I came across this auction and thought it was interesting. All I can say is Wow! http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=200029436776&ssPageName=ADME:B:EF:US:11
4900 bucks for a single hot wheel!!! Holy shit! Nothing against hotwheels because I think they are cool but I would not pay 5 grand for one of every one made. I wonder if it was bought to resale or if was bought for a private collection.
there was a pink (I believe) 442 that was still in the original package that went for $8500 from what I've been told. An original hot pink rear load Beach Bomb bus went for over $10k I probably smashed $783,780 worth of Hot Wheels with hammers in my youth.
i remember when a buddy sent me a link to a hot wheels auction probably 5 years ago....something like 10,000 hot wheels....mostly redlines....and first series....was up to 100k when i saw it , with a 150k reserve.....about fell over.....brandon
I can understand Hot Wheels brining big money (as with any collectible now a days) but what amazed me about this auction is that the VW was bought for such a high price out of it's original packaging and with a bit of damage. It must of been some rare piece!
I used to get a new one every week when I went to the grocery store with my mom. They were a buck in the early 70s. Wish I still had even ONE!
Damn, my antifreeze Custom VW has a sunroof. By the way the pink rear loader Beach Bomb went for $72,000 in Oct 2000. It was sold by Chris Marshall of Overland Park, Kansas.
Seems like too much coin to lay out for somethin' you'll just end up blowin' all to hell w/ firecrackers...
Damn, I must really live in a sheltered world. I sold a Hot Wheels on the Bay last week for $168 and couldn't believe someone would give that much for a little .88 cent toy.
I used to collect those things from 94 to 99. The ex-wife worked at a toy store and I always got the good ones, but I was fair, if there was more than one of the specials, I would only take one, anyways, now they're all still in the original packages, boxed up in my attic. How does one go about finding out what they are worth and gettin' em gone? Hell even if I sold em for the .99 I paid for each I could make about $1,000. Any help?
shit guess i shoulda took better care of my toys i had some tonka trucks i think woulda prolly gone that high at a real auction too bad i dropped em outta the sky with model rocket engines.I always wanted a rocket car hahahahahahaha
I had a ton of them things and cant find but 4 now...thanks mom...lost some dollars there..ONe I didnt lose was a Don Purdome Funny car from the 70s...
Mine got Marks a Lot paintjobs, and oversize model car decals. I dare not think what the devaluation would be. But what the hell, I was a kid, had fun, and the would smoke my cousins Matchbox's tc
What is a "Lesney" hotwheel? I have a messload of them in a Hotwheels case that I tried to sell a couple of years back on craigslist. Looks like I may be listing them again on Epay..........The thing that is kinda' funny, I think I have that big coin Vdub sitting on a shelf in the shop.........Ahhhh, yes I think I will get it on epay also. Chris Nelson Kansas
you probably have a couple of moneywinners in there... but chances are you'd be lucky to get $1 a car. I'd look into a Tomart (sp) price guide. Some of the first editions are worth some money, as are the treasure hunts and weird variations. You might get $20 for some of the better cars. A friend of mine is doing this now. He sold most of his cars from the same era for .25 ea to a collector. I think he got $600 for all of them.
I collected them for a good while sold my entire collection on ebay and helped finance one of my cars with it . Those JC Whitney busses (I had 6 ) brought over $100.00 a piece if you have a full set of 95 Treasure hunts in good packages you can get good money for it I havent messed with them for a few years but t-hunts were bringing 12-20 bucks but 95's are worth alot more
I collected Hot Wheels for a few years, still have a few. That VW brought stupid money because it was a very rare variety. 99.9% of them had a sunroof. The ones that don't are worth a fortune to toy collectors. You think that brought big money, wait till someone lists a "rear-loading" Beach Bomb. They can go for as much as $20K! I stopped collecting because I was spending way too much $$ on the damn things.
Guys who are rabid Hot Wheels nuts go for oddballs and rarity. Some value guides list by color - pink is usually the most valuable color. Why pink? These were supposed to be toys for boys, and pink is for girls. So it's assumed at least that they didn't sell nearly as many in pink. The rear-load Beach Bomb was changed early on because it wasn't stable going down the Hot Wheels track sets. So they made it wider. Supposedly the rear load version is only a prototype, was not released to the public and the ones that are out are only out because employees took them home. Combine that with pink color and a bunch of guys with more money than brains and suddenly a $1 toy car is worth as much as a new Corvette. I kind of collect them, too - but only the early stuff and mostly only the normal looking American cars. (I do kind of want the goofy AMC Gremlin with the stretched front end, 4 front wheels, and Allison engine). And I only grab them if I can buy them dirt cheap. I still picked up a few good ones, though, I have the Model A woodie in a dark pink color and I bought it from a collector at a car show probably 10 years ago for $5. The new stuff is just too much to take in to know what to collect and what's common, but I like to grab them when I can for 50 cents or less and have them in my car show stuff to sell for a buck. I guess the Treasure Hunt is the big deal, those only come one or two to a case and when new are usually good for $10 or so. One year there was one that was so hard to find that I saw a collector's set of all 12 in one package and that car had been shoplifted out of it. Cars with errors guys save too - wrong wheels, wrong color or a different color on plastic parts, that kind of thing. I can't bring myself to give a crap enough to try to memorize all that.
That's why I quit too. I collected for quite a few years. When I started losing friends because of the competition of trying to get to the cars first, I got out. I sold my collection and put the money into freshing up my real car. I have since also sold the models and the 50's vintage Tonka's I collected. I started realizing I could build another FULL SIZED car for what I was spending on the toy ones, which is what I'm doing now. I still pick up the real looking 1st edition cars for my 4 year old son. If he isn't interested in them, I'll probably sell those too!
damn, i knew the hotwheels guy were serious, but, i didn't have any idea. i still have all of mine .70 or 80 of them from the 70's and early 80's i'm going to dig them out right now.
I probably have 1000+ stashed in boxes and that is why I quit colecting them. I started getting ignorant with shopping for the blamed things. I was like a junkie looking for a fix. Now I am trying to fixate on real cars.
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