Collecting 'Toy Cars'

Remember the time when you would be playing with your favorite toy car? You know every scratch, every nick and would be bragging to the kid next door that yours was the fastest car around. You would even sleep with it and when you grow up, you promised yourself that you would want to own the same car you were playing with… 30 years later we still dream of that car we used to play with. There are those who would consider those small cars as something just to be given to little boys just keep them busy. I beg to differ… I consider those times important to me as it helped forge my interest in cars. As a kid, I could name all the cars I could see on the road. I would also read anything about cars I could get my hands on. Even to the point it would occupy my time for reading school books. Never did that well in school…

At my age, I still collect those small die-cast cars. I choose cars that only appeal to my line of interest. Volkswagens are the dominant subject in my small collection. It has a special appeal to maybe because our first family car was a split windshield, 23 window kombi.