A 1970 Tom McEwen "Mongoose" Plymouth Duster funny car redline Hot Wheels.

            I found an original Hot Wheels Redline "Mongoose" Plymouth Duster funny car from ~1970 in a $3 toy car grab bag at the Clyde Avenue Value Village thrift store in Nepean. And for a ~44-year old toy car in played-with condition, it's actually not in that bad shape either, with the majority of the decals still on it (it's missing one in back). Originally, most Hot Wheels didn't come with "tampos" stamped on to the car, they'd have sticker sheets you'd apply yourselves. In the 4th photo, I included a 2005 re-release of the same car with tampos instead of decals for comparison.

This Hot Wheels car is very historically significant. It's based on a real NHRA drag racer driven by Tom "The Mongoose" McEwen, who, together with his rival, Don "The Snake" Prudhomme, leveraged their status as top-tier drag racers into the very first endorsement deal with Mattel's Hot Wheels. Their friendly rivalry and their business acumen was dramatized in the 2013 film SNAKE AND MONGOOSE, a film I still haven't had the opportunity to see but very much want to.

Taken on: December 23, 2014

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