Alfaholic's Tiny Cars - Matchbox, Hot Wheels and others.

Given Hot Wheels are predominantly made for the US market, I wonder how many kids there have even heard of a GTV6. They probably think it's some fantasy car! It will be interesting to see what other variations they produce using this casting in the coming years.

Nice looking Alfa! I will have to alert my son the Hot Wheels collector to keep an eye outfor one for me. I guess I am on the far side of the age divide when it comes to HW and Matchbox. HW came out when I had already for the most part stopped playing with toy cars ( at least not like I do now). Matchbox were too small to fit well with the Corgi and Dinkys when I was, so never had much desire or affinity for either brand. That doesn't mean I don't mind getting the odd one or two that interest me. Like this one! 😁

Nice pair!

I like that GTV however, like Tom, I usually prefer Matchbox over HotWheels, price notwithstanding.

Good point Ian - they'll be furiously Googling for fast & Furious references maybe  .

I already have quite a few boxes of "rabbits" tucked away Jeff - I definitely try to keep new ones to a minimum 

I very much wanted to have the Dinkys and Corgis as a lad Jerry but I guess that coming from a working family the Matchbox cars were much more in my parent's scope (I did want a lot of them after all  ). 
Matchbox makes up by far the majority of my 1:64ish collection as well Tom.  These days I really only add them if they are Alfa Romeos or the odd Fiat so I tend to be a bit brand agnostic.  My preference would be for Matchbox if possible as they are still that little bit less leery than HW.

I'm with you here Julio, as I noted above Matchbox would outdo HW by about 30-to-1 in my colelction.

Being is a smallish town in New Zealand as as pre-teen meant that that Matchbox was pretty much the only option in 1:64, apart form the (basic) local "Fun Ho" brand.  My Dad worked on the wharves back then and did have a friend on a UK ship that would bring me the odd Matchbox Model of Yesteryear car, which I treasure to this day - I was only allowed to get them out of their boxes when I was home from school sick with the flu!  When we moved to Australia in the late '70s a whole new world of diecast cars opened up to me.

I can relate to being a boy and hoping that my mother would buy me a new toy and back then in the late 50s and into the 60s Matchbox were the cheaper option. If we went to the coast I would be given some money, normally ten shillings (that's 50p to the younger UK members) and for for quite a while the Matchbox 1-75 range remained at two shillings so off I would go to buy a couple of cars and some sweets. Life was so simple then. Then Husky joined the party although they were only available in Woolworths. And then, bam, Hot Wheels arrived with muscle cars etc. I had to buy some of those which are the early redlines and yes I still have them and the buttons. And I still have a lot of those Matchbox vehicles and still occasionally buy the old stuff, I've put a photo of an early Scammell lorry and a Budgie VW T2 that I bought recently, hope you don't mind Ian! I shall have to start my own thread in here in due course.

Doh! I am having trouble remembering names of late, last week I couldn't recall the name of a guy who lives just up the road from me. And that Wall of Cars name is Brooks. Guess that I am getting old, well I am 69 in October. Sorry about that Martin, I shall have to remember that as that is also my brother's name. Wanders off muttering 'must try harder to remember peoples names'.