Hot Wheels 1:64
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I have a few small scales:
https://www.flickr.com/photos/13968656@N04/albums/...
Best database is here:
http://hotwheels.wikia.com/wiki/Hot_Wheels
https://www.flickr.com/photos/13968656@N04/albums/...
Best database is here:
http://hotwheels.wikia.com/wiki/Hot_Wheels
When I were but a slip of a lad, back in the dim and distant past I was blessed with a mother who cared little for her baby offspring but cared vastly for her burgeoning social life so I was paid to babysit... myself!
So about three times a week (four if it was a really good week) I would call in at the toy shop on my way to school (always open for keep kiddies to spend their pocket money) and buy Hot Wheels. I had all the latest (just looking through that website I had all the 68 - 70 offerings)
loads of track and various accessories so mammoth tracks could be made while 'babysitting' and much fun was had.
I kept them all in mint condition (I'm a bit OCD) and displayed them in a case until my early thirties (you could buy a dedicated Hot wheels display case - that was several nights' dough!) when in a moment of rashness, I gave them to my baby son to play with.
I think most of them got buried in the garden, or eaten by the dogs, or otherwise destroyed but they did their job and my baby son (now an ugly 30-year-old) is yet another petrol head. Wish I still had them.
I had a brilliant blue Rolls-Royce shadow from them and it was my favorite but not seen another.
So about three times a week (four if it was a really good week) I would call in at the toy shop on my way to school (always open for keep kiddies to spend their pocket money) and buy Hot Wheels. I had all the latest (just looking through that website I had all the 68 - 70 offerings)
loads of track and various accessories so mammoth tracks could be made while 'babysitting' and much fun was had.
I kept them all in mint condition (I'm a bit OCD) and displayed them in a case until my early thirties (you could buy a dedicated Hot wheels display case - that was several nights' dough!) when in a moment of rashness, I gave them to my baby son to play with.
I think most of them got buried in the garden, or eaten by the dogs, or otherwise destroyed but they did their job and my baby son (now an ugly 30-year-old) is yet another petrol head. Wish I still had them.
I had a brilliant blue Rolls-Royce shadow from them and it was my favorite but not seen another.
My son has hundreds. Its a mixture of older ones he used to play with as a small child, plus a large amount of mint, loads still packaged, and loads open but in a display case (he tries to buy 2 of the same one). Its a very slippery slope, and I find i cant go to a shop now, and not check for Hot Wheels cars on his behalf.
ferrisbueller said:
s-x-i said:
Matchbox have been doing some pretty good models recently which doesn't help the ever growing collection.
Thankfully they don't seem to be as readily available as Hot Wheels.
Tesco only for Matchbox I think.Thankfully they don't seem to be as readily available as Hot Wheels.
Woo hoo ... 48yr old dad of a 6yo checking in to the thread!!!
I kept all my old Matchbox and Corgi cars from when I was a kid in the 70's/early 80's. My grandfather used to buy me a new one, every Thursday for a few years, when my grandparents came to visit. I left them all in a bin bag in my parents' loft for decades after moving out in 1995.
Our son came along in 2015, parents wanted a clear out, so said bin bag was dumped on me. What a flashback to my childhood! A lot were completely shagged, but many were in really, really good condition.
Fast forward a few years and son now loves all those cars, and is busy creating his own Hot Wheels collection. I am obsessively helping him. We've bought couple of tracks, he loves making them indoors and outdoors, watches loads of stuff on YouTube about them, and we collect the ones that he and I like most.
The biggest revelation to me, having been a Covid-shielder over the last 12 months and barely leaving the house, it that my local Tesco Express have started doing them as impulse purchase items, as I discovered on my first visit to any kind of shop in a year last week. What a great find! I think we might be, ahem, "running out of tea bags and sugar" a bit more frequently in future!
Favourite recent purchases are Audi S1 Quattro, AC Cobra, Ford RS1800 Mexico and Volvo 850R wagon.
I kept all my old Matchbox and Corgi cars from when I was a kid in the 70's/early 80's. My grandfather used to buy me a new one, every Thursday for a few years, when my grandparents came to visit. I left them all in a bin bag in my parents' loft for decades after moving out in 1995.
Our son came along in 2015, parents wanted a clear out, so said bin bag was dumped on me. What a flashback to my childhood! A lot were completely shagged, but many were in really, really good condition.
Fast forward a few years and son now loves all those cars, and is busy creating his own Hot Wheels collection. I am obsessively helping him. We've bought couple of tracks, he loves making them indoors and outdoors, watches loads of stuff on YouTube about them, and we collect the ones that he and I like most.
The biggest revelation to me, having been a Covid-shielder over the last 12 months and barely leaving the house, it that my local Tesco Express have started doing them as impulse purchase items, as I discovered on my first visit to any kind of shop in a year last week. What a great find! I think we might be, ahem, "running out of tea bags and sugar" a bit more frequently in future!
Favourite recent purchases are Audi S1 Quattro, AC Cobra, Ford RS1800 Mexico and Volvo 850R wagon.
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