So, a coworker is an avid collector of HotWheels and got me started looking at them again. First time I've bought toys for myself since I was in school...

Anyway, how do you guys display your cars. The things I'm seeing online are prohibitively expensive or just hold like 5 cars. I'm thinking about a cork board and a box of flat thumb tacks for now. I've only got about 20 or so at the moment. I just buy the stuff I like, so mostly trucks and old muscle cars.

If they are out of the package I’ve seen them displayed in a car or truck grill that have appropriate size “cubbies”. (hanging on a wall) In the package changes things. Might look for a hanging snack merchandiser, like the ones small potato chip bags are displayed for sale.

Have both. The few new purchases are still sealed and I still have some of my old ones from when I was a kid loose in a wooden storage case. Good for storage, but not display. I like the grill idea. I'll have to look into that.

Is it true that hot wheels are making cars now with plastic body's and bottoms?

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Originally posted by bendable:
Is it true that hot wheels are making cars now with plastic body's and bottoms?

They have made plastic ones for decades

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Originally posted by bendable:
Is it true that hot wheels are making cars now with plastic body's and bottoms?

Matchbox was the maker of the metal cars. I don't recall Hot Wheels ever being metal.

Oh boy do I need to slow down when reading. I thought the title said hot wives. That would get a locked thread quick.
Pardon my interruption.

I had several boxes that probably held 40 cars each from my childhood. As a kid I played with them and none remained in original packaging as I never would have known that was a thing. I had a lot of emergency vehicles and so there were some cars I smashed with a hammer to be the car in the accident the emergency cars had to respond to when I played.

A few years ago I decided to sell them and there is a website where I was able to look up each car and its value. I was able to sell the lot of cars for a few hundred dollars.

I knew nothing of “Red Line” Hot Wheels, those made in the first 10 years with a red line on the tires and very valuable. Wouldn’t you know that almost every one of the cars I smashed as a kid were a Red Line and worth close to $100 each!

Ugh. I also had the original G.I. Joe dolls as a kid, which would have been worth a lot if I hadn’t shaved the beard off one….lol.

I remember my Hot Wheels from c. 1968-70. We had the (I think it was called) "supercharged" track, a battery-powered gadget that propelled the cars around an oval track. My dad and older brother played with it as much or more than I did. When battery life proved short, my brother rigged a transformer that fed household current to it. My friends and I would also race the cars down a "loop-the-loop" track. Now I wish I still had them.

I have a very small collection of Hot Wheels and Matchbox cars; just things that catch my eye. I sometimes buy them because they are similar to cars I’ve either had or just always admired. For example, I have 2 ‘65 Lincoln Continental convertibles with the suicide doors, 1 black, 1 white.

Most are in their hang cards/blister pack inside a cabinet with glass doors. I use the little Command Adhesive clear hooks on the back wall of the cabinet to hang those.

When I was a kid I had hundreds of Matchbox and Hot Wheels cars; one year I had every available model they sold. I then got into the Corgi cars, and those were a little more expensive but way cooler. Lol. I eventually gave all my cars to my nephew when I foolishly thought I was “too grown up” to play with them anymore.

I also have a small collection of miniature firearms made by Marx in the ‘70’s. Those I’ve had all along. Sadly, a couple of them now have corrosion from the red paper caps I used to shoot in them. I know they can probably be cleaned up, but I haven’t had time. Hopefully when I retire in 18 months I’ll get to it.

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Originally posted by bendable:
Is it true that hot wheels are making cars now with plastic body's and bottoms?

Matchbox was the maker of the metal cars. I don't recall Hot Wheels ever being metal.

Hot Wheels has made both plastic and metal cars over the years.

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Originally posted by egregore:
Matchbox was the maker of the metal cars. I don't recall Hot Wheels ever being metal.

I had the first Hot Wheels that came out in 1968. I collected them until about 1970-71. They were die-cast metal bodies back then.


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Originally posted by egregore:
I remember my Hot Wheels from c. 1968-70. We had the (I think it was called) "supercharged" track, a battery-powered gadget that propelled the cars around an oval track. (

I had the Supercharger track too. Very cool. I also had the Snake and Mongoose drag set.

I took really good care of my cars. I never took them outside and kept them in that circular Hot Wheels case that looked like a tire. Then in my teen years, my mother took them out of the case to let my young nephews play with them, without my knowledge or permission. They took them outside snd essentially destroyed them.


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