Hot Wheel's Cars Dates

The date on the base of a Hot Wheels car is a design copyright date, not a manufacturing date.
(The date is the copyright date for the design of the base of the car, but there are only a handful of cases where that is not the same as the copyright date for the design of the entire car.) The date is generally the year before the car was first introduced, however it is sometimes dated the same year.

Mattel reuses and reissues many models of Hot Wheels cars, both as part of the regular line and as "commemorative" replicas. As a result, a car with the date 1969 on the base could have been made at any time between 1968 and the present. As of the 2006 First Editions, the date is no longer placed on the bottom of the car but rather on the inside where it isn't seen unless taken apart.

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