Sixty years of Matchbox cars

Telegraph ^ | July 18, 2013

[nuconvert]

This year marks the 60th anniversary of Matchbox die-cast models, which have gone from child's toys to collector's items.

I don’t 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 day’s 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.

[Responsibility2nd]

I loved Matchbox Car. Me and my brothers collected them instead of Hotwheels.

[dfwgator]

Wish I kept my “Sizzlers.”

[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 didn’t I listen?

[Spruce]

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.

[dfwgator]

My brother had a Evel Knievel action figure that took some particularly serious abuse.

You actually got the bike to work?

[Doogle]

I still collect Hess trucks....

[dfwgator]

[headstamp 2]

Like the big ones too.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/motoring/picturegalleries/10188608/17-million-supercar-sale.html

[grame]

Pretty sure I have scars from stepping on Matchbox cars left in the middle of the floor!

[Fresh Wind]

Uhhhh, me want...

[VanDeKoik]

The cool kids had HotWheels!

[doodad]

How much are they worth? I still have mine and the original box.

[headstamp 2]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ha2ZqP-Hnvc

Full screen and crank up the speakers for 11 minutes of heaven.!

[skeeter]

Otherwise titled How to Handle the Corkscrew at Laguna Seca

[Nowhere Man]

I love Matchbox cars (my favorite) as well as Hot Wheels, Corgi, Majorette, Jonny Lightning and so on. I still collect them.

[Nowhere Man]

I had Sizzlers too, they might be a tad beat up though.

[Nowhere Man]

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?

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.

[Nowhere Man]

I might still have my Evil Knievel, I have to check on it.

[Yardstick]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DQKXgHwYAJM