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It’s not too hard to believe Hot Wheels have been around for over 50 years now.

I can recall fondly having Hot Wheels as a child.
How many kids had those neat cars and track sets set-up in their bedroom or basement back in the late 60’s and 1970’s?

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Unfortunately, I do not have any of my original toys.
To my knowledge, it was forgotten when my parents retired and sold my childhood home 20 years ago.

However, I still have the Hot Wheels Club catalog from 1968.
I think this was the first “club” I ever belonged to. That’s a big deal when you’re a kid!

As you can see, the cover is missing and I covered the upper right corner of the page where my mother wrote my name and address.
I think she did this because I took this pamphlet to school one day,
and she was afraid I would loose it.

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Here you can see where I marked which cars I had at the time.
Boy do I wish I still had them.

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And here is a photo of my favorite car of them all, the Ford Mustang Boss Hoss in the bottom right corner.
It’s still my favorite car by the way.

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Once I had children, we continued to buy the toy cars and trucks.
My son collected a bin full of cars over the years.....
which has been passed down to my grandson.
It’s the first thing he runs to when he comes to visit “Nana and Papa”

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Now that I have a little guy to share my interest with again,
I enjoy looking for cars and trucks when we venture out to the cities to go shopping.

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Once I find a vehicle that catches my eye, I usually buy two, one for my grandson and one to put in my new collection.

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It has been really fun watching how our grandson is learning as we play.
He is currently learning his colors.
What a fun way to ask him “which car is red” and so on.
The best is when he calls his Jeep, a “beep”.

I bet you can’t guess what he’s getting for Christmas.