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| Tweet Topic Started: Feb 12 2013, 05:39 PM (960 Views) | |
| realgone58 | Feb 12 2013, 05:39 PM Post #1 |
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Have had these two in my collection for years. https://picasaweb.google.com/lh/photo/HFhPRQgvqAJujZzybUE0IdMTjNZETYmyPJy0liipFm0?feat=directlink https://picasaweb.google.com/lh/photo/HFhPRQgvqAJujZzybUE0IdMTjNZETYmyPJy0liipFm0?feat=directlink |
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| juantoo3 | Feb 12 2013, 05:41 PM Post #2 |
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Nice! I have both still carded. The books say the brown base version is "rare," a transitional between the tan and white versions. I don't know about rare, they turn up often enough, just not quite as often as the black base version. |
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| QuicksilverDC | Feb 12 2013, 05:49 PM Post #3 |
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I agree Wes I would say its transitional but not "Rare". ![]()
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| SeberHusky | Feb 14 2013, 02:57 PM Post #4 |
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I too, have this variation. Got it for free among 4 or 5 other cars in a lot I bought that I used my eBay Bucks on.
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| JustDavid | Feb 14 2013, 10:09 PM Post #5 |
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The Minitrek is a neat little vehicle. I had a brown/beige one as a kid and killed it with a hammer. It took many years but I was finally able to replace it with a decent version. |
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| Swifty | Feb 15 2013, 01:45 AM Post #6 |
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The Mustang II is a Mustang too!
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I always liked this one as a kid. Any ideas what the closest vehicle it resembles? Sorta reminds me of the UK Ford Cortina campers. http://www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/comment-image/13968.jpg |
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| SeberHusky | Feb 15 2013, 05:17 AM Post #7 |
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At the Hot Wheels wiki, they say it's based on.... The Minitrek is based on a 1979-81 Toyota Truck ("Hilux" outside North America), series RN30, with (a 1974 to 1978) "Chinook" (Omega?) rear camper shell. Of course, Larry Wood doesn't work for Matchbox, so he added his own touch to the car, and did not make it exactly alike to the real world counterpart. ![]() Edited by SeberHusky, Feb 15 2013, 05:29 AM.
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| Swifty | Feb 15 2013, 10:46 PM Post #8 |
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That looks pretty close to me. Larry Wood definitely made the Hot Wheels more aerodynamic though probably at the expense of livable space. But it's not meant to be comfortable, its meant to roll down orange track quickly.
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| juantoo3 | Feb 15 2013, 11:04 PM Post #9 |
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I had always understood it to be a Toyota Minihome...Chinook is most likely. |
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