Hot Wheels: From 0 to 50 at 1:64 Scale

If you’re a car guy of any permutation, whether it’s exotics, muscle cars, 4x4s, or even just mainstream sedans, you can trace some of that love of automobilia back to those $1 Hot Wheels your dad bought for you at KMart. And you played with them for hours because they fueled your imagination for high-speed track runs and diminutive but dramatic crashes. A new book captures the magic on paper to celebrate the brand’s 50th anniversary, and it shows Hot Wheel history in-depth from design to production, and everything in between. It even showcases rare drawings and even rarer prototypes that gave birth to 1/64th scale legends. And in perhaps the most attractive and nostalgic packaging ever created, the book comes in its own replica Hot Wheels carrying case, which makes us pine for it like little kids.