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.

In 1988, Renee and Terry Taylor were browsing at a flea market when a Matchbox Rolls-Royce circa 1967 caught Terry’s eye. “I had one when I was a kid,” he said. That car was just one of many ...

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.