Easter is a holiday which isn’t as meaningful as it used to be for your bumble blogger. This is primarily because my closest family lives in a faraway land (that would be Arizona), and since my man Patrick is marooned up in the wilds of rural northwestern Colorado, there isn’t much outlook for anyone for me to enjoy a celebration of Easter with. So…I’ll buy some Hot Wheels!
Amazingly, Colorado Diecast was actually open! Why a store specializing in selling collector’s toys was doing bidness on his high holy day I can’t say for sure, but the place was surprisingly crowded, so maybe that was the motivation! While hanging @ Jason’s pad waiting for him to get off work-because, yeah, he was working too!-I snuck over to COD to pick up a few things, and once again, I got some hits from the 50¢ bin! Nothing like the jackpot from a couple weeks ago, but I did score a couple of nifty items, including another ’37 Ford gasser, this one in light blue, and a slick looking satin black ’67 Firebird with an injected LS1 gleaming under its removed hood.
I grabbed a couple of expensive premiums, but I’ve been spending a lot of scratch on die-casts lately, so I wanted to go easy on the wallet, thus I confined myself to CODs still great collection of mainlines, and as always, no disappointment there either, with a satin-red Datsun pick-up, a sexy red ’55 Bel-Air with white scallops, and the gold Gas Monkey Garage ’69 Corvette. That ’55 Chevy had an amusing “misfire” on the back of the card that I go into in a bit of detail in the video below!
The best find of the day was the most unusual, one I haven’t seen before: in contrast to the usually flamboyantly colored “Classics” series, I ran across a unique copy of the ’69 Dodge Charger. While all the other colors available had white stripes, this Spectraflame “phantom blue” one had subdued black stripes and blackout wheels: something I’ve never seen before on any car in this series. All metal and with an opening hood, it wasn’t cheap but wasn’t as pricy as some in this series, and I could not resist it! That was a grab!
The day ended with a wonderful dinner with Jason and his family. I am very grateful to have been invited to spend the evening with them, and I feel very fortunate to have such awesome people in my life. Being grateful and enjoying life seems like exactly what Easter should be about. There may be some hard times ahead; its a good idea to stock up on good will and good memories while we can…not to mention on Thunderjets and Hot Wheels too!
That is a tough one on the 55! That may be the kind of factory defect that would make it really valuable like those stamps with the image upside down. It would be hard not open and play with it. I saw the cool red auburn in there, I have it in white and and one in yellow but not the red! Certainly some super neat stuff. After two weeks, I think I’m finally getting over this nasty head cold and sore throat, it was pretty brutal and I just couldn’t shake it. Still some residual congestion but on the mend.
Yeah, it is a tough call. Part of the problem is that the things that you think are going to be valuable “some day” rarely are, and the things you never even consider might be worth something are the things that wind up going for fortunes when we’re rotting corpses. Sometimes it feels like a no-win situation, so I just do what feels right. So…probably not gonna open that one…or maybe I’ll just find another one like it!