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> OT How are you guys displaying your matchbox/hotwheels?, Without opening package?
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post Feb 7 2010, 10:54 AM
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I have been trying to find a good way to display without opening the packages. I bought some poster frame and cut to length to get this:

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Anybody have any better ideas? I would lke to display the car name too, but the poster frame method will not allow.
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post Feb 7 2010, 12:01 PM
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I open most of mine.

Nice GT2 there...is that Hot Wheels or Matchbox?
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post Feb 7 2010, 12:12 PM
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I buy two so I can open one for display and store the other for posterity. I got to be able to handle them.
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post Feb 7 2010, 12:23 PM
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Hmm, I dont think I have a GT2. Or do I? Which one? The 2nd opened car from the right is a GT3 matchbox.

And I hear ya doc, I open any I can get duplicates of. Be interested to see how everybody is displaying opened and unopened cars.
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post Feb 7 2010, 12:27 PM
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I think your idea is the best I have seen, though. Pretty clever. I intend to build a multi-tiered display rack, kind of like the ones you see people displaying golf balls on. That way I can have a nice looking peice of furniture and still be able to display my small collection. Right now they are on top of the TV cabinet......and I am running out of room.
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post Feb 7 2010, 12:48 PM
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What good is a toy you can't play with? (IMG:style_emoticons/default/smile.gif) I'm going out today to look for another so I can't rip open the package on the second. I don't yet have enough to worry about displaying them. They're currently hanging from the wire shelf on my desk.
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post Feb 7 2010, 01:17 PM
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Convence your wife that peg board is the latest fashion in home remodeling (IMG:style_emoticons/default/happy11.gif)
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post Feb 7 2010, 02:36 PM
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Isn't this a GT-2?



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post Feb 7 2010, 03:23 PM
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Nope, it is a GT3.

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post Feb 7 2010, 05:34 PM
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Bummer!

I picked up this the other day....I need to work a shelving system to display a ton of little cars! (IMG:style_emoticons/default/biggrin.gif)

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post Feb 7 2010, 06:17 PM
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I have some nice wall displsy " racks " I got form a golf store that closed down. Haven't actually gotten one hung yet but that is what I plan to use for some of them. I'll get some pics later this week when I get the hangers cleaned up
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post Feb 7 2010, 09:15 PM
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One for display and the other to push with your hand and make vrooom vrooom noises?? (IMG:style_emoticons/default/lol-2.gif)
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post Feb 7 2010, 10:59 PM
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(IMG:style_emoticons/default/agree.gif) You have it figured out Elliot! (Except my 914 goes pblbpbblpbppt) (IMG:style_emoticons/default/blink.gif)


I messed around with this case a bit tonight. It is going to be a fun thing to keep up with! Except I have to put it out in the garage.... :nails: (IMG:style_emoticons/default/dry.gif)

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post Feb 8 2010, 11:06 AM
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I went to Home Depot and bought some plastic "rails" that attach the tub surround to the wall. I then attached one to the wall right next to the ceiling, and another one just far enough down the wall so the matchbox packaging fits in the grooves. Now my hobby room has a border around the ceiling of nice, not bent, unopened matchbox packages.

I will post pictures later...
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post Feb 8 2010, 07:34 PM
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As soon as I get a spare moment on a weekend that doesn't involve shoveling out from a blizzard i'm gonna trundle on down to IKEA #1 in Conshohocken and pick up one of these:

Search IKEA .com for 'detolf' -- $60.

I have no matchbox to speak of but I have a bunch of 1:43...


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post Feb 9 2010, 06:58 PM
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Need to dig around at my parents house. I have a box out there with more in it but for now this is what I had out.


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old thread - just noticed

i buy a lot of mostly 1/43 & matchbox size models on eBay - no boxes in many cases cuz the old cars are old & lost & sometime kid toys -

strictly for nostalgia - no illusions about collectible value

(S.O. rightly says stuff like this only ends up in dumpster when we die)

display space is at a premium - and S.O. has rules

- my quest is to have one of each interesting car i remember owning & in the colors i owned - 46 so far, since 2011 -

case is from Franklin Mint longer ago - case is 24x13x6, mirror back
(about max'd now): - i'll buy a larger model only if can't find small one, & replace it with a small one, if/when i find it

if i do get boxes & such i put 'em folded into a big carton in storage "for someday"

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My 6 year old destroy every match box/hot wheels car I get. I would have to buy 3....one to save and 2 to hopefully last long enough.
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post Jan 23 2017, 03:54 PM
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I might be the odd person here, I only have one 1:43 scale 914 and one 1:18 scale of my old truck.
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