Hot Wheels

Hi Slow Jazz,


Yea, that Hot wheels car case was the true **** in my day. I wish I could have owned one. Like you, I am sad today knowing that I should have kept all my toys for times like this.

Yea, I had some other toys that I know would be worth something today, alas they are long gone.

Nice sentiment,
Rome
 
I remember playing with the hot wheels near the base of trees at the elementary school. Good times. :) I still have all my old hot wheels and probably all the track I was given by an older neighbor kid (orange track with purple connectors). :) My favorite hot wheel he gave me too -- a 68 Cad Eldorado. Used to set up some hella tall track slopes ... and used to have a "canyon" kind of track system thingy for racing side by side. The ol' Paddy Wagon was usually the fastest... or else the fire truck without the trailer... (btw, these aren't mine, just pics of the interweb :D)

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Hot wheels gave my son his first lesson in truth in advertising. Bought him the set with the loop the loop one Christmas. No way in hell they would ever do the loop.
 
Rome said:
Hi X 25,

I can only echo second the great sentiment to you as I did for Mikech.
You can even brag of having some generational Hot Wheels stuff.

Man, that reeks of Greatness in my book. When you get the time, put that track together & like I said to MikeCh, if you have kids, give them something to cherish for a lifetime with your Hot Wheels stuff.

Grand sentiment,
Rome
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Lol, I am the kid Rome. 19 and living with my parents now, haven't had the hotwheels out in a while though. Don't worry though. I will keep them for the future. :thmbsp:
 
Hi Shimniok,

I just had to brush back the tears as I saw the old red stripe tires on those cars. It brings back so many fond memories of the laughter & fun I had playing with my family.

I wish I could hear me dad's voice as he would say, "is that alright son?"
O my!

Yea, the Green 68 Camaro I had would beat any car my brothers had. Glad to see you have your old stuff & if you have any kids I hope you break them out & just have at it.

Great sentiment,
Rome
 
Hi Merrylander,

Yea, it just took some patience & finessing. Kinda like trying to make those cars stay on track of the figure 8 racing sets.! :yes:

When the cars stayed on track, the loop to loops were something special. I had hours of fun back then.

Nice sentiment,
Rome
 
Hi X 25,

You are close to my son's age as he is 20. He just laughs when I tell him about stuff like this & playing marbles.

Indeed, keep them for future posterity. They will surely bring you some money & hopefully some fun when you break them out to play.

Rome
 
Had a blast back in the late 60s and early 70s with our hotwheels set. Best time was watching those commercials on Saturday morning with my brother, eating heavily-sugared cereal, and the inevitable slapping each other with the tracks...
Here's some of those commericals on youtube::thmbsp:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F-H5DZXddbA
 
Hi Ybaolywa,

I hear on that in watching some great commericals & Saturday cartoons.
This thread has really brought back some memories. I loved watching Fat Albert while I ate Nabisco Graham Crackers with milk.

Thanks for the link.

Nice sentiment,
Rome
 
I still have most of the original Hot Wheel "Red Lines" all in the black wheel case AND the little metal badges that came with them, as well as several hundred Matchbox "Superfast" and later Hot Wheels. I gave them to my son to play with.
 
We juiced these suckers up WAY past the voltage they were supposed to be seeing, and launched cars over our garage into the neighbor's pool around the block from us. :yes:

Or, sometimes, you'd just hear, "HRK!" and the car would be wedged inside the little house.

Fun stuff.

je
 

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Hi Justen,

Wow!, it pleases me greatly to see so many of the posts stating they have kept through all these years the Hot Wheels stuff. The red lines on those little cars always made me smile as a kid. When I got my first strip track set one Christmas Day, I was a happy little fellow! :yes:

I see you even have the Matchbox stuff, just great indeed.
Good to see you are giving your son the stuff & I hope he treasures them as you have. :thmbsp:

Great sentiment,
Rome
 
Hi Fred Sanford,

Well, I have to say, I think we have a winner.
The picture you have there is the garage thing I was talking about.
Man!, that thing would shoot those cars out with authority.

Ahhhhh, this brings back the good times I tell you. I know you had some great fun letting those cars go into the neighbors pool!

I could hear my dad say something like, "if I have to come out here one more time & tell you all to stop shooting those things into that pool."

hehehehehe :yes: :yes: :D

Wonderful JE,
Great Grand Sentiment,
Rome
 
Hot Wheels and Matchbox cars are how I got started in this hobby. When I first discovered eBay I initially used it to start restoring the car collection that my mom had passed on to my cousins. Then one day I wondered to myself, "I wonder if that old hifi gear that I never could afford is on here too?" From there to here...

I've pretty much restored much of my collection (both) now, and have several wall cases displaying the cleaner examples. Never fails to garner comments when we have friends over.

We used to pool everyone's track at someone's house and build these huge tracks - down the basement steps, over the couch, jump a box or something, loops, banked curves, it was all great. Outside, our street had a slow curve down a long hill that we used to take turns rolling our cars down the curb - we'd each have five or so, and whoever's ended up the farthest down the hill was the winner. You never knew who would win, as a stopped car or a crashed pack of cars could get 're-energized' by a later car's hit and start off back farther down the hill! Virtually every summer day in the early 70s was spent this way.

We also used to have these marathon Monopoly games that would go on for days. We used to also have to pool several game's money to keep it going until someone finally won it all.

Then there were pellet gun wars and GI Joes, but we gotta save something for later to talk about...
 
Hi CULater,

Having a hobby is such a nice thing. If you can refrain from robbing your piggy bank, you have mastered it!

I bet putting together those tracks with great lengths stirred the emotions like crazy. So nice, your mom passed on some of the stuff.

O my, I remember the Monopoly games, pellet guns, water guns, & get this one.

Anyone remember the old Cap Guns?
I had some that reminded me of a Colt 45.
Nothing smelled like a popped round of caps. PUNGENT! :yes:

Great sentiment,
Rome
 
Rome said:
Yea, the Green 68 Camaro I had would beat any car my brothers had. Glad to see you have your old stuff & if you have any kids I hope you break them out & just have at it.
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Ah yes, definitely!! That and the slot car setup my dad got for us... many fond memories there too. Definitely want to make good memories when we have kids ...

Michael
 
Hi Shimniok,

The almighty figure 8 slot car sets. They were notorious as were the train sets for not giving the cars/trains bigger magnets to hold them in the grooves. I can see right now my cars just flying across the room when I gave them to gas in the corners! :D

Yea, my son does not even consider Hot Wheels as good time fun like I did. Kids these days are highly technical minded, so you better have an X-Box handy. :yes:

As I got older, my dad would take us to a place next door to a Tom Thumb that had two huge slot car tracks & one drag strip track. The cars used on these tracks were the bigger cars, more like model cars. It was sheer heaven. I had a Lotus & my brother had a 1964 Impala SS. You would rent the controller & time to play on the track. Fond memories Shimniok!

Great sentiment,
Rome
 
Rome said:
The almighty figure 8 slot car sets. They were notorious as were the train sets for not giving the cars/trains bigger magnets to hold them in the grooves. I can see right now my cars just flying across the room when I gave them to gas in the corners!
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Oh ya... Dad and I were 'drifing' twenty years before it caught on! :D

Sad that the kids would rather play xbox. Hardly stimulating for the imagination.

Michael
 
I had a Wilesco Steam Engine. Actually, 2 of 'em. One was stationary, but the other one was a model tractor & would run up & down the hall. They had these little whitish pellets that you put in this little tray under the boiler & lit, & in about 5 minutes you had steam ! It had a whistle that was ear-piercing, too. Yes, it could & would burn yr fingers, but after it did a time or 2, you learned how NOT to let it burn you... The stationary engine had a dynamo that would power a flashlight bulb-if it felt like it. And despite my behavior & attitude on here, I managed NEVER to burn myself or anything else w/these cute contraptions...
 
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