DinkyToys celebrates its 75th anniversary-this year as continuing-enthusiasm for its miniature die-cast vehicles drives values to record highs - in some cases they are more expensive than a real car.

The rarest model was a Dinky 139 Ford Consul Cortina, South African Issue, which has a bright green interior A Dinky toy collection of about 3,500 cars has ... "He went on Blue Peter to promote ...

He has scaled down his life-log hobby, and his vast fleet of 8,000 dinky cars is now down to ... along with one other car - a blue Tri-ang MGA, a miniature, his parents bought him for Christmas ...

They may look like any other children's toys - but this collection of model cars is expected to fetch a staggering £250,000 at auction next week. The rare set, which includes 2,000 Dinky toys as ...

However, Dinky was never to regain its market leadership and in 1981 became part of the Matchbox Group. In addition to cars, the Dinky Company made army vehicles, buses, farm machinery ...

500 but despite the passing interest it was clear that this was mainly a man's world - fuelled by the lure of toy trains and dinky cars. "It is a male dominated fair. We would love to specialise ...

The colourful array of tin plate and die-cast models date back to the 1950s and 60s and the mammoth accumulation of 1000 Matchbox, Corgi and Dinky toy cars, owned by a collector from Jersey ...