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30th Anniv Hotwheels
Topic Started: Dec 7 2012, 01:59 PM (759 Views)
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I Have all of these. these are the only ones opened.

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I've got a lot of them, seems I remember the white 59 Caddy was the prize, I never found that one. I also passed on a lot of them, I still had the FEs new. Last week I picked up the Passion on card (no box) and set it free. It looks like your Nomad got wet at some point, my Deora did the same thing. Did you find all three colors of the Twin Mill?
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No I Did not find all three colors.

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I have them stored in the Garage, haven't looked in years, but I was fortunate to find all three in one place new at retail, so I grabbed all three. As I recall they cost a bit more than the regular anniversary cars, and the boxes are a bit taller.
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The 59 Caddy was the hardest to find. I did finally get one in a trade. When the Nomad, Mutt Mobile and a couple of others started popping their paint off I opened the ones I wanted and put the rest in a box and put them in the garage. The Bus and the Caddy are still sealed up.

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I think I still have the bus. I ended up with a couple in trades, I know I sold one of them, I might have sold the other as well.

Gotta be kinda careful with these, sometimes folks will try to pass them off as originals. It could be an honest mistake, but collectors need to know to watch carefully. Like the bus, if its still carded even out of the outer box, it is very easy to spot the FE from the anniversary. Loose, you have to look a bit closer.
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on the fe bus all you have to do is look at the back of the card.its lists the 30th anniv.
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the white caddy is by far the hardest to find.i think they still go for around 50.00.
it is a shame about the paint flaking off of many of them.
i havent look at mine in a long time.i do have some extras floating around here,somewhere.
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You can also look at the blister. The FE was a "square" blister, and I remember that floating around as the excuse for why they came and went so fast...they are so heavy they would punch through the blister in transit. The anniversary blister is molded to fit the bus very closely, like a glove. Very easy to spot from the front.

On loose ones you have to look for the logo on the rear wing...but an unscrupulous person might do a tampo wipe if they know this. There are other tells too, but I don't bother so much with the Drag Bus anyway so I don't commit all of that to memory. Robin has it well covered at So. Tex.
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The twin mills were in a bigger box and were 9.99 each and I believe were only available at TRU. I have all 3 twin mills and the paint has just about completely flaked off.
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Yea I remember getting these I have them packed away. I used to open all my stuff but once they stopped making the vinyl cases I stopped. The trays were way better than what their making now although I found a place that makes coustom cases that can either hold blisters or you can get inserts for loose cars. They are costly though cases run 8 for $..89.99 and the foam inserts are 9 for 22.99
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The S-10 / Path Beater takes the cake, for me. I hunted for that one and finally got one second-hand.
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