September is my birthday month, I had quite a few diecast gifts this month. I finish the month with another 21 cars added to the collection from 9 different diecast brands. Matchbox Hot Wheels Other Brands Bilan 21 cars: Hot Wheels 6, Matchbox 8, Minichamps 1, Mini GT 1, Corgi 1, Oxford Diecast 1, RealToy ..read more

Here is a brief 25 second video of my Matchbox shelf, most of the cars on it are from between 1968 and 1972, the years that saw the transition from regular wheels to Superfast, my favorite era ..read more

For most of August I was away from my usual hunting grounds, so I didn’t get many cars this month. My friend Viljar from Estonia visited Tbilisi but because of our schedules we weren’t able to meet up but he did leave me a package of wonderful cars. In addition to the four models I ..read more

Only six cars added to my collection this month, all Hot Wheels. ‘94 Audi Avant RS2 Red wagon. Made in Malaysia Alfa Romeo GTV6 3.0 White 70s sports car. Made in Malaysia Honda Civic Si Gold. Made in Malaysia BMW 2002 Vintage Racing Club Series. Made in Thailand Volkswagen Jetta Mk 3 Fast and Furious HW Decades of Fast Series. Made in Thailand Custom Datsun 240 Z Vintage Racing Club Series. Made in Thailand Bilan 6 cars: Hot Wheels 6 6 bought new Outlets:  4 Pepela 1 Carrefour, 1 XS Toys Expenditure: 69.45 GEL ($25.50) 1 lari = 37 US cents ..read more

I added 20 cars to my collection in June. The Matchbox Car Transporter is not in the main pic. I got all 8 of the secondhand Matchbox cars in a trade with Dato for some Hot Wheels Hondas and a Range Rover. The carded Matchbox cars I found in a shop that was new to me Hobbyshop.Ge, which is only 5 minutes walk from here I live but I came across it by chance when I was going for a haircut! They had a lot of very detailed but expensive new diecast cars from manufacturers like MiniGT, Ixo etc…. and a whole cabinet of carded Hot Wheels and Matchbox. Matchbox 10 Matchbox cars added. Beetle Streake ..read more

12 cars, 6 carded, 6 loose Lotus Esprit Pontiac Draguar Nissan Skyline H/T 2000 GT-X Mercedes AMG 55 Ford Model A Van “Matchbox Series” ’67 Custom Mustang Nissan Skyline GtR 33 “Godzilla” ‘60s Fiat 500D Modificado VW Golf Mk1 GTi Morris Minor Saloon Datsun 240Z Bilan 12 cars: Hot Wheels 6, Matchbox 5, Realtoy 1 3 bought new, 5 bought secondhand, 4 exchanges Outlets: 2 Piltoni (V-P), 4 exchanges, 2 from Igor, 1 Vagzlis, 3 Pepela (Expo Georgia) Expenditure: 59.70 GEL ($21.39) 1 lari = 36 US cents ..read more

16 Cars added I added 16 cars to my collection in April but not a single Matchbox car, which is unusual as Matchbox is my favourite brand. There was a meeting of the 1:64 collectors’ club in April, so some of these cars I got via exchanges. Mad Manga (Hot Wheels) in Police deco. This is a fantasy vehicle in the Japanese Bouzouki style. Nissan Skyline RS (KDR30) (Hot Wheels). Skylines are highly sought after locally by collectors, I traded a Mercedes 560SEC for this. Lincoln Continental (Hot Wheels). I would have been happier to find the old Matchbox Lincoln Continental but that would be a rar ..read more

March 2024 carded Honda Civic Si (Hot Wheels) Gold color. Made in Malaysia. Ford Escort RS2000 (Hot Wheels). Lime green. Made in Malaysia. Proton Saga (Hot Wheels). The first Proton in my collection. Made in Malaysia. 1966 Dodge Charger (Matchbox). 70th anniversary colors. Made in Thailand ’89 Mercedes-Benz 560 SEC AMG (Hot Wheels) In black, a very popular model with collectors locally. Made in Malaysia. LB Silhouette Nissan Silva (S15)(Hot Wheels). Gold color. Made in Malaysia. March 2024 Loose models Mercedes E55 AMG (Realtoy) 1:61 scale. Made in China Ford Capri 3.0S (Corgi Juniors). Ope ..read more

January wasn’t a big month for collecting, I added 10 cars to my collection, mostly Hot Wheels and only one Matchbox. January Acquisitions ‘76 Chevy Chevette (Hot Wheels). Drag strip style, I got this because the Chevette brings back memories of the seventies. In England there was the Vauxhall Chevette that was very similar in style to the Chevy Chevette. Mazda 787B (Hot Wheels). I have this model in blue as well. This was a car I liked to race in Gran Turismo 6. ‘62 Corvette (Hot Wheels). I like how the car has a black and white style like it is from an old film or TV Series. Track Manga (Ho ..read more

40 Cars added to my collection Another few hauls this month, from Manana’s secondhand toy shop and from the meeting of 1:64 collectors’ club and a few models picked up here and there. Matchbox Most of the old Matchbox came from Manana’s Secondhand Toy Shop 321 Tsotne Dadiani Street, a 10 minute walk from Didube Metro in Tbilisi. I was very pleased to find some of these. 19 Matchbox additions Maserati Bora. Opening doors. 1:58 scale. I got this in a part exchange with a Hot Wheels Datsun 510 Wagon. The Maserati Bora was my dream car as a kid in the 1970s. I now have two of these little Matchbo ..read more