Fan Mail Unboxing No.28 

tucker is rear engined, the vents are for cooling the engine. They are super rare in real life, only 51 ever made, and it's known that 48 of the 51 are still roadworthy. One of them belongs to the Smithsonian Museum, I've seen it. Amazing tech for it's day, pop out windshield rear engine, and disc brakes just to mention a few of it's first features.

Another great video by Marty’s marvellous makeovers unboxing!

37:54 I died from laughing so much🤣🤣🤣”it has a Few chips in it” “it’s in very bad condition”hahahahaa

Just for info back in the 90's Mattel who owned the Dinky brand brought the Matchbox brand from the then owners, hence the Matchbox / Dinky cars you received.

Marty, in some states in the USA, we used to use stickers on our license plates telling what year the vehicle was registered to. Once the registration would expire, you would renew and get a new sticker which would be placed and stuck on over the old one. Love your channel mate. We no longer use stickers on our plates

The Hungarian truck I think is truly a makeover candidate. It is still in one piece and I think you can do a beautiful restoration on it. Thanks for sharing this wonderful unboxing.

MetàlKār! We the thumbs-up would kindly ask Marty, Julie, Kevin & Phantom Cyclops to do (or try) s make over on the MetàlKār.

Hi Marty talk about falling on the floor laughing that knackered little truck was a crack up you'd better get polishing on that windshield.😂🤣😂😆 Apparently there's one of those timers on the moon one of the astronauts left it there on the surface. Thanks for doing these unboxing videos there always good value lol.👍

How fantastic your subscribers are and it’s just like watching your kids open there Christmas presents every time you do one of these videos keep up the great 👍👍👍

Cool unboxing video...very entertaining as usual...my husband and I have quite the collection ourselves...my husband builds customs as well and we love watching your videos! Cheers mate and have a blessed day!

The Tucker motorcar is quite the historic vehicle. A movie starting Jeff Bridges was made about the man and his car. Very, very interesting. The Tucker had many features that were way ahead of it’s time. Try and watch the movie or Google it. I believe you would find it interesting. Another entertaining unboxing. See ya next time .

"429" is four hundred and 29 cubic inches of pure muscle and displacement of the engine

That's an AWESOME looking Chevy Chevelle SS!

Hey Marty. The Fairlane is also missing a tail light.

The hungarian car reminded me those youtubers saying " barn find ,50 years standing, will it start?" ... hahaha ...its rebuildable yet ... !!! come on Marty nothing is impossible!.(btw as a former car mechanic never believe in those "started at firs attempt...").

"I've never seen one before." - Marty Can't wait for the shirt!

The pin is indeed a ribbon/medal holder from central Europe. In the USA we use post pins while over there they used straight pins. The Red car from the beginning of this vid is a Chevrolet Chevelle SS, (Super Sport). The white car with the blue stripe down the middle is an Oldsmobile 442. Which was not only the car's name, but was the size of motor they put into it as well, it was, coincidentally Olds' answer to the Pontiac GTO. Both of them were muscle cars with huge engines in them built to go fast. I remember drooling over them both when I was a tween boy. Have a good one.

Olds 442 refers to a four barrel carb, 4 speed, and dual exhaust, Old's entry into the muscle car wars.

Always enjoy your mail call videos!

your late with this vid.i thought you may still be on the roof.if you can rebuild that hungarian model you could possibly raise the dead.looking forward to the next mmm show.

Another great unboxing. Omg, I really nearly wet myself with the "Hungary" model.

Well, that was fun !! 🤣 Julie has an amazing laugh; very hard not to join in.

I almost was cracking up laughing this time. One of the very best unboxings you've ever shared. I'm quite bit jealous as well. In fact, I've never seen a "Tucker Torpedo" in real Life and I didn't know that there's a Matchbox model of this Car. So, thanks for sharing this marvellous video. Best regards to You, Julie and the entire MMM-TEAM from Cuxhaven, northern Germany 😁👍🏼👍🏼😀👍🏼😁👍🏼

Marty cracking up is the best part.

I dare you Marty to give that manky truck a make over... it would be fantastic. and im sure fun to see! 😂

I love Marty and Kevin. The Tucker was a 1948, not a 1946. The Camaro was a 1968, not a 1958. Of course, my hearing aid might need new batteries.

The full stop Comma. I laughed.

You crack me up. Watching you corpse over the Hungarian model. Just so funny. A great way to end the week.

A great unboxing Marty. I have fond memories of some of the models you have restored/make-overs. Keep up the good work and congratulations on reaching 100,000 Subscribers. Martin. (Thailand.)

Ahhhh, that's much better! Thon Freuhauf has the correct hopper trailer but is missing a second one. I still have mine my dad bought me in 1967! Cheers from Dunfermline, Scotland!

i really had a good time watching this video, Marty.. Just love your sense of humour... and a bit of dirt.. Really!

Glad to see my home state of Delaware represented. It'll make some of my letter in my box redundant but that's ok. 😁 The postal tracking says it was delivered this week (though I understand you have a backlog) so I'll be eagerly watching my RU-vid notifications. Delaware has less than 1 million citizens and we recycle our license plates so I currently have a 5 digit plate as well though 6 digit plates are much more common.

Dinky Toys became a part of Matchbox International in the Late '80s, and Matchbox made the 1/43 scale toy cars of the '50s and '60s as a part of the Dinky Collection. Soon after that Mattel bought Matchbox.

That last metalkar made me laugh so hard I cried! Good luck with that!😂

I'm sure that "Orange" pin for Blackpool was really TANGERINE Marty

Excellent video though, and so good to see you laughing! * note to self, send Marty a box of tissues *

Love your unboxing videos Marty. We get to see all these old treasures and you have a ton of fun at the same time. Makes me wonder if you're hitting the bottle between takes LOL. Keep up the good work.

Yay. You got off the roof!

The colors on most of those Dinky models are close to what the real cars were, well some of them anyway. Boss 429 actually was available in that color, but it wasn't popular choice. 429 refers to the cubic inches of the engine, that's a huge engine. I had one in a Mercury Marquis, the speedometer goes up fast, but the gas gauge goes down just as fast.

11:40 - That's a Chevrolet 'Chevelle' 'SS' (Super Sport). The name is pronounced 'SHEV-ELL'. Those are 1/43 scale, by the way. I had a pre 'Superfast' version of the 'O&K' excavator. I can't believe that it's from 1970. My father worked for a civil engineering company that had a real one on trials. He gave me the model, which got played with. A lot. I also had one of those Scammell cranes - again, pre 'Superfast', and it was yellow, not orange. Dad drilled two holes where the outrigger jacks were, and made a pair of jacks out of steel nails, that slid away when not in use. Having a civil engineer for a dad, meant having a lot of models of heavy plant in your toybox. In 1970, I was seven. The Ford truck with the yellow trailer - my brother had one - and it's the vehicle that had three Ford tractors on it. A plastic rig goes on the trailer to hold the tractors, but most kids, my brother included, removed it, so the trailer could carry anything. A nice toy. The Rice Horsebox is a bit of a rarity - it's a transitional model from being a Mettoy 'Husky', to a fully fledged 'Corgi' Junior. The casting has been altered to remove 'Husky' from it, hence the odd 'Corgi Junior' sticker. It still has the later 'Husky' four-hole wheels and tyres. Should you choose to restore it, it might be fun to reproduce the sticker to apply afterwards. That 'slightly chipped' Hungarian model looks like a copy of the blue and orange 23f 'Atlas Tipper Truck'.

Marty you were 100% correct with the medal pin

Delaware is the second smallest state, Rhode Island being the smallest. The the #86 is the rego renewal sticker. That tells the cops if you're currently registered or not.

Boss 429 Mustang was a limited run Mustang with a special 429 cubic inch engine that has hemi-spherical combustion cambers with canted valves and extra large intake runners that was basically a racing engine. It was put in a limited run of street Mustangs so the engines could be homologated to run in the NASCAR racing series, although in NASCAR they were put in the larger Torino and Cyclone bodies.

Fairlane 500 XL is quite rare in real world too. Not as rare as a Tucker, but still quite rare today, since many just didn't make it through the test of time.

That is a beautiful collection of American muscle cars

on the first one, that trailer is called what else, but a belly dump. They are often drawn in tandem when they're building roads and the like. You must go at just the right speed to dump properly. Too slow, the dirt dumps out too fast and the trailer raises up, sometimes enough to raise the rear wheels of the tractor off the ground and getting it stuck. Too fast, it spreads it too thin for the job required.

I have that Fruehauf trailer and truck riveted together but there was a two axled trailer for it to pull too. The blue corgi wrecker with the damaged base was also a camper in red with whizzwheels.

Instant Dinky collection. They all looked very nice.

That little device is a self timer for cameras. It's from the 1960's and if I'm not mistaken, a similar one was secretly stowed away on the Apollo 12 mission. Once on the Moon, Al Bean wanted to find it and for the first (and ONLY !!!) time, make a selfie with BOTH moonwalkers (he and Pete Conrad) in the photograph !! Alas, Al could not find it in time and the historic picture was never taken. Just before returning to the LEM for the last time, he suddenly DID find it, but it would take too long to set up the camera and give it a try. What a shame............

Those Dinkies are absolute beautiful

Balaton is a huge freshwater lake in Hungary, very popular holiday destination from people from Hungary and the surrounding countries. Famous for its shallow water, so particularly favored by me as I am a miserable swimmer :-) And a lot of lovely food too

You are right - Delaware is a small state. But Rhode Island is smaller. Some would say that if you are driving through the state - don't sneeze or you will miss it.

Time to read up on your American cars friend 🤣🤣🤣🤣

Hey Marty do you believe in Voodooism? All those pins in the map, how many more can England take before we wake up and find out it has sunk into the Atlantic Ocean😂 Another great unboxing video, made the whole family laugh!!!!

Hi Marty nice vid as usual you know for the Jags sometimes you can (with the aid of July of course) find some nail lacquers (at beauty shops ) with metallic colors and they are very glossy and fast drying. Some guys mix them to obtain custom colors for their custom rebuilds.

Chevrolet SS Super Sport 396 cu inch engine. The timer is a Kopil brand clone. The end screws into the threaded hole on a shutter button or the shutter on older cameras so you can get into the photo. The piece of metal looks like a badge that military ribbons would be affixed to and worn on a uniform.

I loved that Jaguar model when I was a child! Great video!

Wow! You were on the roof for a very long time no wonder Kevin has made himself really scarce! The long metal military object is indeed a medal brooch. On that particular one there are no holes so it was supposed to have pieces of ribbon attached to it and it would have been pinned to your tunic or shirt. I think having a soft brooch is best as it gets sewn to the tunic and is easier to wear as it is somewhat flexible. The poor little vehicle from Hungary really needs a makeover. Right now it looks rough but maybe a good scrub might improve it? You have received some very nice donations from people. Shows how much they care about you. My cat is asking me if her box for your cat ever arrived? It doesn't meet the unboxing requirement. Did anyone else manage to catch an odd sound at 4:42? Have you thought about only restoring half a vehicle and leaving the other half "as found? Like a before and after. Looking forward to the next MMM installment, Cheers!!

The 1953 Buick Skylark is the most beautiful US vehicle ever ! My opinion, suspect I'll get a few who won't agree.

@9:23 Yes, the sticker shows that the annual registration fee has been paid. Our plates here in PA are made with little depressions in the four corners, to stick the stickers in. Some people put each new sticker in a different place, till the plate's covered. But a couple of years ago, the Commonwealth did away with the stickers, they cost too much. Now, you just pay your registration, and the police look it up online if they have to. And yes, Delaware is the First State, because it was the first to ratify the Constitution. At one time, they were part of Pennsylvania. We called Delaware, "the Lower Three Counties". @13:40 I'm not sure, but I think 1/43 was also one scale used for slot cars, back in the day.

This was freakin' awesome! MetàlKār! From the dysphasia and rampant chuckling I must extrapolate that weed is now legal in Australia ;4) Salut du Canada, mec.

I have a Kingsize excavator just like the one you unwrapped. It's in a box waiting to be posted to you, just waiting to add a few more models!

these cars certainly bring back memories thank you Marty

Hey! Seaford DE! I live 26 miles north of there on a strait shot highway. I've been there a million times and pass though it when I transport equipment for my job. Yes the sticker should be removed and replaced each time a new one is issued. Upon passing inspection here you can purchase a one or two year sticker from the DMV ( Department of Motor Vehicles) and it comes with an updated registration. Also yes, Delaware was the first state to ratify the Constitution.

These unboxing videos are almost as entertaining as the makeovers. Will Kevin ever show up in an unboxing episode?

Awesome video. Love the unboxing.

The Ford Fairlaine "badge" is the rear tail light. :D

35:16 = unboxing video comedy gold! You had me rolling with laughter, & tears streaming from my eyes all three times i've watched it!

Oh man Marty that was funny. That decomposing car needs a special pedestal in your display cabinet!

Marty, if you put few more pins in the U.K. It will be completely obliterated. I know you can makeover “A few Chips,” because if you can’t than no one can. Keep up the good work.

Delaware is a rather small state. The plates are usually used for three years, putting that year's sticker on it each year. That one is rather unusual as it's flat with just paint, most are embossed metal.

Man, just keep saying "I have never seen before" without any restrains. Because your reactions are so wholesome.

the real tucker car came with the center headlight that turned/panned which ever direction you turned the steering wheel to see when you turned corners.

the Jags are either Arthur Daley's sales lot or the 1960s getaway drivers fleet

It's true, watching your videos CAN give one entertainment and laughs when both seem few and far between and spirits are lagging.

Good Saturday morning to you Marty

37:55.... Make my day hhhh😭🤣🤣😭😂 very bad conditions 🤣🤣

1st state yes. Every year or so we pay a tag fee the sticker 86 is the last year he paid on that tag. The number has nothing to do with how many tags are issued. He likely has a new tag with a new number, they are issued new periodically in case the old one has been damaged. The red model is a chev-ro-lay that is how you pronounce it.

The Fruhauf tractor trailer would have been a double trailer. I remember having one as a kid, which, again, I think originally belonged to my uncle. The only joke I know about Scammel wheel nuts is to do with certain parts of a ladies anatomy in the chest area... It may be best to leave that one there lol

You will need to build an extension to your house....Or open a museum to Matchbox.

Many of the SLR's of the 70's and 80's you could screw that directly into the shutter button Cannon AE1 for example

that K20 truck and trailer had three tractors on the back.

The Hungarian car is gonna look GREAT when you finish with it! I got a real laugh out of that unboxing.

Hey Marty. It says 1971 on underneath of the Tasker Transporter. I just noticed it as you turned it back over!

Hi Marty, Another Fantastic post Bag , enjoy the video s, All the Best Brian 🤗

Enjoyed wacthing. Allways entertaining. Keep up the great vids

429 is the size of the motor. 429 cubic inches. Mustangs also came in 289ci

Renault renamed in 1976 the base version of the R6 (Renault 6) in R6 L. Equipped with the smaller and old 845cc engine (34CV). Probably to clearly distinguish it from the new "powerful" 1.3 liter engine (55CV).

Chevelle is prononced Chev -el. Just 2 syllables. Chevelle was the intermediate size car made by Chevrolet. The Upmarket version of the Chevelle is the Malibue. SS stands for Super Sport and is the muscle car version of the Chevelle.

The red car with black stripes is a Chevy chevelle

Maybe that's an idea for a new website. Marty"s Matchbox Makeovers Impossible.

Never too busy to make an un-boxing video.

Do you know how hard I laughed when the Hungarian car was shown Marty ? lol

Marty I have the Fruehauf in perfect condition- it has a second trailer same as the first

You hit the gold mine from the guy from Delaware.....

No worries on the pin placement Marty! But thank you.

Tasker Transporter was a Ford Tractor transporter K-20 it came with 3 Ford Tractors and a plastic piece that held them to the trailer. I wish I could post pictures here. I have about 8 variations of this.

A says of the day " I'm never seen this one" , fighting for restoration toy car from Hungary Marty .

Over here in the USA. We call them land yachts.

Bless you....