Many of us are 42 to 52 years old now and have forgotten about collecting. But some are actively collecting right now. Fortunately lots of toy cars are still are packed away in attics, basements, and garages. The challenge for collectors is to find those collections and hopefully add more cars to our own collections.  Matchbox cars are easy to collect as there were only 75 cars made in 1969 and they each came in only one color.  All you need is one of each, preferably mint-in-the-original-box.  You can add about 10 additional models and have all the 1968's as well.  Most of the Matchbox cars were bought by our parents who liked how real they looked.  They were rather plain and did not race well so when Hot Wheels came out in 1968 they totally kicked Matchbox cars butt! 
 
Hot Wheels, wow, they are cool!  All my friends had boxes and boxes of them.  I don't know why but my parents never bought them for me.  So I have spent the last 15 years collecting them to make up for that childhood suffering!  The neat thing about the 1968 to 1972 line of Hot Wheels is that there are 118 models and each of them can come in up to 20 different colors.  These Hot Wheels were so popular that almost always they were played with so finding them in the original package is not easy.  Many played with toys have paint damage and dulled colors.  Even the ones that have not been played with will turn dull and darken, loosing much of the luster that makes them so beautiful.

I am actively buying Hot Wheels collections right now.  If you have a box of Hot Wheels in like new condition I can help you turn them in to a tidy some of cash.  Collectors like myself are interested in both quality and quantity.  It is most desirable to have cars in perfect condition, but we also like to have lots of played with cars because they look more like the ones we carried around with us when we were kids.  Plus the perfect ones are scarce and command high prices, but the played with ones are plentiful and inexpensive.  So no matter the condition of your cars I will buy them.  When searching the internet to get a feel for what a car is worth remember that everything you find for sale has not sold yet so that is not really useful information.  Also any price you see is a "one car sale" price.  So if you are looking to sell many cars at the same time a one car sale price will not help.  If you are selling a collection you'll need to find other collections that have sold, and that is difficult to find.  Usually a sellers best bet is to get as many offers as possible from collectors who actually have the money to spend and are willing to spend it.

PLEASE DO NOT CONTACT ME IF THE FOLLOWING APPLY TO YOUR CARS:

1. You have 1,000 or more cars you bought from Wal-Mart in the last 15 years
2. You have Hot Wheels cars that you found with your metal detector
3. You kept your cars in a coffee can and feel that there is still "some" paint left
4. You think that your cars are "really nice for being 30 + years old" when
     actually they are all beat up
5. Your Matchbox cars are used and their boxes long gone

Sorry but those descriptions are of cars that are not of interest to a collector.

I am most interested in Hot Wheels with Red Stripes on the Tires

Just send me a few photos so I can see if you have interesting cars david@toycarcollector.com