My dear old mum worked at the Lesney factory in Rochford, Essex, so toy cars found their way into every birthday present and Christmas present. Happy days.

Those matchbox cars in the 60 and 70s were built very well!

Wow! I so wanted to watch a video like this, about diecast manufacturing! Finally I found it and really gave me a big smile. 😁

This is painful to watch when I use to live a couple of miles away from the original Matchbox factory in Hackney, England. Lesney Matchbox is British and always will be, but when it was sold to its rival Hot wheels it was a betrayal to the independent British toy industry. One day I have hopes Hot wheels will sell matchbox back to a british entrepreneur who will bring matchbox back home, to its birthplace. Nobody made matchbox cars like we did in Britain.

Lo mejor que ha tenido Matchbox es sus carritos que abren puertas sus accesorios y todos sus buenos acabados que tuvieron inicialmente, ahora ya son comunes y corrientes ya no son los mismos

I always liked matchbox and the attention to detail they had over hot wheels and the crazy fantasy car designs and two size too big wheels they had.

Not another camaro.I want a 68 coupe deville. We are drowning in a sea of muscle cars. Do some family cars please.Oh the humanity!

Lesney and Corgi did the best toys in the late 70ies

This was art.

awesome absolutely crazy about old Matchbox

Fantastic. Thanks for sharing

Such meticulous work, makes you wonder how they did so many models over the years, a lot easier with CNC machining these days!

I've had matchbox and hot wheels since 1968. I'm now 54. I own 3000 of them. We the public would like you to stop making the wierd ones and make some actual pick up trucks. The 1962 Ford , and the 1970s Chevy, make different years. Make the campers the trailers to haul things or cows n horses. Make some tractor trailers. Make some double and triple trailers with the old cab over trucks like Mack or peterbuilt. Make some farm trucks, trailers, tractors, farm equipment to pull. use the old colors, black wheels.The collectors and the consumers market is huge for this type of stuff. We're tired of the weird paint jobs the ugly wheels ,and designs. We want old school and lots of it. Trust me you will see a jump in sales if you make the vehicles I have mentioned. Let's have another good 50 years. Woodbury ,TN.

anyone notice that the narration is done by Star Trek's 'Next Generation' Geordi La Forge?

Fascinating upload thank you! 🏆⚒️🇬🇧 Edit: Dartboard in the boardroom!! 😉🏆

Not the Matchbox cars I knew from the 60s. Mattel ruined them. Just made them an extension of Hot Wheels. Now most of them are fantasy cars and don't resemble the real cars.

Sorry, but when the Matchbox cars were British by Lesney, the details and scale were really good as were the paint finishes. Now they are poorly made with basic detail and just rubbish.

Tomica is the way to go for quality stuff

I believe this was a Reading Rainbow video

Great! Thank you for the video ❤

It takes a good amount of skill to do copy milling properly.

What a shame it all was moved from the UK. Lesney and Matchbox was quintessentially British.

Rename it this is from the Tyco era. Leseney went under in 1982 and was sold to Universal Toys which was sold to Tyco in 1992. This is from 1994.

It's not a Lesney die cast anymore.

I need those machines. 🤩😍

Now: 1.grab a STEP. 2. CNC. 3. The end.

Very nicely done! I wonder how the paint job would look if you copied the original Matchbox method of just two spray coats of enamel with no primer and no clearcoat. I think the detail would show through much better and since these restored cars are more for show that to be played with, there'd be little worry of chipping the paint later. Perhaps if you come across two identical old cars that need restoring you could try it and see.

Holy fuck it's been years since I saw this last, I forgot it even existed.

Is this from reading rainbow?

Lesney (producers of Matchbox) went under because all you people on the web started playing video games. It's as simple and as sad as that.

O came on!!! This video is from middle ages!!! Now they have cad for drawing and 3D model prototyping!!!

Does Hot Wheels make like this too??

These guys are way too excited about this camaro.

I like to know only one thing the rest I can create , what is that material called which is been used as for the base body?

I’m surprised that they don’t do this in a CAD/CAM setup.

Funky FRESH!

Se la papea el negro

I have a sea kings helicopter.carrier, k307, made in England,1976

Hey can some one help here, can 3d printers replace pantograph machine and also the milled version of the car? I am not an industry expert, out of curiosity I am raising this question!

I always wondered, I thought maybe they did half the car then mold it a couple times then put the two halves together and so on.

When did America aquire Matchbox?

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was this from reading rainbow? that sounds like levar burton narrating.

they're tyco toys matchbox not lesney's matchbox

Is that you Geordi La Forge?

OH DEAR ! HOW SAD ! NEVER MIND .

That's LeVar Burton narrating, isn't it? His voice is distinctive.

panna graph machine,,, what was it called ???? the machine that transfers down to match box size????

Que bno seria que salga al mercado nuevamente esos carritos tan bonitos clásicos Matchbox, q abren las puertas, el baul etc los compraría todos.

Gammon sandwiches all round!

Wow! The model shop was the hardest part or the creation of a car, all was manually before, nowdays that part is easier thanks to the 3d printers that do automatically that work. Now the guy of model shop needs to know how to use software instead of analog tools like the one of the video.

u mean hot wheel

Where are the British accents?

Too many Camaros already how about a Dodge Dually 4 wheel drive Cummins 3500

I wonder why Hot Wheels was successful than Matchbox.

It'd be better to do bigger models,1/18 for example,not this microscipic model that a microscope should be furnished together !

I thought America had hot wheels and UK had matchbox. Yet everyone is American.

Technically correct, but never american acting. Where's the canned laughter.

The americans use to build cheap and ugly things, is very sad the match box are not made in england any more they use to be perfect and fine toys

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I watched this again. What a load of b....cks. they do not measure a car with a rule. They get dimensions from the manufacturer who are more than pleased to have their production used.

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