Matchbox Premiere (and other die cast)

After looking around online for a few weeks, I decided to make the plunge one night and purchased a few Matchbox Premiere items from the same seller. The particular seller who happened to have a Hot Wheels Retro Entertainment item I was interested in, and because they were very cheap I also added in a few Matchbox Superfast items from 2004.

As mentioned in other blog posts, my focus for going after older Matchbox items was to get older castings that are no longer in production, along with focusing on non American castings. I've already broken that rule in purchases that arrived earlier, but rules are meant to be broken. One of these American castings (the 57 Chevy) reminds me of a standard Matchbox car I had when I was a child of the late 80's or early 90's which is why I was excited to be able to get a premiere version of the casting.

Arriving in the same parcel from my USA shipping address were two items from an eBay seller - I spent about a week trying to decide if I purchase one car (as it was the only decently priced one around) or add more items from the seller I was half interested in. It turns out my decision was made for me when the eBay shopping cart advised me that the seller did not combine postage and there was no way I was paying over $20US in postage on a couple of items - so I made do with two.

The Mercedes has the distinction of not only being non American, and a race car but also one of only times this casting as been released. The Muscle Machine made it to the collection as I have started a very small collection of these very nicely detailed tuners and I continue to add more as funds and availability allow.