I found these Hot Wheels from my youth while searching through boxes and remembered a thread discussing Hot Wheels with Redline tires. I tried searching for that thread but couldn’t find it, so I started this one. As I said in that other thread, the cigar boxes are probably more valuable than the toy cars.

Unfortunately I no longer have the Johnny Lightning dual race track that these cars drag raced on back then.

 

I still have a somewhat sizable Matchbox car collection that I accumulated as a kid in the 70's - many 50's and 60's models which I bought mostly from local Philly and nearby Jersey area flea markets for anywhere from .25 to a $1 apiece, some even still in their original boxes. Amongst them are some rarities including a 1st-year issue Land Rover miniature from 1953.

Like all the other kids I ran with back then, I beat my Hot Wheels to death and most eventually disappeared... I have maybe 1 or 2 left mixed into my old Matchbox cases at this point.

Hot Wheels have well-outpaced Matchbox in value over time so no chance of me getting rich from my stash, but the old Lesney-Matchbox models were more interesting to me at the time.

 

Of those pictured, I had the Custom Corvette, the Ford J-Car, the blown VW bug, the Splittin' Image and the Python.

I also had the Custom T-Bird, Custom Firebird (convertible!), Custom Camaro, Custom '55 Nomad, the Fleetside, Custom Mustang (just like the Bullitt car only red) among others. Ma tossed them all, along with my "mag wheel" plastic carrying cases and all the track when my folks sold the house. I was 17 and was dealing with more pressing issues ...

Thanks for the post and subsequent trip down memory lane.

 

Very cool!

I don't know what happened to my Hot Wheels and Matchbox cars.

 

I have 2 '70s, a '72, and a '67 442.

 

I have a 67 442 and what I think is a Hot Wheels partially inspired by my 72 Monte Carlo on the 2018 Power Tour. I think they took pictures of two cars and modified them, one being mine.

 

I found a couple of other threads talking about Hot Wheels, bud decided to post a reply here rather than the others.
Maybe it needs it's own thread. Admin, do with it what you please.

My brother alerted me to this episode of Collector's Call, which features a 1971 Four Fourty-Two (cringe!).
Apparently Hot Wheels only produced this one year, so it's quite valuable, as is the supporting memorabilia, according to this show...






When you want to take time away from your passion with real cars, this is a nice distraction.

Enjoy!

 

Old thread but do you want to sell those?

 

Hey Toro thanks for posting the video! I wanted to watch that particular episode and got caught up doing something and missed it. I have a box of -most- of my Hot Wheels and Matchboxes squirreled away somewhere, none worth a million bucks. They are all pretty much destroyed. But man we got the use of of them.