Hot Wheels VW

[fixer]

https://youtu.be/uZxmo7qJlpM
Wow and I thought some matchbox were valuable

[tjlglass]

Lol I've got 2 of these, we run them down the track every weekend. Getting a bit battered and chipped now though.

[johnboy]

Don't tell Nik.

[GHOSTHUNTER]

That VW 'Bech Bomb' design would not go down the Hot Wheels track without hitting the sides and bumping itself off the track. After 16 'Prototypes' the designers came up with the idea of making the model wider to fit the track better, but how to do it so the model did not look silly and out of scale?

The designer added a pannier box to each side of the model to carry the surf boards, making the model wider and now it would sit snugly within the track!

Anyone with one of those 16 'Prototypes' is sitting on a fortune.

Ghosthunter.

[johnboy]

Anyone with one of those 16 'Prototypes' is sitting on a fortune.

Ghosthunter.

That'll be Timbo then

[kay]

That VW 'Bech Bomb' design would not go down the Hot Wheels track without hitting the sides and bumping itself off the track. After 16 'Prototypes' the designers came up with the idea of making the model wider to fit the track better, but how to do it so the model did not look silly and out of scale?

The designer added a pannier box to each side of the model to carry the surf boards, making the model wider and now it would sit snugly within the track!

Anyone with one of those 16 'Prototypes' is sitting on a fortune.

Ghosthunter.

I have a book about Hot Wheels prototypes from the Bruce Pascal collection, and it tells the whole story of the development of the Rear Loaded Beach Bomb VW - areally amazing tory!
At the start, 200 engineering pilot test shots with the first body casting have been made back in 1969, but not all of them have been assembled and rivited at the time.
There has even been a second run of of the rear loaded body, which had a different engine cover length!
Just a handful of the assembled models have been found back so far.

In 2010, only 41 Rear Loaded Bech Bomb VWs in more than 10 different colors and two different body castings were known to exist in collections, of which two are in pink (both in the Bruce Pascal collection). One of the pink ones even is a transitional model with a combination of the second type rear loaded body and the later (wider) production type side loaded chassis!

No doubt this Rear Loaded Beach Bomb VW is the holy grail of the Hot Wheels collectors!

Kay

[ritchie]

the RLBB...... just a copy that i restored recently