Hot Wheels Variations: The Ultimate Guide

by Michael Zarnock

More photographs, updated prices, added information?collectors will be racing to tear into the new edition of this best-selling title! For most, when receiving a new toy, half the fun is ripping open the package and playing with it. However, the growing appeal toward the line of Hot Wheels? Collector Number Packs?a numbered line of cars distributed by Mattel with slight variations, where the color, wheel, interior or window might have been altered?is them remaining in the original packaging. Author and Hot Wheels? collector, Michael Zarnock expands coverage of the most comprehensive identification and price guide available to include variations found in blister packages from 1989-2002. More than 2,500 cars and their variations are listed and nearly 2,500 are pictured in clear, large full-color photographs. Plus, readers can now step behind the scenes with exclusive information from Mattel on how these cars are created.

400 pages, Paperback

First published March 1, 2002

About the author

Michael Zarnock is an American author and columnist, who writes collector guides and articles about Hot Wheels toy cars and accessories.
Michael's knowledge and his massive Hot Wheels collection has earned him notoriety around the world. Whether it be because of the 11 books and countless articles that he has written about Hot Wheels toys or the sheer size and diversity of his collection, this extensive knowledge has earned him the label,
"One of the worlds leading Hot Wheels authorities."
Michael is a 2 Time Guinness World Record holder! First in 2003 and then again in 2007!
He is in the record books for owning the "Largest collection of different model cars".
He is featured in the 2008 "Ripley's Believe It Or Not!" book #5 “Prepare To Be Shocked!”
February 2009 Michael was inducted into the "Diecast Hall Of Fame" and later that year Mattel Hot Wheels ® honored Michael by reproducing his old Altered Roadster Race Car as part of their Nostalgic "Drag Strip Demons ®" Series!

Reviews

[Marianna · Rating 5 out of 5]

Definitly one of N's most favorite books. At 3 yrs old he's an AVID hotwheels collector. Some he'll let daddy convince him to keep still in their package and save for displaying and the rest he tears open and plays for hours on end with and looking up in this book lol!