Matchbox Premiere

Looking around eBay and other online stores for something to purchase, I came across a listing for a car in a series called Matchbox Premiere from the late 90's which made me search for more information. I eventually found a website that showed most of the cars from this time and was hooked. Older cars and castings (most long out of production) with simple colour schemes, detailed front/rear and interior tampographs and Goodyear branded rubber tires.

Diving into what had been produced over the few years that the line ran for, I decided I would focus on getting castings that different to castings I already had (which ruled out most American cars) and began a search. Eventually I found a few sellers that had items I was after and spent some money.

One of those sellers was based in Oregon so the parcel to my shipping address in Oregon took no time to arrive and so was shipped to New Zealand ahead of the few other parcels.

With these arrivals, I very quickly broke my "rule" about not getting to many cars I already had as the racing themed Corvette and the CHIPS themed Camaro called out to me. The RX-7 and the Audi were must haves and am now glad to have them.

Also arriving from the same seller was a single Johnny Lightning car. I have mostly avoided Johnny Lightning since starting collecting as they focus on American cars and that quote is happily filled by Greenlight in my collection. However, I had actually seen this car at a local second hand shop and was interested but did not want to pay the asking price from the store.

All of these cars will be cracked open so look for a YouTube cracking video shortly!