Matchbox cars were the gateway drug for countless auto ... and the double-decker London bus. This is the second vintage Matchbox collection to appear on BaT. A larger one, with 240 pieces, sold ...

It's never a boring day in the diecast collector world. If you are running out of ideas on what to buy, you must dig deeper and look farther back in time.

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 the first one was made for a girl, not a boy.