I have been an avid toy collector for over 50 years.  Now that I am 70, my wife is pushing me to sell off my collections so our son won't have to deal with all my stuff.

I have always tried to find a model kit or a diecast model of any car that I have owned.  When I was in High School my father bought my brother and I a 1969 Corvair Monza blue convertible to share.  Ours was this exterior color but had a blue interior, not black.  I have a picture of me driving one of our Homecoming Queen candidates in the town parade in 1970.  Driving my mother home from a shopping trip I was slowing down on the road to pull off and help a stranded vehicle on the side of the road.  An uninsured young girl driver rear ended us hard enough that the impact actually pulled the seat mounting bolts out of the floor and we were in the back seat still strapped to the front seats with the seat belts.  I broke the wooden steering wheel in three places.  Being a rear end hit on a rear engine car, this totaled the car.  I had an uncle with a farm that had a lot of old junk vehicles stored there.  My father had the Corvair towed out there and dumped off.  Years later I was at a car show with my wife and I was talking with a guy that had a Corvair Monza and told him about our old car.  The guy was incredulous and said "You had a 1969 Monza Convertible?  They only made 600 of those."  After the show I called my cousin, my uncle had passed away years before, and asked if they still had the old junk cars out at the farm.  My cousin told me that years ago a guy stopped by and offered my uncle money to buy and haul away all the old cars.  They made a deal and the guy trucked out all the cars..... and disappeared.  He stole all the cars.

This is my Road Signature 1969 Corvair Monza Convertible “light Blue” 1/18 Scale Diecast Metal Car  New-in-Factory-Sealed-Box.  The box has some scuffing from years of storage.  The car was never displayed.