My Most Amazing Cars Unearthed: Part 1

At last count, I have unearthed over 16,000 Original One Owner Redline Hot Wheels in the past 29 years and counting.  In 2021, I am on pace to eclipse over 1000+ Original Redline Hot Wheels brought to light.

So here we go with some of my most interesting and amazing cars that I’ve dug up since 1992.

The 31 Classic Woody Prototype?

Controversy has surrounded this piece since I brought it to light in the Spring of 2020.  The car looks like the old “Huckster” wagons of yesteryear.  The back was expertly cut off along with a beautiful oval window machined carefully out of the rear portion of the cab.  The thing that struck me as leaning towards the Prototype school of thought is how the transition is so incredibly crafted from the roof to the back bed.  There is no defined area where the two pieces join.  Smooth as silk.  There have been three other documented and identical pieces in different colors and condition that have been discovered over the years in original collections that also had ties to former Mattel employees from the sixties and seventies, as did this car.  The Redline community is still scratching its collective head over this one.  It is in Blister Pak fresh condition, as well.

Lite Blue OLDS 442

This beauty was found in an original one-owner childhood collection of around 80 total cars in southern New Jersey in the Fall of 2020.  There are two schools of thought when it comes to this casting and color.  Some say that Lite Blue was never produced as part of the rainbow of colors for the OLDS 442 and others disagree that this was truly a planned and produced color for the casting.  If you put a Lite Blue Olds 442 next to a regular blue Olds 442, the difference is very apparent.  I leave the argument alone for now, but I do believe the color was produced as part of the color palate for the Olds 442 way back in 1970.

Purple Non-Painted Roof White Interior 36 Ford Coupe

It’s certainly no secret that Purple is my favorite color when it comes to the REDLINE Hot Wheels.  This car is no exception.  However, this car was discovered in the Western Iowa collection in the Spring of 2020.  The amazing thing about this car is that not only is it the rare variation of having a white interior and the roof left naked from the black paint, but also the back part of the rumble seat was left light purple and unpainted.  In my almost three decades of collecting, I have never seen this combination on the 36 Ford Coupe.  Some in the hobby who have seen the car say that it is an early production car and some, like me, believe it to be a prototype.  See the pictures and decide for yourself.  Good luck finding another.

Orange Classic Cord

I wrote about this piece in my book, REDLINE ARCHEOLOGY, as part of the Tacony, Pennsylvania collection that I purchased around twenty years ago.  I’m not sure where this car ended up after I sold it as part of a larger grouping of cars around 15 years ago, but whoever has it, has one of the rarest cars in the hobby.  The story behind the car was that the original owner was buying Hot Wheels for his nephew after his father passed away, which was the gentleman’s brother.  He could not find a handful of cars in the local toy stores and department stores around Philadelphia like the Custom Mustang, Custom Cougar, Red Baron, Beach Bomb and, of course, the Classic Cord.  He went ahead and wrote Mattel Inc. in Hawthorne, California a detailed letter and expressed his plight.  He told me that it took a few months for Mattel to get back to him, but when they did, they sent him all of the 8 cars mentioned in his letter and in all kinds of crazy colors.  When I bought his entire collection, he presented me with the original box with the 8 cars still in it.  They were all loose and out of the package, but the Orange Classic Cord was one of them.  I literally almost fell off my chair.  I know that people do not believe that this car exists in this color, but myself, along with a handful of collectors have seen and held this car in our hands.  It was verified as original from everyone, including myself.  Maybe one day the car will surface again for the whole Hot Wheels collector world to see.

In an upcoming blog I will give everyone a private tour of my personal collection that has taken me 30 years to assemble.  Only the Best of the Best!  I hope you enjoyed this blog.  I encourage each of you to comment below and SHARE this website.  Let’s keep the hobby fun and interesting!  Happy collecting!!

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