Matchbox Cars
When I was a kid, I would have given my right leg, and possibly the trousers that it came in, for a collection of Matchbox Cars as vast and shiny as this one. They fulled my fantasies, planting petrol-fumed dreams of Rolls Royces, Mustangs and Porsches. Even now, there’s something very enticing about seeing row of row of such beautiful machinery. Perhaps because cars in this format are about as close as I’ll ever get to owning one. Aw.
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