“I wouldn’t be in no club that’d have me for a member
No, I wouldn’t be in no club that’d have me for a member
Stay as sweet as you are, don’t ever change
I’ll eat you in September!”~ The Cramps
Your first question is likely to be, “WTF took so long?” The answer is personal: I’m not a crowd follower. If you read this blog, you can already tell I march to my own drummer, and I’ve always been proud of that. I don’t follow trends; other than this blog, I have no “social media presence:” no Facecrook, no InstaScam, none of that stuff. I don’t want it. I’m happy with a small audience of fellow car enthusiasts and toy collectors who drop by here every now and then to check out what I’m up to and leave a comment or two, and that’s good enough for me.
And yet…I can’t resist any longer! Checking out the gleaming RLC exclusives I could have bought over the last 20 years, I’ve decided I’m not going to continue to let these chances go by; I’m making some real money now, and while most of it goes into savings and retirement, there’s enough left to have some fun. So, I’m gonna take it up a notch!
And it’s not all about Hot Wheels, either! Ever since Mattel won the “toy car wars” and took Matchbox as a prisoner of that war, the “Mattel Creations” exclusives, of which the Hot Wheels RLC is a part, also now includes a home for Matchbox collectors! That means I get a 2-Fer for the price of one membership! What a deal!
Look, I can’t deny it: as much as I can complain about the increasing use of plastic in today’s models and as much as I can lament the loss of the heavy metal days of the original Superfasts and Spectraflame Red Lines, the truth is that with CAD and laser technology, this stuff is just getting better all the time! There are 1:64 scale cars on the market now I would have killed for as a car crazy kid, so now, as a car crazy adult, I don’t have to kill anyone: I can just buy them!
Now, for those of you who are uninitiated: don’t get the idea that joining the Red Line Club gets you any kind of a discount on these prime releases; oh nooooo! What you get is an early crack at them, but these RLC “club cars” are spendy: the cheapest of them start @ $20 and they go up to $50 or even higher. Still, that’s less than I’d have to pay for them at a place like Colorado Diecast after the club stock has sold out, and since it looks like I’m going to buy them all anyway, why shouldn’t I be at the front of the line? Considering there are a small handful of these releases that are now selling for thousands, I can always justify it all by saying its an “INVESTMENT!”
So, here I go, dear readers; “Include me out” no more: your humbler blogger is now officially an RLC member! And that means you’re gonna be seeing even more cool stuff on this blog in the near future!
BRIEF HIATUS AHEAD
This weekend has been a brutal one, what with moving a friend into a 3rd floor pad and schleping men and furniture back and forth across town! Come Monday, I’ll likely be so sore I’ll barely be able to move. There’s work to be done at-well, work-and here at the house, and I’ll also be spending some “quality time” with some friends who came around to help with that move, so I’ll be on “radio silence” for the week of March 16, with the intention to return to Drag City around the weekend of the 22nd or 23rd.
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