Not-So-Classic Hot Wheels: The 10 Un-Hottest Hot Wheels Imaginable
Hot Wheels was, for a while, perhaps the coolest invention ever.
Built to go much, much faster than the staid old Matchbox cars, Hot Wheels also came with a DIY track where you could start them off high and have them leap off a ramp into something expensive in the living room, thereby earning no dinner for the night. Eventually you learned to better aim them, and did not starve to death.
The first Hot Wheels included such rocking machines as a Camaro, a Firebird, a Barracuda and a Mustang, cars designed to get young male hearts racing.
You can just feel the excitement here:
You might not feel the excitement, however, with the following ten Hot Wheels models.
10. A Greyhound bus
Thrill to the rubber-burnin' adventures of interstate bus travel!!!
9. A snow plow
"Call Mr. Plow, that's my name; that name again Is Mr. Plow." Hours of fun!
8. A Kinko's van
Eventually Hot Wheels got involved in cross-promotions, resulting in such epic models as this Kinko's van, which we guess might have been cool to have in your Kinko's regional-HQ cubicle, but not really anywhere else.
7. A Good Humor truck
Another example of marketing gone awry. Unless, of course, Good Humor makes the most bitchin'-est, fastest ice cream trucks in the world, but it keeps it a very big secret.
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