I do not end auctions early, please don't ask.Winning bidders within the United States: At the conclusion of the auction, you can pay for your item by going through the eBay checkout process. Please take a look at the other 20 vintage Hot Wheels that I have up for auction this week.1967 "CUSTOM BARRACUDA"All sales final, no returns or exchanges.
Note that the first black box O16 release from 2013 is the '67 Custom Camaro casting and not this same version of the '68 Custom Camaro redux.S/H/I: $4.00 - International Shipping Will Cost More -Mattel 1967 Hot Wheels purple "Custom Barracuda" Redline wheels.Good "played with" condition. The Custom Camaro was faithfully retooled by Brendon Vetuskey for the 2018 RLC O16 Display set first. Steering wheel stuck into the interior, chrome foil on wheels.Ĭolors are desending in rarity from common to rare. Notes: Blue tinted glass, door lines, four square holes & more detailed base. Steering wheel is part of the interior mold, silver paint on wheels.Ĭolors are descending in rarity from common to rare. Notes: Clear windows, No door lines, flat base with less mechanical detail. The Custom Camaro has come out in the following 1/64 scaled versions: They were packaged with a ' Collector's Button'. So collector's call it the "Sweet 16" or "Original 16". It is suggested that no other car has more variations than this car. Some have been found with Heavy Chevy windows. Early Hong Kong cars have deep-dish wheels, some all four, some just the front two. Early Hong Kong has a painted tail, same color as the car. USA cars do not have door-lines, but the Hong Kong casting does. Interiors come in assorted colors, with the most interesting, the early Hong Kong casting having matching colors Blue on Blue and Antifreeze on Dark Green.Įarly USA bases had the four open hole design, like their counterparts in Hong Kong, but they were a bean shape hole. Chevrolet had just released a new model during the design stages of the Hot Wheels car, it was the 1967 Camaro. This casting was One of the First in the line-up. The "Original 16" or "Sweet Sixteen" were released in spring of '68. Many years of independent research and study into the history of Hot Wheels have been done, with some very interesting prototypes being discovered.Ĭustom Camaro was one of the first cars released in the 1968 Hot Wheels line-up. This does have some strong merit in today's collector's eye. Mattel opened a plant in Hong Kong.īy Mattel's account this were the very first Hot Wheels castings made. So another manufacturing plant had to be facilitated. Penney was willing to purchase exceeded the total production amount Mattel had anticipated. After their demonstration of this new product line, they asked how many would J.C. Penney, was approached about the new line of toy cars they were going to release, Mattel salesmen put on a big show racing the cars down tracks. In 1967, when Mattel's biggest customer for their product line J.C. No enamel black versions have been found to this day. The value for it still in the blister pack is immeasurable. According to Michael Zarnock's "Warman's Hot Wheels Field Guide: 3rd Edition (Values and Identification)", this is the third rarest Hot Wheels car to exist, and has a value of up to $2,500+ loose. This car is extremely rare to find at all, let alone in the blister pack. Only a few were known to be mistakenly packaged and released to retailers. The enamel white variant is a prototype, because what designers did with all new cars, is that they coated them with an enamel white or black coat to check for imperfections. The Custom Camaro was the very first Hot Wheel to escape the drawing board and be released to the public.
But the history behind the Custom Camaro is a little more in perspective. With most early Redline cars comes some secretive history, with most of them having at least one rare variant, be it the Cheetah Python, the aqua no-sunroof Custom Volkswagen, or the white interior Red Baron.
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