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Woah! I still have all mine from when I was a kid, but I've passed some of those along to my 4yr old already. Now he already has over 100 Hot Wheels and Matchbox combined. I probably have a few hundred, including some that my uncle gave me from when he was a kid. Even played with, these originals from the 70s (?) can be pretty valuable nowadays to the right people
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Never had any when I was a kid, they didn't exist that far back...
I did buy a bunch a few years ago thinking they'd look good on my layout, but they were a bit too over scale and didn't fit... well, except for the fire engine.
So now, my "collection" is diminished each time any of my grandkids comes over for a visit. That's the first place they head for.
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How about an Avanti, or two???
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nachoman Wrote:hock:
whatever I have lest from my childhood are likely buried in my parents back yard.
I may have one or two left from my childhood. The rest succumbed to the "
My Mom threw them away" syndrome.
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That's an incredible number of Hot Wheels !!!!
I've got maybe 2 dozen left over from the early-70s (in pretty good to good condition) that I had when I was a kid.
My sons have quite a collection of new ones though. (The new ones are nowhere near as good as the old ones though!).
Rob
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