Hot Wheels in 1:87 HO Scale?

[Robertj668]

Took my son to the Mattel outlet store today and saw these.  They are 1:87 HO scale cars. They we just about $3 a piece.  I am not sure if we would use them all but they looked cool.  We picked out the most Conservative ones. 
Light Orange one is the 69 Mustang
Dark Orange is a Custom 67 Mustang
Silver one is Shelby Cobra
Maroon one is a64 Ford Galaxie
The bottoms have a small stem  that we will use my new dremmel to make it flush.
Anyway I wanted to show them off.
Robert

[jward]

i have several of these including the vw beetle. they are goingfor $1 apiece in my area.

[Robertj668]

jward
Thats a great price! My wife just told me that we paid 2.25 for them. I would love a VW beetle! Even at the price I paid they look great!
Robert

[jward]

i've seen 2 versions of the beetle in the hotwheels line. one was blue with a white stripe, the other maroon with the same stripe. the local wally world has quite a few of the maroon ones.

[Robertj668]

I will have to check at Wally world for one!
Robert

[Santa Fe buff]

I have a Ford Mustang GT coupe buried somewhere around my room... They are pretty neat. Other than that, I have an International truck made by Malibu something Ltd... I forgot the name. I also scored a Land Rover with Caravan off of that company.

Joshua

[jonathan]

For the last three years I have been grabbing all the dollar-a-piece HO cars I can grab from wally world.  Mix those with the more expensive Fresh Cherries (Tarzhey I thing) for about $2.50.  They go fast.  I know a few modellers who grab 'em up like I do.  Once they are off the shelves, it seems like a year before there's a fresh batch.  Sure beats the $10-20 price from the catalogs.

Regards,

Jonathan

[Robertj668]

Everyone
I would love to see what every one has collected especially the VW Beetle! Now if I could put people in them!
Robert

PS Jonathan I agree they are a steel at and under $3.00

[jonathan]

Well, I guess I need to do an inventory, but I suspect I have about 50 of those little cars, including several red VWs, several blue VWs, a black VW convertible, two WWII era Beetles, half a dozen SUVs of various makes, too many Porches, some '64 and '67 Mustangs, a Mach 5, a couple Volvos, AMC Gremlin, Merc Bobcat, a hot rod of some sort, yellow Mini Cooper, Ford Pinto, a few really weird cars only Hot Wheels would make, a couple NASCAR racers, etc.  I plan to purchase only a precious few of the expensive HO cars and trucks for the very front of the layout.  Wonder if I'll ever get around to weathering them.
R,
Jonathan 

PS  If memory serves me correctly, I learned of these cheap cars' existence by reading about it in this forum, many moons ago.  

[jward]

malibu made another version of the beetle, along with the micro bus.
fresh cherries made the pacer & gremlin, a ford escort and tempo. there are alot of exotic cars out there like the shelby and jaguar as well. and the hot wheels ones are ho scale replicas of some of their regular line.

i wish they'd do more common cars like the plymouth duster or chevy nova.