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Is there anyone who didn't have a least one Hot Wheels car?

that's one thing that I never played with or owned dont no why
 
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I had a size-able Matchbox collection (hard rubber tires, early narrow "superfast, and later and current fat tire) starting from before I can remember, acquired from a hobby shop walking distance from our house.

I distinctly remember my first Hot Wheels, acquired from a down town department store in 1972 (I was four). I clearly remember as if it were last week, opening the package and playing with it in the back seat of a gm "fishbowl" city bus.

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I also had Corgi, Majorette, a few lesser known but quality brands.

What I never owned until adulthood was Johnny Lightning,
I never even saw them for sale anywhere.
I knew other kids that had them, and was intrigued by their models.

I'm still really more of a Matchbox guy and my collection is about 3 to 1 Matchbox vs anything else.

I've been really into the AutoWorld stuff lately though and that collection is growing rapidly. They just released flat hood Challengers and 63 Polaras!
 
50 years anniversary puts me at a teenager so I didnt have any Hot Wheels

Now I buy them and hand them out to little girls and boys at the drag races and car shows.

Give them something to remember and hopefully they turn into future cars nuts.
 
I also remember these cars came with an odd clear plastic adaptor with two small, wide wheels (not pictured). I never figured out how to use that, but assume it was so they would track on the orange plastic racetrack.
 
I had about half or more of the top 10 most rare desirable ones..
All ridden hard and thrown away...
 
I had some early Matchbox. My younger brother got the Hot Wheels with all the different tracks that they offered. Some Matchbox cars and trucks are worth big money.
 
My Hot Wheels collection is probably close to 3000 counting the blue cards, classics,and other series and premiums. That is after I have sold off around 700 to this point. Not buying anymore.
 
We have 1000''s of cars in storage tub's that mostly are mine from the 70's and 80's. My son's played with and added hundreds more throughout their child hood. All 3 of my kids still buy 1:64 and 1:16 scale Mopar die casts for my Birthdays, father's day and Christmas gifts. To me all these cars are priceless and what made my child hood fun and still do enjoy as and adult . I diplay the new ones in the Racement (basement).

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Funny this thread came up, the other day I typed in 1970s Hotwheels and was looking at the images and picking out the ones I had.
I never really cared for the Matchbox set. They seemed inferior to me as a kid. The axles would bend and the never rolled straight .
My grandparents house was pier and beam and my grandfather would always rake tge excess dirt from the edges. So in the summer I would crawl under the house and dig tunnels into the embankment he created and make little citys to roll my cars around...It was always about 30 degrees cooler under there too, great to get out of the Tx heat.
Dziadkek ( polish for grandpa) did not think fondly of me messing up his berms and would pop me if he caught me....he was always worried about the water running under the house and washing the piers out...I got good at covering my tracks though!!!
 
My Hot Wheels collection is probably close to 3000 counting the blue cards, classics,and other series and premiums. That is after I have sold off around 700 to this point. Not buying anymore.
3,000 you say? :rofl: At one point I had nearly 8,000....started selling some off a few years ago. They are fun to collect, but then after a while it becomes more than an addition...more of a disease. :D
I started opening a bunch to display in my garage.

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and many more.....:lol:

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3,000 you say? :rofl: At one point I had nearly 8,000....started selling some off a few years ago. They are fun to collect, but then after a while it becomes more than an addition...more of a disease. :D
I started opening a bunch to display in my garage.

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WOW !!! At least a pair of each model cool , but... I don't see a little red wagon in the pics or a road runner.
 
While I don't have a massive collection like you guys I do still have around 50 of the original 68-70 redlines from my childhood. Some are in excellent condition. Have a few Tommy's as well.
 
I still buy them and still 99 cents at Walmart!
 
They didn't exist when I was young. Well into teens when they started making them and by that time I wanted FULL SIZE cars, not toys.
 
They didn't exist when I was young. Well into teens when they started making them and by that time I wanted FULL SIZE cars, not toys.
They've been making them for 50 years and you can still buy them. I buy the little toys from time to time because I can't afford more than one full size toy.
 
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