Today we went to the once a month flea market at the local county fairgrounds. It is a vast array of interesting things that we always enjoy and try to hit as often as possible.

Today we went with three of my children and a vast array of grandchildren. I was left alone with my #3 Grandson who is a bit over 2. He was strapped into the stroller. I came upon a fellow who had an excellent selection of HOt wheels to look at. There was a box just big enough for #3 to hold in his lap and peruse. They were the princely sum of .25 or five for a dollar. Me the big spender told him I would buy him one and he could pick it out.

There was an excellent selection including several porsches, a pink 67 bonneville, a 1922 Fire truck with the large pump on the front, a 61 Ferrari 163 sharknose like Phil HIll won the F1 championship with, along with a huge selection of camaros, corvettes, corollas, etc. There was a low rider '52 merc that I thought for a while he was going to pick. I was anxious to get moving and tried several times to get him to make a final selection, but he was just interested in looking at all of them at least three times!

When I spotted the 61 Ferrari F1 car I bought it for my self with no resistance from him. A lady came along and was interested in themtoo but my granson all but ran her off, since he had not made up his mind yet. She finally coaxed a couple out of his sticky little paws and went away happy.

I was pretty sure for a little while there that he was going for a military green Heliocopter but in the end after at least 20 minutes (isn't that an awfully long time for a two year old to concentrate on one thing?....I know, he's precocious).....

But in the end he picked the lavendar Bonneville....YES!

That one I nearly bought for myself....an american classic!

He seems possibly to have inherited the greasemonkey gene!

Tom W

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[SIGPIC] Diesel loving autocrossing grandpa Architect. 08 Dodge 3/4 ton with Cummins & six speed; I have had about 35 benzes. I have a 39 Studebaker Coupe Express pickup in which I have had installed a 617 turbo and a five speed manual.[SIGPIC]

..I also have a 427 Cobra replica with an aluminum chassis.

what? no pics

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"The law, in its majestic equality, forbids the rich as well as the poor to sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets, and to steal bread."

5 for a $1? I would have just bought them all and moved on.

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Question Authority before it Questions you.

I was offered the whole box for $5. But I didn't think his parents would appreciate me sending him home with fifty hot wheels!

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[SIGPIC] Diesel loving autocrossing grandpa Architect. 08 Dodge 3/4 ton with Cummins & six speed; I have had about 35 benzes. I have a 39 Studebaker Coupe Express pickup in which I have had installed a 617 turbo and a five speed manual.[SIGPIC]

..I also have a 427 Cobra replica with an aluminum chassis.

I would have bought them!

they have got to be worth something on ebay

did it have red line tires.it almost makes me puke looking at the new ones with the 20's etc.if it ain't got redlines it is not a real hot wheels.

I've been recently bitten by the vintage Hot Wheels and Matchbox bug. Nothing exotic yet, just replacing the ones I destroyed in my youth (we used to stuff them full of pieces of rags and soak them in gas to have "horrifc" accidents ). I'd like to gradually get into the more rare and antique diecasts now that I finally have a place to keep them out of the way of 4 sets of prying hands. And I no longer feel the need to set my toys on fire.

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1980 300TD-China Blue/Blue MBTex-2nd Owner, 107K (Alt Blau) OBK #15
'06 Chevy Tahoe Z71 (for the wife & 4 kids, current mule) '03 Honda Odyssey (son #1's ride, reluctantly) '99 GMC Suburban (255K+ miles, semi-retired mule) 21' SeaRay Seville (summer escape pod)

I had a fairly large collection of them when I was younger. I wonder what happened to them all...

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1999 Toyota Corolla VE (Mine)
2006 Honda Odyssey (Wife's)
1979 300CD (sold)

I've got a bunch in boxes somewhere. Most are still on the cardboard. I should sell them, I'm more into playing with big cars.

I still do that... I probably should do something constructive

number of years ago, Avon offered the Father/Son sets with the classic and the new styles of the Mustang, Corvette and a few others. We kept them in the original blister pack, un-opened. My kids and I would talk about how much they liked the newer styles and I would of course argue how the classics were better!

Sadly, the cars were destroyed in a house fire in May of 2007, along with everything else we owned.

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1987 560SL
85,000 miles

My brother and I had a collection of about 150 or so...including the "Jackrabbit", derived from the "Hot Wheels" cartoon of the early 70's...kinda the American version of "Speed Racer".

Went off to college only to come back and find that my mom decided to give them away to a friend who had younger sons!!!

This is the same Mom who also got rid of a metal "Beatles" lunch box I had back in '68!!

I figure the grief I gave her though her life probably evened the score!

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2009 ML350 (106K) - Family vehicle
2001 CLK430 Cabriolet (80K) - Wife's car
2005 BMW 645CI (138K) - My daily driver
2016 Mustang (32K) - Daughter's car

It is fun though...

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1980 300TD-China Blue/Blue MBTex-2nd Owner, 107K (Alt Blau) OBK #15
'06 Chevy Tahoe Z71 (for the wife & 4 kids, current mule) '03 Honda Odyssey (son #1's ride, reluctantly) '99 GMC Suburban (255K+ miles, semi-retired mule) 21' SeaRay Seville (summer escape pod)

we know you would have kept 49....

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"It's normal for these things to empty your wallet and break your heart in the process."
2012 SLK 350
1987 420 SEL

I have a bunch of older NASCAR hot wheels still in there boxes. They should be worth something some day.

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1976 240D
1976 240D parts car
1970 220D daily driver