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For over 50 years, children have spent their summer afternoons playing with toy cars bearing the logos Matchbox or Hot Wheels As these children grow up and try to get some of that childhood happiness, they end up paying a pretty penny for cars that once went to small changes Here are five examples.
Started in 1953 by the British company Lesney Products, the online Matchbox toy cars lived up to their name because they were designed to meet inside a matchbox so that the children can take them at school because of their longevity in the market, there are many dedicated fans who still collect these small scale vehicles today and some of those fans are willing to pay more for a car that fits in a box 'matches as they are for the right one in a garage.
January 1961 Magirus Deutz Crane, alias Matchbox No. 30.
When Matchbox released his No. 30 car in 1961, a crane truck with full-size counterpart was built by German manufacturer Magirus Deutz, it came with a silver body and orange crane before it was abandoned in 1965, there were less than 27 variations of the truck, from the type of rivets used to smooth or embossed cover on the bottom According to the change, the value can fall anywhere between 30-100 But unless you are a collector of you know probably never unlike a car to another.
There is a variant almost everyone would notice, but trucks with this variant are almost impossible to find instead of the standard silver body and crane orange, a handful of pre-production models were light brown and had either a red or an orange crane because this color scheme is extremely rare, he asked a high price collectors in the 1980s, the collector Charlie Mack bought a brown No. 30 to the garage sale of a neighboring 10 three years later, it sold at auction for 10,000 in 2004, Jim Gallegos, whose 35,000 car collection is worth more than 4 million 1, bought a brown No. 30 crane 13,000 Considering the initial price for the toy was less than 50 cents, it's quite a nice return on investment.
Before Lesney Matchbox Products line really took off, the company considers the manufacture of larger model cars and trucks have called the collection Major Scale Although normal Matchbox car is about 2 long, large scale models would closer to 10 or 11 as a proof of concept in 1954, a handful of major scale prototype dump trucks were personally made by the model manager maker Ken Wetton However, just at this time is when small vehicles began become popular, the idea of larger versions has been discontinued.
Over the years, other prototype trucks were lost, but remained in the Lesney office as a souvenir that the truck is supposed to be the only prototype left, and the only job of surviving example that can be directly attributed to Ken Wetton because of sentimental value to the company, it was thought that the truck would never be sold, what really makes the Holy Grail enthusiasts Matchbox therefore, it was quite a surprise when, in the mid 1980s, news spread that the truck had been bought by a relatively unknown collector in Japan, Takuo Yoshise.
In March 2010, Takuo Yoshise decided it was time to move its coveted treasure to someone else The truck was auctioned at a collection agreement in England and wound up going for 15,000, it making it the largest sum ever paid for a matchbox car.
In 1968, the company Mattel has released a line of miniature cars that were inspired by Kustom Kar Kulture which was popular in California The first line, now known as muscle cars behalf sweet 16, proposed and preliminary concept garde cars, decked painting Spectraflame that were far from the colors you see on of the real life show floor to showcase their roots, small vehicles wore miniature blush tires, called Redline, model kind that were popular on the real Kustom Kars Thank time to their new approach to the toy line Hot Wheels have been successful and are still very popular with today's collectors moment.
One sweet 16 original cars was based on the show car in 1963, Beatnik Bandit car, a futuristic fiberglass two-seater with a see-through top of the Plexiglas bubble has was designed and built by none other than Ed Big Daddy Roth, one of the most famous car customizers, best known for creating the animated character against culture-Rat Fink.
The Bandit toy, like all Sweet 16 cars, was produced in a variety of bright colors, metallic Some, such as red, blue, green and orange, were more common than others but the rarest of all was rosy hot hot pink was introduced to the hot Wheels line shortly after their first time, in an effort to get girls interested in toy cars didn t work there, so that the color was discontinued, making these rare cars today so rare a loose sense, it was not in its original packaging hot pink Bandit sold for 7070 in 2004 Four years later, a currency MIB Bte Bandit hot pink sold on eBay for 15250.
Hot Wheels fans will always remember the orange snap all racetracks used to create their own racetrack through the kitchen Making every car works well on tracks has always been a concern for Mattel, yet today ' hui in 1969, Mattel had to go back to the drawing board more than once to get a Volkswagen van called recently designed the bomb range to fit properly on the tracks the van, with two surfboards sticking out the rear window was too narrow to run on the track without bumping against the sides off, he could not keep it inside of a motorized propulsion unit which was sold separately.
After 16 prototypes were created, engineers came up with a radical overhaul that placed surfboards on each side of the vehicle in compartments of special stowaways Not only is this a more off the car wall, but he also the largest vehicle it would fit on the new circuit design would have solved the problem, but made the bomb range too thin prototypes all the more desirable for Hot Wheels collectors.
People go crazy every time a new rear-loading Beach Bomb is on the market, regardless of the color or the high state sales line examples regularly to 15,000 or more, but there is a bomb beach out there who could be considered the holiest of grails holy hot pink, beach rear cargo Bomb Collector Chris Marshall purchased the only known copy of the car of a former Mattel engineer in 1998, as part of a 9000 purchase of 250 cars, including 25 prototypes He turned around and sold the hot pink bomb year later big-time collector Bruce Pascal for a cool 72000 Marshall sold his small car and bought a big a brand new Dodge Viper Pascal rose took his prototype on the road, visiting the Hot Wheels and loan agreements to car museums for the world to see.
Although there is always a chance of another bomb prototype hot pink beach may appear, there is a Hot Wheels car that is guaranteed to be the only model ever produced has been customized by jeweler to the stars Jason Beverly Hills in 2008 to commemorate the Hot wheels 40th anniversary and production of the car number 4000000000 yes, four billion in the Hot wheels line.
The special edition car was cast in 18k white gold and covered with 1,388 blue diamonds, 988 black diamonds, white diamonds and 319 rubies 8, for a total of nearly 23 carats of precious stones of the 140,000 coin value mistress came in a case integrated custom display with 40 diamonds extra white one for each year in the history of the toy line's case inlaid diamonds and car display was set up as part of a sale at charity auction for Big Brothers Big Sisters While gemstones could be worth 140,000, the car sold for 60,000 Very good business what was your Hot Wheels favorite or a Matchbox car when you were a child what is the highest price ever paid you to get a piece of your childhood Tell us in the comments below.
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