73-87 hot wheels and die cast thread

[1badgmc]

Originally Posted by silvereagle07

Here are some of the used ones I picked up this past weekend. I got them along with several others for $20.

These two are dated for 1982. One has stock wheels and the other has rubber Goodyears.
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This truck is called Bywayman. The metallic blue ones you found, both the Real Rider version and the basic wheel version, are from 1983.

http://www.southtexasdiecast.com/hwguide/bywayman.html

A note about the date on the bottom of Hot Wheels and Matchbox cars. The date stamped on the base is not a production date. It is a copyright date for that casting. In most cases, the copyright date is one year before the casting's first release, but sometimes the copyright and original release year match up.