Dinky Fans

As is well doc­u­ment­ed, Mec­ca­no mod­eled the the Austin A90 Atlantic Sports Car at ¼ inch to a foot. This was a stream­lined mod­el of the real car that was…

In 1938, Mec­ca­no Ltd. was rev­el­ing in its rapid rise in pop­u­lar­i­ty and suc­cess of its new line called Dinky Toys, con­ceived in 1934. There were many series of mod­els, both…

The 1939 Stude­bak­er Com­man­der was a main­stream, styl­ish mod­el with dis­tinct yacht-like lines, designed by Ray­mond Loewy’s firm, and fea­tured two and four-pas­sen­ger coupe body styles with both stan­dard and…

In the Feb­ru­ary 1961 issue of Mec­ca­no Mag­a­zine, col­lec­tors were treat­ed to an excit­ing full-col­or announce­ment. A brand new Dinky Toys mod­el was hit­ting the shelves: No. 186, the Mer­cedes 220 SE.…

In 1987, a series of six Match­box Toys were issued in Dinky Toys blis­ter packs. There is an endur­ing myth among some col­lec­tors that Uni­ver­sal issued these blis­ter packs uni­lat­er­al­ly, in order to hijack…

The Mini Dinky range was intro­duced by Mec­ca­no (owned by Lines Broth­ers at the time) in 1967 or 1968 in 1:65 scale. They were made by sub­con­trac­tors in Hong Kong to com­pete…

Image: HobbyDB In ear­ly 1964, Spot-On were design­ing six new mod­els for their range, all based on con­tem­po­rary U.S. cars; unfor­tu­nate­ly at the same time, Tri-ang, the par­ent com­pa­ny of Spot-On, were…

The 1953 US Dinky Toys cat­a­log pic­tures a small red rac­ing car that many col­lec­tors might not have seen before. In fact there are oth­er cars in a lit­tle set. These were…