I think in time all the 100% stuff will be valuable, its super cheep to pick up now, i think mostly due to the flood of cars Mattel dumped in the market and the ma-laze of the late 90s early 2000 era so many bad castings and silly tampos. but in time i think the quality of those cars will make them valuable. the other wave in the future will be the 2008-9 cars, the crash drastically cut back on sales of hotwheels and production was scaled back as everything was for years after the 08 crash. People just did not have money to spend on toys and collectors had to pull back as well. I always notice that when a big local collection comes up for sale its always late 90s to about 07-8 then it picks up about 12-13. just my productions only time will tell ! Nice work on your collection you have some really nice hard to find cars! You should be proud of our knowledge to, its impressive!
These are the nerdy details i love about collecting hot wheels! You have an incredible collection! I've been lucky enough to find both a 1973 442 Cruiser and Staff Car at thrift stores. Actually, a lot of my rarest cars have come from thrift stores. I have goal to find a blue and brown Hot Bird at thift stores, i have most of the black versions by now. Found one of those Speed Machines Pintos at, you guessed it, a thrift store. Oh my goodness, a Mexico Spoiler Sport is a grail item of mine. Theyre like $600-800 i think now? I have managed to snag a CIPSA Hairy Hauler though, so i cant complain about my mexican HW luck. I still havent got a megaforce card, even though i find these super cool. I should remedy that. Preproduction/proto stuff is super cool. I've got the large-scale epoxy/resin window piece for Large Charge. Thanks for sharing these awesome pieces of hot wheels history!
Wow, very cool. I have actually never had any luck at the thrift stores in my area but flea markets and antique malls used to be good luck for me. That large Charge piece sounds really cool too.
