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Red: Cipsa

White: Acetate Prototype

Blue: Brass Prototype

Pick this up at the charity auction a few years ago, Larry Wood had a cage at Mattel and all the cars were organized by trays like this and they auctioned off some of the trays in a big lot. Acquired the Doozie one from that and filled it with the green Doozie as it was specified. Something silly, but something cool too.

Canadian Flag Cards are super cool!

No, JPS, THIS is camping in style.

Cipsa Cord and Rrrevers camper.

I don't think these have ever been discussed here. *This is not mine*. Early in the tampo process, there was a proposed use of them to make "Star Cars" series. One was the 31 Doozie with the Cher logo on the side. Others included a Fonzie 57 Chevy, Bionic Woman Vette, spoiler sport and a few others. Kinda neat.

Two yellow protos, funky fender colors. One direct from Mike Strauss back in the day, and one from the Larry Wood collection. Strauss one was back when you could call his house from the number in Tomarts, I heard he had an Auburn proto so I cold called him one night, asked and we made a deal. Bought it sight unseen, and I was a nervous wreck not only because of that, but also because I was young and it was Strauss...for some reason calling him was like meeting your favorite celebrity or something. Kinda funny looking back. That was my first ever proto.

How about a bunch of unspun yellow test shot bodies, another from an employee collection that Pascal got.

This is, by far, my favorite Auburn, and among my very favorite pieces in my whole collection. Hand made concept from Larry Wood collection. Obviously they scaled it down and sharpened it up, but its just so neat to me.

A fun one I had, full disclosure recently found a new home, but....the Camaro on a CamEro card. Super early production for this casting.

Its funny they misspelled it on the hand painted prototype too.

While on the subject of color changers....from the Larry Wood Collection, an Automagic Auburn prototype. Unspun, raw black plastic dash/grill. Kinda neat!

Be sure to check out r/hotwheelsblackwalls for the next generation of vintage Hot Wheels!

So this is quite a bit different than the other one I posted, that was just a sketch but this is an actual engineering drawing with a cross section which is pretty cool. I wish it was the complete file with all the parts but sometimes you just take what you can get. This one also came from Bruce.

One of my favorites, another from a Pascal Employee find....sketches showing how they planned on making the Auburn.

Note it was originally going to have a roof, and that got nixed.

Black Leo Doozie. The dark blue with white wall Leo Doozie is the most common by far, and it is still very very hard to find if not rare. Black is the second most common and I've only heard of a handful of them. The rest are extraordinarily rare. Leo=Made in India.

Prototype catalog car, I got this one from Bruce Pascal who got it in an employee collection. The fenders are actually painted white, they are the dark brown / black from a previous release. Obviously production also had white walls, this one is a screw base.

These are from Italy.

Possibly the only Doozie out there with GHO. From an employee collection that had a bunch of one-off GHO test cars.

Another cool one, I'd say the 2-pak is htf and the tumbler is rare. The tumbler was a Canadian mail-in, they made 4 different ones.

One of my favorite BPs

To keep it kosher, a proper wheel swap is done with an OG tune up wrench. (Yes I know theyre not as rigid as repros, but theyre cooler)