Hot Wheels classic 32 Ford Vicky.

[ewetwo]

I have this Hot Wheels and have tried to find something about the 2 checkered flags on the top. It was my younger brothers. Has anyone else seen one of these?

[alan barton]

From what I know about Hot Wheels David, this is one of the first series, the so-called Sweet Sixteen.  I have never seen stickers on the top of any of these models but I do recall that my Spoilers series Light  My Firebird came with some stickers that the young owner could apply.  I am relying on a fifty something year old memory but I suspect they were put on back in the day, just not by Mattel. It's in great shape and well worth hanging onto just as it is.

Cheers

Alan

[ewetwo]

Some one told me that Alan. Some came with stickers you could apply. I just wanted to double check. I have 3 red lines I'm going to sell. I'm 66 and no body in my family has any interested in my models, Die castes, Dinkys, Corgis or Matchbox cars. I still have my Matchbox cars. In their boxes, The boxes are worthless as far as value because I wrote what was in each box on the top so I didn't have to keep pulling the boxes out to see what one was. Matchbox City and the Matchbox fire station. They are all just like the day I got them as a kid. I even polished them with car polish. LOL

 

[alan barton]

David, if I may be so bold, does looking at them still give you pleasure?  In which case, don't sell them, keep them for the childhood memories. If you sell them, the money will disappear in a few weeks on groceries and gas and so forth and you then won't have the money and won't have the models either.  As long as they still give you pleasure and you don't desperately need the money, hang on to them  What happens after you are gone is out of your control anyway you look at it.  Would a new owner tell the story about you polishing them with car polish? I doubt it.

The condition you have kept them in is an absolute credit to you. I still have a lot of my childhood Matchbox and Hot wheels at 63 yrs old but only a few are as cherry as yours.

Cheers

Alan