1950s Dinky Toys' Vividly Painted American Issues Group Forum: If you grew up in the 1950s (or even if you wish you had) you might not have had a nickel to your name. But if you were a car-crazy kid, poverty probably wouldn’t have stopped the car craziness. Cars, and car colors, undoubtedly made an impression. Your family’s, and your neighborhood’s driveways, were full of the fashionable two-tone (sometimes even tri-tone) color combinations offered by American automakers. And even if you could only dream to own one of the full-size models – let alone a parking lot-full of them, there was one classically affordable alternative towards acquiring your own full color fleet. It involved some scaling down to be sure – to about 1/43rd scale, actually – but it could be done, and you needed to rely on only one manufacturer: Dinky.
With such acquisitions fifty-plus years ago, you would have had a mighty neat looking parking lot of colorful American cars in miniature. Today, you can appraise them as worthy of a museum collection. All tolled, if these Dinky Toys had been the real deal, and if they were kept in equivalently excellent condition since new, then the initial cash outlay for the twelve models would have been thirty, maybe forty thousand dollars; their combined worth would now top a quarter-million. The toys, on the other hand, cost maybe a total of fifteen hard-earned nineteen fifties bucks; their total value is today over a grand. Probably every antique toy collector would like to have any one of those great fifties machines parked outside in their driveway, ready to cruise to the office or the market or the beach. But if you did have one, it would not be the same one that you bought (or got) when you were six. And if you did own all dozen, then you’d need a warehouse, not a driveway, in which to keep them. On the other hand, all the Dinky Toys can sit together on the same shelf, in their original condition, while all of your colorful memories remain vivid, and your investment remains sound.

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