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I think of these Hot Wheels as 73-80s...Ramblin' Wrecker and Backwoods Bomb:

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My Larry's Towing Ramblin' Wrecker was always one of my favorites as a kid. Did you know that when that one was originally issued, it had the actual home phone number of Larry Wood (the designer) on the side. He was getting lots of phone calls before they reissued it. If you can ever find one of those with the phone number, it's worth some big money.

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I always liked these,too. Yes,I did know about the ones with Larry Wood's #. I'm holding out for an excellent to mint. I just got a mint yellow one I'm real happy about. Those were in a set,so no package. I wanted to bid that packaged original shown. I don't have PayPal (ever) and for some unsolvable reason can't get it under my current Ebay name and e-mail. So,I always send a message asking if a postal money order would be accepted before I bid and how this is how all my transactions have been carried out with great success (100%). Out of 50 or more purchases I've had 3 say no and that guy (DH) was one of them. HWC reissued that same white truck commemorating Larry's 40th ann. and a Charcoal one as a HWC issue
The Backwoods Bomb came in Green w/dragon tampo. Then,there's a blue version (fairly rare) with a stripe tampo,which is the same tampo as on the '12 re-issue in the same Green as the one w/dragon. I got the ok to bid on that blue one in the package,went to check it out and it was already up to $68 or so,and I didn't bid. That thing ended up at $169!!

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Wow a lot of very cool pictures in this thread.
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looks like no one else found the monster truck yet. I dont think the black and blue hotwheels racing ones have been posted yet either? These are from my boys collection.

http://i10.photobucket.com/albums/a1...sbfec0da2.jpeg

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I've seen the Monster Jam trucks and I have both of the Hot Wheels Racing trucks. I still need to get my hands on that blue Hot Ones truck there.

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I have both monster jam trucks, and have recently photographed my collection and put it on 73-87.com

http://73-87.com/7387_Novelties/Die_Cast.htm

I picked up a few more, need to get them on the site now too.
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The newest variation to keep your eyes peeled for:

http://i53.photobucket.com/albums/g5...ps5c348ec9.jpg
http://i53.photobucket.com/albums/g5...ps1f5074b5.jpg

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I found this in purple with green flames !!

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The purple with the green flames is the older variation. The design of the graphics is the same on the 2 trucks, just different colors.

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I finally got my hands on two of the orange trucks the other day so I could bust one open.

http://i53.photobucket.com/albums/g5...psd7ddfa51.jpg
http://i53.photobucket.com/albums/g5...ps4576f084.jpg

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The next Hot Wheels variation to keep your eyes peeled for...

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dang that the coolest one yet, I gotta look for it!

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so it turns out the yellow one is a treasure hunt... good luck boys

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The yellow one showed up in a Sneak Peeks in a HW Collector's Club e-mail I got, so it should be regular line.

This one, on the other hand, is a Super Treasure Hunt.

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ah, so there is yellow and gold, well great... now I want the gold one. dang it even says treasure hunt on the paint.

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I see my chances of actually finding the gold one hanging on the pegs somewhere being somewhere between slim and none, so if I want it, I'll likely have to resort to eBay. :(

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So, I finally found me a yellow one today. I was digging through one of Wal-Mart's *%^*^&%!!! dump bins today. I knew it was the right assortment for the yellow Silverado, but I was about to give up and walk away when I saw a yellow tailgate peeking up at me from deep in the bin. I pulled it out and kept digging, but never found anything else.

Also, earlier this week I stumbled across this HW Road Trippin' Silverado. I don't know how I missed that it even existed. Unfortunately, I only found one of it as well, so I'll be looking so I can crack one open.

http://i53.photobucket.com/albums/g5...ps4060f29a.jpg

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I found one of the yellow ones over the weekend ,I will be looking for more .

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one of the local Walmart stores set up a dump bin yesterday. It had several of the yellow. So, check for new dump bins. This one was set up at the front of the store, right next to the "20 or less items" checkout.

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Our Walmart does not have the boxes but Kroger does .

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I'm still on the search for more. The one yellow I found was in a dump bin, hence the crappy condition of the card.

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I found one of the gold ones yesterday ,still looking for more .

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If you found the gold one, consider yourself very lucky. That's a Super Treasure Hunt. I'll probably have to resort to eBay to get my hands on one of those. I've got a pair of yellow ones now, so I'm looking for another of the Road Trippin' one.

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What is a treasure hunt ?

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Treasure Hunts are more limited edition cars that are mixed in with the regular line cars. The Treasure Hunt line began in 1995. For that year, the Hunt cars were limited to 10,000 of each model worldwide. In 1996 they increased it to 25,000. Hunt production numbers haven't been known for sure since then, but they've always been hard to find. In 2007 they began 2 separate Treasure Hunt lines; the regular and Super Treasure Hunts. Through 2011, both the regular and Supers shared the same casting, but the Super cars had Real Rider (rubber) tires and slightly different paint colors. All Treasure Hunt cars used to have a green bar on the package until they did away with the green bar for 2013. Now, regular Treasure Hunts are found by a small circle flame logo on the decorations on the car. It's really hard to find that flame logo. I've only knowingly come across 2 different ones. I just found a pair of Treasure Hunt Ford Fiesta rally cars the other day at Wal-Mart. The Super Treasure Hunts, like the gold Silverado pictured above, are much, much harder to find. When Treasure Hunts began, there was always at least 1 per case of 72 cars. Now, a case isn't guaranteed a Super, though multiple regular Hunts are common. Super Treasure Hunts have Real Rider tires, nicer paint, the "TH" logo and they're generally of much more desirable castings than the regular Treasure Hunts.

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Yesterday was a lazy day. I was bored. I have lots of Hot Wheels and cameras laying around, so I played.

https://farm4.staticflickr.com/3874/...b26f8636_b.jpg

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Saaaweeeet! Sent you a pm.

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Very cool, 1 of mine.

OH crud! I missed the 73-87 line this is a 72 sorry.

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Just because its not a square dont mean it aint cool ,I like yet.

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Found another yellow one today ,they are hard to find .

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After viewing this thread last week I found both of these at Target last Friday. Then I found two more at Walmart while shopping for the kids school supplies. I'm going to search for more on my next trip.

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My newest acquisitions...

http://i53.photobucket.com/albums/g5...psad1759a9.jpg

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So K-Mart's next K-day event is Saturday September 13. There are some exclusive colors for a few models, including this one.

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Unfortunately all the K marts here closed .

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I have one an hour away.

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I was just about to post about this. I have a Kmart in two directions about 1/2 hr away. If I can get to one I'll get what I can. They'll be all over Ebay for sure. I really like that Flying Colors issue. Gotta get me one

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I don't want to have to resort to eBay, but I also don't really want to have to deal with crazy collectors at the Collector Day. I've heard you can buy Collector Day cases online, so I'm thinking about that route, but then I might not end up with as many trucks as I'd like where I'd have a better chance in the store. I'd like to get 4 (2 for me and 1 each for my boys). I dunno how I'm going to do this one yet.

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I've never gone to the store on one of these days. It would be a first time experience for me. I don't even go to the grocery store on Black Friday or go for any type of sale where people crowd to the stores. If I go to a circus I want to see dancing elephants :ele:

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I checked the local Kmart this weekend and they had only three slides of hot wheels. I was very disappointed. What is the KDAY event?