Not me. To me, cars are transportation. Preferably reliable transportation. I have no desire to have a model of any of the cars my wife and I have owned. It’s just not that sort of thing for me.
The days are long gone, but I use to like working on cars. When I bought my first new car in 1991, a Hyundai Excel, I gave it up. There was nothing fun for me on trying to work on these beasts. But prior to that I enjoyed working on cars, my own and helping my friends. Learned a lot from helping real gear heads rather than my geekish shade tree mechanic skills.
Grin! I just found my car – as a Matchbox toy – on Ebay, for $5.00 including shipping. What a cool (silly! fun!) idea! Thank you mixdenny for thinking of this!
(I’ll encase it in lucite and hang it by a chain over a candle! Er, no…)
Sort of. I had a 1968 Plymouth Satellite and a model of a 1968 Road Runner. There’s no meaningful difference among the B-body Plymouths that year. I think there was a minor detail on the Road Runner hood That the Satellite didn’t have.
I used to look for, but never found models of any of the cars I’ve owned. Might find some now with the help of the internet.
I do browse through the Matchbox bin at the store sometimes, just in case there’s anything interesting or unusual. I have a Citroen and a hearse.
Yep. My second car was a Datsun 260Z
and I made a scale model of it from a plastic model kit but changed the design a bit to make it look like my car was (gold rims and a few other modifications).
Somewhere on a closet shelf, unopened, is a model kit of an early 70s AMC Javelin. I had a '71 several years ago. One of my current vehicles is an older Ford Crown Vic and I have a police car version of it in model form. I’ve acquired the models just for fun (and because they were available.) Most of the cars I’ve owned were unremarkable and probably never were celebrated in model form. I thank the OP for a fun question that I’ve enjoyed thinking about.
I do have a few Javelins in Matchbox or Hotwheels configurations also.
I have terrible luck with this.
I’ve wanted model versions of various vehicles I’ve owned, but have had zero success with any, or at least came close but no cigar…
1988 Ford Festiva - My first car. Understandably, nobody felt the need to capture this in model-kit form. 
1969 Triumph Spitfire Mark III convertible - Perhaps the most surprising for me. Lots of Mark IVs and TR6s, but no Mark IIIs.
1991 Buick Park Avenue - I’ve never found anything whatsoever.
1998 Mercury Grand Marquis - My current car. I know I’d never be able to find one EXACTLY the same, as this one has one of those aftermarket half-vinyl tops, but nada. There’s some close-ish Crown Vic models, but that’s it.
Another interesting thing I’ve noticed is that new cars just never seem to get the model treatment, at least at the hobbyist level. I work at a Ford dealership and thought it would be neat to have models of the, well, current models. They just don’t exist, though. I can find special models made for dealerships (i.e. scale Ford Edges, etc.) but on the hobbyist level, just Ford Fusion in NASCAR form. Kind of a bummer.
Slightly related: a co-worker of mine has a shelf of all the airplanes he’s flown on, as little model kits. Apparently, this is something you can ask for when you buy an airline ticket, and he always does.
1/48 scale MGB
1/24 scale MGB
1/48 scale Porsche 911
I did make model copies of a few of the antique/classic cars I rebuilt and painted/built them to match but I always gave them away with the cars when I sold them. I regret that now in a couple cases but all in all I haven’t felt like recreating any of them.
Mixed bag; I had a 59 Chev Biscayne, bought an Impala model and dechromed it to resemble a Biscayne. Had a 66 Corvair and have a model of a 69, which is the same if you don’t notice the side marker lights which the 66 did not have. Amazingly I have an exact copy of one of the most boring cars I ever owned, a 79 Malibu (was part of a set with a fire truck, etc. This was the Chief’s car. Oddly, I have three models (not kits) of the Morris Minor. Most of the other cards I’ve owned have been too pedestrian to model.
Do they count if they’re the kind that comes assembled? Mom has both a white R12 and a red Mini. The actual red Mini is the first car I remember Dad driving; it went from my dad to one of my aunts, to all four of her sons, eventually back to her. Now that she doesn’t drive any more, one of those cousins has taken it back. The actual white R12, I bought it from one of my great-uncle’s estate after he died; from me it passed to my next brother; eventually it got traded in for his first bought car.
I’ve never found a model of an MGB GT, which is what I had.
Not a car I ever owned, but my all time favorite: The WWII-era Citroen Traction Avant. I saw a scale model of it in a gas stop in France and couldn’t resist – my only souvenir from that trip.
My uncle bought a '49 Studebaker, and the dealer handed them out to buyers. It’s still in the family.
I’ve built models of my friend’s cars, including the correct plate, and I have 50-100 completed car models, but have never managed to finish a model of any I’ve owned. I have three others in work, and I almost have the first kit done, for a car I sold in 1988.
I think the thing is, when they aren’t finished, they’re still perfect. But when they are done, any errors are locked in. So if I never finish then, I can never screw them up.
I never could find a good metal model of my 90 Mustang GT. Currently on my desk I have a good model of my 2008 Mazdaspeed3, it looks just like the real car except for the color.
