Redline Hot Wheels & other vintage automobile toys

It's become a hobby of mine over the past couple of years to attend auctions, shop antique stores, etc. and realize the value in toys from my childhood (born in 1972). Among the toys that I didn't realize until recently were of pretty significant value are Redline Hot Wheels.

Anyone have these or other automobile-related vintage toys that are of significant value (monetarily and/or sentimentally)?

In reply to Reggie Jordan:

I have an orange 1967 VW Beetle with a beetle painted on the room. Paid $5 at a World of Wheels and then saw it was worth $75. This as 15 years ago. I still have it.

Im gonna look to see if I can get a value on it now

i have a couple redline hotwheels that are beat to E36 M3. snagged em from the grandparents house when they passed away and the house was getting cleaned out to be sold. i played with them when I was growing up.

I have about 6000 hot wheels from the first to the most current; a couple years ago I traded a race car for a redline collection. It worked out well.

When I was young my Dad would bring presents home from work trips. If we had been good we got our gifts, Bad, Mom put them up!

At age 10 (1970) we moved and they were packed away. 1990 I found my stash of about 15 mint in pack Hotwheels. Sold them for $800 in 1991 and felt that I got a good deal. Price exploded after that but has calmed down a lot.

At one time I had about 30,000 and sold/traded/bought all the time. Made a little money for a few years. Bought a 1960 Austin Healey with the proceeds from one deal.

I also had the Brabham Repco that I won in 1969 racing for "pinks". This car had dominated these races and was considered unbeatable...but I took it with my chrome Boss Hoss. I gave it back to the guy I won it from in 2000. We set up the track and raced the same cars again and he kicked my butt!

Bruce

In reply to ebonyandivory: So what is its current value?

In reply to chandlerGTi: Nice!!!!

I've got about 80 redline Hot Wheels from the late 60's. Some are really nice and others not so much. Value doesn't really matter since they'll get handed down to my kids at some point.

In reply to egnorant: Very interesting!!

In reply to bravenrace:

You might want to check the values before forking them over. Most loose redlines are $10 or less, so cool on you, however, some are in the multiple-thousands, even if they are near destroyed. You really don't want to make that mistake!

I have one Redline I bought at Goodwill a few years back. It's a little ragged. I know I have a box of my old 70's and 80's cars in storage that I'll dig out one of these days.

I sold a $0.25 garage sale find first year red line on ebay for $137.00. The family couldn't believe it.

I have a Cox 1/24 scale Ferrari Dino spyder Sports Prototype from approx 1967; it's painted in BRG (kinda like a Lotus 30) because I had a fantasy driving for Maranello Concessionaires...

I have some early Aurora slot car stuff; a Cobra, an XKE, a GT40, some Camaros and Mustangs and lots of track.

Reggie Jordan wrote: In reply to ebonyandivory: So what is its current value?

Looks like a range: $75-$130, probably closer to $100 due to condition but like anything, it's as valuable as what someone will pay for it.

In reply to Woody:

If you ever want to sell that stuff, please give me a call...

My wife and I collected/sold/traded Redlines pretty hard for several years. We used to set up at toy/diecast shows and attended the Hot Wheels convention a couple times. We have about 60 left. Just our favorites and a few super rare model/color combos.

My favorite models are the Custom Cougar and Porsche 917. My wife has the best Custom AMX collection most people have ever seen.

Javelin wrote: In reply to Woody: If you ever want to sell that stuff, please give me a call...

Sorry, the trains may go someday, but the cars are keepers.

LopRacer wrote: I have one Redline I bought at Goodwill a few years back. It's a little ragged. I know I have a box of my old 70's and 80's cars in storage that I'll dig out one of these days.

I still have mine in the 70's-tastic blue vinyl suitcase. I keep them around so that visiting kids can play with them. (I have two girls....not so interested in the Poison Pinto.) I need to post up pics.

nervousdog wrote: My favorite models are the Custom Cougar and Porsche 917. My wife has the best Custom AMX collection most people have ever seen.

I have the 917. It is melon/orange color with purple and blue livery IIRC.

In reply to nervousdog:

(I feel like a broken record) If you ever want to offload those AMX's...

Any model train experts here?

Maybe. Ask away.

I used to be in to American Flyer trains but not in a long time still have crap loads of it... Was cleaning Mom and Dads before they sell a few weeks ago and found more...

Also found some of my old Aurora AFX cars but not my orange Nomad waggon. i loved that nomad it was the fastest and coolest.

44Dwarf wrote: Also found some of my old Aurora AFX cars but not my orange Nomad waggon. i loved that nomad it was the fastest and coolest.

Aaaaand repeat after me, "if you ever want to sell that stuff..."

I do have a 90's reissue of the Nomad I can play trade with. They also re-popped the originals very, very nicely in the 2000's, including the original color schemes. I know a guy.