But did you know your Matchbox car or one owned by your child or grandchild could be worth hundreds or thousands of pounds? The die-cast models were first launched by Lesney Products back in 1953, ...

We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. Matchbox was making tiny die-cast cars more than a decade before Hot Wheels rolled onto the scene. It might be even more surprising to learn ...

Everett Marshall wanted to pass along one of his childhood joys — collecting and playing with the Matchbox collection of die cast toy cars — to his then toddler son. The original creators of the cars, ...

Car and cargo bounce over the rocks and clumps of grass on the makeshift road, yet seem unstoppable. The GT40 recovers from its miscue and sets off in pursuit of the Beetle/bike/trailer combo-but not ...

Matchbox, maker of tiny toy cars, is bringing back one if its most important models. It’s not a car, but a little horse-drawn coach, and its success led to the creation of Matchbox toy cars. And it ...

This year marks the 60th anniversary of Matchbox die-cast models, which have gone from child's toys to collector's items. More than three billion Matchbox cars have been sold in the last 60 years. If ...

The world's most hotly sought after Matchbox car achieved a record-breaking price at auction recently. The Matchbox Quarry Truck, quoted by experts as the rarest and most valuable Matchbox toy ever ...

Leslie Smith, co-founder of the company that made Britain’s beloved Matchbox toy cars, which are still on the market and have become prized collectibles, has died. He was 87. Smith died of cancer May ...

The latest exhibit at the Antique Automobile Club of America Museum in Hershey is a pretty big deal, even though the cars are pretty small. Hundreds of tiny Matchbox vehicles will be exhibited in the ...

YOU never forget a job you loved, well that’s what many of the thousands of workers at the Lesney Products (later Matchbox Toys) factory thought of their time there. Documents from Rochford District ...