"Curses! Foiled again!"

I"ve got two - one in red as shown, the other in gold.
Are they worth anything? Both of mine are near mint.

The red one I had as a kid didn't survive the hammer and Bernzo-matic.:shifty:
 
By the time they were making toys I was driving the real stuff. :huh:
 
I was never a fan of the goofy Hot Wheels... I liked the ones that represented real cars, not that type of stuff.

I probably disposed of $10,000 worth of the really-valuable ones via firecracker, hammer, or firing them into the woods behind my folks' house with a golf club--the latter being what I did with my iteration of the one shown here. My Twin Mill ended up on the railroad tracks to see what would happen once it was run over.
 
The Red Baron has always stuck in my mind as what a Hot Wheel was when I was a kid.

I had one too. I don't remember what happened to it, though. It's likely buried in the back yard of the house I lived in between the ages of 3 and 7.

I'll bet the originals are worth something though.
 
twin mill will always be in my head....and not the stupid chevy powered fake POS they built but the original twin hemi engined beast
 
Dr.Jass said:
I was never a fan of the goofy Hot Wheels... I liked the ones that represented real cars, not that type of stuff.

I probably disposed of $10,000 worth of the really-valuable ones via firecracker, hammer, or firing them into the woods behind my folks' house with a golf club--the latter being what I did with my iteration of the one shown here. My Twin Mill ended up on the railroad tracks to see what would happen once it was run over.
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I think it's the same dynamics that make me puke a little while trying to watch a movie who's car chase (it ain't a movie without a car chase) involves foreign cars.

Revell had a 1:16 scale deal, I think it was a trike though. No worries there, the black cats owned that mo fo. :talking:
 
Dr.Jass said:
I was never a fan of the goofy Hot Wheels... I liked the ones that represented real cars, not that type of stuff.
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Yeah - me too - usually - but I've always been a fan of the "Red Baron" and it was a real car .... eventually.

It started as a Monogram model kit Designed by Tom Daniel in the late '60's - I had the kit as a very young kid, plus a lightly larger die cast (bigger than hotwheels) a little later in life. Both were lost to growing up, but I did find a 1/43 scale die cast toy when I was down in the U.S. a couple years ago. I unfortunately missed out when the model kit was re-issued by Revell in the late '90s.

Popular rumour says the '60s model kit was originally designed to cash in on the popularity of the pop song "Snoopy vs. The Red Baron" by the royal guardsmen. It certainly tied in to my fascination at the time with WW1 bi-planes.

Anyway - the car was built under licence to Monogram full scale in the late '60s or early '70s c/w the pontiac OHC 6. The few pictures I have seen show it to be a very faithful re-creation.
 
Looks like something a doctor had to extract......

I may still have one somewhere. :D
 
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