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Camaro Z-28

Without a doubt, the Camaro Z-28 was one of the Hot Wheels cars with the most variations ever manufactured by Mattel. The different variations of this car included not only different body colors, assorted tampos, wheel variations, different colored tinted windshields, and different chassis colors but also Mattel went so far at to use combinations of these features. With all the different combinations out there, it would be quite a feat to find all of these cars today.

The Z-28 pictured has the following features.

Red body with black, yellow, blue side stripes

Blackened windows

UH (Ultra-Hot) wheels

Silver bottom chassis

Z-28 and Camaro on both sides

Black grill

Hot Wheel logo embossed on chassis

Produced in 1991

Made in Malaysia

Copyright 1982

The number of Hot Wheels that are up for sale in the ‘Hot Wheel’ market of today is quickly becoming over loaded. For those who are still collecting, be careful what you buy. Shop around for the best – preferably MINT – car, at the best price. You’ll be glad you did.

The Classic ’57 T-Bird RedLine

The 1957 T-Bird convertible with redlines tires (pictured) was produced in 14 various colors. And, not only did this car come in a variety of exterior colors but also the plastic interiors came in a variety of colors. If you’re specifically collecting ’57 T-Birds, this means there are a lot of combinations out there to be found. Also, interestingly, all of these cars were made in the USA – in 1969.

The T-Bird pictured above has the following features:

Metal chassis

Aqua in color

Red line tires (RSW)

Clear plastic windshield

Dark Gray interiors

Lift up hood

Metal engine

Plastic ’57 Bird ™ embossed on the bottom

1968 Mattel Inc., USA embossed on the bottom

US & Foreign Pat. Pend embossed

Hot Wheels embossed on the bottom

Another interesting note when collecting this car, while you’ll find it referred to as ‘T-Bird’ in most reference and price guide books, the bottom of the car doesn’t have the embossed T, but rather just ‘Bird’.

If you find collecting T-Birds designed by Hot Wheels interesting, just collecting the colors of the ’57 Bird would be a major challenge – not to mention a special prize if you were able to find all fourteen (14) colors.

Happy hunting!

Hot Wheels Rodger Dodger Redline 1974

Hot Wheel Roger Dodger

Hot Wheel Roger Dodger-Top view

The Rodger Dodger Concept Hot Wheel was first produced by Mattel in 1974 and was manufactured in Hong Kong. Due to its racy look, the Rodger Dodger Hot Wheel quickly became a demand car in the collector diecast market, and as such has been in production since 1974 to the present.

The Rodger Dodger came in many different versions, i.e., color of the car, wheel types, tampos – but the one thing that did not change was the large exposed engine which was the trademark of the Rodger Dodger.

The version pictured here is unique because of a mistake made to the colors of the flames. The flames on the right side of the hood are painted grey instead of the original yellow color that were supposed to be in the flames. So you have a car that has one side yellow; the other side is grey.

The Rodger Dodger pictured here has the following features:

Plum in color

Orange and yellow flames on the roof left side; grey flames on the right side

Exposed metal engine

Black plastic interior

Blue tinted windshield

(RSW) Redlines

Hong Kong embossed on the bottom of the chrome metal chassis

To me this is one of the best cars that Mattel designed and produced for the collector market. There are so many versions, each being very unique, so that the collector had many opportunities to have and own a cool Hot Wheel.