lewbud
Reader
3/13/11 3:37 p.m.
vwcorvette wrote:
I've begun giving my collection to my nieces on birthdays, etc. They get a normal gift plus a car. They do not get "little girl" things from me. Hey, even Barbie needs a car right? The oldest will be 11 in April. Too early for a tool kit??
Nope. Future car guy boyfriend will thank you.
I just bought a 510 and TR6.
As will my bro. (Their dad)
In reply to Conquest351:
I have the 510 in black. Sits on my desk at work.
I just got the silver DeLoreans - regular and BTTF.
loosecannon wrote:
I have the best Hot Wheels-'nuff said :)
Looks like you play with it too!
These are cool and hard as berkley to find:
This is above my desk at work.
Javelin
SuperDork
3/14/11 3:58 p.m.
HunterJP wrote:
This is above my desk at work.
Amateur...
(Just playing with you man, mad props to anybody brave enough to put up cars in their office ).
Javelin
SuperDork
3/14/11 3:59 p.m.
Bonus points if you can name them all!
Those are just the ones at work. ;) And don't worry, it will grow. :D
And.... Testerossa, GTR, Saleen S7, Mustang Shelby GT500, Lotus Esprit, Boxter, Corvette ZR1, Enzo, Evora, Gallardo, Challenger, Ferrari 599, GTO, Murcielago, Javelin, and... Diablo?
Javelin
SuperDork
3/14/11 4:39 p.m.
Close, but no cigar. You missed the far left one, the far right one, and the blue convertible.
Left to right (ROYGBIV because I couldn't come up with a better way to sort them):
- VW W12 Concept (Bugatti prototype)
- 71 AMC Javelin AMX
- Lambo Murielago
- 70 Pontiac GTO Judge
- Ferrari 599GTB
- 70 Dodge Challenger R/T
- Lambo Gallardo Superleggera
- Lotus Evora
- Ferrari Enzo
- Corvette ZR1
- Porsche 911 Carrera
- Lotus Esprit V8
- Shelby Mustang GT500
- Saleen S7
- Nissan GT-R (R34)
- Ferrari 512M
I have about a zillion more I need to bring over here from storage at home. The home office is surrounded by 1/18th scale ones.
Yours definitely have a GRM vibe though (Datsun 240Z, Mazda Miata, Lotus 7, Datsun 510). You should pick up the Triumph Spitfire, Lotus Elan, and Porsche 914 to go with them!
Ok, I had a feeling I was off on the VW, but a 512 is nothing but a newer Testarossa and you know it!
The GRM theme will be continued. Need to get the E30 Hot Wheels. Yes, one was actually made. :D
Javelin
SuperDork
3/14/11 5:04 p.m.
I knew the VW would kill anybody
Look to Matchbox (owned by Mattel/HotWheels for at least 15 years now) for other GRM-type cars as well (such as the aforementioned 914 and Elan). The E30 sounds cool! Tomica made an FB RX-7 that would also fit in.
Now don't be upset but I still have my hotwheels & matchbox cars from when I was a kid. Keep them in the same big lunchbox I did back then. Easier to play with that way.
I still have a few from my youth as I was 8 years old when they came out.
Then about 1986 I found a suitcase full at a garage sale for 5 bucks.
Did some checking and found that some of these were bringing real money from folks like me.
At a flea market I found some originals still in the package for (what I thought) was outrageous money. But I had to have that Braham Repco for $15.
I went crazy then and was a trading fool along with my brother...we ended up with over 30,000 hotwheels.
Down to my favorites and a bunch of cheapies that I usually give to kids at car shows and swap meets.
Mustangs are my favorites as my first Hotwheel was a chrome Boss Hoss.
Bruce
Javelin
SuperDork
3/15/11 12:50 p.m.
Rusted_Busted_Spit wrote:
In reply to Javelin:
Who makes the Spitfire?
I saw again today while I was buying some more Hot Wheels, it's a GT6 not a Spitfire. Regular Hot Wheels, they had a blue one and I know I've seen other colors. Open-topped w/rollbar.
Spied one of these the other day:
That Holden UTE is badass. I got that & a blue/white GT3 the other day at Wal-mart, oddly they had zero Hot Wheels in stock. Every peg was empty, very strange?
neon4891 wrote:
I might ad my hot wheels under reader rides. Some people do that with model cars.
RAGE against people like that. Especially before a few of the people on here that do that labelled them "models." I was always like "oooh, nice collection! Wait... that's some bullE36 M3!"
Reader's Rides. So unless you make some sort of skateboard out of a bunch of them glued to a 2x4...
captainzib wrote:
I used to have hotwheels in my cubicle till someone stole my 240Z like the one in your pic. I'm not sure if I ever found a replacement in the same color. I found a yellow one, but I really liked the white one.
I have the yellow one as well. But nobody better lay a finger on my... hotwheels.