Used to Buy These for My Son
In 1966, Elliot Handler, one of the cofounders of Mattel, was also the inventor of Hot Wheels". The innovative gravity-powered car had special low-friction styrene wheels. Tiny Hot Wheels’ vehicles have been clocked at speeds of up to 300 miles per hour.
When I was a kid we had many debates over which was better - Matchbox or Hot Wheels. I preferred Matchbox.
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I think he might have had more Matchbox cars than Hot Wheels. I'll ask him which he preferred since I got him whichever kind he wanted.
ReplyDeleteI liked Matchbox better; they looked like real cars. My favorite was a gray Lincoln Continetal and the doors actually worked!!
ReplyDeleteI was a Hote Wheels kid.... they didn't have a many styles as matchbox, but they went faster on their little plastic track!
ReplyDeleteI had both, neither one went over 300 miles in my neighborhood.
ReplyDeleteI asked Brian, and he said Matchbox for him. Those were neat little cars. I remember the doors and hood opened. Good details!
ReplyDeleteTechnology truly has become one with our daily lives, and I am fairly certain that we have passed the point of no return in our relationship with technology.
ReplyDeleteI don't mean this in a bad way, of course! Ethical concerns aside... I just hope that as memory becomes less expensive, the possibility of uploading our brains onto a digital medium becomes a true reality. It's one of the things I really wish I could encounter in my lifetime.
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