Opus's Diecast Emporium
A lifetime of diecast, catalogued
- Mainline
- Treasure Hunt
- Super TH
- Car Culture
- RLC
My name is Opus. I have been buying diecast for a long time and the wall finally got big enough that I need a real record of it. So I am photographing and logging every car, one at a time, and putting the doubles up for sale.
Everything you see here comes out of my own collection. If a car is listed as available, I have it in my hand.
The collection, by the numbers
The wall is thousands of cars. This counts only what has actually been photographed and logged, which is where the real work is. It goes up every time another shelf gets done.
In the vault right now
What is catalogued
Every card below is a real piece, photographed front and back. Anything marked for sale has a live listing you can click straight through to.
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Video
The first one
Posted to Facebook on 31 July 2026. Opus, the wall behind him, and a walk down the tables. It is the honest starting point: one take, no edit, and a cat asleep in a toy car about halfway through.
What is actually on the wall
Hot Wheels mainline by the hundred, Matchbox, and the 1:64 premium lines: DUB City, Bigtime Muscle, Old Skool, Speed Fleet. Star Wars and Disney Cars carded. Boxes underneath, pegboard above, and every table surface in use.
That is the part that needs cataloguing, and it is why this site exists.
Free, no catch
How to spot a Super Treasure Hunt
Three tells. If a car in the dollar bin has all three, put it in your cart. Regular Treasure Hunts use the same flame logo but keep normal paint and normal wheels.
Spectraflame paint
A candy finish over polished metal. It looks wet and it changes depth as you turn it. Regular mainline paint is flat and even.
Real Riders wheels
Actual rubber tires on a separate hub, not one piece of molded plastic. Look at the sidewall from the side, you can see the seam.
Two flame logos
One small flame printed on the card near the series name, and a second one on the car itself, usually tucked behind the rear wheel. Both have to be there.
Not sure what you have?
Send me a photo of the front and the back of the card. I will tell you the casting, the year and roughly what it sells for. I do this for free, it is how I meet people.
Trading
Buying and selling
What I buy
- Whole collections, any size, carded or loose
- Estate cleanouts, including boxes nobody has opened in years
- Factory sealed cases
- Unopened singles, premium lines, RLC mailers
- Old peg finds still in the original bag
I am in Michigan. For a large lot I will drive to you. Tell me roughly what you have and send a couple of photos, I will give you a number.
[email protected]Where I sell
- eBay store, with the full listing and photos of the actual card
- Direct message on Facebook for anything you see here
- Drop list by email before a batch goes public
Doubles get listed first. Cars marked keeper are not for sale, they are on the page because they are worth looking at.
Shipping: bubble mailer inside a box for carded cars, tracking on everything.
Keep up
Where to find him
The page is new and small. Saying so is better than pretending otherwise.
First video went up 31 July 2026. More as the cataloguing goes on.
eBay
The live listings, with full photos of the actual item.
Selling something?
Whole collections, estate cleanouts, boxes nobody has opened in years. Send a couple of photos and roughly what you have.