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    Re: Due To Popular Demand: The Sunday Thread (9/20)

    Quote Originally Posted by Sérgio View Post
    Interesting, I didn't know they made big V8 cars with front wheel traction back in the 70s...
    I seem to remember it was one of the first FWD cars. It was a big deal at the time. Mannix drove one!
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    Re: Due To Popular Demand: The Sunday Thread (9/20)

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    I love hot wheels! I don't really collect them but own quite a few of their miniatures of cars that bear a meaning to me. Of course, one of them is a blue Maverick:


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    Re: Due To Popular Demand: The Sunday Thread (9/20)

    Sergio, I'll show this to my James! He found about 30 Hot Wheels we'd gotten him when he was a boy--in my attic. That's where I found 30 Charlie Brown books--we both feel like we scored big today.
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    Re: Due To Popular Demand: The Sunday Thread (9/20)

    Quote Originally Posted by ch willie View Post
    Sergio, I'll show this to my James! He found about 30 Hot Wheels we'd gotten him when he was a boy--in my attic. That's where I found 30 Charlie Brown books--we both feel like we scored big today.

    I gotta say we have a few things in common, and I don't mean just the love for the Beatles...




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    Re: Due To Popular Demand: The Sunday Thread (9/20)

    I had been collecting Hot Wheels ever since Child World opened up at the (then) new mall a mile from my house, in 1968. They celebrated by selling the cars for 68 cents. Last I looked, I still have my Boss Hoss 302 Mustang.

    A few years ago, i bought a Roadrunner Superbird. I spent well over an hour scouring my pictures to find it. I know I took a picture of it, it should be on my imgur but noooo. Again, packed away for the move and not found yet.

    Found online pic

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    Re: Due To Popular Demand: The Sunday Thread (9/20)

    If any of you guys has a pic of your old Hot Wheels, please post them. My son would get a real kick out of it.
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    Re: Due To Popular Demand: The Sunday Thread (9/20)

    For me, it was Dinky, Corgi, and 1 Matchbox car. I don't have any pictures, they're all now in the possession of my grand-nephew.

    The Dinky and Corgi cars were generally 1/43 scale. Matchbox cars were about the same scale as Hot Wheels.

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    Re: Due To Popular Demand: The Sunday Thread (9/20)

    OOoooooooh, a complete edition!!!!!!!!

    Quote Originally Posted by Sérgio View Post
    I gotta say we have a few things in common, and I don't mean just the love for the Beatles...



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    Re: Due To Popular Demand: The Sunday Thread (9/20)

    Quote Originally Posted by ch willie View Post
    If any of you guys has a pic of your old Hot Wheels, please post them. My son would get a real kick out of it.
    I wish I did! I had a lot of Hot Wheels stuff including the Tune-Up Tower with a working dyno!

    Not mine-



    When my son was young they reissued a bunch of items including the orange track and the Mongoose and Snake drag race set (they had their market figured out). My son and I had epic drag races where we'd get out every car we had and race them all to find the fastest (usually a short wheelbase all metal car- metal body and chassis- with no opening hood or doors).

    I just took this pic in my basement-


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    Re: Due To Popular Demand: The Sunday Thread (9/20)

    My son said that that is super cool, Don.

    Thanks.
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    Re: Due To Popular Demand: The Sunday Thread (9/20)



    One more for the collection of Mavericks

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    Re: Due To Popular Demand: The Sunday Thread (9/20)

    the band car lives
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