The Complete Book Of Hot Wheels

Wonderful color photographs cover nearly every casting from the first Hot Wheels toy cars through the 1999 model year. A complete visual guide with a listing of the many variations to help collectors sort through the vast and rapidly growing world of Hot Wheels.

A virtual galley of beautiful, exotic, and unique concept car entries created by Hot Wheels fans in contests to add to the hugely popular Hot Wheels collection. Every year, the legendary Hot Wheels toy company holds its “Garage of Legends” contest, in which fans around America compete to have their unique concept car be the next added to the collection. The contest winners and other unique full-size scale models tour the country. This book collects never-before-seen images and descriptions of these one-of-a-kind cars and the people who design them.

A revised and expanded edition with extensive information about all the die cast Hot Wheels toy vehicles. Over 240 color pictures display nearly all the Hot Wheels made up to 1999, with newly updated values. This book will be an essential reference for collectors of all types of die cast toy vehicles.

Profiles more than one hundred Hot Wheels cars, including hard-to-find models, in a volume that combines photo-realistic images and simple facts and statistics.

If you're a collector of the ultra-cool, sensationally sleek and super speedy Hot Wheels, you are in for a treat with Hot Wheels: Forty Years. This big, beautiful coffee table book tells the story of these miniature marvels through more than 600 stunning color photos, and historical details including company history, interviews with Mattel designers, major developments and trends. All the attitude and innovation of these revolutionary pocket-sized racers, Redlines, Blackwalls, Number Pack Vehicles, Protypes and more, is captures in the pages of this must-have reference.

The take-it-with-you collecting resource? &break;&break;At last, a guide you can really carry along to flea markets and garage sales, containing hundreds of illustrations and photos to make on-the-spot appraisals easy. &break;&break; 725 photos and listings&break; The hottest Hot Wheels car colors&break; Breakdown: each year's best castings&break; Most collectible Hot Wheels cars

The Hot Wheels*r models produced between 1968 and 1972 represent the vintage years for this line of toy vehicles and they still drive the hobby of collecting these cars today. The 221 wonderful color photographs provide a complete visual guide for collectors. The 118 unique castings produced during this four-year period are explained in detail and a complete variation and price guide is provided to expand knowledge and interest in collecting Hot Wheels. Also included is coverage of the Gran Toros*t cars.

In this engaging biography, readers will learn about the inventor of Hot Wheels, Elliot Handler. Follow the story of Handler as he starts the Mattel toy company, begins making toys from plastic, develops the Barbie and Ken dolls with his wife Ruth, then invents Hot Wheels! Sidebars, historic photos, and a glossary enhance readers' understanding of this topic. Additional features include a table of contents, an index, a timeline and fun facts. Aligned to Common Core Standards and correlated to state standards. Checkerboard Library is an imprint of Abdo Publishing, a division of ABDO.