Hot Wheels - 2006 Austin & Morris Mini Cooper

Today, I'm proud to review one of the cutest and 'must-haves' Hot Wheels model, the Mini Cooper, also known as the Austin & Morris Mini Cooper. I have in my hands, the 2006 Hot Wheels edition which is painted in dark red and has yellow, white, silver, and blue tampos with the "Hot Wheels" wording on the sides and roof of the car. With a yellow interior and finally topping it off with PR5 chrome wheels, this car is worth collecting and keeping. I did do a search on the internet for other designs and have found quite a number of em' from the year 2000 till 2012, with plenty of different unique designs. If I find other designs, I'd definitely keep them. But it'd be difficult to find some of the older designs as this is very much obviously a collector's item, and to acquire one would either be luck or you have a lot of cash to spend. haha

Though this one I found was quite scratched up. Luckily the wheels are still in good shape and not rusted or faded. The color too is still in good condition. I do hope Hot Wheels comes up with more of these A&M Mini's in the years to come as I'll surely buy them off the shelves.

Hot Wheels - Ferrari 1990 Gold Classic Racer

I realized I didn't post anything on Monday, as I was feeling unwell for two days since that day. But I've got a lot of new models to show you among the new additions to my collection. First and foremost, I managed to find a Porsche Carrera GT in the store shelves. A lucky find! And next week I've got a few Ferrari's to show such as the Ferrari F12 Berlinetta and the 458 Spyder. I'm also in the midst of acquiring the Ferrari 599xx which I'm most excited for! If it arrives by next week, I'll definitely feature it on my blog the day it arrives :)

But for now, here's a 1990 classic Ferrari I managed to dig out of the box at my grandmum's place.

Though it's quite old, I do appreciate classics. Not really my favorite, but it's still quite satisfying to have found it. It's a bit scratched up, with the wheels also slightly rusted out and the body color is still quite close to perfect. This I must say, is a good addition for any classic model collectors.

Hot Wheels - Steel Flame

Today I present to you 2 latest grabs I found at my grandmum's place. Apparently, she has a bunch of Hot Wheels models stored in a box that my cousin and I use to play with when we were kids. Now that we're both grown up and no longer play with them, she keeps them in that box and I decided to 'borrow' a few to show you all :) I will return them definitely, soon! haha

I researched these two identical models and discovered that there are more of these but in different designs. But with me, I have the black Steel Flames, from the 2005 Hot Wheels edition and the copper Steel Flames from the Hot Wheels Crank ITZ 2004 editions.

Nothing much to say about these two, except that the whole design is spectacular, especially with the low rider theme to it like the real car itself. So I'll just let the pictures do the talking today :)

Old & Found

Today's post is going to be a long one. Why? Because I managed to save 4 cars out of my friend's old toy box from Malacca (of course, he didn't need them anymore, so he gave them to me). I took some time to savage through his old toy box to pick out the decent cars that wasn't so knocked out, and out of the many I only managed to take out 4 that I could probably still refurbish. The rest either had missing wheels, totally scratched out body or no interiors, it seemed like a junkyard to me and I was digging out for cars to revive

Of course, they didn't have their boxes with them, so I grabbed them with just the cars. But looking at the brighter side, if I can refurbish them, cover with new paint, polish them, they'll look decent enough to be in my collection.

my favorite photo among the rest, if you wanted to know.

The first and most decent one among these four is the Lotus Sport Elise, with it's interesting blend of black body base, plastic rear spoiler, metal silver front grill and gold 5 spoke rims, it was still in a good enough condition besides the minor scratches on the body. After a bit of researching and searching through the internet, this one was made in 2007 in Thailand, and was only sold with Hot Wheels' Exotic 5 packs. It might not be as rare, but it's a good find.

The next I found was the Enzo Ferrari, which was made in China and manufactured in 2002. It's quite an old casting as it lacks the variety and modern look compared to the new castings of Enzo Ferrari cars by Hot Wheels. And when I found it, it was just.. so scratched up. The paint was scratched up everywhere along the body. The rims as you can see are black in color, but going through hundreds of research and pages, I can't find an Enzo Ferrari with black rims. Unless, the rims original silver color faded off through the years, but it's so hard to tell. I might give the whole car a respray, but that would result in me losing the Ferrari logos on the car which are still clear and visible. I'll have to think of something.

The BMW caught my attention as well, when I found it in the box. The BMW 2002 or M3 which was manufactured and made by Corgi, has doors that open Though the doors have been abused so much till it just drops even when closed. This model also made in China, has quite a decent detailed interior with the steering wheel clearly visible, but the plastic wheels wasn't worked hard enough like as if they designed the car so well but gave up on the wheels.

That small green piece of maybe 'junk' you see as well, is the Rolls Royce 'Silver Shadow', manufactured by Playait and made in Hong Kong. Though interesting enough, this one is made out of semi-metal. You know? Half metal half plastic, with also a metal front grill which has been scratched and probably hammered hard by some clueless child holding it in his hand while slamming it on something? Just saying. This one which joins the BMW has awful looking wheels that just turn off the whole look of the car. Rolls Royce already being a beautiful classic car in its real nature, is just ruined by this plastic ugly looking wheels. I think with a good make-over, this car should look good. My plans as of now is to chrome up the whole body and probably changing the wheels to a 5 spoke or the weird 10+ spoke rims. But that's just my thoughts.

And lastly, the pictures will show you everything I just typed about (if you read any part of it):


Hot Wheels Lotus Elise

Corgi BMW 2002/M3

Playait Rolls Royce Silver Shadow

Hot Wheels Enzo Ferrari (2002)