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Post by cmmf on Aug 23, 2022 14:26:45 GMT -5
In my early days of 1/43 modeller/collector we could buy diecasts not only in toy shops, but also in other places like tobacco shops or drugstores. Marketing of shops owners consisted basically in giving us these sheets and catalogues, to make the appetite grow. Sometimes these also could be found inside diecast's boxes. Here's some I kept, probably 45/50 years old...     |
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Post by WallOfCars on Aug 23, 2022 15:31:22 GMT -5
Thanks for sharing! What a lovely look back. I get very nostalgic looking at any old advertising, brochures etc.
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Post by Tom on Aug 24, 2022 0:36:09 GMT -5
I still recall the 1975 and '76 Matchbox brochures.
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Post by DeadCanDanceR on Aug 24, 2022 1:02:33 GMT -5
Those are wonderful! Even more so since I have a few of the models included in those old catalogs!  I have a couple of old Corgi catalogs, I’ll photograph and share them here soon! |
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Post by oldirish33 on Aug 24, 2022 10:45:32 GMT -5
Back when Politoys. Rio and Solido were the gold standard for diecasts. Many fond memories of collecting that M Series.
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Post by 105epaul on Aug 24, 2022 11:29:44 GMT -5
I also have a collection of old catalogues plus some reproduction versions, to me they remind me of times from my past when there were toy shops on every high street and even my local newsagent and the small shop nearby sold toys, usually Matchbox as they were much cheaper than Dinky, Corgi and Spot-On. A catalogue held a wish list for boys who hoped that some of those vehicles might appear at Christmas or on one's birthday. I know that I did. Foreign made diecasts were very exotic and rare and expensive, occasionally a shop might have some French Dinky but you never saw Politoys or Rio. Eventually Solido began to appear and as Jerry says they were the gold standard. I still have a fair few of them plus other makes.
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Post by cmmf on Aug 24, 2022 11:57:35 GMT -5
As a child, in my neighborhood in Lisbon there was this toy shop called Bavaria – probably due to German toy's influence – that used to sell a lot of this old diecasts.
Also had plastic kits, toy guns, trains, boats, etc.
And also very interesting cars in 1:8 or 1:12 scale, those with batteries. Nothing of RC, we would command these cars with a primitive pod with little steering wheel and some buttons...the pod connected to the car by a cable!
I remember having tho of those big electric cars, a Ferrari 250 LM with opening doors, and a Citroen DS 19, both quite accurate in terms of shape and details.
I truly regret they not survived...
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Post by Jean B. on Aug 26, 2022 8:45:32 GMT -5
Fantastic thread, thank you! I simply do love old catalogues and brochures, not only for model cars! All those vintage printed things transfer my mind immediately into old times, even those before my birth (have been a nerd ever since...  ). My childhood was in the seventies, and meanwhile I'm doing what Freud named regression, the psychologic rollback of the personality into an infant condition. Hearing music from that time, ordering the TV shows of that time on DVD, and building model cars, which I would have loved to build back then as a teenager (well, I guess that was in the eighties, rather...). However, I love the way those old brochures were made, the paper, the printing, the typefonts, the expression. To complete the childhood I never had, I meanwhile collected all Danhausen model car books, the "bible" of model building, you know. The earliest one is that from 1975:
All my Matchbox brochures of the 1970s are gone, but I can confirm what you've already written here: always the thought "would I only get a dozen of them for Christmas!"  Or: "Mom, I really do need this model very, very urgent, I cannot continue playing without it!"  Well, some of my old Matchbox cars are still existent, the boxes and brochures aren't...
Like to see more printed stuff of old times... |
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Post by DeadCanDanceR on Aug 27, 2022 9:37:45 GMT -5
Fantastic thread, thank you! I simply do love old catalogues and brochures, not only for model cars! All those vintage printed things transfer my mind immediately into old times, even those before my birth (have been a nerd ever since... ). My childhood was in the seventies, and meanwhile I'm doing what Freud named regression, the psychologic rollback of the personality into an infant condition. Hearing music from that time, ordering the TV shows of that time on DVD, and building model cars, which I would have loved to build back then as a teenager (well, I guess that was in the eighties, rather...). However, I love the way those old brochures were made, the paper, the printing, the typefonts, the expression. To complete the childhood I never had, I meanwhile collected all Danhausen model car books, the "bible" of model building, you know. The earliest one is that from 1975:
All my Matchbox brochures of the 1970s are gone, but I can confirm what you've already written here: always the thought "would I only get a dozen of them for Christmas!" Or: "Mom, I really do need this model very, very urgent, I cannot continue playing without it!" Well, some of my old Matchbox cars are still existent, the boxes and brochures aren't...
Like to see more printed stuff of old times... Nice! I have one old Danhausen catalogue that I got when I used to visit them, while working and living in Germany, back in 1986! Going there was like visiting Heaven!  |
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Post by oldirish33 on Aug 27, 2022 12:33:36 GMT -5
I posted some old Dinky and Solido catalogs on the old forum site. If there is interest, I can post them again here.
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Post by cmmf on Aug 27, 2022 16:26:19 GMT -5
I posted some old Dinky and Solido catalogs on the old forum site. If there is interest, I can post them again here. Yes, please, I would like to see those! |
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Post by GBOAC002 on Sept 18, 2022 5:15:52 GMT -5
Just looking back at the above Auto Pilen catalogue metallic copper/bronze DeTomaso Mangusta has escaped my attention for some inexplicable reason. One to put right soon!
Catalogues would sometimes show models which never reached production/sale.
I remember my delight on discovering 'Model Time' shop in Croydon in 1972 and buying two Solido and one Politoys cars! Later on when I worked in London in the 1980s St Martins Accessories became my number one shop for Minichamps.
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). My childhood was in the seventies, and meanwhile I'm doing what Freud named regression, the psychologic rollback of the personality into an infant condition. Hearing music from that time, ordering the TV shows of that time on DVD, and building model cars, which I would have loved to build back then as a teenager (well, I guess that was in the eighties, rather...). However, I love the way those old brochures were made, the paper, the printing, the typefonts, the expression. To complete the childhood I never had, I meanwhile collected all Danhausen model car books, the "bible" of model building, you know. The earliest one is that from 1975:
Or: "Mom, I really do need this model very, very urgent, I cannot continue playing without it!" 
Well, some of my old Matchbox cars are still existent, the boxes and brochures aren't... 
