My 'Holy Grail'

maldat · Post by **maldat** » Sun May 25, 2014 11:52 pm

I got this in the late 70's Might have been 1980?..
A gift from lesney .. 40 years on I'm still trying to find anther

Thought I'd share it , might be anther out their?.

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Post by **nickjones** » Mon May 26, 2014 12:59 am

Wow that's pretty stunning, How did you come by it?.
Welcome to the forum by the way.

maldat · Post by **maldat** » Mon May 26, 2014 1:07 am

nickjones wrote:Wow that's pretty stunning, How did you come by it?.
Welcome to the forum by the way.

Hi, I used to buy Matchbox cars from the same shop since I was about 3 (1968) . The shop got it as a Gift. and I nagged and nagged the shop owner to sell it to me...

matchboxkiwi · Post by **matchboxkiwi** » Mon May 26, 2014 5:18 am

there was one of these for sale on Trade Me in New Zealand.

Cheers Steve
Matchboxkiwi

Moyboy · Post by **Moyboy** » Mon May 26, 2014 7:12 am

I remember one for sale on Ebay as well.

maldat · Post by **maldat** » Mon May 26, 2014 11:14 pm

Moyboy wrote:I remember one for sale on Ebay as well.

About 10 years ago?....same one .. I stopped collecting 1:75's sold them all off.. didn't sell this,,, Last year I came across 250 MIB 1:75's for a bargin , so I'm collecting again, getting close to 400 MIB now..
Quite glad I still have this as a centre point.

Post by **GHOSTHUNTER** » Mon May 26, 2014 11:46 pm

Hello Maldat, I saw your 'Holy Grail' posting so I presume you will continue to post pictures of your collection, we all want to see some and welcome to the forum.

Thank's for re-sizing the rest of your pictures.

GHOSTHUNTER.

maldat · Post by **maldat** » Tue May 27, 2014 9:09 am

Yes , sorry have done, I have 387 cars with box's , Happy to upload the lot, but must are over 4mb , big pic shows more detail than old man eyes... LOL . some have marks I have never seen...if you know what I mean\

Yes I also had this on www.trademe.co.nz check it out . this site sells matchbox cars for loads more than a book value..some people ref from over priced german sellers ,
Vetius (spelling) will not price this as they have never seen one. emstate (spelling) from them was 80 - 100 pounds..i'd rather keep it.

mike · Post by **mike** » Tue May 27, 2014 5:54 pm

Hello Maldat.
Welcome to the forum.
Very nice holy grail. Congrats.

In my collection this matchbox image.
Perhaps also a holy grail.
I think a single piece.

maldat · Post by **maldat** » Tue May 27, 2014 10:59 pm

Hi That's pretty cool.. Does it have any markings or labels on the back?.

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