And what country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
Still have my Custom Fleetside and Custom Corvette. Lost my Beatnik Bandit somewhere along the way. There is a whole community dedicated to restoring Hot Wheels you can find on YouTube.
The bubble top cars are cool, but my bucket list is still to turn something into the Splittin' Image IRL. Then drive it over to El Segundo, and pull into the Mattel HQ lot.
Still have my Custom Fleetside and Custom Corvette. Lost my Beatnik Bandit somewhere along the way. There is a whole community dedicated to restoring Hot Wheels you can find on YouTube.
ReplyDeleteI have more than a few of them (and Matchbox) now in my mid fifties. A some even date back to when I was a kid.
ReplyDeleteEric.
Regret not keeping my collection. Had some of the tracks, those were cool. Some cars were pretty sharp.
ReplyDeleteHot Wheels were a phenomenon a decade behind me...my littlest brother had the full Monty of them neatly displayed and untouched.
ReplyDeleteThis may be the most inflation resistant toy ever made. They cost $1 when I was a kid, mid 60s. I saw some in the grocery store the other day; $1.19.
ReplyDeleteI still have the "German Helmet" one with red stripes on the wheels. I'm 61 years old. He He.
ReplyDeleteHot Wheels, Matchbox, and comic books vanished after I joined the army.
ReplyDeleteI had lots of Matchbox and Hot Wheels, all gone.
ReplyDeleteThe bubble top cars are cool, but my bucket list is still to turn something into the Splittin' Image IRL.
ReplyDeleteThen drive it over to El Segundo, and pull into the Mattel HQ lot.
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