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Extra! Extra! Read All About Car History!
By Kadence Buchanan
Model cars have been around for quite some time. Even I have to admit going through the phase of
putting them together. Even as I write this, I can think of a few of the boxed sets that I would love to
pick up from the shelves at the local store and piece together bit by bit. I also have to admit that my
patience was never good. But, as with any other thing I have ever collected, there was one thing I
always did. I always sought to learn the origin of that item. What's its history? When did people start
collecting them? Maybe I wanted to see if my elders were collecting some of the same things, or
sometimes I might just have been looking to see how old a hobby mine was. Never the less, everything
has a history and the model cars and the collection of them is no different. So where did it begin? Keep
reading!
Birth of Model Cars
In the early 1900s not so long after the first real car was introduced, Germany started producing what
would become noted as the first model car. Back then, since it was around the time of war, the only
people who could really afford these toys were the sons of rich businessmen. These cars were called
tin plate models. The first Die cast ones though, did not come about until the late 1920s or the early
1930s. By 1950 toy companies in Japan were producing these goods.
Model Cars Go Mainstream
The model car making companies went through a dry spell in the 1960s as it cost too much to produce
these things. It wasn't the products that were costing so much; it was the cos