There is an RCMP version too with a Mountie in dress red driving. Here is a rough one but you get the idea.


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73SC wrote:

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Sold on eBay for $107.

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I think I may still have one of those in my basement somewhere.  I have a box of old Corgi, Dinky and Matchbox down there.  Could be some real gold in there, but to find it would mean cleaning out the crawl space.

I used to have a room in my house with the walls covered in lexan display cases. My primary focus was early Matchbox models. Hot wheels were/are cool but when I was a kid most stores (K-Mart, Woolco) stocked Matchbox models. My parents would give me one dollar a week and that would buy me one Matchbox model. I drove my dad nuts because I'd stand at the Matchbox display FOREVER trying to determine which one I wanted. Hmm--this one has "suspension" but this one has opening doors....
For my birthday my parents would give me $10. There was a big K-mart store on the other side of town that had a big display case with the larger Corgi toys. I'd buy one of their Mack Truck/trailer sets. I'd spend HOURS and HOURS in the garden driving my cars on the dirt roads I made. Ahh-the good ol days!


Todd

Here's proof:

You'll have to excuse the haircut- Dad liked to save a few bucks and cut our hair back then!  I tried to enhance the photo to determine what two cars I am playing with but I had no luck. One is a truck. I had a good friend who lived two doors down. He was spoiled and had the best die cast cars-old ones handed down to him in mint condition. You can bet I had him over quite a bit!
I bumped into him at a Home Depot a couple years back-he still has them all, still in the mint late 60's Matchbox carry case! Oh he also has the uncut sheets of O-Pee-Chee hockey cards he got in the early 70's too!

I scored this a year or so ago from a guy in England who sells mint-in-box Corgi and Matchbox. It is the same truck I bought on my 6th birthday:


I wouldn't mind getting the other 4 or 5 trucks I used to have at some point.
 
  Todd

73SC wrote:

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69Laurentian wrote:

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 I'd spend HOURS and HOURS in the garden driving my cars on the dirt roads I made. Ahh-the good ol days!


Todd

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Same. Nice story Todd, wish we'd been neigbours!

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I think we must have all been separated at birth.  I used to build giant cities in the garden in the backyard.  I used pieces of wood to make overpasses and had 6 lane freeways of matchbox cars motoring along.   Of course my Dad hated what I was doing to his flower beds so he never took any pictures.  I should have become a civil engineer and built highways !