Because of my age, it's obviously the Dinky. The quality was incredible and i'm sure their price today as collectables is higher than for the Corgis. Am I right? Since you surf on Ebay you should know.
I am a sad person as I have about 100 matchbox superfast cars which I collect, so I'd say Matchbox cars. I also have matchbox battlekings and seakings too. Mind you, I also collect Vintage Action Men too
Yeah the James Bond was quite an event! I remember it well, the little machine guns, the ejector seat, and so forth. Corgi seemed the more 'dynamic' of the companies, Dinky seemed very diecast, remember repainting them with paint when they got badly scrattched and damaged.
My favourite was the tank transporter. Used to love matchbox series as well!......
I had Matchbox cars as a kid. They were more for racing and smashing than admiring the quality of them. Then after school I did a short stint working in the Matchbox factory where I had to assemble 10,000 toy petrol tankers a day - that put me off of them for good.
http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/VINTAGE-CORGI-261-JAMES-BOND-ASTON-MARTIN-DB5-1965-/330460085216?pt=UK_ToysGames_DiecastVehicles_DiecastVehicles_JN#ht_500wt_1154 circa 65 My younger brother had this model..... The box lasted almost a month as he would use it as the garage!
[cite]Posted By: BDL[/cite]Matchbox as the factory was down in abbey Wood. Loved Airfix in Charlton, got loads of kits that were imperfect from a relative who worked there.
I guess there must have been loads of them; the one I worked at was Lesney's in Rochford.
The Corgi Aston Martin DB5 was and still is the most popular 'toy' car ever produced...
The question of whether Corgi or Dinky or Matchbox fetch the highest price doesn't really come into it, each brand has it's own dedicated collector and some will pay thousands for a particular model, the main trick is to keep the boxes they came in, they make the model worth a lot, lot more...
My first Corgi fell out of it's box on Christmas morning around 1963, it was the Cadillac Ambulance with working light, from that moment I was truly hooked and spent a fortune collecting them, usually 5/- a shot (25p in todays money), worth hundreds now...
I 'specialised' in American cars, particularly the Chevrolet Impala of which there were several models including a police car and a fire chief...
I was primarily a Corgi boy. Still got all the cars, but they're well used. I have bought a couple since turning 21, including a boxed Corgi The Saints Volvo, which is in a display case along with a few others.
My better half is a registered childminder and to my astonishment one of her little angel's turned up with a Corgi Austin Cambridge A60, the driving school version with the big red wheel on the roof which allowed you to steer the car. It was very tempting to arrange for this toy to be 'lost' however my conscience got the better of me.
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I was primarily a Corgi boy. Still got all the cars, but they're well used. I have bought a couple since turning 21, including a boxed Corgi The Saints Volvo, which is in a display case along with a few others.
[cite]Saga Lout-Earlier said[/cite]
I was primarily a Corgi boy. Still got all the cars, but they're well used. I have bought a couple since turning 21, including a boxed Corgi The Saints Volvo, which is in a display case along with a few others.
What colour is the Saint figure on the bonnet...?
Well, well, well - does it affect the value?!
It's black. Let me know if I can afford to retire.
I've got both Dinkys and Corgis passed down to me by my Grandad. Some are boxed, some are not. My personal fav is the Dinky Spitfire and Stuka, still have them in mint condition!
[cite]Saga Lout-Earlier said[/cite]
I was primarily a Corgi boy. Still got all the cars, but they're well used. I have bought a couple since turning 21, including a boxed Corgi The Saints Volvo, which is in a display case along with a few others.
What colour is the Saint figure on the bonnet...?
Well, well, well - does it affect the value?!
It's black. Let me know if I can afford to retire.
The black version is worth a few quid more than the red or blue version...
Not quite enough to retire I'm afraid, good quality could fetch £150...
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for the Corgis. Am I right? Since you surf on Ebay you should know.
Later I went to the factory to approve the production model for the Silver Jubilee Routemaster when I worked for LT.
Still got one somewhere that had a white waistband rather than the red.
Mind you, I also collect Vintage Action Men too
Corgi seemed the more 'dynamic' of the companies, Dinky seemed very diecast, remember repainting them with paint when they got badly scrattched and damaged.
My favourite was the tank transporter. Used to love matchbox series as well!......
Never a collector, just played with them.....
circa 65 My younger brother had this model..... The box lasted almost a month as he would use it as the garage!
http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/VINTAGE-66-CORGI-BOXED-JAMES-BOND-007-ASTON-MARTIN-270-/360287444219?pt=UK_ToysGames_DiecastVehicles_DiecastVehicles_JN#ht_4330wt_1139
I guess there must have been loads of them; the one I worked at was Lesney's in Rochford.
The question of whether Corgi or Dinky or Matchbox fetch the highest price doesn't really come into it, each brand has it's own dedicated collector and some will pay thousands for a particular model, the main trick is to keep the boxes they came in, they make the model worth a lot, lot more...
My first Corgi fell out of it's box on Christmas morning around 1963, it was the Cadillac Ambulance with working light, from that moment I was truly hooked and spent a fortune collecting them, usually 5/- a shot (25p in todays money), worth hundreds now...
I 'specialised' in American cars, particularly the Chevrolet Impala of which there were several models including a police car and a fire chief...
It was very tempting to arrange for this toy to be 'lost' however my conscience got the better of me.
My late mother gave all my cars away after I moved out.
There was a Lesney factory in Hackney Wick too.
Well, well, well - does it affect the value?!
It's black. Let me know if I can afford to retire.
Not quite enough to retire I'm afraid, good quality could fetch £150...
Well, it's pretty good, in the original box - I think it cost me 40 quid about 10 years ago.