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PostPosted: Tue Mar 27, 2007 9:22 pm 
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that looks like a radial engine?


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Yeah , mini haha , a 70's special from matchbox using their racing mini's body and left overs from other models . They did a red baron version of the VW beetle as well ...

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you got it Ian.....and it also featured 4 exhaust pipes
made in 1975

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Yeah , over a few years , I've got a couple in the older style cardboard boxes and one in the later blister pack .

A crappy one also had a night with a hotwheels hot rod .....
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And got this far , I prefer this to the radial engine myself ...
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More pics when it's finished ...

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PostPosted: Thu Apr 05, 2007 11:39 pm 
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Spotted the white HotWheels Mini Pop-off at BigW on Cross/Goodwood Roads for $1.97 today.

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I picked up 3 of them at K Crap...for $1.99....Very cool car 8) and love how the body comes off...my little girl took it off and then told me it looks like s moke... :D

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Yeah, for $2 I might go grab another and get it out of the packet for a look-see.

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One of the great things about the hot wheels minis is they are ALL pop off versions. If you have spares out of the packets, try the different bodies on different chassis & wheels. Can be good quick 'customising'.

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i'm going to have to find me these Mini's and stock up.


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I had a look in woolies last tme I was there. Nothing :cry:

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Bugger I forgot to look yesterday :twisted:

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bought 2 here in the US for 97cUS, there was heaps, might buy up the stock of them and flog them on by the sounds of it


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i take them out of the packet and play with them 8)

i remember with the last one, i work at woolies and i was unpacking a box of hotwheels and there was 2 in the packet of 50? 40? so i hid them ontop of the shelf amongst sum nappies and stuff, then came in 2 days later and i couldnt find them arghhh.

took me 2 weeks to find another one. in kmart.


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