Toy Cars Value

It is important for a toy car to have all original parts. Sometimes the original wheels, headlights, or accessories are missing or have been replaced. Any old toy car, from mint condition to broken, has a resale value. Don’t throw anything away before checking with a toy collector. Don’t repaint, restore, or even clean an […]

Toy Cars

The toy auto of the 1920s and 1930s is an important vestige of childhood and a collector’s treasure. Collectors distinguish between cars made before 1940 and cars made after World War II. Metal toy cars were not manufactured in the United States from mid-1942 to late 1945 because of the war. Many of the bronze […]

Toy Cars Manufacturing Techniques

Miniature metal cars were usually made by stamping, slush-casting, or die-casting. The earliest lightweight metal cars were stamped from sheet steel or tin and had either hand-painted or lithographed decorations. European stamped-tin cars date from the early 1890s. Slush-cast toys were made in molds that pot metal was poured into and right out again, causing […]

Rules For Most Car Wheels

Wheels can help to date a car. Before World War II, toy cars had open-spoked metal wheels, solid metal disk wheels, solid metal disk wheels with embossed spokes, white rubber tires with metal rims, or solid white rubber tires mounted directly on the axles. The general rule is that white rubber tires were used before […]