Stick’s Redline Garage: The Tri Baby
In 2009, Larry Wood officially announced his retirement after 40 years with Mattel and what better way to pay tribute to a designer that has brought us so many cool casting then to feature the Tri Baby. The Tri Baby was the first “concept car” Larry produced for Mattel.
This casting was released in 1970 in [...]
Stick’s Redline Garage: The ‘57 T-Bird
The Classic 57 T-Bird had a body built for speed, and it’s factory styling was ahead of its time. It’s 2-seat roadster style made it an instant Hot Rod sensation as well as a customizer’s dream. The racers loved the “little birds” as well. They could pull out the factory small block V-8 and install [...]
Stick’s Redline Garage: ‘36 Ford Coupe
The ‘36 Ford coupe is one of the most desired 1 to 1 scale cars of its time. The Hot Wheels designers must have known a thing or two about the future of street rodding back in 1969. This little coupe has the classic “California rake” with a “big-n-little” tire combo giving it that killer [...]
Stick’s Redline Garage: The Whip Creamer
What is the Whip Creamer? Its a pure concept car designed by Paul Tam and looks like nothing we have ever seen. This 1970-1971 era release has to be one of the oddest looking designs to come out of the Mattel design center.
Its just an off the wall concept, that some say is a [...]
Stick’s Redline Garage: Hairy Hauler
The Hairy Hauler! This has to be one of the craziest looking castings from the 70’s. I like to think that this might what have resulted if a Heavyweight casting was given to Jesse James at Monster Garage (if Jesse worked for Mattel in the 70’s!!).
Obviously, Jesse James was not the designer of the Hairy [...]
Stick’s Redline Garage: Peeping Bomb
One of my favorite casting to come out of the 70’s era release has to be the Peeping Bomb which was designed by Howard Rees. I love it’s off the wall concept.
The features that stand out are its pointed nose and a high side profile which gives it great suspension travel for racing. The next [...]
Stick’s Redline Garage: Turbofire
Turbofire! It’s concept speaks speed, style, and imagination. This casting shows the artistic depth and imagination of designer Ira Gilford. If this car was built in 1-to-1 scale it would probably wear a custom badge from the Winfield or Barris shops and would be finished in a 50’s style, custom fade candy paint scheme. It’s [...]
