I'd love for you to actually talk us through them as well with what you know about particular models, casting techniques, changes, etc.!

I am lucky to see this catalogue after 45 years... Thank you so much for this from the bottom of my heart!

This is like a trip back in time. I had so many of these cars when I was a kid, some I completely forgot about. On every page, I was like, oh! I had that one and that one. It's funny how a child's memory never forgets good times.

My Grandmother worked at a department store back in the late 60’s-early 70’s. I always received Matchbox cars for Christmas and birthdays. As an adult, maybe 20 years ago, she gave me a small stack of these. I have them put away somewhere, but I seem to recall they span from 68 or 69 up to 76 or so. It’s been a while, so I may be wrong... But thanks for sharing yours, and inspiring me to go find mine!

I would certainly enjoy seeing videos of the Matchbox catalogs over the years. I had the 1979-80 and the 1980-81 catalogs when I was a kid. They were well worn by the time I was through with them, that's for sure!

You know you watch quite a lot of BaremetalHW and Marty Matchbox Makeovers when you recognize some of the models in the catalog

Wow, that 1967 catalog at the beginning there sure took me way back. My dad had that exact catalog along with some of the cars featured it in as well as the one you showed and I have very fond memories of him showing them to me as a kid. I was impressed with how high quality the models were despite being older compared to the newer hotwheels I had at the time which seemed much more cheaper in quality and mass produced. Unfortunately, my dad passed several years ago but this brought back happy memories of him showing me his childhood. Also reminds me that he kept all of it in this wooden box in our garage which should still be there as we've been completely cleaning out the place so I'll be sure to save it ASAP.

thank you for uploading, lots of good memories here, my favorite year for matchbox cars as a kid, spent a lot of time with this catalog and collected all the regular cars in it, never did collect the big ones though, gave them all away when i left home, probably should have kept them

8:38 WoW!.. I have the 1911 Maxwell Roadster (Y14) but without the radiator, among another 10 models in sad conditions but without losing that charm & quality. T H A N K S ! ! a lot for sharing this catalog with which you gave me historical reference of my Grandfather's Matchbox cars. I am 43 years old & I must say that it´s great to see these cars with their use scars. When I saw your video "Matchbox Restoration: No16 Scammell "Mountaineer" Dump Truck with Snowplough", I recognized him immediately as one of the ones I keep. T H A N K S ! ! & Greetings from Colombia! ! !

Born in 64 I have good many of those standard sized models and a couple of the Kingsize, great to see the whole range and where that random plastic shed came from!

Wow,.. very nice memories. Beautiful and original solid models. This is what made diecast and Matchbox great!

Thanks for this interesting video! Many of us would never see these catalogs otherwise! It all came out before my birth and I find this insight into the 60s Matchbox cars very interesting!

That was fun to see! The illustrations would really get a kids imagination going. I grew up around road construction with both my Dad and grandfather being engineers so I really like the trucks and heavy equipment.

I applaud the idea! It will be awesome series but bits of narration from personal experience are welcome too. Can't wait to see these old catalogs, did not expect so much additional informations like detailed production process and lot of hand painted illustrations... pure gem!

Definitely a welcome addition to your channel. This is a also an opportunity to share your knowledge with your subs, so I would like to see you narrate these. Thanks again!

Thanks so much for sharing that! Agree with a few others here... would love to see them all like that! As a designer myself i really love and appreciate the drawings used to make these catalogues.

That brings back a lot of memories. Thanks for sharing this.

My father in law has probably 60% of the kingsize trucks in this catalogue, I am making sure he never gets rid of them

Thanks for the walk down memory lane!!!

I’d love to see a series on these! I just recently took a trip home for my high school reunion and while there I collected some of my old Matchbox cars (several from these catalogs!) from my sister, no idea how she ended up with them after I left for the military. Guess I wasn’t around to tell her stay outta my room! If I could ask one thing, bring back that music you added for the first catalog flip through, or something similar. It really added to the feeling of nostalgia, and the silence in this video was deafening! 🤣

The little drug store in Upstate NY carried Matchboxes and had the display and boxes and boxes of Matchboxes but didn't carry some showed here. I had the king size tractor trailer with the dozer..LOL, I ended up in the Navy Seabees as a a heavy equipment operator and tractor trailer operator.

That' pretty cool. I remember having some of those cars. Still have a few today. Thank you for sharing.

Wow, I still have this K-18 Truck with horse trailer somewhere. That catalog is pure art, all those lovely drawings look awesome. Where has all the art gone today? :-(

Wow! you really have a lot of catalogs! The artist continues to like kids who wear ties - he had one toting the match box carrying case. The end section that discusses zinc mining and processing and paint production suggests that the makers of Matchbox knew then that they actually had two markets. There were actual kids who played with the toys, but there was also an adult market that appreciated them as models and miniatures. Great video!

This video brings back a lot of fond memories for me! I still have some of the vehicles pictured in the catalog. I also have some of the larger ones like the car carrier. I played with them , but l was always careful with my toys. Some of the them have tires that are coming off. Thank you for posting this video.

This is quality content i subscribed for. No joke. 😊.

I'm not old enough to have a nostalgia trip on this, but I do enjoy seeing all the old artwork for the cars. There's just something about that style that's very appealing to me.

Love the old vintage catalogs, I can remember these as a kid, wish I still had them!....Bill

Wow.....way to make an old man, remember us fond memories of his childhood😪 I didn’t have all the cars,but I which I did. I can remember sitting on my dads lap with that catalog and saying, “I want that one...no that one...oh, that one is really nice”. Now my grand boys play wit hose old cars. It funny live comes in a full circle. Thank You😊👍

At time stamp 0:16 you don't know how rare the Fire Station MF-1 and Service Station MG-1 are complete! $400 at least a piece. Add more for the original boxes too! The first Matchbox car case with the four plastic crates I still have no less! Before that they came with cardboard dividers,yuck. Once had the Build a Road set too.Thanks for sharing the memories of 1968,when I was a wee lad.

I like how you showed some nostalgia, also wanted to say that it is amazing that you find old decrepit and damaged cars and restore them back to their former glory.

Thought it was kinda cool to see a description of what they had to do, to make one of those cars back then. Kinda one of those "hmm, interesting" kind of moments when reading those last few pages of the catalog.

I showed this to my grandpa and he thought it was so cool to see again he wanted me to ask if you have the 1972 catalog, he'd like to see it again he said he remembers looking through it for my uncle who was 2yrs old at the time and has many good memories looking through it with my uncle picking out tracks and cars

Wow, fantastic! How is it I'm getting nostalgia looking at a book that came out 8 yrs before I was even born? Oh well, at any rate, I do believe I received (as a Christmas gift) a stake truck very similar to the one seen at 1:29 when I was about 4 years old. If I had to critique this video, the only thing I can come up with is: 4:02 + ... You zoomed over to the checklist so quickly that the 3 cars on the left side of page 13 were just a blur to my aging eyes 🙁 Everything else was amazing. Loved the Greyhound Bus picture!

I would live a series on the Matchbox catalogs. I grew up in the sixties.

cool to see color trials and prototype models in these catalogs

Great stuff man,your a hero.

Awesome, really appreciated. I'm not a collector but I am a nostalgist. Thanks.

Tengo 56 ,mi infancia fue muy feliz y en parte porque tenia estos Matchbox!

Very cool I do like seeing the artwork in these very cool

This educational video has; revamped my memory of, the classic Atari 2600 video game cartridge catalog. It has also; grabbed my attention, the most as well.

Thought I'd better comment on thr re-upload too.👍 It's almost as good as the original. Seriously though, a whole series of these would be great. I would keep it simple, just like this. One possible idea would be to show a few vehicles from each catalogue, maybe the newest additions to the range; depends just how many of them you actually have. Cheers for now, Dougie.

Whoa!!! That's from a toy store in my hometown!! Ernie's toy land in Yuba City Ca. It was in business from 1958-2004

That's awesome thanks for sharing

Yup, some things were much better in the past. Us children in the 1960's weren't treated like morons. I was five in 1968, and, like most children of my age, (although I could read and write at three and a half) had no problem reading the catalogue. A lot of things were like this. Dinky, Corgi, Britains, and Airfix all produced beautiful catalogues. They were something you looked forward to each year.

Oh if only I had all my old Matchbox, Dinky, and Corgi toys that I had as a child they would be worth a fortune. I kept them in pristine condition and always put the back in their boxes, but alas my wretched stepmother burned all of them. She thought they were distracting me from my schoolwork.

This is the future. Reading a book through a video.

The info on the paint that thay used was interesting , this would be a good series.

WOW, I really did enjoy that. Thanks baremetalHW.

Fantastic upload. Special Request for either 1977 or 1978 with the “Adventure 2000” vehicles.

9:41 Great, teaching us!

They are too cool my friend, I have a few older catalogs but I'm not sure which years.

1968 is great year for toy cars and trucks!

I had the 1967 catalog. I remember when it was fully in tact. I wish I had been more careful with it. Now I just have a few fragments that are kept in a clear plastic sleeve.

COOL, Great memories. I had the BP service station my parents bought me in Scranton Pa.

So many memories, great video maybe have some music in the back ground next time .

Cool catalog :-). It is older that me :-).

Quote of reality "Us KZfaqr Creators are always looking for an easy video to make"... Oh man.. so true!

I have a bunch of those cars love this stuff cool video

I was highly interested in the talk of Zinc alloy and how they mix it with other alloys to get its fluidity correct!

Wow cool, I have that "Benz" Ambulance on a shelf next to me except the back door is broke in half :(

Cool books!

I think it would be nice if you still talked us through the catalogues tbh

Looking forward to the 1970's ones.

Cool old catalogue. They don’t do that anymore

Can you do a video on the trailer caravan and make the inside detailed Thank you for all of the good videos bare metal

Brilliant video thank you! If this is a regular slot can it be done on a stand (like a cookery book stand or similar) so that the catalogue is static? Turning the pages and camera work might be easier then too.

5:06 (None of that «buildAroad» was sold here at #Venezuela)

0:34- I am definitely interested!

I would like to see all those catalogs in a video. The one I'm most interested in is the 1982/83 with the semi trucks on the cover. Those trucks are what I'm looking for. I haven't had much luck. I'm sure they can be found on Ebay but I don't shop Ebay.

Cool cars in the catalog, if you could buy those cars now would be the best, greetings friend

Eerie silence is eerie

Do you have a list of links to purchase the tools you regularly use? I would find that very helpful.

Love tis but I'd enjoy talking or just the ambient noise of the pages (low key AMSR I guess)

I'LL TAKE THE ASHTRAY PLEASE!

Cool video, just weird to watch a video with no sound at all....

moooaaarrrrrr..!!!

at 2:05 you focus on the Mustang Fastback. What is that which looks like a switch on the bottom of the driver's door?

Out of all of those models, I think maybe I had 6 or 7 of those total. Can you believe the prices?

Growing up as a kid my grandmother had a book I could read, it was about how matchbox cars were made. I have never seen the book again. If memory serves me, it was a red and white book with basic illustrations. Have you seen this or know what I'm talking about?

My dad has the Bentley ashtray

Can you do the Pontiac Grand Prix?

If Ya noticed... 99% of my videos have my (I didn't MAKE it. I mean the one I have, lol) Matchbox book in the BG. It's a good book, but I wanna get the one You have too eventually :)

Did something go wrong with the first upload

I've never seen those road sets. Are they plastic or cardboard? I had a hotwheels set when I was a kid that had 3 buildings but wasn't all that big. Would love to see the video series done on all the catalogs.

👍🏼🤘🏼😎

Hey Bare Metal, I found a old car today and thought of past video's of yours I've seen. I looked threw all of your uploads and I don't think you have or haven't done this car I have. Could I send it to you to be restored? You could keep it, All I'd ask for is a shout out for some channel growth :) So could I send you a car?

At 2:52 I've got the mk10 jaguar in near mint condition and baught it for $1 with the locomotion bicentennial hot wheels mustang stalker

Excelente catolog! Where did you get it?

Video is a weird way to present a catalog. This seems like a more sensible way to do it. High -res, complete pages visible, and they turn when the viewer chooses:archive.org/details/Matchbox1968CollectorsCatalogue

Is there any chance you can repair one of my favorite hot wheels cars

70s 80s next pls

How much would it cost to restore a hot wheels

Matchbox were rather expensive back in the day. Hot Wheels were .59 to.79 cents or so. Never 2 dollars!!

Would you please restore a Hot wheels What-4 at one point I have one I want to restore but I want some reference for one before I start.

The video you did approximately 11 hours ago has been removed

why in the playlist for this video you have a Fortnite video

Hello guys! I own a Matchbox Rolomatics No.57 Wild Life Truck Yellow Ford Truck. Car lost its toy lion. Can You give me a hint, where can I buy spare details for matchbox cars? Would highly appreciate!

no sound my friend

How old are you,sir?🤔 Are these your very own catalogs from your childhood?