Damaged Hot Wheels

Just before Christmas 2014, one of the New Zealand Hot Wheels group members (via Facebook), offered up some water damaged cars for cheap sale. At the time the post went live, I was fast asleep but caught up the next morning and then took my time deciding if I actually wanted or needed anything from the left overs. I settled on 4 items and then visited the persons other sale list with some older Treasure Hunts and asked for a few items from that list.

I asked if it was possible for the cars to be sent with the 2005-2006 cars I had purchased from another member (see my previous blog entry), but a week into the new year I received a bill with postage and so paid it and waited. The parcel finally arrived in the last few days of January, but as nothing in the parcel was super important to have in my collection "right now", the wait allowed other things that were more important to have some focus.

Overall, the damage on the items wasn't that bad though I wouldn't have spent any more than I did on each item. Each of these will be ripped open and added to the collection, even though not all of them feature paint applications for the headlights and taillights,

The two older Treasure Hunts are good to add to the collection, and come from a time when Treasure Hunts were actually harder to find and had special features to define them from the regular cars. However the castings/models are not overly exciting which is probably why I only paid a small sum for each.