Welcome in the World of Hotwheels !!

Hello !

 

Thank you for stopping by!

 

I have been collecting Hot Wheels with a great enthusiasm for about 8 years. It all started with a friend of mine offering me a 1/64 sacle of a 67 fastback mustang to put on te dashboard of my newly acquired 65 Mustang.

From then on, I have been swimming in hotwheels, leaving, eating, breathing hot wheels every single day!

My quest is leading me from grail to grail, and I am always looking for new stuff to enlarge my collection.

I have over 7,000 Hot Wheels cars so far, and collecting those little cars is really great fun to me, despite my wife gets sometimes really bored by this nasty habit!

 

Storage place is missing, but here is the challenge : how should I make this collection live, and still be enthusiastic about looking for this one model that I have never seen so far?

At the beginning, I was really after new models and would collect every car found in supermarkets, toy fairs and toy shops... Little by little, I realized how hard it was to get every model, every color, every variation... and that I would probably get mad before I even get half the half of what Mattel releases !

 

I then decided to focus my collection on rare and much more collectible pieces :

Old Blackwalls (77 to 94 era), Redlines (I eventually sold all my redlines 2 years ago), foreign blackwalls cars (France, Mexico, India, Japan, Italy, Venezuela...), old blisters and special series, and generally all blackwall era models.

 

Here is a small part of my collection. All pictures are from my own personal collection.

It may look poor compared to others great collectors throughout the world (especialy in the USA), but I am actively striving to raise this collection to a sightworthy one : I still have lots of years collectiong ahead of me !

Please also visit my Instagram account vintage_hotwheels and give it a follow! The best part (but the least) is pictured there!

 

Thank you for reading and enjoy!

 

Tom

 

One of my grails !
Un de mes graals ! One of my grails !