HOT WHEELS _ THE CREME DE LA CREME

Many reading this will have fond memories of Hot Wheels as a child. For any car lover, owning a Hot Wheels at some stage in life is almost like a rite of passage. We raced them across the lounge carpet, and crashed them into each other in the sandpit on the custom race track we had carved out. Somewhere along the line we all grew up, but we didn’t grow out of our love for these tiny toys. Now they have transformed from toys into collectibles, and this is where the whole dynamic changes for most of us.

Pete grew up with Hot Wheels and is now a bespoke collector of them too. Now, there are collections and there are “collections”, if you catch my drift. Pete has been at it for a few years now and recently I was invited to go and check out what a serious Hot Wheels collection looks like. As always I had an idea in my mind,