Last seen: Apr 29, 2026
Welcome DinkyDoddle! It will be nice to have another Dinky collector posting here - there are so few of us left anymore. And BTW, since that 2021 post...
Here's my Motocart, purchased for the princely sum of $1.25 many more years ago than I can remember. As originally packaged, there was a rectangular c...
One more Tom Dirn special - This car was just behind the #149 car, finished 10th overall and 2nd in class.
Neo made one in silver just like the one Karl and I saw in Nashville. Check out the fine detail on the rear.
I have their 1962 Falcon XL Squire wagon..... ...and their 1965 Futura coupe (a prize from the monthly contest in the old print version of MAR):
Rio and Dugu were the first handbuilts produced in any quantity. Historically, they are as important to our hobby as the early Dinky Toys. As a teenag...
@dave_larsen The Lane Museum may have even more Tatras. And I've driven their Skoda (it conked out on the rally a couple years ago).
@gdh Don't know much about that one, nor Cult.
@gdh The Matrix # is MX11705-071. Description is Rolls Royce Silver Cloud Harold Radford Estate (1959).
Here's the early version of the Matrix Rolls (no open rear panel):
Way back in 2013 I got the HPI/Mirage 2000GT Tokyo Motor Show version in a deep candy apple maroon. At that time I recall there were 150 of this versi...
Scheckter clinched the title by winning the Italian GP. Mattel made a replica of that car. No doubt there are several differences that would be visibl...
I have the sand/orange coupe with wires too. But this year DeSoto was popular with Dinky Toys also. Though labeled by them as a Fireflite, I believe i...
@karl I thought I saw it at 2:31 but wasn't sure. Very close similarity to the Buicks preceding it.