Matchbox cars

[supersuds]

This is "automobile related" so I guess Super is the correct forum.

Anybody who collected Matchbox cars back in the Sixties should enjoy these vintage newsreels from 1962 and 1965 showing how they were made. I particularly like the paint booth. Notice the tool and die makers wear white lab coats and ties!

I still have most of mine, but they're not exactly pristine. They cost 55¢ at Woolworth's, which was a problem when your allowance was exactly 50¢ a week....

 

[cornutt]

Very cool! My brother and I had a moderately large collection (for 10-year-olds) of Matchbox, Hot Wheels, and Johnny Lightning cars. The more fanciful Hot Wheels and JL cars were fun, but my favorites were the cars that were models of real race cars; it was from them that I first learned about things like the Lotus 56 turbine Indycar, and the Chapparral sports cars.

 

[cfz2882]

made in england

I have a few vintage "made in England" matchbox cars -a fave I had as a child was a radar truck that had a radar dish that turned when the truck's wheels turned.

 

[petek]

I had a few Matchbox as well as some Dinky and Corgi. Thankfully my mom saved some of them as well as some of my old train set engines when I started giving the stuff away when I thought I was too old for all that stuff. They're getting collictibe now and some go for good bucks in good condition and with the box.. I don't have any of the boxes and most look used. I was pre-Hot Wheels