{"id":540094,"date":"2026-07-23T09:34:17","date_gmt":"2026-07-23T09:34:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/540094\/"},"modified":"2026-07-23T09:34:17","modified_gmt":"2026-07-23T09:34:17","slug":"fasten-your-seatbelts-6000-toy-cars-to-be-auctioned","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/540094\/","title":{"rendered":"Fasten your seatbelts: 6000 toy cars to be auctioned"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"[&amp;_em]:font-serif-text-italic [&amp;_cite]:font-serif-text-italic\">Thousands of toy cars go up for auction this weekend, including those of an Invercargill man who had spent more than 80 years building up his collection of matchboxes.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I remember having one of these when I was younger&#8221; was one of the most common things heard at the auction house during a tour on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>Ronnie Proctor, of Proctor Auctions, says hundreds of people showed up and he thinks nostalgia is driving such big interest.<\/p>\n<p>He told the Checkpoint the 6000 toy cars have come from private collectors in the South Island.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Thousands of toy cars go up for auction this weekend, including those of an Invercargill man who had&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":540095,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[111,43,139,69],"class_list":["post-540094","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-zealand","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-newzealand","tag-nz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/540094","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=540094"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/540094\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/540095"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=540094"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=540094"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=540094"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}