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Hot Wheels- Dune Daddy Redline

 

This 1975 Dune Daddy Hot Wheel by Mattel was produced in 1975. It was based on and copied the original car designed by Tom Daniel. Mr. Daniel’s concept car was named the ‘Sand Crab’.

Mattel also issued the Dune Daddy (6967) in 1973 and there was a similar casting of this car (6403 – Sand Crab) in 1970. Mattel produced the Dune Daddy in a variety of colors including: dark blue, fluorescent lime green, fluorescent pink, dark green, lemon yellow, light blue, light green, plum, red, yellow, light green, orange, dark blue, and blue. Some of the colors (light green, orange, dark blue and blue) came with tampos in different colors.

• The Dune Daddy picture above has the following manufactured features:

 

Green in color

 

Green, orange and blue flower tampos on hood

 

Redline (RSW) tires

 

Blue tinted windshield

 

Metal chassis and roll bar

 

Black plastic interior

 

Made in Hong Kong

 

Produced in 1975

 

Rear engine exhaust exposed

 

Small front wheels

 

Medium rear wheels

 

With most Hot Wheels, there have been many versions and variations manufactured over the years for the collector, allowing them to seek out their favorite version. When collecting – remember always try to buy mint in the package whenever you’re purchasing Hot Wheels or any other collectible item for that matter.

 

Hot Wheels: State Police Cruiser, 1976

 

 

 

This Olds 442 Police Cruiser is the Hot Wheel ‘muscle-car’ model that had the hood cast shut and the plastic roof in the color light blue. As an interesting sideline, Mattel also produced some similar castings including the Olds 442 in 1971; Chief’s Special in 1975; Maxi Taxi in 1976, and Army Staff Car in 1976.

 

The version pictured here also comes with the yellow and black ‘State Police’ tampo on both doors. There were two other variations of the ‘Police Cruiser 6963′ that came with an opening engine cover, stickers on the side with ‘Police’ (instead of State Police), and red plastic light on top.

 

Note: The ‘State Police’ car models (not pictured) produced in 1973 by Hot Wheel had stickers instead of tampos and was one (1) of only three (3) cars Mattel ever produced with stickers. And if you’re wondering what those other two (2) cars were…. they were the Snake and Mongoose.

 

This 1976 Hot Wheel State Police Cruiser has the following features:

 

• RSW-Redline tires
• The number 12 on both front fenders
• ‘State Police Law Enforcement’ tampo on both doors
• White in color
• Blue plastic roof light
• Blue tinted windshield
• Radar printed on both rear fenders
• Two cast roof-top sirens
• Small front redline tires
• Medium rear redline tires
• Made in Hong Kong
• Plastic chrome chassis
• Cast shut hood
• Black plastic interior

 

As stated, if collecting the Olds 442 style cars, your collection will include not only these three (3) state police cars, but also the others we mentioned above … the Olds 442-BW, Chief’s Special-RSW, Maxi-Taxi-RSW and Army Staff Car-RSW.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Hot Wheels – ‘The Demon’ by Mattel

 

 

This Hot Wheel Redline – ‘The Demon’ – was produced by Mattel from 1970-71. It was based on the original show car ‘Lil Coffin’ . The original car was a ’32 Ford Sedan and when finished was painted an ‘Apple Red’. To read more about the original ‘Lil Coffin’ visit this link.

Mattel’s ‘Demon’ came in varying combinations of colors. The car produced during the 1970-71 period came in 10 different metallic colors: Aqua, Blue, Brown, Green, Lt. Green, Olive, Orange, Purple, Red, and Yellow. In addition to the 10 different body colors, the car also was produced with two (2) different interior colors: Black and White. While the black interior is the more common version, if you are lucky enough to have – or find – one with a white interior, you can expect to have the value of the car double.

Our ‘Demon’ feature here has the following features:

• Produced 1970-71
• Metal chassis
• Blue tinted windshield
• Redline tires (RSW)
• Black interior (plastic)
• Made in Hong Kong
• Black roof (painted)
• Exposed engine
• Metallic Aqua color

 

Mattel has often based their Hot Wheels on ‘real’ cars driven by ‘real’ people. If you would like to see some pictures of the Lil Coffin as it appeared at a car show in 2008, visit this link.