![]() There is even a Hot Wheels vinyl record, the soundtrack to an animated Saturday morning cartoon series that aired on ABC from 1969 to 1971. There is a confounding array of Hot Wheels–branded products: wallets, chewing gum, patches, shampoo, puzzles, pins, comic books, race suits, jeans, tattoos, baseball hats, and stickers. There are Hot Wheels racks from Germany and Japan. There are store displays, promotional posters, sales brochures, and salesmen's cases. Hot Wheels didn’t do much to mark the event, but fans have. As you probably guessed, it’s a show dedicated to the Chevrolet Corvette and those who love it. The Bloomington Gold Corvette Show is a car show held every year in Bloomington, Indiana. There are dozens of vintage play sets, carrying cases, and accessories. 23 Corvette Stingray With Bloomington Gold 25th Anniversary 225. The other half of the collection is ephemera and paraphernalia. It was valued recently at twice that amount. Although he has numerous complete sets of these vintage toys, the most valuable components of his hoard are the rarities: hand-formed and painted brass prototypes meant to test a model's shape, scale, and speed overchromed cars created to sparkle in period advertisements blooper cars painted the wrong color or improperly assembled and the most expensive Hot Wheels ever purchased, a pre-production prototype Volkswagen Beach Bomb Surf Bus in pink, for which Pascal paid nearly $75,000. Half of the collection consists of cars, primarily the rare Redline models (so called because of the red stripe running around their tires) from the early days of the toys' production, which began 50 years ago, in 1968. ![]() Pascal now owns about 7000 Hot Wheels–related items, worth an estimated $1.5 million. Michael Shaffer A Pile of $1 Toys Grows to a Treasure Trove But after his mom gave him back his childhood collection of Hot Wheels cars 15 years ago, he has remained laser focused on the brand. Pascal himself was always a collector, previously assembling (and then selling) a stockpile of objects related to the Tucker car company and a comprehensive assortment of political buttons. His grandfather was an automotive historian employed by the National Archives, and his father was active in the Rolls-Royce Owners' Club of America. HOT WHEELS REDLINE CLUB ELLIOTT HANDLER CUSTOM FLEETSIDE COLLECTIBLE 257/4000. 1968 HW 'Custom Fleetside' Repro Windshield - 6213HK SCR-W0018. Pascal is a commercial real estate broker-which surely came in handy when he decided to acquire a big building-but his penchant for vehicular accumulation comes naturally. Hot Wheels Redline HK CUSTOM FLEETSIDE REPRO BED COVER -Black, NEW GPHWHEELS. "It's definitely getting more difficult to segregate my daytime and nighttime jobs," he says. They include giant plastic sleeves holding Hot Wheels engineering blueprints, a rolled-up eight-foot-long promotional Hot Wheels poster, and flattened cardboard vintage Hot Wheels store displays, all recent purchases from the two hours he says he spends daily conducting online searches and following up on leads. A Purple Olds 442 will sell from 1,500 to 7,000. ![]() The rarest of them all is the purple Olds 442. Even cars in poor condition are still sought after. That’s not to say a beat up rare Redline Hot Wheels can’t also be worth some decent money, but like anything collectible, in order to be worth top dollar, your Hot Wheels need to be in top condition.He sets down a stack of recent acquisitions in what he calls the Intake Room. Based on the design of a 1970 Oldsmobile 442, this Hot Wheels car is the rarest casting from the Redline era (1968-1977). Rare Hot Wheels and Redline Hot Wheels in good condition can be more valuable.Although it was made in 2014, it is a Hot Wheels Collectors exclusive, with only 4,000 made, and have sold on eBay for $1,000 – 1,400. Some more rare Hot Wheels, that are not Redline Hot Wheels, are valuable because they’re more rare – like the 1955 Candy Striper Chevy Bel Air Gasser Hot Wheels car. Valuable Hot Wheels are collectors items and typically part of a set like the “Sweet 16,” the inaugural Hot Wheels set.Check out the Redline Hot Wheels Guide online for a comprehensive resource of Redline Hot Wheels Valuable Hot Wheels are vintage and typically have a red stripe on the tire, known as a Redline Hot Wheel.In order to tell which Hot Wheels are valuable there are a few basic keys: ![]()
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