firecrackers and .22 shorts.
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posted on
07/18/2013 5:16:02 PM PDT
by
SnuffaBolshevik
(In a tornado, even turkeys can fly.)
To: dfwgator
Wish I kept my Sizzlers.Just go buy a Tesla model 'S'. It's the same thing.
To: Disambiguator
If I saved my baseball cards and matchboxes I’d be wealthy now.
But the BB cards sure sounded cool on the spokes.
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posted on
07/18/2013 5:33:20 PM PDT
by
bicyclerepair
(Inbred, pedophile-worshipping, misogynists (mozlums) offend me.)
To: al_c
Lots and lots of Hot Wheels, Matchbox, and G.I. Joe, and Big Jim. But the most valuable Ive had was the jawa with vinyl cape. Extra large kick in the rear for me, please.
I also had the vinyl cape jawa, my dog got him. B-( I think you can give me a kick back after I kick you. B-) B-P
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posted on
07/18/2013 6:05:10 PM PDT
by
Nowhere Man
("We have met the enemy, he is us!" - Pogo Possum - 1971)
To: Axenolith
Surprisingly, my kids weren’t big into Legos but they can inflict a bunch of pain too, regardless of nationality! ;-)
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posted on
07/18/2013 6:50:25 PM PDT
by
grame
(May you know more of the love of God Almighty this day!)
To: nuconvert
I gave away a whole box full of Matchbox and other toy vehicles to a friend’s grandson years ago. Kind of wish I’d kept them. I still have a box full of old HO scale slot cars in the attic though - wonder if they are worth anything? I even have some of the old Aurora vibrator slot cars that moved by a plate vibrated by a rod inside a coil which turned the back axle - very slowly and noisily I might add.
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posted on
07/18/2013 6:57:04 PM PDT
by
Some Fat Guy in L.A.
(Still bitterly clinging to rational thought despite it's unfashionability)
To: Some Fat Guy in L.A.
Pops has managed to keep NINE moving boxes of 40’s and 50’s Lionel train stuff. The locomotive is one of the rare ones.
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posted on
07/18/2013 10:19:56 PM PDT
by
Axenolith
(Government blows, and that which governs least, blows least...)
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