chip83
Part of things
One day at a time....
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Jun 30, 2020 15:53:56 GMT
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Hows best to sell boxed Hotwheels guys? I have at least 200, I'm not selling one by one but I cant see someone buying the pot for a few they want. I'm seriously considering selling mine, they're just stuck in a box in the spare room when I could have some more car funds now. Ive not tried selling them myself, but id imagine in 200 or so cars, there are bound to be some in there that are of higher value than most to collectors. Mabie split them into age related lots, or all fords etc, 5 cars to a lot. Without knowing whats there its hard to say. Would you sell them on here or ebay? Plenty of traders out there who will take a collection off your hands, best and quickest way would be try one of the larger hw facebook selling pages. again price dependent but common mainlines you be hard to get a quid back for them as as that what poundland had them for, I usually do my sales in groups of 5 for £5.99. Common themes, muscle cars, sport cars, trucks etc....same proce to post 5 as one car. |
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Quashqui and Yeti (needs must currently)
SAAB 93 EST (Sold)
Volvo S40(sold)
Volvo V40(sold)
MK2 astra aka "THE SHED"(sold)
Mgb GT (crashed)
Peugeot 405(sold)
Orion 1600i (sold)
Metro (scrapped)
Mk1 Fiesta (Broken for spares)
Mk5 Cortina (crashed)
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Jun 30, 2020 17:40:57 GMT
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Ive never seen those wheels. I am now aware of those wheels and will be hunting them down. The car itself looks abit like one of the early Hotwheels, cant think what its called. I know what you mean, I reckon those wheels are pretty cool, I looked at all the other cars in the box and only the Tony's car, erm, car had them. I bought all three cars the shop had. The car it's self remnds me of this one  Dixie Challenger, or Rodger Dodger depending on whether or not the engine is hanging out of the bonnet. |
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skinnylew
Club Retro Rides Member
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Matchbox / Hotwheels Retrosskinnylew
@skinnylew
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Probably see if you guys want any first then ebay the rest. Good idea doing it by make, hadn't thought of that. Gonna go through them tomoro after work I think. Yeah the Mrs is trying to get me to sell a load as well, although i have nearly 1000 so not entirely unreasonable  I am still looking for a few 2016 ones to complete my collection for that year (the only year i have attempted to collect all 250!), in short card |
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skinnylew
Club Retro Rides Member
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Matchbox / Hotwheels Retrosskinnylew
@skinnylew
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NEW CASTING ALERTSo if you haven't already get over to the 3dBotmaker channel on YouTube. It's just flippin superb. anyway they dropped this bombshell the other week  Lancia Delta Integrale Evo dropping next year 2021. Looks like an absolute peach!
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Whilst out shopping I looked in 3 separate locations to see what I could find. First shop, pegs very well stocked, all mainlines fantasy stuff. Second shop, same again, third shop, mainlines and themed stuff, this time it was fantasy stuff and moderns except for one car I bought which to be fair made all the messing about worth it.  Fair to say that someone must be clearing the stock. All 3 shops are very close to each other and all 3 were very well stocked with nothing of interest. Pah. |
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Last Edit: Jul 5, 2020 11:31:27 GMT by bmcnut
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I'm currently trying to turn one of those Hudson Hornets into a sort of forgotton resto for my eldest daughter, she gave me some rust effects paint for Fathers day so I thought I'd give them a go for her.   So far I've only scuffed up the decals, painted individual panels, and given it a coat of Nuln Oil, gonna try the rust paints soon... It's a lot easier to make the car look good and shiny than rough and abandonned! |
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diff
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Jul 26, 2020 14:26:02 GMT
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Bundle of cars advertised on local Facebook page , couple of pictures. Think I had a result .   |
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diff
South East
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Jul 26, 2020 14:33:43 GMT
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Edited double post
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Last Edit: Jul 26, 2020 14:34:47 GMT by diff
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I got a big bag of cars at the car boot sale this morning...  Having lost my 'General Mayhem' model I did I was only after the one that looks like the 'General Lee' (in the middle just above the ambulance) I thought this was an ERTL 'General Lee' which is what I based my 'General Mayhem' on it isn't, anyway the guy wanted £1 for it, so I pulled out a tenner, and he said I could have the lot for that. Which I did, then I had to lug it home in my back pack on my bike! No easy task as I weighed it when I got home and it weighed just over 12kgs! Anyway, incase you didn't see it before, this is what I started out wanting to make... Again.  The General Mayhem! Which started off life as... An ERTL toy car. Anyway, what I thought was another ERTL toy car isn't, it's something far cheaper and nastier. But it looks like someone's had their Mums nail varnish out and tried to make it into a 'General Lee' at some point, and so this is what it actually turned out to be...   Which is pretty rough, but I still think is kinda cool. So now I have a bit of a dilemma, I'm going to pull it apart anyway as I want to get all that sharpie off the windows if I can, and although not a General Lee, it does look to have been orange originally. But I can't decide what to do, do I pull it apart to make my General Mayhen replica as planned, or clean it all up and make a General Lee replica, or clean it all up and make a General Lee replica that looks like it's been in a few episodes of the Dukes of Hazzard as that was obviously the route that it's original owner was going. Lastly, can anyone tell me what HotWheels castings had the real rider tyres on the wheels that look like the Turbovec wheels used on the original General Lee? Because I think no matter which route I go down I want to put those wheels on it. |
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retrolegends
Club Retro Rides Member
Winging it.....Since 1971.
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Matchbox / Hotwheels Retrosretrolegends
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pistonpopper I had a Yatming General Lee Charger rip-off so not sure if that’s what this is, regarding the wheels some sort of Corvette springs to mind. Heroic cycling btw 😂
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1974 Hillman Avenger 1500DL1992 Volvo 240SE1975 Datsun Cherry 100a flying custard1965 Hillman SuperMinx Rock N Roller1974 Austin Allegrat Mk1 1.3SDL1980 Austin Allegro Mk3 1.3L1982 Austin Allegro Mk3 on banded steels2003 Saab 9-3 Convertible 220bhp TurboNutter1966 Morris Minor 1000 (Doris) 2019 Abarth 595C Turismo (not retro but awesome fun) www.facebook.com/DatsunCherry100a |
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Sept 7, 2020 13:24:43 GMT
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Thats really very cool indeed! I'm in a couple of Facebook Hotwheels groups so I've asked about the wheels. |
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Sept 7, 2020 15:00:46 GMT
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 These seem to be the ones? |
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Sept 7, 2020 16:44:13 GMT
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Yep, those look to be the ones @quickrack1 that's not going to be a cheap model is it?
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Sept 7, 2020 16:48:11 GMT
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Nope. 6-9 quid I reckon.
Try joining a few local HW facebook groups and find a loose of one with a damaged card?
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Sept 7, 2020 19:23:17 GMT
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Heads up, Matchbox have released a mk1 Golf GTi toy  |
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Jez
Part of things
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Sept 17, 2020 8:45:50 GMT
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The new mk1 casting is really nice. I can't wait for it to come out in a better colour. Lhasa green or mars red with the lower door stripe would be perfect!
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1990 VW Golf GTI G60
2014 Skoda Octavia RS
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Matchbox / Hotwheels Retrosfr€$h&m1nt¥
@freshandminty
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Sept 17, 2020 8:56:08 GMT
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I won one of these little cuties as part of swag for winning an award at yakushi show recently...
I usually prefer the more realistic hotwheels but I really like how this is a "cartooned" version of a customised car rather than a complete fantasy model.
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Sept 17, 2020 12:37:09 GMT
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When I saw that all I could think was "The Incredibles".
It could/should be in the movie!
Whats a yakushi show??
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Matchbox / Hotwheels Retrosfr€$h&m1nt¥
@freshandminty
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Sept 17, 2020 13:10:26 GMT
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When I saw that all I could think was "The Incredibles". It could/should be in the movie! Whats a yakushi show?? It was a car show that I went to on Saturday - a rare 2020 car show! yakushi-show.co.uk/ |
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Ax GTi Turbo
