I asked my mom, who told me of her friend's little boy and how much he liked little toy cars. She didn't think that I would mind, so she gave away the cases of cars. My prized collection of Hot Wheels cars was gone Over time, I've found a few replacement Hot Wheels cars at yard sales and second-hand shops, and purchased some of the newer cars that reminded me of the originals. Some day, I'll expand my search to collect a few of my favorite originals including a Hot Wheels Mustang, Cougar, and Camaro.
Mom had a sense of humor, quilting a special sweatshirt for me. The caption reads: "Once I was rich: then my mom gave away my Hot Wheels! Not sure if this is a real, official World Record, but this video features lots of flying Hot Wheels cars and lots of chipped paint!
To make it a real car, the only thing you need is a magnifying glass. Original design blueprints from real automobile manufacturers.
Only from Hot Wheels. Smaller size, same quality. This was one of my all-time favorite Hot Wheels cars! Answer: The convertible Firebird is a great car! The value depends a lot on the condition. Original Hot Wheels cars from can range in value from a just few bucks to several hundred dollars for mint condition cars. Check the sold listings on eBay for values of cars that are similar in condition to yours. Question: I have a few different Mustang funny cars from different eras.
Are Hotwheels Mustangs valuable compared to others? Answer: The value of Hot Wheels cars can vary significantly depending on age, condition and rarity.
Like other collectibles, a specific item is worth what someone else is willing to pay for it. The Snake and Mongoose funny cars from the early 's are especially collectible. Look for your model on eBay to get an idea of the value. The 'sold' function shows lists past sales and shows how much buyers are willing to pay.
Do you have any idea how much it is worth? Answer: The value depends on condition. Question: What's up with "error" cars? Are they worth the prices that some come up with? Answer: The high values for some of the error cars is quite surprising. Serious collectors are willing to pay big bucks for prototypes and other unique examples.
Like many other collectibles, the real value is the price that a collector is willing to pay for the item. Question: I have an opportunity to possibly get my hands on a Mad Maverick this weekend.
I came across it in a collection of redlines I looked at. I'm pretty sure the bottom of it said Mad Maverick. It caught my eye and looked it up and saw that it's a pretty rare car. Where can I go to get a value on this car if it turns out that I wasn't just seeing things and it's a blue Mad Maverick? Answer: The Mad Maverick is a fairly common car but what can make this one interesting is the name on the base.
Very few cars were manufactured with the "Mad Maverick" name embossed on the base, making this a rare and very desirable car. The name was changed because of a copyright issue with Johnny Lightening, who had already released a model under the same name.
The Hot Wheels versions looked just as cool, and now a couple of them are worth more than a new, real convertible cost in Ed Shaver was a real-life British drag racer. His sponsor? None other than Hot Wheels. So it makes sense that they put out a special Ed Shaver model in the U. This car was given out at racing events and also available by sending in proof-of-purchase points from U. Hot Wheels toys. With all of these Redline cars on the list, this bad boy from seems a bit out of place.
However, there may be as few as 12 of these in existence. One collector was so happy to find one that he made a YouTube video all about his Blue Rodger Dodger. What did he pay for it? All the coolness of the Red Olds , but even harder to find. This beauty is dark purple with the classic Redline tires. Chalk another one up to a naming issue. This car was originally produced as Mad Maverick until Hot Wheels discovered that a competitor already had a car with that name. They shifted gears to make theirs the Mighty Maverick, but a few left the factory with the words "Mad Maverick" stamped on the baseplate.
Only five of these bad boys are known to exist. He realized that the die-cast cars available at that time were rather lackluster — not very agile and lacking a wide range of models and variations. Kids wanted their cars to be fast and the design team delivered. The suspension in the original Hot Wheels cars utilized a thick gauge music wire as the axle, which when lubricated and coupled with a unique plastic bearing, allowed the wheels to roll and spin freely with minimal friction.
By polishing the car bodies down to an almost mirror shine and spray-painting them with a transparent colored paint, the result was a candy-colored, metallic finish the likes of which had never been seen before. With sleek silhouettes, huge supercharged engines and wide back wheels, these customized cars raised the bar for toy and automotive designers alike by creating cars that challenged traditional car design limitations.
It was reissued in The Red Baron is one of the most popular Hot Wheels of all time, and it has been in production on again and off again for decades. Sensing a theme yet? It is the early production model with the white interior that sets this ultra-collectible Red Baron apart from those with black interiors. Because if there's one thing this world needed more of, it was more AMC Gremlin. The Olds was issued in the the usual array of Hot Wheels colors, but those with the combo of a red exterior and black interior are anomalies, believed by many collectors to be pre-production pieces.
Some authorities claim that fewer than 15 examples exist today. Available in approximately 18 colors, the Beatnik Bandit's most sought-after hue is this ultra-rare pink.
This is the version that brings the bucks. That makes examples that came with a white interior the rarest of the bunch. Hot Wheels used numerous shades of blue, purple, and magenta for its models, and it is easy for the novice collector to confuse them all.
Bone up on your color-wheel skills and find the purple, because it is the rarest of Mattel's Bye Focal colors. This Spectraflame Purple Bye Focal model is also subject to "crumbling," a condition in which the body or chassis develops cracks and literally begins to crumble.
The car that would become the Hot Wheels Python was initially called the Cheetah inside the company. Before the decision was made to change the name to Python, a small number of Cheetah prototypes were assembled, and, predictably, a few escaped the confines of the Hot Wheels empire. Reportedly only made in red, these Cheetahs have been hunted by Hot Wheels collectors ever since. Issued as part of the Hot Wheels series, the brown '31 Woody is considered by some redline experts to be extremely rare.
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