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Old Jan 22, 2014 | 07:23 PM
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Remember the Hotwheels ?!?!? Here is the real thing.
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SWEET!!!!! I was a Hot Wheels kid. Had the big track with the two little Turbo Booster housings that would shoot the cars out at high speed. Probably couldn't even get something like that to market these days with all of the stupid safety vultures out there!

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SWEET!!!!! I was a Hot Wheels kid. Had the big track with the two little Turbo Booster housings that would shoot the cars out at high speed. Probably couldn't even get something like that to market these days with all of the stupid safety vultures out there!

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I just saw a set the the auction site for $160.00
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I just saw a set the the auction site for $160.00
WOW!! Wish I still had mine!!

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Remember the Hotwheels ?!?!? Here is the real thing.
Yep. I remember it well. My brother and I got the original Mongoose & Snake drag set for Christmas when we were kids in 1970.

It looked just like the pics below. It dropped the checker flag on the winning lane and popped the drag chutes at the end of the run. We played with it for hours. Fun stuff!

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Old Jan 22, 2014 | 08:17 PM
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I took these last August during Barrett Jackson here in Reno.
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Those were my all time favorite Hotwheels. Still have the pair but not the track
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every kid in my neighborhood had hot wheels my younger brother and I got the snake and mongoose set for x-mas one year.
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Very cool. I fact, when I was a kid I followed the Snake/Mongoose rivalry as it was one of the best in NHRA.
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Very cool. I fact, when I was a kid I followed the Snake/Mongoose rivalry as it was one of the best in NHRA.
oh for those days again
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I can still remember the sound that the cars made on the track and doing the loop. Two loops in a row was cool.
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Very cool!!!
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