Hot Wheels was designed as the competitor to Matchbox, the difference with the former having their cars based more so on fantasy design, rather than being smaller incarnations of production cars. Understandably, with Mattel - the company behind the Hot Wheels franchise - being American-based, those of you outside the US probably aren’t as familiar with the brand. It would have been nice to relive the nostalgia. It’s kind of a shame that I never kept any of this stuff as I grew up. Even without a track kit, getting the cars themselves were a blast I’d take a few out to the back deck of the house and ride those along the railing with great enthusiasm. There was another kit that I had, which I think was a car wash thingy? As well as some other kits that unfortunately have escaped my memory. It was fascinating to see that as a child. That car would loop around the track, hit the accelerator, and just keep going until the accelerator was turned off. Once the toy car touched it, it would go flying with great speed, enough that it could go around an upside-down loop without falling. I remember one track that I constructed that, even though it was simple in design, it had one of those accelerator things where the car starts. I’d eagerly take that set of tracks home and, with the help of some of my older brothers, we put it together. Others he was willing to get, even though it might not have been as nice as the other.
The better they were, the more money my Dad gave me to treat myself. Every quarter when I got my report card from school, I was that giddy child that always looked forward to seeing what my grades were. I remember being at the toy store as a kid, tugging on my Dad’s sleeve and begging him to get me a Hot Wheels set.
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