Great information about what can be a fun hobby. Love to see the collectors acquire and preserve the old cars; kind of a shame about the hustlers trying to make a business out of it, driving the prices up. Even worse are scammers ripping people off with counterfeits etc. Had to smile at your gold Twin Mill. I have its "twin" in my collection-same color, about the same condition!
Hi...just a few tips from an OLD collector... don’t use the word “Vintage “ for ORIGINAL Redlines... the “Vintage Series “ is responsible for that...also other places HW’s were made is in Malaysia, China , Mexico and others...The original cars were only made in the U.S. & Hong Kong. Also, nowadays, many scammers are putting redline wheels on cars made both with redline and black wall tires, making them more valuable and rare looking... A few originals did have enamel paint, which came on most cars in the mid-70’s...Tampos( printed graphics and stripes appeared then too. Look up cap wheels, so you know which cars could’ve had them switched over to Redlines...The more you learn, the better chance you have of not getting ripping off...👍
Capped wheels are unique to redline era cars. Blackwall era wheels are a different wheel altogether from a capped wheel. A capped wheel is just a flat dish that’s captured on the axle with a decorative wheel cap that snaps over it like a hubcap on a real car. There’s no interchangeability with a capped wheel and a later wheel. You can’t snap a capped redline wheel onto a blackwall era car. A company called Brightvision now makes Hot Swap wheels….but those are bearing style wheels where the bearing is designed to snap over a modern axle….after carefully cutting the new wheel off. Point being, unless it’s been drilled and taken apart, if it has capped wheels then it is a redline era car. Mattel began to transition away from capped wheels after 1972. Redlines were produced up through 1977. Mattel went away from the original 1968 bearing wheels to capped wheels in 1970 because of cost. Then they transitioned away from capped wheels to a single piece open hub wheel in 1973 because of safety concerns. Like the earlier bearing wheels they come off fairly easy and kids were swallowing them. That, and the one piece open hub wheel was cheaper to produce.
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Great information about what can be a fun hobby. Love to see the collectors acquire and preserve the old cars; kind of a shame about the hustlers trying to make a business out of it, driving the prices up. Even worse are scammers ripping people off with counterfeits etc. Had to smile at your gold Twin Mill. I have its "twin" in my collection-same color, about the same condition!
Right on ! Happy collecting and thanks for watching
Great, easily digestible info! Thanks!
Love hot wheels! Really enjoyed watching
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This is so cool so many different Cars keep up the good work
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I still have loads of these in a box in my room lol.
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Hi...just a few tips from an OLD collector... don’t use the word “Vintage “ for ORIGINAL Redlines... the “Vintage Series “ is responsible for that...also other places HW’s were made is in Malaysia, China , Mexico and others...The original cars were only made in the U.S. & Hong Kong.
Also, nowadays, many scammers are putting redline wheels on cars made both with redline and black wall tires, making them more valuable and rare looking... A few originals did have enamel paint, which came on most cars in the mid-70’s...Tampos( printed graphics and stripes appeared then too. Look up cap wheels, so you know which cars could’ve had them switched over to Redlines...The more you learn, the better chance you have of not getting ripping off...👍
Thank you ! Happy collecting
Capped wheels are unique to redline era cars. Blackwall era wheels are a different wheel altogether from a capped wheel. A capped wheel is just a flat dish that’s captured on the axle with a decorative wheel cap that snaps over it like a hubcap on a real car. There’s no interchangeability with a capped wheel and a later wheel. You can’t snap a capped redline wheel onto a blackwall era car. A company called Brightvision now makes Hot Swap wheels….but those are bearing style wheels where the bearing is designed to snap over a modern axle….after carefully cutting the new wheel off. Point being, unless it’s been drilled and taken apart, if it has capped wheels then it is a redline era car. Mattel began to transition away from capped wheels after 1972. Redlines were produced up through 1977.
Mattel went away from the original 1968 bearing wheels to capped wheels in 1970 because of cost. Then they transitioned away from capped wheels to a single piece open hub wheel in 1973 because of safety concerns. Like the earlier bearing wheels they come off fairly easy and kids were swallowing them. That, and the one piece open hub wheel was cheaper to produce.