1960's Matchbox - HUGE COLLECTION FOUND - Did They SURVIVE? PART 1 of 5
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- Опубліковано 3 чер 2024
- Can MATCHBOX Model Car and Trucks and their fragile PAPER BOXES Survive for over 50 years no matter how or where they are stored? Well you probably already guessed that most times the answers is NO. But we collectors are constantly on the hunt for the survivors!
Some Gross and Ugly and Some Beautiful !!! What will this collection hold?
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I cannot believe how rough you are with these 50+ year old collectibles.
@@lorrainemike Does he needs gloves or what? Please explain to a guy just watching and liking these nice toys.
Only toys , get a life.
@@alanrogs3990 Yes. You don't touch the paintwork of any die cast model with your fingers. Gloves are good but you can also just handle them by holding them by the axle.
Does need to be more careful with the boxes. They way there being is open to damage
I thought the some. Much to rough😮
I was born 1961 and had a pretty good collection. I had matchbox city and country, both were suitcases that opened up to roads and buildings, matchbox country opened up to a farm. I spent countless hours playing with them, making the car or truck or tractor sounds. That sure was a lot of fun back then, heck I didn’t even know about taxes yet, absolute bliss! Thank you for sharing, God bless
I had so many of these cars. I can hear myself now......rrrrrrr screeech!! I drove them hard and put them through the mill. No regrets 👍
I used to buy a Matchbox car every few weeks at a toy store on the subway mezzanine at New York's Port Authority Bus Terminal in the late 60s. I still have all those cars in a collector's case.
In the early 1960s my weekly allowance was one Matcxhbox vehicle. At the time, they were thirty-nine cents Canadian. I remember owning a lot of these. Thxs for rekindling some childhood memories.
Same here, and in the 1950's they were 29 cents Canadian. Fun times.
Me three ....My allowance was also on matchbox cars wich I still keep ...for the record I'm 55 years young.
I used to get a Matchbox car once a week. 44cents Australian back in about 1970-71. I still love these, probably because they take me back to my childhood.
still got mine from woolworths and zellers moncton nb
In Manitoba they were 50 cents a pop, early 60's.
Hello from Italy, if my dad sees this video, he goes crazy, because he loves those Matchbox templates. he has many but he always looks for them!
My father use to show me his collection on and off. He was mean. Never let me play with them.😅. There's at 😢50, to 80, maybe. Still in the boxes. He still loves them.
I am so glad I found your channel! Brings back so many memories! When I sold my collection so many years ago the buyer told me for cars that did not come with boxes he was amazed at the condition. I never banged them together and always washed my hands before playing with them. Can’t wait to see what is in the next cases!
When my brother and I were kids back in the 1960’s, I was into model trains and my brother liked his cars. One Christmas, my parents bought my brother the whole matchbox car series and of course, bought me a Hornby train set. Unfortunately, my brother took his cars to school and somehow ended up losing them one by one. That’s what kids do. One Christmas our presents were alternated. My brother got trains and I received a scalextric racing car set.
That same day we had swapped back. I had my trains and my brother had his cars back. We both bought the matchbox cars. Would be quite valuable as a collectors set with boxes.
I started collecting Matchbox in 1966 so those were the cars in the line at the time. The first one that you opened, the Jaguar Type E, is still in my collection, along with those that I purchased after moving to the States.
My favorite matchbox was a yellow ford pickup with a lion in the bed. Still remember getting it at the apothecary with my mom.
Brings back memories of childhood growing up in the 70s. Still remember they use to have them in Easter eggs 😁
Brings childhood memories from the late 50's to early 60's. They were 50 cents apiece (in Canada) back then. My two younger brothers grew up with Mattel's Hot Wheels, cheap and they fell apart easily. Matchbox were made (in England) to last, quality vs quantity.
@@MarvinThiessen kept all my matchbook and dinky cars right up to the early 2000s same with trainsets action man and uniforms boat cannon and tank. Wish I still had them now. They'd be in cabinet. My original action man would be. Now starting to collect them as well as vehicles etc, like the corgi and hopefully matchbox cars but there not the same as the ones you played with as a kid
Sweet, i was always into Matchbox, nothing else
😊Very good My Friend. congratulations on your purchase of old cars, greetings from Mexico😊
A very interesting note is that the real life snow track is powered by industrial VW beetle engine and is mounted up front under the the hood the front axles power the large cogwheels up front. It is also steered buy a steering wheel instead of two joysticks like a bulldozer or military tank. It is about the same size as a bronco 2 or Jeep Cherokee from the 1990s. These vehicles were manufactured from 1951 through the mid 1980s. They were mass-produced in Sweden an imported all over the world many were even used for agriculture tractors to get through .muddy farm fieldwork. "And there's your dinner".😊
yeees!!! a matcbox diecast video!! pls more diecast matchbox!!
More videos coming on this collection, you won't believe how many boxes came with this collection. All folded down flat...
Super collection 👌🏻
Beater in a box. OOOOHHHHHH!! Are your hands shaking now? Looks like the children found the Jag., and took it outside to play!?
WOW what a great collection! ! ! ! Not minty at all. . . but still cool! SO MUCH fun to see all these again! ! ! Great to save all these! Thanks~!
Just want to say - regardless of the condition of them. The value of your videos showing them is price less.
There's guys from from all over the world ( New Zealand here) watching and the comments " i had that one..." Bring back the memories and good buzz to people & in this day and age its good stuff. I've still got my G2 Transporter gift set, regular wheels with the Rolls, Linclon, Iso & zodiac , yellow guy warrior transporter - Came all the way from England, was only allowed to play with it supervised and packed back in the box ( would of been expensive in 1969). Only found it again cleaning up my parents house when they died. spooky over 50yrs old 1/2 century.
Wow. Very vintage collection. Rarest item I think
Awesome show , enjoyed watching. Thanks for sharing.
A piece of History. Amazing
I think every kid in Britain had matchbox cars
Super cool show. Love the old castings. I enjoyed watching and thanks for sharing.
Sweet. I have one of those horse boxes in my loft still attached to the Matchbox Landrover that it was used with when I was a child. And I am 57 now! Still got a few other Matchbox too. Some Capris, a DAF car transporter, Scammel container truck and Scammel semi with containers, and a few others too.
thanks for sharing your experience and risk!
My pleasure!
Sunday school teacher from England brought me a dozen or so matchbox back from vacation there, about the same time I fell in love with Hotwheels 68'-69', sadly all were lost in time somewhere....
Back in the states,my dad made me donate them when I was about 13,Toy box and everything else.Definately well used.Still a good variety collection I had.We made our own smash em of the track game.Tough toys back then
I was a kid in England,early 70's.I must of had 2 or 3 hundred cars.My brother and I played with em so much, chipping paint.
I had many of those as a kid. Some I forgot that I had until you showed yours. All of them were well played with and passed on to my nephew. However, my parents did keep some away from us that I now have and they are all in mint condition including the boxes. I have 4 from the models of yesteryear series and a Matchbox series gift set G-5 Army Set. It includes 4 trucks, and APC, a smaller tank and a tractor trailer with a flat bed carrying a larger tank. It has a price tag of $1.20. All in mint condition.
There was an old hobby shop at the original Knotts Berry Farm back in the day before they charged admission to the park. They had a huge matchbox collection available there. I would get to pick one and the one I picked was that Studebaker hunters' wagon with the retractable top.
I still have some of these upstairs now in their boxes. Bought by me new around 1968 in the local tobacconist on Saturday mornings - 2 shillings and four pence in those days. About 12.5 pence in decimal currency! I have the Snotrak (with tracks), Rolls Royce, Caravan, Dodge dumper plus others not in your box. Haven't looked at them for years, but they have always been kept in one of my late father's Rael Brook shirt boxes in my wardrobe! God, that's 54 years ago!
Thanks for sharing!
My brother and I would go to the local wooden floor 5 and 10 cent store. He would get his allowance.
50 cents.
This was probably 67 or so.
And he would by one of these cars. In which he did, week after week…year after year.
He would take the car out, and look at it…only.
Then back in the box….no playing with.
He still has them.
**YOUR VOICE* *I CAN TELL ITS YOU WITHOUT SEEING YOU*LOL*MAYBE CUZ IVE SEEN SO MANY OF YOUR CONTENT* *I AM SAVING SO I CAN GET ONE OF YOUR 16 SETS* *YOU ARE THE MOST AMAZING COLLECTOR* *KEEP HEALTHY BROTHER* *CATER*
My father was an obsessive collector with means and had hundreds. He was getting shipments from England weekly. Then purchased or had made a lighted display cases over six feet high.
Man what a flashback, I forgot all about those carrying cases..!!
wow, cant wait till next vid
Wow I wish I still had a collection! At quick glance one of my 2 favorites was the 64 Impala taxi and the blueish Studebaker wagon with the sliding rear roof!
amazing collection i remember having some of thrse little cars the Opel Diplomat. I used to have a large collection i wonder where did they all disappear to.I remember Tuf Tots too smaller than Matchbox. I havent seen them in years. Nice presentation that collection is marvellous.🇮🇪🙄
Beater in a box. OOOOHHHHHH!!
This makes me ill. I had every one of these in mint condition. My mom bought one for me every time we went to the store. I gave the whole collection to 2 of my cousins in a moment of stupidity when I was 16. I regret it immensely. My sister talked to one of the cousins recently and mentioned the matchboxes. He said he "kinda" remembers
I did keep mine but the story I remember that makes me ill is this. One time in about 1982 I saw an add in the "Nickle Ads" for Hot Wheels. I went to the guys house and he must have had 200 cars on the table all redlines. He wanted $3 a piece and I thought "that is crazy". By 1988 I was addicted to Hot Wheels again and since then my love for them has only grown.
That was a crazy price back then. 50 cents was pretty much the max for second hand cars at the time. But yeah, I would be sick now too.
I gave my Matchbox (and earlier Lesney), Corgi, and Dinky to the Barnado's Children's Home one Christmas
@@David-ci1vn That was very kind of you! I kept all my originals from childhood, but have given out a few mint-in-blisterpack ones I bought as an adult as gifts and donations over the years. There’s something cool about giving a kid a Hot Wheels that hasn’t been available for 25 years.
OH MY GOSH AND I ❤LOVE IT!!
Love these old cars
Awesome
I am drooling as a kid of the seventies
1960s. Matchbox. Huge collection found. Did. They
When I worked in the Middle East many of our workers used to trawl the local toy shops for Matchbox and Dinky cars, they had been brought in by the shops but didn’t sell too well to the locals, once the ex-pats found out that not only were these cars in the shops they were still being sold at their original prices every shop that had them soon found their shelves being emptied of them.
Awesome cars .
My English stepfather had a large collection of these.
He refused to let me play with them, and when he died, he left them to his Canadian nephew just to make sure.
😁
I had quite a few Matchbox, Dinky and Corgi ones when I was young in the late 60s though the 70s - should still have a case stored away somewhere that I think held either 24 or 48 vehicles - case I had was the blue one with the lift out yellow trays so the boxes never got kept. For the larger models I remember having a SHADO Mobile and SHADO Interceptor along with a USS Enterprise from Star Trek (the version that fired yellow discs out the front of the saucer). My have a rummage though the garage and see what is down there
Im 51 years old now, but I remember when I was a teenager, me and my friends, when we were bored cycled to Hackney marshes, near to the Lesney Toy Factory which was derelict then and no longer a thriving factory. The area was rundown at the time, and the factory had broken windows and was just sitting like that for years. Remembering we threw stones into the broken windows which I now regret, and feel sad the factory fell into decline, after the area surrounding the factory was redeveloped for the London Olympics 2012, and the Lesney Toy Factory was regenerated in to the colourful residential development known as the Matchmakers Wharf. When I was growing up, I had a lot of these die cast matchbox cars, and now I look back, I wish I looked after them better, and kept some for sentimental value. Sadly Matchbox is no longer a british manufacturer, and is now owned by Mattel, Inc. And before I was born my dad had a Ford Corsair, which was just like the one in your video: 10:16. Looking at your die cast collection, I remember a lot of those cars were driving on British roads, but nowadays your hard pressed to find a British built car on our roads here, which is a real shame. Nevertheless, it’s good to hear that 80 year old lady looked after those matchbox cars with care, so a new generation can appreciate them.
Nice collection.
I recognize the little boxes. I live in The Netherlands but I defenitely remember getting a a number of those on my birthday. I grew up on a farm in the mid sixties so a lot of the matchbox toys had a link to farming: a tractor, a yellow combine harvester, a cattle truck!!! etc. Nice memories. I was 5 or 6 years old so the matchbox toys have all gone, let alone the boxes...
I have two cases full, the worst is the rubber tracks fell apart . No single boxes. They are PERFECT for an HO train layout.
Have some King-size too.
As a kid i had an enormous collection of Matchbox cars ( Match box Lesney factory was at the end of my road in Abbeywood SE London ) they would store all the defected cars in racks just outside the factory floor, as a 8 year old i would jump the fence and take home dozens of the same type of car.
Wondeful video!!! My guess is the bubbly paint is probably dust from the factory where they did not take a tac rag to them before painting.
I will like and subscribe. Thank you. From a fellow Matchbox collector.
Absolute treasures
Cool
I looked at the case and immediately strarted saying to myself,'yep,have that one,a couple of those,etc.Read down the comments and see I should look on ebay to see what to do with mine.Your's are looking Awesome though.Most of mine are well used,but not terrible,and the favorites are downright poor,but so loved when I was a kid.Thanks for sharing what you do,so we can rekindle fond memories too.
If your Matchbox are used I would keep them and make a wall display with them. Matchbox is a very mature hobby and the models are very common so I find only mint in box is sell-able. But do check ebay for the results of current sales. Always look at what has sold and not what is currently listed.
Wow wow wow!🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦
Rub Vaseline in the Rubber stuff Like tracks & such. That will Help preserve It I been doing it with all My toys & figures & Rubber tires. Gives it a nice new shine to it. Leave the vaseline on it for a couple days or more & it will really help.
I don't know I love your cars even though not perfect ❤. And I still love the Jaguar it just needs a restoration that's all.😊
The earlier BP tankers had gray tires.👍
when I was around 8 years old , I had A Matchbox blue station wagon which I carried in my pocket for a couple of years.
Funny that first car you pulled out is one I found at value village the other day about the same condition too
Sad on the #32. I am lucky and have a beautiful one. New sub here.
Years ago there was a Matchbox Museum in a hobby shop in Lynn Massachuetts I think it's long gone but it was a great shop and Museum .
Harold's Place in Lynn Massachusttes, Harold was also the President of the American International Matchbox Collectors and Exchange Club (AIM) who pioneered the first catalogs of variations for collectors.
Nice collection there. Pity there's a couple of worn ones. I suspect like me the models were played with whilst the box was largely left to its own devices. The model returned to the box when later models became the focus of interest.
I used to get Corgi cars for my birthday and Christmas in the early 60s. I had quite a collection of them but my mum gave them to a young cousin of mine after I had left home and got married.
I had a Ghi L6 4, a real rat pack car, I always thought it was so cool.
I wish I was you because I only have 7 old matchbox cars.
Als Kind der DDR , bekam ich viele dieser Modelle im West - Paket. Schöne Erinnerungen.
My opinion for the reason the tires are loose some say the wheel shrinks. I say the tire shrinks think of it as something like a donut the entire tire shrinks as in smaller circumference the inside ID gets larger as the outside the OD dimension gets smaller resulting in the tire with a loose fit I have found a chemical that I have soaked tires in for about one year and then take them out and let them dry. they all but returned to exactly factory dimensions. With a snug fit on the wheel.
All of these Matchbox toy cars are still in mint condition. Part of the plan of having a special presentation going on. Of what was supposed to be restored. It's always what's as good as new.
My blue case was different, it had light blue baskets I could lift out in 4 easy to handle compartments. Mine were the step up wheels too.
Every get a collection and find the paint is sticky on a few? I'm not sure what is going on with them. Any thoughts? Thanks.
What a collection! I have a lot of these. But no boxes. I was too young for pre-Superfast MB. I was exposed to them early because my friend’s older brother had some of his hand-me-downs mixed into his collection. Didn’t have a whole lot of interest as a kid since they were so ‘boring’ compared to the contemporary HW and MB of the mid-70s we had. And the axles and wheels were just laughable. But I picked quite a few up as an adult.
A lot of these you can print new boxes as well as rebuild cars to like new not original but very nice rather than a beaten collection of cars .
@@robertafay9198 Very true. I actually had a couple clapped out redlines rebuilt by a guy in exchange for some other beaters I let the restorer keep. They turned out great.
Still have all mine in the same case.
to start with that beat-up Jag was so unlucky!
a real treasure
Wow
OMG what a geek
To answer your question: somebody replaced the mind ones with damaged ones.
My Mum And Grandma had a dry cleaners haberdashery and they sold matchbox cars the price back in the early 60s was 2/6 ( 25 ) cents
I used to be rewarded with a matchbox car every time I visited the dentist back in the 60,s . I had a few of these. My dentists name was Dr. Payne @@@
12:17 Now You Tell Me!!
The tire came off the blue trailer
well i'll start by suggesting that some of those boxes might be reprinted boxes and they might not be! Many questions and due to all the people that are selling for profit, buying collections and reselling them to the highest bidders. Then if your buying them You should get educated on what is real and what isn't ! Boxes find one with a price tag on it. then one that looks to good and feel the ink the one with the price tag should feel rough cause there printed on an offset press back then. Now a days there printed on a laser printer making the ink smooth to the touch. Also if you can show the bases of the cars. the rivets are very important to see and sometimes the base revels a variation. the green 8 wheel crane is one with a base variation.
There are no reprinted boxes in this lot and they all have the mildew smell to prove it! If you stop by my website you will find that I have for sale a selection of original boxes with models and also a separate page with models in reproduction boxes. I have mostly the thicker glossy boxes from England. In the past I did get some of the satin finish boxes from Australia. Both are nice and since Matchbox without boxes have little value they go well with loose models and only cost about $5 a box to add to the models for sale. I do not have any customers right now that want anything less than mint in near mint box. Thanks for watching.
How much were all of these?
Unfortunately the bubbling paint may be caused by rust on the metal.
Very nice!
I had a mob of these, in boxes, gave em away to my mates firstborn, l was 16.. d***head!
I used to rob my father one armed bandit to buy matchbox toys. That's dedication 🤗
Oh wow I was allowed to have one each pay day from my parents still have some of them😊
HELLO PHILIP I HAVE A LOAD OF MATCHBOX VEHICLE'S WOULDN'T PART WITH ANY OF THEM DO U REMEMBER MATCHBOX STREAK AROUND I HAD ONE IN THE EARLY 7Os I AM LOOKING FOR ONE CHEERS IAN
Hey I have a matchbox daf tipper truck regular wheel in its original blister package (not box). Do you have any idea what the value is?
I always check eBay to see what the going rate is for any collectible toys. You always have to consider condition too.
I can't believe it. I have nearly all of these. But mine are mostly banged up, without boxes. What can I say? We were kids.
Keren 😍👍👍
What's this? I thought Pau Restorer had fixed all of these old Matchbox toy cars!
Just open it up
I remember this from the 6th grade waiting in line at school for the school bus to take us home. A little boy had matchbox cars he was sliding down the slid. We weren't friends but I wonder about some of the kids I went to school with if they are still alive because it has been over half a century. Am I alone in that ?
For the first one you opened up, the XKE that was a beater, how did you not know what you were buying ? Did you pay for the items without seeing them ?
The collection belong to a 88 year old woman who passed away. The son who was selling sent me the collection prior to paying. We did have an agreed upon cost. He thought all the cars were mint in box. Matchbox that are mint in box are still popular but it is a mature hobby and has a small following. I have lots of Matchbox already in stock. Generally if you a buying a collection to resell you do not consider the value of anything that might take years to sell. You focus only on the top models. For any given year there are 75 Matchbox models and of that perhaps 20 are "in-demand". There were a few disappointments in the models in boxes but the condition of the empty boxes more than made up for those models. Boxes by themselves can sell for as much or more that what the model in a box can sell for. The ratio of boxes to loose Matchbox I would say is at least 50 to 1. The collection if every piece was sold individually was worth at retail about $13,000
I used to get these at K-Mart for 50 cents each.
I have hundreds of these