VW buses worth $150,000? Ho-hum. But in 1/64th scale?
www.cnn.com: This might be the most valuable Hot Wheels car in the world
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That $150,000 model, for instance, was a failed experiment. For 1969, Hot Wheels' second year on the market, designers wanted to include a California-style model of the famous Volkswagen bus. Hot Wheels' original version of the Beach Bomb had lifelike proportions scaled down to 1/64 size and tiny surfboards sticking out the back window.
It looked great, but the bus had serious handling issues. The whole point of Hot Wheels was that they weren't supposed to just look cool. They were supposed to go fast and whip around that little orange plastic track. But when it was blasted out of the Hot Wheels Super-Charger -- a miniature garage with spinning rubber discs that slung the cars out at high speeds -- the tall, narrow bus flipped over.
Some prototypes were made with heavier bottoms to try to overcome that tipping problem. Pascal's is one of those. About 144 prototypes of this particular model were made and only about 50 are known to survive today, said Pascal.
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So he's saying there might be [as many as] 94 of these floating around somewhere.