Winston
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Not to me it isn't and it sure as hell isn't worth $100,000 to me.
This Hot Wheels Camaro Is Worth More Than an Actual Camaro
Even an expert in collectible toys didn't know—at first—that he had found the Hot Wheels car of a lifetime.
7 Feb 2020
https://www.popularmechanics.com/cars/a30813292/hot-wheels-chevy-camaro-100-000-collectible-found/?
Magee announced this week that he has found the only Redline Enamel White Hong Kong Version known to exist. Magee said the little metal thing, which he called the Holy Grail of Hot Wheels collectibles, could be worth $100,000. He hasn't decided what he will do with it yet, as the shock of what he found is still setting in. Magee said this Camaro is even more rare than the famous (among collectors) Rear-Loader Beach Bomb, of which there are at least two known copies in existence.
To do some more research on this particular model, Magee called up Larry Wood, a.k.a. Mr. Hot Wheels, who designed and modeled early Hot Wheels in the early 1970s, about the prototype Camaro. Wood said that when Hot Wheels first became popular, Mattel had a hard time making enough supply to meet demand. So the company started producing them in Hong Kong. But the U.S. and Hong Kong versions were not the same, with the toys of this era produced in Hong Kong having a blue-painted windshield instead of a clear plastic one. The best guess that Magee and Wood could come up with is that this model somehow made it from Hong Kong back to the Mattel headquarters in Hawthorne, California, where it was run down the production line in some sort of test. Then, Magee thinks, this Enamel White Prototype Custom Camaro Hot Wheels car was put into a standard package and sold just like any other car.
This Hot Wheels Camaro Is Worth More Than an Actual Camaro
Even an expert in collectible toys didn't know—at first—that he had found the Hot Wheels car of a lifetime.
7 Feb 2020
https://www.popularmechanics.com/cars/a30813292/hot-wheels-chevy-camaro-100-000-collectible-found/?
Magee announced this week that he has found the only Redline Enamel White Hong Kong Version known to exist. Magee said the little metal thing, which he called the Holy Grail of Hot Wheels collectibles, could be worth $100,000. He hasn't decided what he will do with it yet, as the shock of what he found is still setting in. Magee said this Camaro is even more rare than the famous (among collectors) Rear-Loader Beach Bomb, of which there are at least two known copies in existence.
To do some more research on this particular model, Magee called up Larry Wood, a.k.a. Mr. Hot Wheels, who designed and modeled early Hot Wheels in the early 1970s, about the prototype Camaro. Wood said that when Hot Wheels first became popular, Mattel had a hard time making enough supply to meet demand. So the company started producing them in Hong Kong. But the U.S. and Hong Kong versions were not the same, with the toys of this era produced in Hong Kong having a blue-painted windshield instead of a clear plastic one. The best guess that Magee and Wood could come up with is that this model somehow made it from Hong Kong back to the Mattel headquarters in Hawthorne, California, where it was run down the production line in some sort of test. Then, Magee thinks, this Enamel White Prototype Custom Camaro Hot Wheels car was put into a standard package and sold just like any other car.
