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Hot Wheels
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This memory was added on: December 17, 2005
I have several of these, especially the interesting models that were composits of carriages greatly resembling the Munstermobile, and they also made a couple of hearse models as well. I also have the die-cast Batmobile which is now displayed on My desk.
Draconis Blackthorne
This memory was added on: December 13, 2005
Weren't there Hot Wheels Trains at some point? I distinctly remember there being a pretty sweet Train set that was made by Hot Wheels. Came with a fire Truck, and a pretty good sized playset with built-in tracks and everything! Does ANYONE remember this?
Q
1982
This memory was added on: December 1, 2005
I love hotwheels,I started collecting them when i was one!!!I have about 300 cars, and i am only 9!!!Plus I don't crash them into objects that can damage them,some already have dents. Those are the ones I love the most.My dad likes them too.When he was in grade school,a nun took away his favorite Hotwheels car.He is still sad about it to this day.
N.C
1996
Lcarr76821@adelphia.net
This memory was added on: November 28,2005
WOW! I'm looking for the complete set of cars, orange track, etc. Yeah, I'm a girl, but I still loved racing my Hot Wheels Laguna set that I got for Christmas one year. I especially remember the "gas pump" that came with this set that let you recharge the batteries before you went racing. My husband and I are NASCAR fans and I would love to get a set for us for Christmas this year from Santa.
Genelle J.
1959
GAJustin119@aol.com
This memory was added on: November 17,2005
When I was little I would occasionally visit my grandmother in another province. The only toy she had for me was some of that orange racetrack and 1 or 2 cars. I would play with it for hours. Now would you believe I managed to find, at Costco last Christmas, a set that contained 100 feet of track like that? It contained a whole bunch of the orange track, 3 or 4 loops, 4 "launchers" (the kind with the spinning wheels), 3 or 4 jumps, a bunch of curves, and a Hot Wheels beach towel. It also had 2 car launchers where you push the cars in and press the button and they shoot out. It also had 1 other kind of launcher that works with an elastic. This set has been my 3 year old's favourite toy for almost a year now. He literally plays with it for hours every week. I just wish I knew the knack for selecting which Hot Wheels cars go fastest on the track. Some definitely go faster than others. I wish Mattel would make this set widely available. I think they would be rich!!
Nat
1973
This memory was added on: November 2,2005
Guess what, all my fellow "Second childhood? I'm still enjoying my first!" late baby boomers/early gen-x'ers - they are bringing back some of the old-style sets! I just found out today that they are releasing a retro Snake/Mongoose race set. Cheers!
Katarina
1960
This memory was added on: November 1,2005
I was a Hot Wheels nut! At 38, I still am. I never stopped collecting. I DID, however, stop smashing them with a hammer!
Mike
1966
This memory was added on: October 14,2005
I just found your site and I to collected Hotwheels as a kid in Australia. My father used to get them by the dozens for me from a wholesaler near his workplace. I still have them. I even have ones still in the original packaging with the small metal clip on badge that came with each car. I have miles of track and even the booster attachment that shot the cars around the track. I think it was called the supercharger. It's like a small garage with wheels that spin on each side. I was one of those kids that looked after my toys so most of the cars are perfect. They were my favourite thing to play with and collect.
Greg Pearse
1960
gpkp1@optusnet.com.au
This memory was added on: October 5,2005
i am one of those who found the track when it was being used on my back side. allthough i so miss the much simpler days of then..HOw i do miss my hot wheels
ricky
12/19/65
chywawa2@aol.com
This memory was added on: September 29,2005
Yes, I am a girl. But certainly not a girly girl!! I was the only one of us three girls, that played with cars & trucks. Yeah, once in a while I could get my baby sister to play along. I am an avid collector of any type or scale of 'toy' cars, whether it be my favorites like the Hotwheels or Matchbox. I have the "good" ones right down to a few "Cheapies". Most of them my friends have picked up on yard sales for me. When I was a kid I remember being upset that there were no people in the cars!! (Maybe the girly part in me wanting a doll?), so I was amazed to find in a junk box at a local thrift store a Hotwheels 1991 380SEL car with a DOG in the back seat!! I also have an Ambulance with a person lying in back. One thing I'd like to see come back are the cars with no writting and designs all over them. Graphics are fine, but tone it down some. I wouldn't want my child having cars with skulls and violent graphics thrown on them.
JuneEvon
1971
jebartist@yahoo.com
This memory was added on: September 17,2005
When is Mattel going to get the message? Baby Boomers are craving the old-style HotWheels tracks and cars. We don't want the battery operated theme sets. They're too small. Bring back the orange track with all the accessories we knew as children. PLEASE!!
micmon
1963
micmon@linuxwaves.com
This memory was added on: September 16,2005
I had a complete set of these when I was a kid. The neighbor kids and I would loop all the orange tracks together to see how far through the house we could go. We used to play for hours racing our hot wheel cars all over our "little city." The only thing bad about the orange tracks is when Dad didn't have his belt handy, he would he would use the orange tracks to spank me with. Sure did hurt on the bare butt.
darren
1966
This memory was added on: September 15,2005
Still the best! I am 43 and have as much fun going to the local Target with my 6 year old picking out Hot Wheels, just as my dad and I did 35 years ago. Favorites were the Red Baron car as well as the Spitting Image car. Also remember the chrome limited edition cars that are worth the most money these days. Wish I knew where all of my cars went to!
Bob
1962
Rabramson@pjax.com
This memory was added on: September 12,2005
I remember when I was very young, about 5 years old, one of my relatives traveled to other countries and would bring back presents for us kids. One Christmas she brought me back some loose cars she had picked up in Hong Kong. She had a fondness for Volkswagons, and bought me plenty of them style cars. She said they were not in packages,but were like mint from a man at a flea market who worked in the Mattel plant in Hong Kong. He said he worked in the production line and many cars were discarded for various reasons. I remember opening up the box to find custom volkwagons with and without the sunroof on them, and she gave me a blue rear loader beach bomb, which she said she paid a whopping 4 dollars for. Wow I should have kept those instead of selling them to buy video games in the mid 80's namely Nintendo. Oh well.
Brian
1970
coug2000@msn.net
This memory was added on: September 5,2005
My son had hot wheel strips, he and his friends would play by the hour. Now I have passed them on to twin boys and they, in turn, are really enjoying them. However - I need the small plastic pieces that link the strips - and having a hard time finding them to really make use of everything! Anyone know where to get them??
Florence Horan
1936 my son 1964
lfhoran@mts.net
This memory was added on: August 27,2005
I can clearly remember the Hot Wheels track sets I would get for Christmas. Of course pieces would wind up missing. I can still hear my Dad screaming when he stepped on a hot wheel barefoot in the middle of the night. Any of you out there remember not being able to find your hot wheels tracks.....until you where getting in trouble and getting your butt beat with them....lol
Bill
1973
This memory was added on: August 7,2005
Oh yeah, hot wheels! My brother and I raced with those for hours. We loved to take those orange tracks, wax them, and build our own tracks and jumps. My husband saved all of his stuff, so now our kids enjoy them. We play too!
PJ Hedrick
1961
pjeanhedrick@yahoo.com
This memory was added on: July 25,2005
Of course we had Hot wheels when we were kids. My brother and I spent hours setting up track. We had the set that had the flag drop finish line for head to head racing. We had the electric "drive through" that shot the cars around the track. Then there were the sizzlers. The recharge-able cars that didn't need an incline to drive on. I remember Christmas day with my new sizzler. I was playing with my sister passing the car back and forth on a section of track. The car had just been recharged when I sent it along it's way. She tried to catch it. It danced it's way up her sleeve and got caught in her hair. Within an instant it was hoplessly wrapped in long hair.I can vividly remember the howling from her as my impatient father yank pieces hair out to retrieve the car. That was about 30 or 35 years ago and she still holds me responsible. The other thing I remember about Hot Wheels is how the orange track came in handy when my mother couldn't find a belt to use on or backsides.
John E.
1962
This memory was added on: July 24,2005
The first Hot Wheels rocked! I had iover a hundred by the early 70s, then add that to Matchbox and you would have quite a box full. They were a very popular birthday gift among the cooler cub scouts around 1969, so you would end up with multiples of the exotic ones like Splittin Image, Deoras (with the surfboards), Silhouettes, Snake (as in "Prudhomme, Don the") and the Mongoose. We got the good track with the vertical loops in it. We could never get the trestles to be stable like on the TV commercials, so the elevated parts of the track were always a bit loose. Our neighborhood in Orange County, CA was divided 90% pro-Hot Wheel and about 10% pro-Johnny Lightning; we thought Johnny Lightning guys were lame.
John
1959
Angry_Doberman@yahoo.com
This memory was added on: July 15,2005
i like most of you love the red linne hotwheels the best my grandpa bought me my first hotwheel in 1968 it was a blue camaro at bryants department store in bayou la batre al the same place forrest gump was talking about in themovie anyway i had a few hot wheels my favorite was the crome 1969 boss hoss mustang which a friend of mine had i ordered it from mattel it was a club car but they had already stoped making them that wasin 1970 so i had the good fortune in 1997 to find a mint condition 1 at a flee market in mobile al payed 25 dollars for it but wouldnt take anything for it hotwheels were the greatest toys i loved them
homer ladnier
1955
shoeboot@mchsi.com
This memory was added on: June 22,2005
I was a toy tester for mattell and had the privlage of testing some classic toys the wild wheelie set being one of them, we were put in a room with two way mirrors for the execs to watch us to see how we interacted with the new line of toys before they went on the market . along with watching us pick our noses and scatch our butts, I decided to disconect the starting piece from the rest of the track and began launching the dragsters into the air and at the other kids. my dad said he looked over to see the pale white faces on the men in suites and ties and replied "I guess you didnt see that coming"
steve
63
This memory was added on: May 31,2005
I remember getting the Splittin' Image, Demon and Red Baron for Xmas '69. Was there anything cooler? Then the next year it was Sizzlers. We didn't need video games back then.Just some awesome cars with plenty of orange track, a garage and lots of imagination. They were virtually indestructable! We're so lucky to have such fond memories.
art N.
1962
arthurgeza
This memory was added on: May 23,2005
i have a good cillation of hotwhels toy cars if you want to buy sent me an email at nixonaleman25@yahoo.com
nixon
19585
nixonaleman25@yahoo.com
This memory was added on: May 8,2005
One of my favorite memories about Hot Wheels revolves around Christmas, as many of the memories on here do, but specifically, a very unique race set called (I THINK...?) "Mean Mountain" and it involved Hot Wheels MOTORCYCLES. The were somehow propelled from ground level, up the orange track and onto a big plastic "mountain" (pre-cast with track-size grooves" and back down again. The motorcyles stayed up due to some sort of 4-wheeled rigging, perhaps allot like training wheels. I cannot find any reference to this set on the 'net. Am I crazy or does anyone else remember this??
Bill W
1963
bill@thewellmans.com
This memory was added on: April 22,2005
i need help im trying to find the name of this hotwheels playset. all i know is that the playset was like death vally , and that you put this play doh like stuff over the set and then you drive a car or monster truck over it and it leaves an impression
any help?
jeff
1979
jangofett123@hotmail.com
This memory was added on: April 3,2005
WOW...WHAT A GOOD FIND ON GOOGLE,DOES ANYONE REMEMBER THE CUSTOMIZED BIG RIGS FROM HOT WHEELS??THEY HAD THE LITTLE STEERING WHEELS ON THE END OF THE TRAILER...WHAT WERE THEY CALLED
Lee
1971
lp3_2005@yahoo.com
This memory was added on: March 22,2005
I HAD A FRIEND WHO LIVED UP THE STREET, WHO , WITH HIS BROTHER , ALWAYS GOT THE NEATEST CHRISTMAS GIFTS. ONE YEAR , I THINK IT WAS 1970-71 , THEY HAD A HOT WHEELS CHRISTMAS , THEIR PARENTS BOUGHT THEM EVERY KNOWN HOT WHEEL CAR + ACESSORY. THEY HAD TWO HOUSE SUPER-CHARGERS, WITH ORANGE ROOFS , LAP COUNTERS , LOOP THE LOOPS + AND LIKE A 1000 SCALE MILES OF THAT GREAT ORNAGE TRACK. THEY ALSO HAD A BUNCH OF REAL SHARP CARS. [ MY FAVORITE CAR WAS THE MET. BLU. CAD ELDO. ] ALMOST EVERY DAY , I WAS IN THEIR HUGE BASEMENT , HELPING DESIGN TRACK LAYOUTS , RACING THE GREAT CARS . MY FRIEND, GAVE ME A MET. BROWN 32 FORD VICKY - BOY THAT CAR WAS FAST ! I CARRIED THAT CAR ALL THRU GRADE SCHOOL - IT WAS ALWAYS IN MY POCKET. IT WAS TAKEN AWAY BY A MEAN OLD NUN , NEVER TO BE SEEN AGAIN - I CRYED . GOOD NEWS !......A COUPLE OF YEARS AGO , I WAS ABLE TO OBTAIN A MET.BROWN 32 VICKY JUST LIKE MY OLD ONE. THIS IS THE PRIDE OF MY COLLECTION , AND I WOUNDNT TAKE A MILLION DOLLARS FOR IT.
JOHN L. ZVERLOFF Sr.
1960
fatdaddyz@ sbcglobal .net
This memory was added on: March 12,2005
Seems like only yesterday "1968" I was 9 years old & my older brother had bought a pair of hot wheel cars. The twin mill & the demon. He wouldent let me touch them !! Much to his suprise the minute he left the house the cars came off the shelf & in the backyard for hours. In the next few years I collected many more like the beach bomb,bosshoss,nitty gritty kitty,seasider,31 classic ford woody,Hot heap, Just to name a few. Most all the race track sets including the my all time favorite the snake & mongoose wild wheelie set. What a cool set that was you peeled back the launch button's, lifted the handle on the christmas tree "heart pumping" ya dident want to red light. Cars ripped out of the pad flying down the track both in wheelies thru the checkered flag & then the chute trap. I managed to hang on to several of my cars that I had from the early years. Then came e-bay "WOW" My mission now is to own every redline that I had as a kid in mint unopened unpunched blisterpacks. Easier said than done. Most of these cars bring more than a hundred dollars each & some more than a thousand. And being the as my wife & kids call me "way to picky" they must be flawless as possible. So far I have gathered up as many as all of the original 16 cars that were produced in 1967 & a very hard to find beachbomb & remember the power pad what a cool little truck with a removable camper. My lattest score is the unopened chrome boss hoss hot wheel club kit from 1969. The wild wheelie set is yet too come.
Dan Walker
1959
danw4700@yahoo.com
This memory was added on: February 5,2005
Ah, Hot Wheels in the 60's and 70's. No need for video racing back then. I had Mongoose and Snake, the dragster versions of them too. I also had so many add-ons that I can't remember them all. I did dig out the Super Charger a few years ago, put in some D batteries and had my young son try it out. The rubber wheels in it had dried out, and when the car shot out of it, so did a lot of black powder! Fun anyway. Hey, Sizzler fans. Anyone else have the Hot Line train? It had a special black hot wheels track and used the Sizzler Juice Machine. I played with that thing for hours. I still have ALL my orange track and the black track too, but the train is long gone.
Scott
1963
spdolphs@hotmail.com
This memory was added on: February 5,2005
i loved my hot wheels i had all the orange tracks with all the loops and had 2 super charger power houses that kept the cars moving at high speed all around the track i miss those days!!
mike g
1963
mgrella63@aol.com
This memory was added on: January 25,2005
My memories of Hot Wheels includes the pain of stepping on the track in your bare feet...ouch! That along with my brother and I using the strips of track as something to whip each other with....probably around the same period when he used to rip the heads off my Barbies....*sigh* those were the days...lol.
Christine
1960
This memory was added on: January 18,2005
Hot Wheels were the coolest! I had a bunch of different sets but the one I remember the most was the snake and mongoose drag set with the parachutes. I also remember my Dad bringing home the Shell gas station promos - great memories! I remember when Sizzlers came out in the early 70's. One of my earliest "major" purchases with my own money was the Big-O-Layout for Sizzlers, it was eight dollars and some change - big money. I used to run the cars in opposite directions and wait for the major crashes! Luckily, I'm getting to re-live those days now with my two sons Jake (8) and Danny (3). I'm also collecting some of the old redlines I remember as a kid. Only one of my original cars survived in the back of a dresser drawer, the snake rail dragster. The rest went in a garage sale when I was in the seventh grade.
Greg Chidester
1963
chid@sonic.net
This memory was added on: January 1,2005
HI, THIS IS TOM. I'M NOW 46 AND TRYING TO REPLACE ALL THE HOT WHEELS I HAD AS A KID. I SURE WISH I HAD TAKEN BETTER CARE OF THEM. I'M SPENDING A FORTUNE NOW TO REPLACE THEM. OH THE MEMMORIES!! SO I'M ON A MISSION !! IF YOU HAVE ANY OLD VINTAGE ( 1st.& 2nd.yrs )HOT WHEELS OR TIRE SHAPED CASES FOR SALE PLEASE EMAIL ME. THANKS TO ALL!! TOM ( BAGMANTOM@YAHOO.COM ) 01/01/05
THOMAS RUPERT
1958
bagmantom@yahoo.com
This memory was added on: December 31,2004
My son has about six big Rubbermaid tubs full of Hot Wheels cars and we're hangin' on to them! My mom gave away most of my toys and I cringe whenever I spot somthing I used to have on Ebay or in an antique store. She even gave away my brother's Evil Kenivel doll! Sorry...I think that I've opened some old wounds. Great site!
Wendy
1969
This memory was added on: December 31,2004
The name of the track set with the gear shifters was thunderball alley or thunder something or another. Great toy,tho. My mom used to whip us with the hotwheel tracks. Thats my most vivid memory of HOTWHEELS.
ca miller
1966
This memory was added on: December 14,2004
Help me please! I cant remember what kind of set I had, but Ill describe it and if anyone knows what it was please let me know. I think it was a hotwheels track. It had to lanes and the cool thing about it was, there were these two levers that you would pull down. That would send the cars raceing around. My friends and I would sit there for hours just racing each other. It was red white and blue. I would love to find this set for my son. If anyone knows about this set please let me know. Email groovers26@yahoo.com Thanks for any help, John
J Groover
11-19-1972
groovers26@yahoo.com
This memory was added on: December 8,2004
Aww, yes. Orange track like we'll never see again. Connected together by magenta inserts... Hot Wheels manufactured some sort of mountain race set that sent the cars downhill in a spiral. (Much simpler than the current one that dumps safe, approved, nontoxic slime- Mattel has always assumed that kids don't end up doing some "customizing" to their products.) Hot Wheels blew Matchbox away. Matchbox tried to play catchup w/ hot colors and '70s freak design, but never had the raw speed.
St. Al
23 Feb 1963
alan_reed_digital@hotmail.com
This memory was added on: November 30,2004
I owned three Hot Wheels tracks, with my favorite the Drag Race set. I ok'd my Mom to give the sets away back in the mid 1970s. The past few years - now that I have 6- and 2-year- old boys - I've wanted that Drag Race set. I thought I had secured one last night on ebay. Same set. Same box. Mint condition. In the last minute I was outbid. I'll keep trying until I get that Drag Race set.
Jerry
1960
jemig@culture.ohio.gov
This memory was added on: November 30,2004
I owned three Hot Wheels tracks, with my favorite the Drag Race set. I ok'd my Mom to give the sets away back in the mid 1970s. The past few years - now that I have 6- and 2-year- old boys - I've wanted that Drag Race set. I thought I had secured one last night on ebay. Same set. Same box. Mint condition. In the last minute I was outbid. I'll keep trying until I get that Drag Race set.
Jerry
1960
jemig@culture.ohio.gov
This memory was added on: November 5,2004
My first Hot Wheels set was a twin track race set with loops and gates at the end to show the winner. It had a clamp that hooked on our dining room table. By the time I was 12 I had a complete set of curves, track sets, a 4-way super charger, and cases of cars. I was very picky about my sets and they HAD to be put back in the boxes after I played with them. I saved every ad and flyer that were inserted. I stored every piece in a large cardboard box - it was my "treasure". They were all in mint condition. When in high school, my dad started a foster home for 11 boys from age 8 through high school in another part of the state. He let the boys tear into my boxes and within 2 weeks they had smashed, broken and lost every piece. I guess my dad thought I had outgrown them and so he never even asked me or filled me in. (I also had a vintage matchbox set in a case started in the 1960's and a complete hot birds set and a hot birds case to store them in that were in the box.) When I found some pieces around the place and asked where they came from and put two and two together, I was heart-broken. I still have one matchbox car and one hotbird. I also have a tin hotwheels button. That is IT!!! I'm sure we all have stories of the collections we had that our mom sold at ga arage sale while we were away at summer camp or in college! I KNOW I'm not alone. If it would help you to vent your wrath and feel better, I'd love to have you post your favorite collection and how it was "lost". I feel better telling you all about it! :0)
Lon Thornburg
1958
mount10mail@yahoo.com
This memory was added on: October 28,2004
Not exactly a Hot Wheels memory, but does anyone remember a Matchbox slot car set with a long spring coil that ran through the track? The car's weren't electric (like those Elgin sets). Instead, you taped a small stick onto the bottom of your Matchbox (or Hot Wheels) car which fit in the spring through a slot in the track. The spring was operated by your hand control and the car simply followed the coil as it spun around the track. It was a brilliant system because you could adapt and race any toy car. Also, you could take the turns really fast, swinging your car into your opponent!.
BJF
1959
This memory was added on: September 23,2004
BY FAR ONE OF MY FAVORITES,NEXT TO MY GIJOES.ME AND MY BROTHER ANTHONY WOULD PLAY FOR HOURS.(WHO NEEDS FREINDS WHEN YA GOT HOTWHEELS)AHH THE MEMORIES OF THE FIGHTS WE USED TO HAVE AND SHOWING MY MOTHER THE 'C' SHAPED WELT ON MY LEG FROM WHERE MY BROTHER WACKED ME WITH THE TRACK W/ PLASTIC CONNECTORS. OH THE MEMORIES..THINK IM GONNA CRY.OR BETTR YET WHEN A CAR GOT STUCK IN THE SUPER CHARGER,AND I PUT MY FACE RITE IN THERE TO GET IT OUT, AT THE SAME TIME MY BROTHER WOULD PUSH IT OUT AND IT SHOT OUT RITE AT MY HEAD. MAGIC TIMES. THEY WHERE THE BEST
MIKE REGA
1963
MIKEKARREGA@AOL.COM
This memory was added on: September 23,2004
As my brother Michael said,we played for hours with our Hot Wheels cars and still have a few of them today.The toys today especially Hot Wheels are pretty lousy looking.I don't remember hitting Michael with the tracks but i do remember his face being smacked with my Beatnik Bandit or my Vicky.....Ah yes ,the memories of a better time....I really miss them.....
Anthony Rega Jr.
1959
froese_99@yahoo.com
This memory was added on: September 16,2004
When I think about the way I abused these cars and eventually threw them out, it make me sick. I wish I had even a hand full of them back again. The Red Baron was the coolest car of all time!
Phil Honaker
1962
This memory was added on: August 27,2004
What can you say about Hot Wheels? The quintessential toy for any kid that was into cars. I must say though that the the 1970s Matchbox SuperFast series from Lesney, England blew the doors off any Hot Wheels I remember (as cool as they were in their own right.) I commend Hot Wheels for since reissuing old classics like the 1969 Chevy Nomad and I despise Matchbox for now producing the lamest plastic neon-painted vehicles ever. "Hero City"? Please; you need a hero to rescue the once proud Matchbox. Anyway, now that I'm a grown man (?) I have the ability to buy any Hot Wheels car I see that is worth purchasing, particularly the '60s & '70s cars that Hot Wheels does a decent job of producing these days. Ain't it great to not have to barter with your mom anymore to buy toys for yourself? Like Peter Pan, I don't intend to grow up. Call me a hobbyist!
Chris
1971
copeland@ucs.mun.ca
This memory was added on: July 13,2004
The original redline Hot Wheels are still my favorite toy to this day. When I was 9 years old my friend had this red Twinmill and I thought it was so cool that I offered about 5 or 6 cars for it and he wouldn't budge. The concept cars were my favorites back then. Nowadays, the Cougar, Camaro 442 and the spoilers are a few of my favorites.
David Serrano
1960
This memory was added on: July 7,2004
I had one of the first Hot Wheel cars. It was a 1967 Chevy Camaro. I remember my mom buying it on one of my trips with her to a local dept. store.
Dan
1957
This memory was added on: June 18,2004
Loved them. I remember some funky ones back in the 70's. I remember when the black Trans Am and the red Corvette Stringray came out. K-Mart had one Isle, both sides, Hot Wheels everywhere. Heaven to a kid back then....
Micah
1967
fusionman67@hotmail.com
This memory was added on: March 10,2004
The best thing about Hot Wheels, were the bright orange tracks! They mabe the most amazing bright red welts and never drew blood. My poor little brother- LOL and i was one of those girls who had more HW than the boys, and kicked all there butts.
MarDee
1960
mardee@mardee.net
This memory was added on: February 27,2004
Ah, how many brothers and guy cousins got their b***s busted by girls who loved Hot Wheels and had cars who often won?lol
Oh well. My brother and I had tons of fun playing with his various hot wheel tracks. My husband saved his stuff and now my daughter gets to enjoy the "juicer", the loops, etc. I love 'em.
We also had Matchbox cars and there was one that would beat any Hot Wheel around - Wildcat. Can you believe I found it through a really nice seller on eBay who sold me his personal Wildcat for book value when he didn't even have it listed?
I gave it to my brother for Christmas. But I included a note stating that next Christmas he has to give it to me for a year, etc. We got a kick out of it, good memories.
indjependencedaybaby
1961
pjh0704@cs.com
This memory was added on: December 29,2003
My dad bought me the carrying case and all the hot wheels I can think of. My boy cousins were jealous cuzz I was a girl and had a huge collection of hot wheels. I think they stole some from me because my collection seemed to get smaller each time they came to visit. But I had so much fun playing with them. Now I buy them for my son. He can't get enough of them.
ruby
1975
smilezalot619@aol.com
This memory was added on: December 24,2003
YOU WON'T BUY A HOT WHEEL TODAY THAT WAS MADE LIKE THEY WERE IN THE EARLY 70'S-I CAN REMEMBER RIDING MY BIKE DAILY TO THE LOCAL STORES TO SEE IF THEY GOT ANY IN THAT I DID NOT ALREADY HAVE. WHAT A GREAT FEELING I GOT WHEN I FOUND A RED BARON,OR A 36 FORD WITH THE REAR RUMBLE SEAT THAT OPENED UP,OR A WOODY WITH THE VINYL ROOF. I STILL HAVE MOST OF THEM,BUT TRADED OFF A FEW WHEN I WAS YOUNG AND STUPID. THESE ARE PRECIOUS MEMORIES !
TOMMY
1957
This memory was added on: November 24,2003
I was a tomboy growing up and loved my Hot Wheels. My Mom bought them for me (all the while probably wanting to buy dolls), as well as the orange track that really hurt if you got hit with it. I had the loop connectors and the table-top screw-down starting gate for racing. I wound up with so many that instead of the expensive Hot Wheels carrying cases, she bought me the tool/ parts boxes with the clear plastic pull-out bins (worked really great, too!). Unfortunately, I left them at her house when I thought I was all grown up and moved out, and she let the step-grandkids play with them (translates to "tear them up"). Oh, well....
Theresa Beard
1957
jstb@wctel.net
This memory was added on: October 17,2003
Hot Wheels are not RETRO. Heck I just bought two for my son yesterday in 2003>
This memory was added on: October 17,2003
Two very strong memories of Hot Wheels...The first is my sister visitng relative in California (we live in Canada) and coming back with several models that weren't available here. I was a local hero for a short while. The second is going to a friend's birthday party, whose father was an executive with Mattel. We each went home with a big "Sizzlers" set as party favours! True story!
BJF
1959
blair@tsp1.com
This memory was added on: September 26,2003
robert
1955
rday@sooyylaw.com
This memory was added on: September 26,2003
I got some of these when they first came out in about 1965. I didn't like them at all because the tracks were just these orange strips of plastic and not at all like the cool electric racing sets with the remote controls. The tracks were cool for smacking my sister though.
robert
1955
rday@sooylaw.com
This memory was added on: September 17,2003
bonjour à tous j'avais un peu oublié la joie que procure ces petits bolides, jusqu'au jour ou j'en ai acheté pour mon fils. Je ne pensais pas qu'il y aurai autant de monde s'intéréssant à ces bolides. bonjour du sud de la France.
huoba
1966
hubert.costentin
This memory was added on: September 3,2003
Me and my friends spent many long hours playing with our H.W. Supercharger race sets. When I turned around 13yrs old I gave away everything I had to a younger friend. By then everything was well played with. For the last 5yrs I've been Collecting many of the 70's Redlines and Rumbler bikes. I don't know why 96 percent of the new cars are so boring and ugly. They need to hire back Larry wood or get Jessie James. I'll keep buying the other 4 percent.
M. Boneshaker
1959
This memory was added on: August 5,2003
i had dozens of these cars as well as some of the bigger tonka trucks. the coolest hotwheels were the ones that the doors and trunks opened. also the ones with cranes that extended out. they were great but they hurt like hell to step on barefoot.
jb
12/24/67
This memory was added on: July 12,2003
This was, by far, one of the coolest toys for boys between the ages of five and nine years old back in the early 70's. I have many a fond memory of me and my friends setting up these strips of orange plastic racetrack all the way down the basement stairs and lanuching the cars into the air with some ridiculously over-exaggerated "ramp" we somehow makeshifted with books piled up and stuff, because the ramps that Mattel provided in the sets were obviously too small for adventurous young lads like ourselves! Amazing, the aerodynamics of a Hot Wheel car when it picks up some speed due to gravity and inertia, huh?
HeyJoe
1964
This memory was added on: June 20,2003
I inherited a large collection from my cousin when I went to stay with them in '75.I climbed atree in the front yard and taped the top of a long section of staight track to the trunk. The track went down to three daredevil loops and up the porch steps into the house. When I would let the cars go they would hit the loops so hard they would hop off the ground. Then it was up the stair-ramp and into the living room. My aunt hated it, I loved it!
Erick D.
1969
erick@heinzen.com
This memory was added on: June 6,2003
Hi,
This is in response to Alan carter's last message:
I have a few of my old Redline Hot Wheels from my chidhood, but have added about 200 or so more in the last 12 years. I still have photos of my old collection, but have upgraded many of the cars to mint or packaged versions. They are the toys I remember most and still love 'em.
My brother had Major Matt Masons and we both had Wizzers and such, but the ones I had I've sold off to get $$ for Hot Wheels. I still buy MMMs and other toys at local auctions and Garage Sales and would like to talk to you about trading (or possibly purchasing) Hot Wheels from you. Let's talk! I live in Kansas and my email is rdavis1@ksu.edu
Bob
Bob Davis
1958
rdavis1@ksu.edu
This memory was added on: May 24,2003
Back in the early-1980's, I was helping clean out a large warehouse that my company had purchased. The warehouse had previously been used by a department store during the 1970's and to my great joy we found approximately 100 cases of early-70's Mattel toy sets including Hot Wheels, Sizzlers, Hot Line trains and Hot Birds. Our company president told us to do as we wished with the found items as long as we got them out of the warehouse ASAP, so we obliged by splitting up the bounty between the four of us who were cleaning out the warehouse. I still have 8 Hot Line train sets (6 in unopened boxes), 57 Hot Birds (49 in unopened packs), 48 Sizzlers (25 in unopened packs), 8 Juice Machine rechargers (7 in unopned boxes) for the Sizzlers & HotLine trains, 500+ Hot Wheels cars (350 in unopened packs), 29 Hot Wheels Heavy Weights trucks (18 in unopened packs) and 36 Hotwheels Rumblers motorcycles (24 in unopened packs). I'd be willing to trade some of these for other early-70's toys such as Whizzer spintops and Major Matt Mason astronauts in pristine condition.
Alan Carter
1962
This memory was added on: May 16,2003
Man, what a great site!! Anyway, my memory of these rare redline cars is that I used to get a brick and smash them, so I would have some wrecked cars. My parents should have sent me to jail........LOL. I had the wheel rally case, and it was always full of cars. I wish now that I would have saved them all to give to my son.
Gary J
1966
GaryLJ66@wmconnect.com
This memory was added on: May 11,2003
Girls loved Hot Wheels too. My daughter Amber, now 30, had about 100 of them. Her dad spent a lot of time playing with them with her, as I was working a 3-11 shift. It is so funny, they gave a name to each car, Fanny, Pointy, Sharpy, all sorts of names and that child never forgot any of the names. Would you believe Hot Wheels run just fine in a bathtub with a little girl, bubble bath included. Now, these, I still have most of, I keep in a basket, and when her 3 yr. old, my grandson, Vincent comes to spend the weekend, he loves to play with them. I tell him that his mommy and his granddad played with them a long, long time ago. I tell him all the names I can remember, and he does not forget any of them. Of course, he has loads of New Hot Wheels at his house, and I have bought him a lot of new ones. But these old ones, despite a missing tire here and there, and a not so pretty paint job, are his favorites. He says, "TaTa, I want to play with my mommy's Hot Wheels." It is all such a wonderful experience to see him play with them.
Anne
1949
Rodixe@cs.com
This memory was added on: May 8,2003
i have but one memory about these little toys,when i was 9 i owned every one of them now that i am 30 i dont own any......
timmy nascar
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