If none of that intrigues you, you can just buy the car from a couple of correspondents. I was also told a story about a Hot Wheel distributor who was caught buy Mattel opening cases and removing THs to make some extra cash on the side. As a result she lost a job paying six figures to earn a couple hundred dollars on the side. Not all of the news in rec.toys.car is sad. The joy of discovery is most apparent.
Many people write just to say that the car they really wanted has just arrived in the mail.
Men can't believe that their wives, who seemed not to understand the hobby at all, just went shopping and came home with great cars. The only heated exchange I found occurred when someone asked for a car, and another assumed he wanted a Hot Wheels car. The toy car which inspired the most debate in rec.toys.cars is a white Hot Wheels Volkswagen bus packaged with a software CD for the creation of pictures of cars, and stickers to put on cars. Happy buyers post that the car and the CD are both cool. The curious want to know where they can find it.