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@Kilo Charlie

I’ll find another one for you

 

That’s pretty cool. I don’t want to get started on collecting trains but the slot car setup is nice! Maybe…. What might you be looking for this? I have my grandfathers train set which is very big but no place to display it.

 

Here’s one of the cars from it

 

I was looking at some vintage sets last night. I was kind of surprised the prices were so high. I could find no train and slot car combos. Everything was trains or cars for $300 and up.

Is $250 too much to ask for the unit?

 

Let me look into that. I don’t want to short change you.

 

That is a cool old set, definitely figure out the value. Keep it if you can, or trade it for something as cool, IE antique Flyfishing gear.

 

Is there any other writing on the sides of the box besides Tyco?

 

Just the box cover was kept. The kit was rehomed to a Rubbermaid container when the box started to fail.

 

Last night finds....a few color variations...Red ones are pretty lol.

 

Found some stuff...ebay of course...that's all I saw...

 

I know nothing about trains but was told the ones I have are not HO scale which apparently is what everybody wants.

 

Looks just like it but missing the top that holds two more cars. The cars are definitely the same. Just don’t know if they are the same size. ?
Anyone on here collect trains?

 

A little different, but I was surprised to see this from matchbox. Still in the plastic.

My neighbor’s dad passed away two weeks ago at 97 and I’m helping her clean up, she’s giving me all of his tools and models and supplies.

 

eraser attack

 

All look so much better!

 

FROM EBAY...PRICES VARY...NICE THOUGH!

Gloster Gladiator, Matchbox PK-8 (1972) (scalemates.com)



Scale model kits

Matchbox set up its own plastic kit division in the UK around 1972/73. Concentrating on 1:72 scale military aircraft and 1:76 military vehicles, it competed with the then-dominant Airfix company. The Matchbox kits had a distinctive appearance, the parts in each kit were produced in two or three colors compared to the single color plastic of Airfix. The boxes were also more colorful and included clear windows so the contents could be seen. In addition, unlike Airfix's military vehicle kits, the Matchbox military vehicle kits all came with a small diorama base.


At the end of the decade Matchbox bought the AMT Corporation, an American plastic model kit manufacturer. AMT's line of 1:25 scale cars and trucks were continued.


The Matchbox kits were well made, with modern tooling and techniques, but critics felt that the kits were too coarsely detailed in comparison with other models on the market, and too "toy-like". Yet they were still just as complex and time consuming to construct as any other kit, which limited their appeal to more casual model builders. The company was unable to fully satisfy either the casual or serious model building market, and was one of the first companies to abandon model kits when the hobby started its decline, when selling AMT to the Ertl Company and shutting down its own kit division less than twenty years after starting it.


Original Matchbox model kits are highly collectable.


Kit ranges

1:72, 1:48, 1:32 scale aircraft

1:32, 1:76 scale military vehicles

1:76 scale soldiers

1:700 scale ships

1:32 scale cars

1:12 scale motorcycles

 

There's definitely some model builders here.. post up what you got when you can!

 

I’d love to see this with more detail, headlights, vents, etc painted, such a classic design.

 

This is just the dollar car.
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