Matchbox cars have always been inexpensive toys ... January 2023): $1,199 This van was made with four types of wheels: metal, gray plastic, silver plastic and black plastic.

Die-cast metal cars changed all that, with Matchbox starting production in 1953 and Corgi in 1956. Dinky had been making toy cars at the Meccano factory in Liverpool since the 1930s, but now it ...