How to collect hot wheels cars

How to collect hot wheels cars

There are some great resources on youtube that serve as a great guide to collecting hot wheels cars. The video's are not able to be embedded unfortunately at the author's request, but here are the links directly to them:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=joiwHEppGDU
this author has a whole series of videos you may watch on youtube.


In addition to learning about types of hot wheels cars are variations of hot wheels cars. Variations are usually identified by differences in paint, different wheels, and other slight nuances. One may find a particular hot wheels car that has several different versions, with some being more rare because of the variations. For example, a flat black paint job versus a metal flake paint.

Hot wheels cars also have errors which are quite common. Errors can include missing wheels, missing parts such as an engine, mismatched wheels, different colored windshields, and even mismatched packaging. The package may say '67 mustang, yet inside the package is a '70 camaro. Errors are considered as highly collectible, however the value of a hot wheels error depends on the buyer and what they are willing to pay. If the error is known and is common knowledge throughout the hot wheels collector

Nowadays, Treasure Hunts and Super treasure Hunts with errors or variations are the most sought after hot wheels. Keep on the lookout for those errors and variations the next time you browse the hot wheels display!