25 Hot Wheel Classics Every Little Boy Wanted

Hot Wheels have been a classic toy for boys and girls alike since 1968. Almost fifty years later, these collectors items are still aweing child and adult alike.

1969 Pink Rear-Loading Volkswagen Beach Bomb

There is reportedly only one 1969 Pink Rear-Loading VW Beach Bomb, and it sold for $125,000 a few years ago. It has surfboards, and a sunroof.

1968 Beatnik Bandit

This car was designed by Harry Bradley, a designer of Mattel, as part of the 1968 Original 16 castings. The Original 16 are also known as the “Sweet 16”.

1971 Purple Olds 442

This model is worth up to $5000. The 1971 Purple Olds 442 is one of the colors in which a small limited edition selections have been made.

1968 Deora

This is one of the Original 16 castings that came out in 1968. This is a surfer truck that have two surf boards on the surfer bed.

1976 Corvette Stingray

It comes in either red or chrome. This is one of the most popular Hot Wheel classics.

1968 Custom Volkswagen without Sunroof

Another of the Original 16, this car came in different colors, including orange, blue, red, aqua, and copper. This Hot Wheel classic can sell for up to $2000.

1976 Street Rodder

This all-time American Hot Rod favorite was finally built in 1976. The color of this fabulous car came in black with yellow and red flames.

1996 Volkswagen Drag Bus

The first type of this car came out in 1996 from Mattel designer, Phil Riehlman, with his initials listed on the real differential at the bottom. This has become the collectors’ number one favorite.

1974 Blue Rodger Dodger

This car can be sold for a few thousand dollars. It is blue with orange and yellow flames.

2008 Diamond-Encrusted Custom Otto

For Hot Wheel’s 40th anniversary, they enlisted the celebrity jeweler, Jason Arasheben, from Jason of Beverly Hills, to create this model. It was auctioned for $140,000. It contained 2,702 multicolored diamonds.

1970 ’55 Chevrolet Nomad

This was based on the Chevy’s Bel-Air series. It comes in various spectraflame color variations, including pink, purple, blue, gold, yellow, red, orange, light green, green, aqua, and magenta. All versions come with clear windows, cap-style wheels, an unpainted metal base, and a white interior.

1970 Blue Ed Shaver Custom AMX

In 1970, Mattel decided to sponsor the drag racer, Ed Shaver.

1970 Red Baron

The color of this car is spectraflame red. It also has a helmet looking top with a cross emblem on both sides. Hot Wheels designer, Howard Rees, designed this car.

1975 Vega Bomb

These cars came in orange, or light green. It has no windows, and the interior’s color is black.

1971 Grass Hopper

This 1971 Hot Wheels series is based on the Willys MB US Army Jeep. It came in the spectraflame colors of light blue, brown, olive, rose, red, salmon, purple, hot pink, yellow, aqua, light green, magenta, blue, and green.

1983 Classic Cobra

Also known as Shelby Cobra 427 S/C, this model was designed by Larry Wood for Hot Wheels. The color of this model is blue with white stripes.

1969 Classic ’57 T-Bird

This model was produced only in 1969. The color of the interior comes in either brown or white, while the spectraflame colors of the exterior included blue, aqua, gold, green, orange, olive, red, purple, lime green, rose, antifreeze, yellow, light blue, brown, magenta, hot pink, and copper.

1976 American Hauler

In celebration of the Bicentennial, Mattel produced variations of trucks in patriotic colors. The 1976 American Hauler was the crowd favorite.

1996 Ferrari F50 Spider

Only a dozen of these have been produced over the last 40 years. This Ferrari made it’s debut in the 1996 First Editions.

1975 Ramblin ‘Wrecker

When Hot Wheels designer, Larry Wood, created this truck originally, he included his phone number on the side of the truck. As a result, thousands of curious children called his home. And he eventually had the phone number taken off.

1969 Chaparral 2G

This was part of the 1969 Hot Wheels Grand Prix Series. It came in the color of enamel white and it comes in the following spectraflame colors: apple green, magenta, antifreeze, purple, yellow, hot pink, lime, light blue, olive, rose, green, orange, gold, red, blue, brown, and aqua.