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Just added to my collection. Read about it in earlier post and happened to stop by local DG. From the looks of the stores, they are only getting one per shipment. Went to second DG and located the second one. I think I have them all now....????
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Neet topic and I have an interesting story to add.

A few years ago I built a very nice custom home for a recently retired Mobil/Exon executive. I found out that he retired from his position to take care of his terminally ill mother.

Since he couldn’t really leave the house for very long he got into restoring the older Mattel and Hot Wheel cars and trucks and selling them on eBay. He even got permission to build the old wooden boxes that they used to come in back in the day.

Fast forward to a few years ago and we were designing his home and we designed a room for he and his wife to streamline his production so that he could increase his output. He was buying out estate sales and other opportunities and we had stations where they could first clean the cars, then touch them up (very professionally) photograph them, package them and then ship them out.
He was telling me that he has clients from all over the world, particularly Australia and Hong Kong that are looking for specific cars to fill out their collections and literally pay hundreds of dollars for some of these pieces. He told me that he was netting $5000 PER WEEK!!! doing this. Unbelievable….
 
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Just added to my collection. Read about it in earlier post and happened to stop by local DG. From the looks of the stores, they are only getting one per shipment. Went to second DG and located the second one. I think I have them all now....????
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Well you've got me on the Green. Haven't found any around here, but my purple is up to 5, the red is around 12 white 3 and tan 2. And DG now has a bigger red one with opening doors, got mine the other day. Plus I saw a post of a fire truck one that is coming in a pack of fire vehicles at DG.
 

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Well you've got me on the Green. Haven't found any around here, but my purple is up to 5, the red is around 12 white 3 and tan 2. And DG now has a bigger red one with opening doors, got mine the other day. Plus I saw a post of a fire truck one that is coming in a pack of fire vehicles at DG.
Do you have a pic of the bigger red one with opening doors? I didnt see one at either store today but did get this Maisto pack with a red JT in it.
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Do you have a pic of the bigger red one with opening doors? I didnt see one at either store today but did get this Maisto pack with a red JT in it.
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It is smaller than the silver Fast and Furious, they are on those little end cap side displays that have just loose cars on them, no box or blister pak.
 

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It is smaller than the silver Fast and Furious, they are on those little end cap side displays that have just loose cars on them, no box or blister pak.
I will have to go back and look for that one!
 

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On the wall in my office.....It's filled up a bit more since this pic. The Vettes, Indycars, and '77 Trans Am will soon be displaced by Jeeps. I've picked up some flat fender Matchbox Jeeps (red and blue) and a few more Gladiators.
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In my office, I also keep a bunch of unopened Hotwheels/Matchbox Jeeps and Gladiators for guests with little kids. The kids just LOVE Jeeps, and it keeps them from touching all of my toys! LOL!
 
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Just found my first green Thursday night then found 2 more the next day. So the only small scale one I've not found is the DG firetruck Gladiator.
 

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Here's the latest pic of my collection. The previous pic was from awhile ago. I've picked up a few recently, including several Gladiators. Some of you guys have some new colors I now have to find, Lol!

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