Wednesday, January 23, 2019

Light My Firebird

Most of our old diecast cars got lots of pretty hard use. And I was no respecter of original condition either: they were all fair game for re-painting, decaling or whatever ‘customization’ seemed good at the time. So nothing is in mint condition that prissy adult collectors would insist on :-)

 This Hot Wheels Light-My-Firebird was one of my favourites, and I’m glad that it’s still in fairly good condition. I think Snake on The Simpsons drives one of these things :-)

 Ah, I'm feeling the sun's warming rays just typing this stuff....
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  1. VBDiJanuary 23, 2019 at 6:40 AM

    Compared to your T-Bird, this one's mint. You really did get the most from these cars! Mine got some wear by skidding across our basement floor after not-quite making it around a turn on the race track.... but nothing like yours!

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    1. J D LoweJanuary 23, 2019 at 9:16 AM

      All of our 'racing' was done outdoors, mainly off a friend's front stoop. His house had a poured concrete stoop on the front with maybe seven or eight equally concrete steps up to the front door. There was an iron railing on the thing that we used to attach the top end of our orange hot wheels track: two parallel lengths starting at the top of the stoop railing, running down the stairs, through a pair of those orange loops, and from there to the front lawn. Gravity did the work. As you can imagine, many cars, many times, left the track in gravitationally induced shame and the concrete took its toll on shiny finishes and straight wheels. An orange suburban Darwinian Thunder Dome of scratched paint jobs :-)

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