Cold thoughts on a Hot Wheels Custom T-Bird

It was a balmy -27C when I got in my salt-encrusted car to leave for work this morning. A heat wave compared to yesterday where the wind chill made it feel like it was in the deep -30s. Ah the joys of January in what was deemed last week to be the coldest capital city on the planet. But I see summer on the horizon. It’s not pitch black when I leave the office and visions of sunny days by the water lap through my frozen brain – but maybe that’s just the antihistamines talking that I’m taking to fight a cold :-) 

I should be using this time of hibernation to work on the EVRR or the Alta Vista TC, but no, I can only muster flipping through old photos, and the discussion at Blazing Diecasts got me thinking of a pleasant, long ago summer afternoon taking photos of some ancient and beloved toy cars. Totally harmless fun. Here’s how the T-Bird looked on that sunny day.

This one originally belonged to my sister, but became mine when she got tired of Hot Wheels. It was downhill for the T-Bird from then on. Broken off hood. Bent windshield support. Weird silver paint job. Ratty decals. Scrapes and scratches. But it survived. It still has four wheels that keep rollin'.