I hope everyone participates. My favorite Matchbox is the Field Car pulling the yellow Honda trailer with purple Honda motorcycle. My pic of it is in my photo album. I have many favorites but if I had to sell all of my cars, that is the one I would keep. It has sentimental value.

That's a very complicated question!
So many of my '60s MBs have immense sentimental value ~ my first two I got when I was 1 or 2 years old (I still have all my old ones) was the #28 Jag Mark 10 and the #42 Studebaker Wagonair.

Then there's aesthetic value, the ones I think are the best looking of my original MBs.
That would have to be the # 75 Ferrari Berlinetta w/wires, of course! The Mark 10 Jag too.
But then again, I sure did put a ton of miles on my early Superfast transitionals. Ran the wheels of'em!!!
My #41 GT-40, Opel Diplomat #36 and #59 '65 Ford Fire Chief Car are worn down to the axles!

My 2 favorites are the Sunbeam motorcycle with sidecar and the Fowlers Showman Steam engine.

http://i50.photobucket.com/albums/f350/terry9911/sunbeam.jpg

http://i50.photobucket.com/albums/f350/terry9911/Lesney_9SteamRoller.jpg

MB3C Porsche Turbo. Easily. By far. Didn't even have to think about it!

:) :D :p

My 2 favorites are well known by most. MB41 Ford GT and MB66 Greyhound bus. Very common and inexpensive but they are the treasures in my collection.

My favourite Lesney is the 25 Ford Cortina in brown -I only have the rw issue so far, a Superfast will come someday :) But in no particular order, I also like these much more than all the rest 68 Porsche white broomstick issue;12 Setra in maroon, 33 Zephyr 6 ; 59 Singer van and 14 Iso in dark blue - thats 6 of the best for you as the headmaster at my old school used to say :thumbsup:

Thanks everyone for responding. You all listed some really nice cars. I just got a mint sf Iso Grifo in light blue. I am slowly replacing a lot of the cars I had as a kid that I really loved. Most as transitional mb sf's but I was born in 70 and those are my favorites. I just got a moc Mazda rx-500 with the orange body/white bottom with purple windows. Very cool. Gasoline Alley antiques had that one. I love the old original redlines from 68-71 but I think as I have gotten older I realized ow much I dug my mb's as a kid. I had the mb city and the garage set. My brothers and I had tyco tracks and my dad built balsa wood planes and my oldest brother is an insane modeler. I really like the mb super kings too. Well, thanks for reading me ramble on. I just love to collect. I may list some stuff on here to sell and see what kind of reaction you guys may have.

SJ :woohoo:

I also like these much more than all the rest 68 Porsche white broomstick issue;.... :


what does this mean? Typo of some sort maybe?
Are you talking about sf#68 910?

No error. He is talking about Matchbox Broomstick models. Here is one from my collection. In the UK they had a different name (see 2nd pic) There were a number of models in this series.

http://i10.photobucket.com/albums/a139/jimgallegos/DSC00044.jpg

http://i10.photobucket.com/albums/a139/jimgallegos/DSC00045-1.jpg

Never seen those in any of my old MB catalogs!

:p "Remote Control"?!?!? :p A string on a stick?!?!?
I love it!
It's so out-dated it's endearing. That thing is seriously cracking me up!

I bet it's really fun on a hard floor!

Was there anything special about the cars? A special provision cast into the base?

Thanks for the pic. :thumbsup:

That is cool. I have never seen them before. Thanks...

No error. He is talking about Matchbox Broomstick models. Here is one from my collection. In the UK they had a different name (see 2nd pic) There were a number of models in this series.

http://i10.photobucket.com/albums/a139/jimgallegos/DSC00044.jpg

http://i10.photobucket.com/albums/a139/jimgallegos/DSC00045-1.jpg

nice #20 yellow marzal. do you think that is the hardest one to find ?
nothing special about the base.

agree with you that your favorite model doesn’t have to be expensive or rare. at a collectors meet in the seventies i won a broom stick with the white Porsche for correctly answering a question about something , sorry don’t remember the question. it’s not the rarest, but it will always remind me of how i obtained the model.
many years ago somebody gave me a handful of 1st and 2nd series rw’s. the 1st and 2nd series #9 dennis fire escape models from that bunch i will always remember.
http://img207.imageshack.us/img207/2461/broomwhite68su3.jpg
her is a little picture from the 1972 dealers catalog.
http://img223.imageshack.us/img223/5051/zingo72catse0.jpg

The Zingo-matic is new to me too- awesome pic showing a skinny SF Muira on the blister - so I guess the special color cars were not planned right at the start of the concept.
I remember seeing both white Porsches and yellow Marzals on Broomstick blisters exactly as shown by Mountain and Jimgallegos in Woolworths stores in London when I was a child .At school me and my friends thought the special colors were special, because we were used to the standard red Porsches and Marzals - we wanted these fine cars in different colors -its amazing Lesney didnt work out what Hotwheels knew - kids will buy the same cool car in different colors but not many times in the same color.Those wide wheel yellow Marzals are not that hard to find at flea markets ,although they are usually in rough shape.The rarest Marzal is I think the skinny wheels yellow Marzal - I didnt even know this existed until a collector on MCCH posted a pic of his.
Here are my favourites shown together , the Cortina owned by me from 1977 along with the Zephyr 6 from 1973 .The others are upgrades from the past 10 years although the Iso did belong to my closest school friend from 1977 to 2006, coming from the same store at the same time as the Cortina (and a few others -we took turns to pick cars from a box of ex-window display models -it took many years to get that Iso from him!)
http://i38.photobucket.com/albums/e113/SMS369/toys/2007-9Sep211.jpg