The story of my $5292.07-per-ounce Hot Wheels Camaro.
At 7:40 a.m. this past January 6, I was in my truck in the Handlebar Coffee parking lot in Santa Barbara, California, mesmerized by the eBay app on my iPad Mini. The Hot Wheels Custom Camaro I had placed up for auction was far exceeding my expectations. The bidding started at $37 and passed $200 going into the last minute of the weeklong auction. Already two watchers had told me that the die-cast metal Camaro, sized to fit in a child’s open palm, was special.
“A toy usually has like three years,” explains Larry Wood, a Hot Wheels designer for more than 40 years. “Then it’s over. Time to make a new toy. We thought Hot Wheels were done, and then the people who bought them as kids started buying them for their kids. And started collecting. It was adult collectors that kept Hot Wheels going.”
Mr. Marr let my friends Tim Talkington and Peter Toms and me publish a mimeographed newspaper for the class that year, but I never felt much of a personal connection with him. Then, three years later, a letter I wrote defending the United Nations appeared in the. Mr. Marr wrote me a kind note then saying that maybe he had underestimated me. It was a nice gift to my ego.
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