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Most Valuable Hot Wheels Car Is A Model You’d Never Get Caught In If It Was Real

Friday, 25 December 2020, 10:00 Dr. Tar Uncategorized 14

According to CNN, a pink (or is that purple) beach bomb VW Microbus is worth $150,000 and is not only rare but the most valuable “Hot Wheels” toy. What makes this casting so desirable is that it never made its way beyond model conception (i.e. it was never produced because Mattel didn’t think it would sell). Here

Other valuable (and far cooler) “Hot Wheels” models that were actually for sale to the general public. Here

And if you’re interested in collecting “Hot Wheels,” Mattel has a website for you. Here

14 Comments on Most Valuable Hot Wheels Car Is A Model You’d Never Get Caught In If It Was Real

  2. I saw a Ferrari 250 GTO once, many years ago. Appreciated that the owner would drive it around rather than keep it pristine but unused in a garage. Similarly with a Ferrari 250 California, like the one in Ferris Bueller’s Day Off (which of course was not a real one).

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  3. My daughters 16th birthday was yesterday. She has been asking for a classic red Ford Mustang. My wife and I were walking through the Walgreens (without masks) and we found her a hot wheels red mustang. The oversized one, not the little one. This morning we told her that we got her a red Ford Mustang. Without missing a beat she said “what the hot wheels?”
    Damn, you homeschool, making critical thinking skills.

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  6. I had a chance to buy a copy of Batman # 3, the origin of the Joker in 1972 from Powell’s bookstore in Portland. I also bid on a copy of Superman #2 from 1940 for $75 but lost out to someone who paid $ 80 for it. I didn’t buy Batman # 3 because I was ticked that I lost out on Superman # 2, I wish I would’ve bought Batman # 3 because it’s worth $100,000 to $250,000 or more now. And my 61 VW Camper van which I bought for $750 in 1972 and a friend of mine wrecked while I was in the Navy is according my mechanic brother at least $50,000 or more now. Aging boomers gotta have their toys and are willing to pay thru the nose for them. And I wish I would’ve also kept my Schwinn Stingray bicycle the Orange crate with the banana seat and the monkey bar handlebars from about 1966 when I was 13 and paid $75 fir it with money I earned from my paper route because they’ are worth $2 to $3,000 dollars now. Oh well, live and learn but I have far wore valuable stuff without all the toys, I’ll take God’s grace and mercy over nearly 68 years worth of stuff that are still just toys even as valuable as they are. And he who dies with the most toys doesn’t win anything but worrying if his kids or other relatives will appreciate it or just fight over it. Merry Christmas everyone at IOTWR.

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  7. I knew about the white ’67 Camaro.
    It was what is called the “red line”
    series of early hot wheels.There was a
    thin red circle around every tire.All the
    pickers I network with in Houston have been
    looking for the Camaro for 25 years.

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  10. Bobcat – Speaking of firecrackers… back in the early 60s a buddy lived in a house up the street with a detached garage. We stung a line from the second floor porch down to the garage then hung plastic airplane models on it and “flew” them down. We scored some firecrackers and put them in the planes lit the fuse and sent it on its way down to the garage.
    Sayonara Japs!
    Good times!

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  12. Although I was too old by the time it happened, I hated when Hot 2heels and Matchbox went to all of the non-realistic cars. I’m so old I hated when Matchbox went to the Hot Wheels type wheels. Somewhere I have a whole bunch of Matchbox cars but they are pretty beat up.

    There are a couple of people on YouTube who restore old Matchbox cars. They are pretty fun to watch.

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