Anyone know much about these Vintage Customization Packs?

[THINICE]

I'm inquiring to a collector on a FB Group I'm with and he has one of these for trade. I did a bit of digging and have seen pictures of these in completion, but nothing that tells of their relative value, scarcity, or overall backstory to where they came from. I have a collection of Redlines myself, and the unusual car packs often interest me, but I want to go about learning more of what these are and if they're worth pursuing in a trade before doing any swapping.

[MYKTURK]

That's a pack of refill parts to go with the original Hot Wheels Factory playset. While it is a true Mattel product, and does say Hot Wheels all over it, the original Hot Wheels factory of the Redline era would basically be blasphemy to today's Redline collector. You see, the Hot Wheels Factory made plastic cars via an injection mold. You placed a metal weight and a set of "dumbells", AKA wheels and axles, in a two piece mold, locked that in place below the injector, drop a preformed piece of plastic in the chamber which melted the plastic (This was a plug in, dangerous toy), and once it was liquid enough, you pushed down on the injector lever and the mold was filled. Presto! You just made the very first plastic on metal Hot Wheels car. Now you can stick your decals on and send it down the track. What you have there is a refill of wheels (missing three pair), weights (missing completely) and stickers (Also several missing). One of the molds let you make your own "dumbells" too, that's what the axles are for. As to what it's worth? It's worth what it's worth to you. Unless you've got a Hot Wheels Factory playset in your collection, and need an accessory for it to round out the collection, it's just an incomplete novelty.

Edited February 24, 2020 by MYKTURK

[MYKTURK]

Here's what the playset looked like...

 

https://www.worthpoint.com/worthopedia/mattel-hot-wheels-factory-custom-1969-1935279940

[Ltlgto]

You’re right MYKTURK, it’s an incomplete Hot Wheel accessory, but as for blasphemy or dangerous I’m not so sure.

It is for a Mattel Hot Wheel product for back in the day.

As for dangerous, we did a lot of things that would be considered so back then. I remember the build it yourself plastic, running V8’s, and steam powered engines that you dropped in a tablet of something? Into a metal steam engine that got hot enough to, wait for it... produce steam. Cox engined flying balsa wood and paper planes painted with “Dope” (actual name) that we flew on the end of 2 strings, riding little motorcycles around a yard as soon as we learned how to ride a bike. Even had BB gun fights. Loved the Crossman pump! 20 pumps shot a bb the speed of a .22 bucket. I was mowing our lawn by the time Hot Wheels came out at the age of 8. We weren’t a bubble wrap your kids society like we are today. 

[rrRumbler]

I have a few complete packs of these along with 6 Hot Wheels Factory's. One of my favorite toys as a kid in 1970. My buddy had one. I still enjoy making these cars. You can use old beater HW's for parts like the axles and wheels and some guy sells reformulated Pastix on eBay. 

[ARMATAZ]

On 2/24/2020 at 7:53 AM, Ltlgto said:

You’re right MYKTURK, it’s an incomplete Hot Wheel accessory, but as for blasphemy or dangerous I’m not so sure.

It is for a Mattel Hot Wheel product for back in the day.

As for dangerous, we did a lot of things that would be considered so back then. I remember the build it yourself plastic, running V8’s, and steam powered engines that you dropped in a tablet of something? Into a metal steam engine that got hot enough to, wait for it... produce steam. Cox engined flying balsa wood and paper planes painted with “Dope” (actual name) that we flew on the end of 2 strings, riding little motorcycles around a yard as soon as we learned how to ride a bike. Even had BB gun fights. Loved the Crossman pump! 20 pumps shot a bb the speed of a .22 bucket. I was mowing our lawn by the time Hot Wheels came out at the age of 8. We weren’t a bubble wrap your kids society like we are today. 

 it was about as dangerouse as an easy bake oven. it  used a plasticize pellet that melted at about the same temperature as wax. we (my brothers and I)used to use crayons also back in the day.

 I have a few of the molds still.TAZ

[DAYTONA WAGONAIRE]

That's cool. My sisters and I had the Western World set. My dad had to fix the lever. It's still in my basement.