I’ve seen a few of these for sale…but $5500? Really? Wow.
It’s a yellow/white Matchbox Cougar on eBay.
I’ve seen a few of these for sale…but $5500? Really? Wow.
It’s a yellow/white Matchbox Cougar on eBay.
May be a bit pricey, but the wonderfully detailed tow hitch really adds to the value!
I just can’t get my head around that kind of money for a model of a car when you can buy a real one for the same money. To each his own and all… I guess at least the little ones won’t leak ATF on you garage floor.
Wonder if the green bucket it’s sitting on is included???
And it is a LOT easier to keep clean!
You’ll see this car painted green 99.9% of the time.
Yeah, $5500 seems a little ‘out there’; when I got most of my Matchbox cars for anywhere from $0.89 to maybe a buck at either Farley’s Hardware or Mincks here in Yuma. Don’t remember the Cougar (my Cats were all Hot Wheels versions), but I had the 65 Mustang 2+2. White with red interior (and matching red trailer hitch). While the Cougar (I now see) had opening doors, the Mustang had steerable front wheels via a little ‘thumb stud’ sticking out of the bottom of the driver’s door.
EDIT: Speaking of Hot Wheels Cougars; did anybody else find one of the '69 Eliminator’s in **__**PURPLE? I grabbed one at Wally World very early this year; almost stepped on it in the aisle while navigating around a three-shopping-cart pileup in Housewares caused by multiple LOL’s converging on the display of $7.86 Betty Crocker electric can openers. Was pushing my cart full of goodies -a True Grit (John Wayne version) DVD, a replacement piezo lighter for my barbeque, 2 feet of black ribbon to make an el cheapo string tie, and two 5qt jugs and two 1-quart jugs of Mobil One to change the oil in both trucks- through a detour around the carnage and ended up in the Toy Dept. Almost squashed the poor little Cougar in it’s rack card. It had already suffered enough in the “build”; what with the Gawd-Awful color (looks like Chrysler “Plum Crazy” in a metallic), the exhaust tips that would, if it were to scale, be 4" diamter and stick out about 10-12" from the valance; the ‘redline’ tires on ghetto “wagon wheels” and the rear deck spoiler that looks almost like the wooden one that Don sells for like $20 in his “Bargain Basement”. So I picked it up and kept on trekking to the register, where I paid multiple times the dollar-and-change they used to cost when I was a kid.
Still on the card as I type this. Maybe, when my youngest kid turns 50, he can try to sell it on Fea-Bay for several thousand dollars. If there still is something like Flea-Bay in 2046.
The really disappointing part is that the hood doesn’t open like my '67 Hot Wheels Cougar did.
I must be too old…
I had Dinky Toys, and Matchbox. Hot Wheels came out too late for me.