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Stick’s Redline Garage: The Hot Heap
The Hot Heap could quite possibly be one of the coolest castings Mattel has ever built, and its history makes a very interesting story. Don Tognotti was one of the most successful Custom car show promoters of his time, but before that he built show cars. The Hot Heap was based on his 1964 modified [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Stick’s Redline Garage – The Demon
The Hot Wheels Demon started life as the “Little Coffin,” a famous 1960’s show rod built by Dave Stuckey of Wichita, Kansas. Dave worked at the famous custom shop Star Kustoms, owned by Darryl Starbird. The Little Coffin went through a few transformations, and in 1962 the Monogram Model Company purchased the car for use [...]
