Your favorite toy cars, and what became of them ?
Discussion
I had loads but I wasnt one for sticking them in display cases, they got used and usually destroyed, still have a few left that are mixed in with the kids ones.
I wish I had kept more,
This was great
![](http://images.wikia.com/matchbox/images/4/46/1983_Baja_Bouncer.jpg)
I loved the ones that were of standard cars with no livery most though, nothign that had wheels too big for the actual car, no silly engines like this though I have a soft spot for it now
![](http://images4.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20090912013909/matchbox/images/4/40/7514_Mini_Ha_Ha_R.JPG)
Favourite was this,
![](http://www.modelcarmart.co.uk/media/catalog/product/cache/1/image/600x450/5e06319eda06f020e43594a9c230972d/f/i/file_8_30.jpg)
Ended up like all the rest through, ploughed through too many piles of cardboard boxes.
I was alwasy suspicious of the kids that had them in those cases and didnt want to partake in the rallycross down at the bottom of the garden, complete with mud and tarmac sections, I suspect those guys now have new Volkswagens.
I wish I had kept more,
This was great
![](http://images.wikia.com/matchbox/images/4/46/1983_Baja_Bouncer.jpg)
I loved the ones that were of standard cars with no livery most though, nothign that had wheels too big for the actual car, no silly engines like this though I have a soft spot for it now
Favourite was this,
![](http://www.modelcarmart.co.uk/media/catalog/product/cache/1/image/600x450/5e06319eda06f020e43594a9c230972d/f/i/file_8_30.jpg)
Ended up like all the rest through, ploughed through too many piles of cardboard boxes.
I was alwasy suspicious of the kids that had them in those cases and didnt want to partake in the rallycross down at the bottom of the garden, complete with mud and tarmac sections, I suspect those guys now have new Volkswagens.
I had the exact same orange "Baja Bouncer" as you - I loved the "suspension". My son is just getting into Matchbox cars - they don't seem as good as they used to be though but maybe that's me getting old![smile](/inc/images/smile.gif)
Unfortunately, I used to have a bit of an addiction for setting stuff on fire when I was about 9 or 10 so most of my Matchbox cars ended up in "pile-ups" in the back garden. Get a few boxes of matches, cut the heads off then fill up a car with the heads.
I'd forgotten all about that - thanks for the memories![smile](/inc/images/smile.gif)
![smile](/inc/images/smile.gif)
Unfortunately, I used to have a bit of an addiction for setting stuff on fire when I was about 9 or 10 so most of my Matchbox cars ended up in "pile-ups" in the back garden. Get a few boxes of matches, cut the heads off then fill up a car with the heads.
I'd forgotten all about that - thanks for the memories
![smile](/inc/images/smile.gif)
northwest monkey said:
I had the exact same orange "Baja Bouncer" as you - I loved the "suspension". My son is just getting into Matchbox cars - they don't seem as good as they used to be though but maybe that's me getting old![smile](/inc/images/smile.gif)
Unfortunately, I used to have a bit of an addiction for setting stuff on fire when I was about 9 or 10 so most of my Matchbox cars ended up in "pile-ups" in the back garden. Get a few boxes of matches, cut the heads off then fill up a car with the heads.
I'd forgotten all about that - thanks for the memories![smile](/inc/images/smile.gif)
Yeah, the suspension was the major thing with the Baja Bouncer, we had a few of them in different colours, the orange one and I think a blue, maybe a red one.![smile](/inc/images/smile.gif)
Unfortunately, I used to have a bit of an addiction for setting stuff on fire when I was about 9 or 10 so most of my Matchbox cars ended up in "pile-ups" in the back garden. Get a few boxes of matches, cut the heads off then fill up a car with the heads.
I'd forgotten all about that - thanks for the memories
![smile](/inc/images/smile.gif)
The "Majorette" branded French toy cars were great as well as they had suspension long before the Baja Bouncer and they tended to do the more standard cars I liked.
1/10th scale General Lee... jumping it out of my bedroom window onto concrete below recreated the fate of many of the cars from the TV series, somewhat bent. I did it a number of times just to make sure ![smile](/inc/images/smile.gif)
All the surviving matchbox cars, and garage my old man made, are now heavily used by our two boys when we visit my mother. All of them have lots of paint missing, and seem to have dried mud caked into the back of the wheels - I think they may have been involved in some sort of RAC Rally in the garden recreation in about 1986!
![smile](/inc/images/smile.gif)
All the surviving matchbox cars, and garage my old man made, are now heavily used by our two boys when we visit my mother. All of them have lots of paint missing, and seem to have dried mud caked into the back of the wheels - I think they may have been involved in some sort of RAC Rally in the garden recreation in about 1986!
I had so many toy cars, lot's of different scales too. No idea where they are now though. My two favourites were a Ferrari 348 and a GMC tow truck, both Matchbox I think and both 1/62 scale.
My pet hate when younger, from a very early age was people mixing the scales. I wouldn't play cars with others as they used to bring out 1/34 scale and 1/43 scale cars and play with them together. Even worse when it was with the 1.62 ones.
Am I weird?
My pet hate when younger, from a very early age was people mixing the scales. I wouldn't play cars with others as they used to bring out 1/34 scale and 1/43 scale cars and play with them together. Even worse when it was with the 1.62 ones.
Am I weird?
J4CKO said:
I loved the ones that were of standard cars with no livery most though, nothign that had wheels too big for the actual car, no silly engines like this though I have a soft spot for it now
![](http://images4.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20090912013909/matchbox/images/4/40/7514_Mini_Ha_Ha_R.JPG)
Mini Ha Ha if I recall, still have a good one in the loft.I still have my 1970's Scalextric GT40s as well as a Siku Volvo F10 bought with pocket money from the old Whitehouse Truckstop in the late 70's.
Turning to toy cars I didn't like, I also bought a Mack truck from the film Convoy - Rubber Duck.
![](http://images.worthpoint.com/files/pb/1392/5879/121.jpg)
Like the above made by ITRL, once I opened the box I just didn't like it, some of the wheels wouldn't go round, it was the wrong scale to other trucks so got rarely used & kept in it's box which got more dog eared.
I stuck it on ebay a couple of years ago & it went for £120!! Some of the money was spent on a Mack Mascot and base which sits on my front room shelf now as a mark of respect!!
J4CKO said:
I had loads but I wasnt one for sticking them in display cases, they got used and usually destroyed, still have a few left that are mixed in with the kids ones.
I wish I had kept more,
This was great
![](http://images.wikia.com/matchbox/images/4/46/1983_Baja_Bouncer.jpg)
This was my favourite bar none. Testament to this is the fact it's practically bare metal. Still in a box in my parents loft...I wish I had kept more,
This was great
![](http://images.wikia.com/matchbox/images/4/46/1983_Baja_Bouncer.jpg)
I had both of those and loved the bouncy suspension on the truck. lol
J4CKO said:
I had loads but I wasnt one for sticking them in display cases, they got used and usually destroyed, still have a few left that are mixed in with the kids ones.
I wish I had kept more,
This was great
![](http://images.wikia.com/matchbox/images/4/46/1983_Baja_Bouncer.jpg)
I loved the ones that were of standard cars with no livery most though, nothign that had wheels too big for the actual car, no silly engines like this though I have a soft spot for it now
![](http://images4.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20090912013909/matchbox/images/4/40/7514_Mini_Ha_Ha_R.JPG)
I wish I had kept more,
This was great
![](http://images.wikia.com/matchbox/images/4/46/1983_Baja_Bouncer.jpg)
I loved the ones that were of standard cars with no livery most though, nothign that had wheels too big for the actual car, no silly engines like this though I have a soft spot for it now
The 2 I thought of straight away are
Rover Sterling, two-tone class
![](http://thumbsnap.com/sc/er1ZcR6a.jpg)
and a Volvo 480 (Parents had a Volvo or two growing up but not a 480)
![](http://thumbsnap.com/sc/OC3y6vhv.jpg)
I liked to play with them too much so none were ever pristine for long, I think they were given away by my parents after I had left home to a friend of the family child (along with the RS500 Scalextric set
Rover Sterling, two-tone class
![](http://thumbsnap.com/sc/er1ZcR6a.jpg)
and a Volvo 480 (Parents had a Volvo or two growing up but not a 480)
![](http://thumbsnap.com/sc/OC3y6vhv.jpg)
I liked to play with them too much so none were ever pristine for long, I think they were given away by my parents after I had left home to a friend of the family child (along with the RS500 Scalextric set
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