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 ...

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.

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.