I dont buy much on ebay but thanks to a tip off from a friend I was able to win this maroon/grey interior Fiat Dino which is the last remaining casting I need now in the correct colors that I saw as a child but didnt have the money to buy at the time back in 1974.(i am only missing one casting from childhood - a Spot -On VW Beetle).
I always regretted not buying this lovely motor at the time and although I searched on future visits to the same store it never did see another.Its been worth the 23 year wait - my christmas present for myself :woohoo:
Somebody in MN is breaking up one of the world´s most comprehensive Playart collections at the moment..... Alongside a couple of 1968 redlines this car is my diecast highlight of 2007 and I am very grateful to have it (the other 3 that came with it are nice too :) )
http://i38.photobucket.com/albums/e113/SMS369/toys/Buses/5a61_1.jpg
http://i38.photobucket.com/albums/e113/SMS369/toys/Buses/2007-10Oct025.jpg

Sweet car!

Congrats to you!

Wow, what a Holy Grail

Congrats! Cool car.

Wow! Nice Grail!

Thankyou all :wave:
I dont really have anymore holy grails to find :) -still lots of nice cars to be bought but I cannot think of anymore that I really have wanted for a longtime,so hopefully (and it will please the wife) ,this winter I can restart customs rather than buying more....

very nice

GREAT Playart! I'm really starting to get into them. Here's a group that I just won. If you wan't to sell any of your extras let me know.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v68/PENSNO1/DIECAST/PLAYART/10-07PlayartLot1.jpg

nice looking bunch of cars!

GREAT Playart! I'm really starting to get into them. Here's a group that I just won. If you wan't to sell any of your extras let me know.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v68/PENSNO1/DIECAST/PLAYART/10-07PlayartLot1.jpg

I am also focusing on Playarts at the moment - I really like your pink Rolls - pink is not a common color, one of the rarest on Playarts alongside solid gray and metallic pink and all spectraflame shades
I added 5 more Playarts this week - the Opel Senator casting is VHTF in any color ,and the metallic pink of the Mangusta is an early issue with the first type of wheels with spoked hubcaps.The 2nd type of circular patterned hubcaps were a copy of the Schuco design.Here are all my additions for this week, they cost me all up nearly $180 but I am happy with the value for money :(
http://i38.photobucket.com/albums/e113/SMS369/toys/2007-12Dec033.jpg

Hi everyone. Great Playart pic, pink Rolls-Royce makes me drool... Here's a question about Playart 7116 : is this number applying to a Ford Mustang convertible (with folded top) OR to a Ford Mustang Hardtop (with unfolded black top) ??? We have those 2 castings here. Thanks in advance to experts.

Hi everyone. Great Playart pic, pink Rolls-Royce makes me drool... Here's a question about Playart 7116 : is this number applying to a Ford Mustang convertible (with folded top) OR to a Ford Mustang Hardtop (with unfolded black top) ??? We have those 2 castings here. Thanks in advance to experts.
The answer is both top up and top folded are the same casting and carry the same box & blister number.The top folded down version replaced the top up in the range in 1973 or 1974 just after the switch from petal pattern hubcaps to Schuco pattern hubcaps,and before the introduction of one peice safety wheels.
Here are my hubcap issues, excluding 6 beaters which dont deserve a place here....
http://i38.photobucket.com/albums/e113/SMS369/toys/2008-Jul141.jpg
http://i38.photobucket.com/albums/e113/SMS369/toys/2008-Jul118-1.jpg

Wow, somebody really did get rid of a great lot of Playarts on Ebay. I checked out the winning bids and some nice one's I would have loved didn't even get bids! Serves me right for going on vacation! - Mark

http://i38.photobucket.com/albums/e113/SMS369/sms88/2008-Aug189.jpg
These 6 just arrived from Volksdragon on saturday, and here is a shot of my updated rainbow.I lost the auctions for the cream and dark blue cars he had, and didnt bother bidding on the multitude of red and green cars which just have different coloured seats when compared to my existing collection.Playart possibly issued each colour with white,cream,grey,blue or black seats -aside from the 2 caramel colour cars being the same body colour the others are all different shades.i am very pleased to have so many examples of my favourite toycar - aside from common colours lemon and lemonlime its all the hard to find colours that I need to complete the bow-lavender,purple,pink, grey,cream,metallic blue and white
http://i38.photobucket.com/albums/e113/SMS369/sms88/2008-Aug195.jpg

Hi. I just joined this site and spotted this playart thread. I also collect playarts (early hubcap only) and have nearly 300 pieces in my collection. I hope some one is still checking in and see's this post. I'm dying to show off my collection:)

Welcome to the Board!!

Please post pics and let us see your collections of diecast!:wave:

Hi. I just joined this site and spotted this playart thread. I also collect playarts (early hubcap only) and have nearly 300 pieces in my collection. I hope some one is still checking in and see's this post. I'm dying to show off my collection:)
I only have about 55 hubcap Playarts, so if you :wave:have 300 then please do share images of them.I would love to see any cars you have unusual/htf colours like pink,grey,lilac,purple,white and the final hubcap wave 7136-7147 which were only produced for a few months with hubcaps.Then there are the early chrome baseplate issues -I am still not 100% sure about the whether certain castings were originally issued with chrome baseplates initially

Anybody got a DeTomaso Mangusta for sale? LMK

Robert

I collect diecast. A little of everything including PlayArt. I found these at a local Flea Market, :thumbsup:and they didn't cost a arm and a leg:woohoo:. I'm not sure of the year they were produced. Any help ?

thanks

I am no expert, but I do know that is the later style wheels... I think early to mid 80s. (still 20 years old!)

I collect diecast. A little of everything including PlayArt. I found these at a local Flea Market, :thumbsup:and they didn't cost a arm and a leg:woohoo:. I'm not sure of the year they were produced. Any help ?

thanks

These petal wheels are the first type of wheels fitted to the Routemaster and were used on all cars from 1974 onwards.Most playart Routemasters found today have 5 spoke wheels which were introduced c1980 so I date these as earlier mid to late 1970s

These petal wheels are the first type of wheels fitted to the Routemaster and were used on all cars from 1974 onwards.Most playart Routemasters found today have 5 spoke wheels which were introduced c1980 so I date these as earlier mid to late 1970s

SMS88, thanks for your help. I found one back in the summer, and the other a month ago from the same dealer, for $5 a piece.

SMS88, thanks for your help. I found one back in the summer, and the other a month ago from the same dealer, for $5 a piece.
This is a very nice casting,better than the new Matchbox casting,and it is a carefully scaled down version of the 1/72 Corgi 468 Routemaster
In England this is the only common blistered Playart,as unsold 1980s London souvenir shop stock still turns up at toy sales and on ebay,always with 5 spoke wheels,not the earlier 5 fatter 5 petal wheels in the photo above,generally £1-£2 each ($1.60-$3.50)

How about 1:24 scale Playart?

http://i126.photobucket.com/albums/p97/mpk62/toys/xyz448.jpg
http://i126.photobucket.com/albums/p97/mpk62/toys/xyz451.jpg

How about 1:24 scale Playart?

http://i126.photobucket.com/albums/p97/mpk62/toys/xyz448.jpg
http://i126.photobucket.com/albums/p97/mpk62/toys/xyz451.jpg

Very nice:thumbsup: I have only heard about the 1/24 Opel GT before....little has survived for this millenium´s collectors to find and discuss, its a shame nobody in HongKong has written the inside story!

Last weekend, I rearranged the best of my Playarts onto one shelf attempting to create the car lot look....
http://i38.photobucket.com/albums/e113/SMS369/toys/2009-Apr026.jpg
http://i38.photobucket.com/albums/e113/SMS369/toys/2009-Apr027.jpg

Very Cool - I like the sea of colors!