We Decided to Get Out ALL of Our Play & Race Diecast Cars. We Have a Lot of Them!

November 24, 2020

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Gentle reader,

It certainly has been a while since I've posted anything. I took on the task of helping a friend who has been cleaning out her hoarder mother's home. She brought me SO much stuff to try and sell on eBay for her. 

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Below is a link to the previous article which covers designing our downhill course and also has links within it to other articles about diecast cars.

The Robb Collections: Configuring Downhill 1:64 Scale Diecast Hot Wheels Racing Course Chapter FOUR: Prototyping UPDATE 

That aside, we have continued making progress on our downhill and uphill racing course for gravity powered Hot Wheels and battery powered Crash Racers and K.I.T. Racing cars from Mattel.

Many of the cars you will see were found to be excellent RACERS on track and were sequestered in car cases as a result. But, since we are building our own track/course, we will start from scratch testing each car on the new track.

Nancy sorting and separating cars, as we began the daunting task.

The initial layout. We quickly realized we had to set aside our OCD tendencies in order to get the task done.

These are cars based upon real ones. A total of 147. Further below you will find photos of them as I had better organized them.

Above are what we call "original design" Hot Wheels and Matchbox cars. We have duplicates of several, a result of buying bags of cars at thrift stores. A total of 218.

These are cars which we had not yet released from their cards. The top row is the Greenlight Hot Hatches series. The first time I bought a set of cars still in the factory box. 

Lower left corner features a 1:43rd scale Virginia State Troopers car and above that a Chinese miniature of the presidential limousine.

These are specific cars Nancy bought or picked out to display as her collection. She likes Police vehicles and note tri-five Chevrolet station wagon police car which is facing up in the photo still on it's display platform. A total of 65.

A closer look at the State Trooper Crown Vic prior to opening the card.

I mentioned (after watching Adam-12) to Nancy it would be cool to have diecast Police wagons. She bought me these two.

Technically, the Ranchero is animal control and not a wagon. But this Capitol Police one surely is.

What follows are photos of individual groups of vehicles by type.

These above are 61 small trucks, Jeeps, SUVs and off-road vehicles including several Hummers and three antique trucks.

These are 43 original design vehicles some of which qualify as trucks, suvs, off-roaders and even some military types and movie themed designs. Another image will be seen further below.

49 Hot Rods and drag vehicles, many of them original designs. I liked the top row with two versions of a 1950's Ford two-door mid-engine vehicles and a drag BUS top-right.

This photo shows the Volkswagens and old Matchbox cars. A total of 18 VWs including two in Nancy's display group.

Full sized image of all the convertibles or open top cars. Nancy really likes white interiors. 30 total.

American cars above of many brand manufacturers and eras. I am exited about the bronze colored Maisto Pontiac Solstice Coupe top left. We have a "monster car" top right. Bottom right is a black "Thunder Burner" from before Mattel had the rights to use the Thunderbird name next to a red Thunderbird decorated like a NASCAR but without a number.

All 48 of the foreign cars neatly gathered, above.

Top left are two "autonomous" racers. A REAL one was demonstrated at the Goodwood Festival in 2018. Also all open wheel racers including three dirt track modified racers lower left and vintage Matchbox cars.

Drag racers here, one dragster and several Funny Cars of which the non-McDonald's the bodies raise up.

Another view of the Hot Rods and drag cars, many of which are original designs.

Most of the VW cars minus a couple in Nancy's collection. The blue Type 2 is a windowless van.

Above are some of the VWs in my collection.

Another view of the original design trucks and others including the Spiderman helicopter which I poorly hid in the VW photo.

Mostly Micro-Machines above. I had a number of them in my collection but sold all but the Cobra Daytona Coupe and Porsche 917K.

Above are all inexpensive Chinese-made cars often sold in sets. There are others of their ilk mixed in with the small trucks. We even have a very good Alfa Romeo race car which is sadly missing it's real spoiler.

This grouping shows a row (bottom row) of odd cars starting with a 1:32nd scale NASCAR, then some 1:43rd scale cars and several movie themed cars and a couple of Plymouth Prowlers.

This is all large trucks, commercial vehicles, farm vehicles, food trucks, tow trucks and the bottom row is emergency vehicles. Others are seen in Nancy's collection.

All of our NASCAR racers. The 1957 Chevy, top-left, has no number on the roof. Some have no maker's info on their chassis.

Sports and Sports-Prototypes racers seen in this large photo.

A more detailed look at the smaller trucks seen above.

And finally, all of our Cars from Pixar's Cars film series and one airplane from Planes, which we did not see. MOST are diecast metal with a few plastic ones. ALL are going to our Autistic grandson for Christmas. 

One of the results of our doing this was cherry picking cars for our displayed collections. 

The total number of cars shown are 915! The vast majority were bought in bags from thrift stores. We have LOTS more play cars in boxes for the grandkids to play with.

Thank you SO much for taking the time to read our blog and enjoy the photos. Please take a moment to click the FOLLOW button (at the bottom of the long list of dates) above to receive notification of new posts and leave a comment below or on Facebook. 

Scott & Nancy

November 24, 2020

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