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Saturday mornings are starting to be a time for me to reflect back to my childhood. I think I need to get a life now in my old age! :yes:

I thought this morning about some of my toys & the old Hot Wheels strip track came across my mind. I also had the set that had a gas station or some kind of garage that when my cars came into it, they would come out of there faster. Anyone remember that set-up?

In my hometown, the only place you could get them were K-Mart or Gibson stores.

I had a friend who had the tire car case. I always wanted one of those as it looked so nice. Had several cars, one was a green 1968 Camaro.

Well, if you had anything related to Hot Wheels, share your fond memories.

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I remember my friend getting one of the first Hot wheels set that you clamped the purple clamp to a chair and the winner tripped a checkered flag.They left the match-box cars in the dust with their slow black wheels!I also remember getting the Hot wheels diamond mine.I sure wish I kept the truck,as I understand itwas rare(exclusive to the diamond mine set only).I see on e-bay the truck goes for 400plus bucks!
 
oh yeah.. those strips were great for having slap fights with against your brother.. Welts from those, and welts from dad after he caught us...
 
Hi Philo426,

Yea, I remember those sets too, that you would use the clamp to stabilize it for some good fashioned fun.

I wish I had got some sort of chest & put all my stuff as a child in it, the years afterwards & no matter what happened I would always have the stuff to relish the good times.

Wow, that is just too expensive for the truck.

Thanks for the nice sentiment,
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Hi Similost,

Ahhhh, your post brings out the memories. I did not have any fights with my brothers with the strip track, but my dad would surely threaten us with it. It was a sure deterrent to errant behavior. :yes:

Grand sentiment,
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I still have all my Hot Wheels cars and track stored under the basement stairs....my Jackie Stewart AFX set too. Gonna have to dig that stuff out soon and play. My Hot Wheels set has that "u" shaped piece with a lever on either side that when you pull it (timed with the cars entry into the U) it grabs the car and sends it up the track.
 
I have my dads and uncles old hotwheel stuff. Had a lot of fun with that as a kid. :thmbsp:

I actually have enough track to run the length of our driveway, only problem is about halfway down the cars get going so fast they jump track.
 
Just great MikeCh,

I wish I had saved my stuff as I had some great toys, including the Hot Wheels sets.
I think that may have been the same type of garage thing I had. It was so much fun & now I am thinking about the fun times I had with my family as a kid.

Dig that stuff right away & if you have kids, give them the time of your life.

Great sentiment,
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Hi X 25,

I can only echo second the great sentiment to you as I did for Mikech.
You can even brag of having some generational Hot Wheels stuff.

Man, that reeks of Greatness in my book. When you get the time, put that track together & like I said to MikeCh, if you have kids, give them something to cherish for a lifetime with your Hot Wheels stuff.

Grand sentiment,
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I was an iconoclast, never cared much for Hot Wheels, preferring their plain-jane Matchbox cousins. I also had/have SOMEWHERE several boxes of Corgi cars, one of which was a big American Ford COE, pulling a "mobile parking lot"...
 
Hi Sandy,

Nice to hear from you, my friend. Yea, I remember the Matchbox cars as well. I just never got into them like the Hot Wheels. For some reason I thought they always looked a bit small to me, so I ignored them. I wish I had bought & kept some for times like these.

I wonder how much those Corgi cars would bring nowadays?

Nice sentiment,
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Oh man, what memories.......playing in the basement with my Hot wheels and Matchbox cars. I also kinda remember some sort of gas pump thingy that plugged into a 1/8th" jack on a car with a motor to "charge" it up. Was that a Hot Wheels item, or am I crazy?

I do miss my Matchbox white ambulance......I used it to rescue all the drivers after their crashes...

Rob
 
Hi Rob,
Yes, the memories are just grand. Playing with my stuff in the living room was the best.

I am not sure if the pump thing you are talking about was for Hot Wheels, but it sounds interesting. I don't remmeber anything like that in my neck of the woods.

Maybe someone can shed some light on it & maybe bring back a memory or two.

Nice sentiment,
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Hifirob2 said:
Oh man, what memories.......playing in the basement with my Hot wheels and Matchbox cars. I also kinda remember some sort of gas pump thingy that plugged into a 1/8th" jack on a car with a motor to "charge" it up. Was that a Hot Wheels item, or am I crazy?

I do miss my Matchbox white ambulance......I used it to rescue all the drivers after their crashes...

Rob
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Hi Rob, I remember that electrical device, but like you, can't recall what kind of cars it was used for. :scratch2:
 
MikeCh said:
Hi Rob, I remember that electrical device, but like you, can't recall what kind of cars it was used for. :scratch2:
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Yeah - I don't know if the cars were Hot Wheels, or some similar sized car - but they were "batmobile" cool looking in funky colors. Their tiny motors (once charged by the 'gas pump') allowed them to go like stink down the orange tracks. I thought the 6-8" gas pump had a Hot Wheels logo on it, though.....

Time to call mom and see whatever became of those toys.....

Rob
 
- I just googled it and found one. They were called "Sizzlers", and the gas pump was the "Juice Machine"...a MUST have for the "avid Hot Wheels collector".....

Takes me right back......

Rob
 
I remember the Hot Wheels. I used to have that big black tire to store the cars in... Brings back a lot of memories... They had some great paint jobs on them.... Between all the baseball, football cards, comic books I threw away I would be rich today.....
 
Hifirob2 said:
- I just googled it and found one. They were called "Sizzlers", and the gas pump was the "Juice Machine"...a MUST have for the "avid Hot Wheels collector".....

Takes me right back......

Rob
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Yep that was them! Good search :thmbsp: What did those little motors turn, 20,000 rpm? LOL.
 
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