Fast & Furious is a series of 8 movies to date, set in the world of illegal street car racing. The first three films I had on DVD, in the days when I still bought DVDs. The films are about fast cars, fighting, pretty girls and loud music and they have been immensely successful at…
The last haul of the year. I managed to stay under my 100 lari budget (just), it wasn’t easy, as I had begun the month paying 40 lari for a Corgi Chevrolet Corvette Stingray, the highlight of the month with immense nostalgia value. The Georgian lari has fared badly against the US dollar recently, 100…
Some castings, I like so much I might get a second (or sometimes a third model). The Dodge Demons in blue and orange complement each other. Wheel variants on the Mars Curiosity Rover. I started with a pair of Dodges, I’ll finish with three Dodge Charger Daytonas, I love this casting it is so over…
Dodge is part of the Chrysler group and like Chrysler has recently been acquired by Fiat. Dodge is well-known today for being a player in the muscle car market of the late sixties and early seventies with models like the Charger and Coronet, the pinnacle being the Challenger sports coupe and convertible (Dodge‘s entry into the “pony car”…
Some models and castings, I like so much that I have more than one. I love the Porsche 911 GT3R…here are two versions from Hot Wheels… …and three versions from Matchbox… Two versions of the Toyota RAV4 from Majorette. Two slightly playworn versions of the Majorette Datsun 260Z. These aren’t diecast but plastic, five versions of…
My first diecast cars were Matchbox. My earliest memories were of Matchbox vehicles. On my First Birthday cake I had a Matchbox Car. My earliest memory is being on a train holding onto a Matchbox Racing Car Transporter (K-5). I also had a Pickfords Removal van from the regular 1-75 range, which my parents would…
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