What's your favorite casting from childhood?
My favorite casting from my childhood wasn't a Hot Wheel, or even a car for that matter. It was this guy, UFO Robot Grendizer.
My favorite casting from childhood was this guy. My cousin and I used to play with these cars all day every day in the summer and would argue over who got this one. His brother was in a wheelchair, so they had a wheelchair ramp coming up to their house. Of course we raced the cars down the ramp.
I am showing my age as Hot Wheels weren't around until I was ten years old, on the plus side it meant my first Hot Wheels was one of the sweet 16. A maroon Custom T Bird with matt black roof, for a kid from the UK to have such a cool American muscle car was brilliant. Sadly I don't have the car now, I do still have a passion for 60/70s American muscle cars which Hot Wheels can still satisfy.
Another car that's a favorite if only because it's tied to a great memory, is what I found out was a Matchbox called the Cosmic Blues. It's a muscle car with a HUGE blown motor. My grandma gave it to me when I was really young and I just remember playing with it all the time because it was one of the few I cherished, probably because that motor was so shiny and huge. I wish I knew what happened to it, but it likely ended up in the diecast graveyard known as my sandbox.