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Beautiful resto as always!! I love old matchbox castings. Something about the wheels always makes me smile. They're some of my favorite of any older die cast. They just look so real compared to todays plastic nightmares!!

I really appreciate how you let the finished product spin around a few times there at the end. I always have to press the pause/play button like a mad-man to enjoy the finer details... Please keep this

I love these videos so much, they are just so relaxing even though I don't take part in the hobby myself. The way you explain things is just very calming and informative without putting too much information out at once.

Not sure why I get so much enjoyment watching these restoration videos, but I do.

Very good restoration. I wish I had a hobby like this instead of spending my time in bed all day feeling sorry for myself

While I have really gotten into watching these die-cast restoration, occasionally one comes along that kinda brings a lump to my throat as I recognise and old Matchbox that I remember having as a kid. This is one of those. Marvellous work and a very enjoyable video, thanks.

I watch enough of these videos I may start collecting Matchbox cars and restoring them. Great job.

Yes! I was JUST watching your vids and hoping you'd upload a new one. Thanks man~ Love your content~

It is a real pleasure watching someone works with so much patience !!!Thanks for sharing !!!

At work we call that truck a (mobile) boom winch, because the boom telescopes out, and the hook is attached to a winch. It only has left-right swing, and up-down lift. If it had its own tracks in the ground, with the ability to traverse back-forth, it would then be a gantry crane.

How can I ever forget this one. Legendary green colour and dual axle at front. Happy to see it again.

You sir are a genius! I dont have the time nor the patience to restore but I do love watching your videos!!

This show is so relaxing to watch, this piece came out amazing. The brass and the metal on the crane look great!

Finally a new video, been waiting for it sooo long ....

That looks fantastic, I cant believe the level of attention you give your restorations, absolutely awesome

Again you are a master at what you do. Thank you for bringing these toys back with new life.

Is such a pleasure to hear you and watch you work.

The arm of the crane is called a boom. Excellent work as always!

great restore & tutorial about replacing the axles on an old matchbox. it's amazing the amount detail in the castings back then, such as the crane and the cab of the truck..

Very cool and now that people have seen how to replace the axles someone needs to come up with a way for people without a machine lathe to be able to do this as well. Bravo!

One of my favorite castings! Thanks. It is so much meticulous work! And I love the way it turned out! I have 100's of cars that need this treatment! LOVE THE VIDEO!

Love this guy. He's the Bob Ross of toy cars! Just put a happy little bush right there!

This technique is pretty dang nifty! Great video

Thank you. I recently picked up a couple of cars that has the exact same type of axels, that I will try to restore. New to this type of the game. Your guide couldn't have come at better time!

What a superb result! Nice tip on using brass as an alternative to the original mild steel! Glad you are adding to the great Matchbox models in your collection. I have quite a few of these to restore. I may consider going Code 3 on some of them. I have recently discovered Marty’s Matchbox Motors and he also made a tool similar to yours (using two nails) for mushrooming the ends of the axles.

Beautiful restoration! I had more Matchbox cars then I ever did Hot Wheels so I would like to see more of the good ole Matchbox vehicles restored. Thanks for sharing this great tutorial.

Such a great restoration. That paint is flawless!

Great restoration. The vintage 1-75 are my favorites as well. Great tip on the axels.

Beautiful work, especially that new color choice. I'm also in awe that you managed to preserve as much of the raised details.

I just discovered this channel recently and find your restoration and customization videos very entertaining and fascinating, found your channel via KZfaq recommendations and so far it's been one of the best channels that KZfaq has recommended me so far!

Thanks for another great video. I especially liked getting a glimpse of a portion of your collection. Great work!

One of my favorite channels, thank you sir!

Great job on the reassembly of the wheels and axle! I too have tons of vintage matchbox and several of these 8 wheeled cranes. Looks good in red and the silver.

Gotta say, I can really tell the effort you put into editing this video and I fully appreciate that! Thanks for the great videos, can't wait to see more!

Thanks for sharing another great restoration, this one of one my favorite Lesney Matchbox vehicles!

That Turnd out nice I've been trying to get into restoring and have watched all your videos and now I'm one step closer thanks

Thank you for this amazing tutorial!! This No.30 is very special to me because this is my very first matchbox toy that I’ve ever owned. My dad bought it for me when I was between 5-8 years old. Secondly, I was born in 1965 so is this No.30. As usual I lost the original one decades ago but I can still remember how much of a good time I had with it. Luckily I managed to found a nos with a box from eBay a few years ago. When I received it the second time around, I had tears running down my face when I had this no.30 in my hand... looking forward to see more of your videos. Best regards!

This is a really nice restoration and I like the fact you decided to have a change of color scheme, it makes the model and process more interesting ☺

Awesome, thank you from us Matchbox collectors.

GoodJob, I love watching your videos!

OK. That was very detailed. The result speaks for itself. Well done

Cool restoration on the matchbox

You really have a nice Lesney collection. Trucks were my favorite as a kid, but really hard to come by without being broken. I always thought Matchbox made a truer to life scale model than Hot wheels, but certain ones won over. They can be called a "truck crane" without fear of reprisal, lol. a modern term is "boom truck", but "mobile crane" is what my father called it.

Yes!! Thank you Baremetal!! I’ve been patiently waiting for a video on how to make these type of axles!! I have 2 restorations I’ve been holding off on because I didn’t know how to go about the axles! Thank you thank you thank you! Now I can proceed! Must go get supplies first lol I’ll give you a shout out when I upload that video 👍🏽

you do a great job in explaining the steps involved in restoration ...

I really love these old Matchbox cars, I would really like to restore one of these. Great job.

This is great -- can't wait for more Matchbox videos!

Really loving the brass axles, gives the matchbox a vintage look. Like a tarnished chrome

great technique! that crane looks great once more :) looking forward to seeing more vintage mbx

Nice. I had that crane, cement truck and tow truck from matchbox. Great memories. I wish I still had my older matchbox and hot wheels as I know they are worth some money now

Great video and always very interesting to see your work. At last we got to see some of your collection. Thank you.

I don't know how I found this channel, but I'm so glad I did! Amazing work, keep it up!

I have the same calipers!! I’ve been using them for over 11 years and I love them

this one was my favorite video so far. THat was one of my favorites when I was a kid.

Nice work. I probably had more Matchbox than Hotwheels when I was a kid.

Great job, man. I'm getting back into scale modelling, and will be using some of the techniques I've learned from you to color in small details such as the chrome pen, using a sharpie for red lights, and turtle wax for polishing. Most importantly, I'm going into it with the same easygoing mindset you exemplified in this video of painting the toy in colors you wanted to see instead of rigidly adhering to historical accuracy. Thanks for the inspiration :)

Wow looks nice, lots of crafting skills here!

You are artisan on this bussines, you inspire me a lot.

Amazing results !!!! Love the color it looks like it just came out of the production line!!! 😂👌🏼

Great video I love your work and the thought put into each one can’t wait to see your next video already .

Love your vids You are the Bob Ross of 1:64 art Thanks for sharing

This is so fascinating. Thank you for the amazing content!

Great video man, keep up the good work. Your attention to detail when you narrate your videos really make learning the process easy.

That colour scheme looks fantastic.

Great restoration , cool video, Mike Espo...

Thank you so much for your videos. I'm happy to say I found an incredible channel and hobby thank you. Can't wait for the next video!

Beautifully done!

Amazing restoration turned out Perfect well done 👍.

Thank you for the hours of great videos . All the best going forward .

I hope to see more Matchbox restorations. They were my favorites when I was a little boy.

Another great video, you have inspired me to give restoring diecast toy cars a go, have a look at nail set punch to dome the axles.

I love this build, the brass axles look amazing. Theres another guy on KZfaq named Marty's matchbox makeovers. He has a great way to remove the axles without cutting them. That way they could be reused if you wanted to. As always great video and I cant wait for the next one.

Excellent job as usual! Man I just love your videos

Great content, love what you’re doing!

Fantastic work! Thank you for sharing!

Wow. It's beautiful! Darn I wish I had the money and the space to have all the tools that are needed to do things like the tool you did to make the end of the axle of those.

Nice. I just watched a guy the other day called Marty's Matchbox Makeovers who has a nice process for removing and reusing the original axles. He only has a few videos but they are all informative.

Nice, I have two Lesney station wagons, ones green with two plastic dogs at the back. The other is the mercury police car wagon, both are pretty cool as they have actual license plates molded on the front of the base. Love these vids, keep up the great work!

I havent restored a mtchbox for this reason , now i know how to do that, thanks máster

Glad to now hear you’ll be doing more vintage Matchbox. Great job and thanks for sharing as always. I’ve recently found axle kits with end pins for vintage Matchbox on eBay. Going to try these as I don’t have a lathe. Would like to see some customs by mix and matching old Matchbox (Lesney) Models.

You should check out Marty’s matchbox make overs he’s got a good way to remove and reuse the original axel!

Looks great! The axles have always kept me from doing one of these.👍🏼👍🏼

Dang he has blown up super proud subbed last year at like 8k! Keep up the cool videos!!

Very lovely video. I'd love to see more of the Matchbox (and possibly even other brands) videos, and I'd especially enjoy seeing one of them used for one of your very custom vehicles. Greetings, Sebastian Gregor

wow excelente restauracion no aviamos visto una restauracion de un matchbox lesney lo felicitamos estamos al pendiente de sus videos ...saludos desde mexico citi de sus amigos de h.w.ind.gto...

Awesome video enjoyed

I enjoyed the detail and realism of these as a child also.

Just gotta love the Matchbox cars. Definitely have more Matchbox video's.

Looking really good! It kind of reminds me of a firetruck now. :)

Chingón tu trabajo,mándame saludos soy de la ciudad de México ✌️

Fantastic as always!

More videos from you of any kind would be awesome.

I love this, it looks amazing!

Very nice 😃 cherished toys deserve love

Nicely done. It looked awesome!

I really enjoy your videos, the first thing I do with morning coffee is to see if you have a new video, keep up the good work

awesome how to videos, thanks very entertaining and informative

Just great. Well done👍

Amazing!!! This is just perfect! I love your vids!