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Hot Wheels Flashback – Celebrating Hot Wheels 50th Anniversary with Black & Gold

By Mike Zarnock For the celebration of Hot Wheels 50th Anniversary in 2018, Mattel is pulling out all the stops! There will be a retro series of cars, new cars with 50th Anniversary logos, special cars within the mainline series, and exclusive cars for specific stores and hobby dealers. One of the most anticipated 50th […]

Hot Wheels Highway – 2017 Factory-Sealed Master Set

For the past 10 years or so, during the month of December, through its hotwheelscollectors.com website, Mattel has been offering a complete Master Set of all its mainline Hot Wheels cars to the public for $549.99 plus shipping. They are offered in limited quantities; in past years, the quantity has been 500, then 700. For […]

Slot-Car Heaven: Just The Thing to Finish Your Epic Man-Cave!

So how many slot-car fans do we have out there? You had better be a FANATIC — not to mention independently wealthy — to be willing to pony up $300-large for the Neiman Marcus replica of your favorite international circuit. You even get a party to help break the new track in — complete with […]

IXO 2010 Jaguar XKR-S

After introducing the sleek XK Coupe in 2005, Jaguar upped the ante with the supercharged 420-horsepowwer XKR in 2008. That was followed a year later by the 540-horsepower XKR-S, with a revised nose incorporating vertical fins, carbon-fiber front splitter and rear diffuser, and a carbon-fiber rear wing. The “S” wasn’t available in the U.S. until […]

Brooklin Buick-Based Ambulances

The Flxible Company (yes, the spelling’s correct) won a contract to build ambulances on stretched 1938 Buick chassis for the 1939 World’s Fair, and of course added Flxible-Buick ambulances to their catalog. Brooklin has done the same with a pair of Flxible-Buicks from their Community Services Vehicle series. Flxible had to raise the Buick front […]

Cheyenne Vacationeer

In the days before the SUV explosion, this is the kind of vehicle families took their vacation roadtrips in. GreenLight is revisiting those good old days in 1:64. What do you think — cool, or square?

AMT “Captain America” Monster Truck Kit

If you like your wheels large enough to live in — and have an affinity for one of Marvel Comics’ true superheroes — it doesn’t get much better than this AMT kit of the “Captain America” monster truck. Giant tires, hyper-jacked suspension, and a well-detailed chassis are the main features; the fact that it’s molded […]

Auto World/Lindberg Line 1957 Chevy model kit

As stuck on ready-to-display automotive collectibles as we are, it’s hard not to enjoy the rattle of a box full of parts just waiting to become a finished model car – especially when the name on the box is as memory-inducing as this “Lindberg Line” kit of a 1957 Chevrolet Ragtop. Auto World sure knows […]

Minichamps “Mullin Collection” 1937 Delahaye 145 Grand Prix

Henri Chapron’s beautifully re-bodied Type 145 was featured in the last issue of DCX; this time we have Minichamps’ beautifully made resin-cast model of the first of the Type 145s as it looked when raced by the French Ecurie Bleue team. This particular car, Chassis 48771 (now in the Mullin Museum, of course), won the […]

Round 2 / Auto World Collaborates With Estate of Legendary Hot Rod Artist Ed “Big Daddy” Roth

Auto World recently announced a collaboration with the estate of renowned hot rod culture artist Ed “Big Daddy” Roth to create a line of custom 1/64 scale slot cars, decked out in artwork featuring Roth’s most notorious creation, Rat Fink! Roth is known for popularizing the style of artwork inspired by the custom car and […]