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Also simple plastic toy cars and racing cars that ran on railroad tracks. Lledo (Days Gone, Vanguards) – It's the name Odell backwards. Former designer of Matchbox Models of Yesteryear. Product line now absorbed into Corgi; Lone Star Toys – British diecast cars, one product of tool maker DCMT. Looksmart Models – Sister brand of MR ...
A model car, or toy car, is a miniature representation of an automobile. ... Matchbox Toys, The Collector's Guide. London: Eagle Editions, A Quantum Book.
Zarnock is known for a massive Hot Wheels collection that earned him a Guinness World Record title in 2003 [1] and 2007 [2] for owning the largest collection of different model cars (8,128) and is featured in the 2008 "Ripley's Believe It or Not!" book Prepare to Be Shocked. [3] And the 2011 "Ripley's Believe It or Not!" book "Utterly Crazy!"
Tomy discontinued the Johnny Lightning line of diecast cars in 2013. The brand continued to maintain a following by a loyal group of collectors. In early 2016 Round 2 LLC, a toy company owned by Thomas Lowe (who also owned Playing Mantis), revived and reintroduced Johnny Lightning vehicles to the toy market for a second time.
Spot-On models was a brand name for a line of diecast toy cars made by Tri-ang from 1959 through about 1967. [1] They were manufactured in 1:42 scale in Belfast, Northern Ireland, of the United Kingdom. Competition for Spot-On in the British Isles were Corgi Toys and Dinky Toys. The line was particularly British and rarely produced marques from ...
Hubley Real Toys 1958 Ford Sheriff's Car in about 1:50 scale. Toy is from about 1960. Wheels are from a later Matchbox. Another direction around 1960, was Hubley's pre-assembled Real Toys line (called Real Types in Canada). These cars were about 1:50 scale and measured approximately 3 1 ⁄ 4 inches long. [10] Real Toys generally had no ...
Solido Toys. Atglen PA: Schiffer Publishing. ISBN 0-88740-532-0. Gardiner, Gordon; O'Neill, Richard (1996). The Collector's Guide to Toy Cars: An International Survey of Tinplate and Diecast Cars from 1990. London: Salamander Books. ISBN 9780517159774. Olson, Randall (2008). GM in Miniature. Dorcester, England: Veloce Publishing. ISBN ...
A 1953-55 Lesney-Matchbox Road Roller, one of the first toys to be produced under the Matchbox name. The Matchbox name originated in 1953 as a brand name of the British die-casting company Lesney Products, whose reputation was moulded by [2] John W. "Jack" Odell (1920–2007), [3] Leslie Charles Smith (1918–2005), [4] and Rodney Smith.