1960's Matchbox - HUGE COLLECTION FOUND - Did They SURVIVE? PART 1 of 5 

I cannot believe how rough you are with these 50+ year old collectibles.

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 favorite matchbox was a yellow ford pickup with a lion in the bed. Still remember getting it at the apothecary with my mom.

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.

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

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.

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.

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!

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.

A piece of History. Amazing

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.

Sweet, i was always into Matchbox, nothing else

Beater in a box. OOOOHHHHHH!! Are your hands shaking now? Looks like the children found the Jag., and took it outside to play!?

😊Very good My Friend. congratulations on your purchase of old cars, greetings from Mexico😊

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.

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~!

yeees!!! a matcbox diecast video!! pls more diecast matchbox!!

Super collection 👌🏻

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!

Wow. Very vintage collection. Rarest item I think

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.

Brings back memories of childhood growing up in the 70s. Still remember they use to have them in Easter eggs 😁

OH MY GOSH AND I ❤LOVE IT!!

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.

Awesome show , enjoyed watching. Thanks for sharing.

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".😊

wow, cant wait till next vid

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.🇮🇪🙄

Super cool show. Love the old castings. I enjoyed watching and thanks for sharing.

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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.

Absolute treasures

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

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....

I think every kid in Britain had matchbox cars

thanks for sharing your experience and risk!

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. 😁

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.

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!

Man what a flashback, I forgot all about those carrying cases..!!

Love these old cars

Awesome

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 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.😊

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.

Awesome cars .

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.

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.

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

I am drooling as a kid of the seventies

I will like and subscribe. Thank you. From a fellow Matchbox collector.

The paint on those cars that look bubbly is from the factory. The cars are sprayed. It also could be the metal underneath that was a little rough.

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.

Cool

Nice collection.

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.

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.

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.

Als Kind der DDR , bekam ich viele dieser Modelle im West - Paket. Schöne Erinnerungen.

I wish I was you because I only have 7 old matchbox cars.

Sad on the #32. I am lucky and have a beautiful one. New sub here.

To answer your question: somebody replaced the mind ones with damaged ones.

Wow wow wow!🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦

Funny that first car you pulled out is one I found at value village the other day about the same condition too

OMG what a geek

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.

Beater in a box. OOOOHHHHHH!!

I had a mob of these, in boxes, gave em away to my mates firstborn, l was 16.. d***head!

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 @@@

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.

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.

a real treasure

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 .

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.

Compared to Corgi I find Matchbox and Dinky to have poor mouldings and pretty bad attention to detail?

I used to rob my father one armed bandit to buy matchbox toys. That's dedication 🤗

to start with that beat-up Jag was so unlucky!

Wow

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.

Unfortunately the bubbling paint may be caused by rust on the metal.

Oh wow I was allowed to have one each pay day from my parents still have some of them😊

The tire came off the blue trailer

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

Just open it up

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.

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.

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.

1960s. Matchbox. Huge collection found. Did. They

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.

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 ?

How much were all of these?

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 ?

I have hundreds of these

Wear gloves, don't dump the model out, show all sides, blistering is from age/humidity NOT factory.

Still have all mine in the same case.

I had quite a collection dating back to the mid-50s. It was stored in my parents' basement with their full knowledge and permission. A year ago, they decided out of the blue to sell their house and move into a retirement community. They also decided to sell my Matchbox, Dinky, and Corgi toys to a crook who's been fleecing them for years. They took his first offer, which was pennies on the dollar, and gave me the cash. That was the first I knew they had sold my property without my permission. They also threw out numerous other items of value (money and/or sentimental) without telling me first. Because I wasn't sufficiently "grateful" that they had got $200 for several thousand dollars' worth of toys and because I objected to the theft of my property, they're now mad at ME and have lied about it to my brother, his wife, their kids, and who knows how many other people and as well as being out a lot of money. I'm now a pariah in my own family. Moral of the story: Never store anything valuable anywhere you can't maintain control over it yourself, even when it's supposedly being looked after by people you thought you could trust.

Keren 😍👍👍