Welcome to the latest Never Mind The Adverts Here Are The Toys!
In this edition I share photos of some 70s and 80s die cast cars I found at my local flea market in France last Sunday. Featuring the brands Corgi, Matchbox, Majorette, and my first example of a Politoys (later rebranded as the famous Polistil company). I also snagged a vintage set of German FX-Schmid automobile cards. FX-Schmid was one of the forerunners to the world famous Top Trumps cards which are still popular and sold to date. Those of you who had a set of Waddingtons Top Trumps back in the 80s will recognise the familiar old-school design of the cards.
So, cars, cars and cards of cars… not a bad haul then, and a relaxing way to spend an hour on a Sunday morning, and all for less than the price of a pain au chocolate and double espresso (which incidently I had too π )
Enjoy the pics!
Matchbox Battle Kings K 105 Hover-Raider. 1974. UK
Matchbox Superfast Chevy Van “Vanpire”. 1979. UK
Politoys Abarth 2000. N Y 19. Pininfarina. C1970s. ItalyΒ
Majorette Ford Escort XR3. NΒ° 212. 1987/8. France
Majorette motorized Motor. C1980s. France.
Majorette Ford Capri. NΒ° 251. 1982/3. France
Matchbox Super Kings Security Truck K 19. 1978. UK
FX-Schmid Top Trumps Quartet game NΒ° 53322. Autos de Course. C1970s. Germany/FranceΒ
As always thanks for looking π
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i had the jerry mouse car. I owned a few capri and xr3i. love your blog it keeps bringing back good memories
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I had a few Escorts, still have a Corgi one. Cheers Neil, it makes me very happy to know my blog brings back good memories of the toys we loved π
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Ah, Matchbox cars. I used to get a Matchbox car every weekend from the Barras when I was wee. Sometimes my grandad would help me but two if weβd looked at old watches for a while beforehand. Good times. I actually had the hover raider among other things.
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I had the Hover-Raider too. I remember staying at the grandparents each summer holiday and my great nan would spoil me with toys – always a few Matchbox cars during those summer hols, and Britains soldiers too. Good times as you say π
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You got some cute toys. Well done! I’m partial to the Ford Capri, myself. The racing car is pretty sweet, though.
If I re-follow you, it’s because the follows fall away. Seems to repeat on some blogs.
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That Ford Capri is lovely. When I was a kid the neighbour in our grove had an orange one with a white roof. Always thought it was such a cool looking car.
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Neat…orange and white…. π
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Hi TVTA, I am doing well with your recent posts, in this one I had the Tom and Jerry Ranger, the Hover Raider (though the torpedoes were missing) and I owned a few packs of Top Trumps too (mainly fighter aircraft/aviation and motor vehicles/bikes).
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Hi FT. Brilliant you had both the Tom & Jerry cars – I love those two. I had a bit of a nostalgia rush picking this lot up, as I too owned the Hover-Raider and many Top Trumps packs (like yourself they were mostly aircraft and vehicle sets).
The flea market had other die cast cars but they were badly scratched or had dinged wheels, The ones I nabbed all have excellent working wheels and fairly good paint.
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Hi TVTA, yes I seemed to have a lot of T&J toys, I even had a vinyl stuffed Tom toy which had a string pull voice box! He/it was really big and heavy…but of course the catchphrases were the best part. One was “I hate meeces to peeces!” and another was, “Mice are nice on toast and rice!”.
Getting back to car collecting most of the cars I have now are mounted in display boxes and are either WRC or Formula 1 models.
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Speaking Tom sounds fun. I must have spent hours upon hours playing the T&J Game of Ludo by MB games. The graphics on the box and playing board are very cool.
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Ah, the only game me and my brothers had was “Mouse Trap”, so the wrong mouse! I didn’t know MB had done a Ludo game though. And the problem with “Speaking Tom” was that he was so heavy my brother would use him as a weapon and swing it about like a club!
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Loved Mouse Trap. Was fun to build and watch it in motion even when not playing the actual game.
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The old die cast cars are cool, especially the ones with the opening doors! My folks went to a toy museum in Canada today, the pics they sent me look OK but it was lacking in a few areas. We’d fix it up! π
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Hi Dee. That sounds great! I imagine walls and cabinets full of fun and colour and candy and and games and dolls and cars and vinyl records and more!! π Been a while since I went to a toy or nostalgia museum. I honestly have enough memorabilia now I could start my own exhibition. I should do really because much of it is in storage and the only way I get to show it off is here at the blog.
By the way your recent post about how you got bad looks for the way you were dressed made me feel for you. You always look so stunning on your photographs. Stylish and elegant I’d say for sure. Keep up the excellent work over at your blog! I’m off to look for an exhibition space :)X
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These Tory cars are great finds! Those Top Trump cards are fan as well. Remember having two horror monsters Top Trump sets, those were great to play at Halloween π
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Ah yes, those original Top Trumps Horror sets were fantastic, and they go for a good bit of money now – if they’re the ones I think you mean. They re-released them recently with the same comic book style artwork.
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Yeah, they were brilliant. They featured a lot of classic monsters, Dracula, Frankenstein, Wolfman, ect. Didn’t realise they were worth much now. Great artwork on them as well. Awesome they re released them too!
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