Dave's Collector Exam:
**** You Know You Are a Real Hot Wheels Collector When...
You have collected all 12 variations of the Street Cleaver, and are still looking for more.
You can recite all 25 HW wheel variations in alphabetical order.
You can tell where a car was made by seeing it on the pegs, 10 feet away.
Your living room has turned into your Hot Wheels Display Museum.
Your wife / girlfriend hears you mumbling "Trea$ure Hunt, Treaaaaasure Hunt" in your sleep.
Everyone at the local Wal-Mart knows you by name.
You are up and out of the house every day at 7:00 for store openings, when you don't have to be to work until noon.
The local toy store runs out of HW, and they call you for a shipment.
You have more "variations" than you do original cars.
Your wife and kids left a month ago, and you are still wondering what is different around the house, yet, you are pleasently surprised at the additional storage space for Mattel boxes.
All the fish in your tank have names like Rodzilla, Computer Warrior, Viper.
The "purpose of 2nd mortgage" line on your application says "Die-cast investment".
You have an insurance rider for art, jewelery, and HW collections.
You drive a junker, so you have more money to spend on HW.
You collect variations, on the paint patterns, for the Splatter Paint Series cars.
Your HW hunt car is less than a year old, yet it has almost 20,000 miles on it
Your *kids* have names like Zombot, Ratmobile, Streetbeast, and T-bucket.
If you score 1-3, no problem. 4-6, seek help. 7-10, call me, I think we can do some trading!
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