Misc Die Cast

Bored at work, I took a few minutes to check out Trademe (New Zealand's answer to eBay) to check out the relisting of an auction I had wanted for a while but had never purchased before. Looking through the sellers items, I spotted a few other interesting items so after asking a question (if the seller would add a buy price), I added everything to my wish list and waited.

With about an hour left to go, the seller had not answered my question so I set up some snipe bids and used the buy price on the original auction I was wanting in order to take a gamble - hoping I would win everything to save on postage but happy with just one if ended up that way.
Thankfully I did win everything I was after and after getting a postage cost, I had the items a few short days later.

First, a Greenlight Motor World Mini Cooper (the relisted item that started the purchase). For those unaware, Motor World items are metal body, plastic base Greenlights and for the last few series seem to have been stuck on releasing the same cars over and over and over and over again in different paint schemes. This release comes from an earlier time, when Greenlight had some different castings in the lineup and it is also nice to own a 1:64 scale version of the car that my father owns in real life.

Secondly, a pair of Muscle Machine Tuners. Sometime in 2014 I managed to purchase a loose Tuner from the USA and was very impressed with the detailing in the car and it was also fantastic to obtain some more Japanese cars in 1:64 scale to counter all the American cars in the collection. Hopefully some other New Zealand sellers offer more for sale, as importing from eBay is not cheap.