Last year, we opened up the Larry’s Garage™ series of Hot Wheels® cars based on castings and designs he would choose for his own garage. This year, we’ve asked two more designers to put together their “dream garage!” The Hot Wheels® Garage series of cars will continue with Larry’s Garage™, plus the addition of lines from Hot Wheels® designer Phil Riehlman and Hot Wheels® graphic artist Wayne Scott. And, like the Delivery series, the Garage series will debut several new castings, as well as some new Real Riders® wheels!
A baker’s dozen 13 cars will comprise each of the garages. Among the new castings you’ll find in this series are Larry’s take on the ’51 Le Sabre™ Concept and Phil’s new Volkswagen T1 Drag Bus!
All of the Garage series cars will feature full-metal chassis and Real Riders® wheels. As with the Delivery series, you can look for the Real Riders® lake disk wheels to show up here in their inaugural year. This series will also launch two other types of Real Riders® wheels: both the Real Riders® exotic wheels and the Real Riders® steelie wheels! And finally, we completely turned three wizards of design (Larry, Phil and Wayne) loose on the deco in this series -- it’s gonna be hot in this garage!
Here are the castings you’ll find in each of the Hot Wheels® Garage segments:
LARRY’S GARAGE™ |
No. |
Purple Passion® Woodie
(Larry says: “Deco was funny… flames with wood.”) |
3/39 |
Custom Volkswagen Beetle
(Larry says: “I liked the hot rod look on the fenderless VWs.”) |
5/39 |
School Busted™
(Larry says: “Hot rod buses always look pretty cool.”) |
10/39 |
Bone Shaker®
(Larry says: “One of my favorite castings.”) |
11/39 |
Custom ’66 GTO® Wagon
(Larry says: “In-your-face colors!”) |
15/39 |
Pass’n Gasser™
(Larry says: “Didn’t think the name would pass…”) |
16/39 |
’51 Le Sabre™ Concept (NEW!)
(Larry says: “The car… that made me want to be a designer.”) |
18/39 |
’57 Chrysler 300C (NEW!)
(Larry says: “One of the top stock car racers.”) |
25/39 |
Golden Submarine (NEW!)
(Larry says: “The hot rod version of a ’30s race car.”) |
26/39 |
’71 Mustang Mach 1* (NEW!)
(Larry says: “Continuation of the Mustang... bigger.”) |
27/39 |
’34 Ford Sedan* (NEW!)
(Larry says: “A copy of my every day driver.”) |
29/39 |
Ratbomb®
(Larry says: “Really dig the rat rod look.”) |
32/39 |
’58 Edsel
(Larry says: “One of the most recognizable cars of the era.”) |
38/39 |
*Name pending. |
Larry’s Garage™, Phil’s Garage and Wayne’s Garage releases will all pull into your local retailers and hobby shops beginning this November. Better make room for them wherever you store your cars!