...turns out some of the boxes I had are actually my brother’s cars, so of the 424 I’ve sorted so far, a lot of them are his. He still has at least a box worth in his room yet and I still have a box to finish, but it’s nice to have them properly stored in decent cases! I also have several shelves worth on display on my bedroom. :)
I ordered 8 cases and they were NOT cheap, unfortunately (a bit more than $100 CAD!), but they are worth it. I put small pieces of foam in with some cars to prevent them from flipping over on their backs / sides when I move the cases around, and from knocking into other cars and damaging each other if I put more than one in a slot and thought they might move too much. The cars are a mixture of Hot Wheels, Majorette, Matchbox, Yatming, some very sporadic Tomicas...all put in these 46-car cases. Each case has two extra long slots for larger dinkies as well, like limousines, or tractor-trailers (though most tractor trailers don’t seem to fit, so I picked up a different container for those from the Dollar Store:
...the Dollar Store container is pretty much the perfect height for one ‘layer’ of larger trucks or dinkies too tall to fit into the slots on the 46-car containers. I’ll have to pick up at least another one or two of those for the remainder of the trucks, the rest of the ‘oversize’ dinkies and also my dinky-sized planes...
I did purge a LOT of really cheap, crummy Chinese dinkies, dinkies that were quite broken, or ones that I really didn’t care for.
LONG STORY SHORT - Thought I’d share some of the more ‘Oppo’ ones I found as I went (I’ve been taking a picture of every one I put away so I have a visual record!)
