1969 Hot Wheels "Beach Bomb" Prototype | Extraordinary Finds: Extras | ANTIQUES ROADSHOW | PBS
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- During ROADSHOW’s 2016 stop in Salt Lake City, Utah, appraiser Grant Zahajko met Cary, the owner of a rare red variation of the 1969 Hot Wheels “Beach Bomb” prototype - whose astounding value Zahajko estimated at $100,000 to $150,000. Cary said he had owned the car for 50 years, ever since his father, who worked at Mattel Co., brought home the prototype as a gift when Cary was just a boy. In the spring of 2019, Cary met up with Zahajko again, this time to hand over his “Beach Bomb” for Zahajko to sell on his behalf. Watch the exchange and hear what it has been like for Grant to market the “holy grail of Hot Wheels.”
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This guy is doing exactly what his Dad wanted him to do, sell it one day if it is ever worth a lot of money. Well, that day has come.
I'm happy for him...I have 7 original Redline Hot Wheels Bech boom's in my showcase I will NEVER sale them there going to my nephew!"
@@jay0726 who will sell them
Agreed. I’ll bet his dad would be ecstatic.
Possibly so, but if it’s true that this is the one last thing that he has as a reminder of his dad, I would hold onto it for dear life (unless I absolutely had no choice)
Dad probubly didn't think it would ever be worth that much
Could you imagine telling your wife you bought a car for $150,000 and then whipping this out.
@@DorkVader26 Good man.
Johnnie Walker, if I did that I am sure I wouldn't be married to her for long!
Just think in the 80's you could have pick this up for $200 if you found one.
The irony is this will appreciate unlike most 150K vehicles
And then she would whip out a frying pan.
I googled it: it sold for 125k
And next week it will be worth $20. It took a pandemic for people to get a sense of perspective and stop wasting money on stupid things.
okleydokley lol must suck to live such a mediocre life that you don’t have disposable income to spend on whatever you want. And before you act all high and mighty anything that isn’t meat, veggies, utilities, water, and housing could be considered a “waste of money.”
@@truantray wtf are you on about, that's not how it works
@@truantray physical collectibles are exactly the kind of thing that retains value in a post-apocalyptic world. paper money can become toilet paper, but this is akin to a piece of jewelry.
@@truantray You actually are 100% wrong. People need happiness and a high and this can lead to all collectibles being more in demand. I sell 90% silver coins on ebay and despite the price of silver dropping; my coin sales the last 2 weeks have been the best they've been all year. There are no sports games, no music concerts, no bars or restaurants in much of the world, but there is collectibles and fun hobbies to enjoy. People need to have fun
The Golden Girls in the background reaction to the cars value was priceless!!!
I enjoyed that more than the actual appraisal.
"for that little thing?" is what Km thinking they're chatting
Nah she's pissed cuz she threw away hundreds of them lol
Dude I was totally going to post the same comment! 🤣
And they represent 99.99999999% of the worlds population with that reaction.
Thanks mom for throwing away all my toys and baseball cards.
And comic books!
My mum gave all my original Star Wars stuff to my cousin when I was 13..
and my matchbox cars
I had all the Gen 1 Transformers. Parents left them in the basement of our old apartment.
My dad's 1950s Lionel trains. A large collection of beautiful locomotives, large transformers , buildings, track etc
My mother put everything on the curb on trash day.
And just like that.........it was gone.
😢
In the early 1970s, we had 1960s Barbies and accessories that my father threw away even though he we played with them. It's a miracle I didn't grow up hating him for doing something so hurtful. The Barbies were given to us by his girlfriend after her daughter went to college. She had also given us beautiful baby dolls with clothes that were of same quality as real baby clothes. The dresses had smocking (older people knew what this is) and mother of pearl buttons. My dad's girlfriend was really sweet so the items meant a lot to us.
This is great cause now his dad is looking after his son
Your little toy is worth $150,000 = "Oh, that's nice to hear."
this guy reminds me of salad fingers.
He already knew the value before this you dumbass.
Top comment so the only one showing when I watch the video. Thanks for ruining it fucker
The old ladies in the background 😂😂 they are like WTF!
Dad taking care of his kiddo. Love it.
My mom would have thrown it out while I was at school.
Anthony Tifft....just one more reason to skip school as a kid....
Anthony Triff my mum did that to my collection.
When I was a small child growing up in the 1960's we lived about 2 blocks from the animation studios of Hanna-Barbera. My brothers and I collected a pile of thousands of original animation cels from shows like the Flintstones and the Jetsons among many others. These cels regularly sell for $20-$30, with some gels featuring main characters going for hundred$ or even thousand$. We had a stack that was at least a foot taller than I was at 6 years old, so it was thousands of cels. And you guessed it, when we moved to Malibu in 1970 my Mom threw them all away. sigh......
now.. THATS .. frickin funny, son!!
Yep, mine through out about 20 mid 60s model kits of race cars. MPC, AMT.
Amazing,this Hot Wheels VW van is more valuable than a real one!
If this little car could finance several children’s college education, or equivalent life event, I suspect your dad would be so happy he was able to help you and your family this way.
I know I would be, if I was in his shoes
Well...if you could have elected Bernie Sanders to the Presidency, ALL Americans could have a college education. You do see that the value of this Hot Wheels car has NOTHING to do with Higher Education in America, don't you?
@@kenc2257 um, you do see that if something is universal, it’s value isn’t nearly as much as if that certain something is exclusive.
You do understand how the exclusivity of a thing makes it more valuable (even hot wheels), don’t you?
@@kenc2257 ALL Americans don't need a college education. My wife wasted 6 years in college. She put massive effort into it, with a 3.8 GPA, but never got a single job related to it.
@@kenc2257 What a completely beside-the-point comment.
@@kurrie3280 Besides idiotic, impossible and monumentally ignorant, you mean?
He should be confident that he's doing the right thing because his father gave him the car with explicit instructions to keep it safe because it would be worth a lot of money one day and now his dad would be happy that he's correct
In the early '70s, I was a typical kid who was totally into Hot Wheels. I only remember two cars that I had. I had the "beach bomb" surfer van (don't remember the color) and a white Chaparral. My next door neighbor had the metallic brown Chaparral. Those two Chaparrals were by far the fastest cars in our collections back then.
I was a fortunate kid in that my parents and my grandparents each bought me the initial Hot Wheels series in 1968, and for some reason, one box had a double helping of cars...fortunately few in duplicate colors. I took pretty good care of them, even as an 8 year old, and built up the collection with the subsequent series cars. I can't blame my mom for throwing them away...I did it to myself when I was 16 and gave them away to a cousin, who threw them away himself. And then during my 50's spent $1000's in replacing all those original 1968 US made cars...1st series and then the 2nd series. No pink or red rear load Beach Bombs, tho...
Steve S I did the same thing with my GI Joes. I bought all the ones I had as a kid, and even the ones my parents couldn’t buy (we were of very limited means). Feels great to have the collection.
Tyco RCs for me
Same here, owned cars as a kid....spent $1000s to collected them now
When I was 16, we moved interstate, so my parents said it's time your toys went to charity, including a ( standard, non-valuable) Beach Bomb.
It was original Star Wars for me. Batman comics for my dad.
haha 2:40 look at the lady's reactions in the background
Wow, that’s an incredible price! Good for him.
If he went to Vegas to pawn stars, Rick would offer $300.00
Guy with car ; I want $150,000
Rick ; $5 I'm taking all the risk here...
Cabe it gonna cost Rick a fortune to have a presentation case made for it, $5 is the best he can do.
Well I don't know much about these let me call someone down to take a look
😂
Still too much by $299 I say.
"It's the last thing to remind me of my dad."
"Let's sell this thing."
"I'm confident it's the right move???"
Yes, gotta say I questioned that remark as well Pops said it'd be valuable one day so basically gave his Blessing to sell it..., one day.
However, with that being said, if that was one of the last reminders I have of Pops I couldn't sell it unless in dire straights.
$150K can buy a lot of new memories. Some people put too much emotional value on inanimate objects.
He might be using the money to create a more enduring legacy than a toy whose value will evaporate once boomer nostalgia fades out.
Dad knew that this would be worth something for his kid.
@@plmn93 Taxes.
His dad was very wise in knowing that one day this would be his son's inheritance.
Truthfully in this day and age 150k doesn't go far. My MiL ploughed through 1.2 mill the last dozen years of her life in geriatric care. And when we could no longer care for her as her condition got worse we put her in a nice care facility at 600$/day. 18k/mo plus other expenses.
That 150k car buys him less than a year at 2012 rates
@@tommypetraglia4688 ofcourse anything medical is insanely overpriced. Havent you realized that they are overcharging sick people as much as they can? And tax payers have to pay whatever it costs so therfore anything medical costs much more.
Thanks Dad ! He knew it was gonna pay off one day ! Awesome
That’s nice to hear… thank you. That’s great.
Nice car! What a wonderful item to share. Best wishes on the sale!
Omg 😮 that’s totally crazy and I would be auctioning it off asap !!! WoW
I had the newer side loader beach bomb. A neighbor had a rear loader one and I remember thinking mine was so much better. This was in Kentucky about 1970
just love these ,humble bloke sat on a fortune :)
I want to go back in time and buy them all up. cool memories of the toy isles back in 60's
Holy cow! That's a number. Favorite color and shade, but dang, that's a rich amount.
Holy moly! That much? Unbelievable!!!
When he said $100k-150k the look on those ladies face behind them was like 'For that!!?'
That was the best part. It seems like they were almost laughing that they were looking at some dumb little car. I bet the garbage they brought was worth squat.
we had one in1 970, our little brother smashed it in a fit a rage-- thank you Kurtis- tool
Insane! How cool for him! He did what Dad said. Good sin and rewarded! 👏👏👏
Son… darn fingers…
I have to assume that the "expert" was Michael Zarnock in Utica NY. I went to one of his exhibitions in 2018 and it was amazing.
That sucker would be up for sale as fast as I could get it to an auction!
Kevin Chovanetz 5 yrs ago this was a $50,000 piece 10 yrs from now $150,000-225,000
This piece won’t value over time ...
HOLY SMOKES! Awesome!
His father knew it would be worth good money down the line. He left his son a nice gift for his future.
Holding it loosely over pavement...
Drops it on the driveway.
I wouldn’t have touched it!!
Without gloves on...
I was waiting for him to drop it, you would think the owner would have put it in some kinda case by now
Every collector cringing as they touch it.
I've ask Grant to represent me in auctioning my 6 figure toy car.
Here you go Grant.
Grant: ooops!
That was nice to hear...
Awesome I'm speechless
Beautiful
Hot Wheels were so much fun. I had the drag race set and lots of cars. But the most fun may have been when my brother and I would sword-fight with the pieces of track.
LoL, my giggle for the day. I can vividly picture the sword fight. You two were ahead of the times by repurposing.😉
Cool story!
1969 is an antique in America...Everywhere else it needs to be at least 100 years.
They were not top heavy, it was too thin to work with the PowerBoost system. That is why they added the side compartments for the surfboards, to make it wide enough to engage the rollers as it passed through the PowerBoost box.
i had one of those, it didn't work worth beans but was a lot more gentle on cars than the stupid rod runner
I've got two omg thank you for recommending this
There's a few different versions of beach bombs from 100-100k
I was at the roadshow that day!
*Lucky guy..God Blessed Him*
Dads knew what they were talking about back then.
Andy All of them? Nice fantasy.
My father was Chatty Cathy’s father. He was responsible for designing the blinking eyes and voice mechanism. He likely worked with Mr Perez .... as I was 10 yo in 1969.
I didn’t have any hot wheels cars, nor did I collect anything at all. Yet here I am. #selfdistancing
george wittner Thank you for sharing George
Who doesn't fancy antique roadshow?
Hilarious!
LOL.
Awesome
I was waiting for the appraiser to drop it and say..."opps...my bad".
Love it .
Mind boggling
Love the reaction of the women in the background when they hear him say $150,000 😁
Dude wasn’t even impressed with that price, he already knew that car was worth wild.
He said that.
@@fabiogasperini5868 haha no way bro u serious no way don’t believe you
150k? - YUP - you’re doing the “right-thing”
I liked the reaction of the women behind the table.
Looked like they were plotting and scheming lol
hah, yea, they would have been the moms who would have thrown it away
Great!! Now I have watch it all over again!!
I love the old women caught on camera plotting the theft of this Hotwheels. They even reveal their plan 😂
there all going" I remember throwing out a few of those."
Can't put a price on a real cool and neat piece of family history. I'd want to just keep it.
Guess I need to look over my collection again
those ladies in the back are like let's jump him outside😂😂
More like, "why did I give away my sons hot wheels at the garage sale?"
@@patricianelson8 lol
The lady's jaw drop in the back around 2:40 is great.
"One of the last things I have to remember my Dad" - *Sells the last thing he has to remember his dad*
What, 100k for a Hot Wheels toy! Unreal
Now I've seen everything.
Thank you dad!
Imagine having a suitcase of those.
if you had a suitcase full they wouldn't be worth 125 grand
You know I get the last part of what he said, my mom passed away less than two weeks ago and I'm in the process of figuring out what to sell, donate, and to keep. I'm having a hard time entertaining the idea of letting anything go bc my mom was my world and it's all I have left of her but I know my mom would want me to be set as well. So this man did what his father wanted him to do by keeping it bc it would be worth money one day but I can understand the moral dilemma attached to these types of situations. I wish him the best of luck.
Un.be.lievable. so awesome
Holy Moly
That’s Sweet ❤️🚘❤️🚘❤️
That last quote, I believe he actually says "It's NO small matter for me" not "It's, you know, a small matter for me", which changes the meaning of this DRASTICALLY.
While standing on a sidewalk - "Let me just take this from your hands...opps!!!"
Oops*
Exactly
@@jeremypen8556 get real man. We all know what he meant
Haha i know i know
Back in 1968 I got a Hot Wheels pink corvette in a grab bag that car in its original blister pack is worth $1500 on Ebay today wish I still had it.
That’s insane
WOW
JUST WOW
Wonder what an m-80 would do to it.
I was thinking the exact same thing..😃😃💥💥💥
Did you see the look on the women's faces when they heard the price? That was priceless.
Sorry but I don't like them holding this Hot Wheel Southside above hard sidewalk or walkway. If he dropped that car that would really suck
Right. At least have it up in bubble wrap
I was thinking the same thing haha. Cringe!
I thought about that too.
My first reaction when he here it is: where’s the box?
I’d have that in a Pelican case at minimum. Only under controlled conditions dies it come out. And gloves.
But 150K? Have to see the suction results to believe that. Anything over 50K is hard to believe. Or even 10K is stretch. IMO.
@@larryscott3982 I know the one that appeared on Pawn Stars was purchased for around 70K by the owner that brought it.
Check the sold section on ebay Hot Wheels routinely sell for several thousand dollars.
Wow!
So, at 2:30, does it look like those ladies are talking about how easy it would to steal? 😂😂
Glad he's selling it, his kids would have that under a gavel before he was cold in the ground!
True.....I bet some of them would go out and buy a 60K SUV the day after he was put in the ground....as soon as you go off the auto dealer parking lot that 60K vehicle is now worth 45K.....
Hawthorne, down the street from where i grew up.
Why is that thing not in some sort of protective case? I mean I can imagine dropping that could take 30 to $50,000 off the value
@ 4:27 Imagine if they drop it as the guy says it's the last thing he has to remind him of his dad.
Yeah its funny to see the rear loader on ebay being sold as an original.
I thought he was going to say some ridiculously high amount.
Ha. I see what you did there.
BADASS
I love the expresions of the old bats in the back ground! Probably saing "wtf! A hot wheels that cost more than my wedding ring and my house! Thats Thats ridiculous!"👋😂👉🤯
Old bats, i am 🤣
It is and always has been artless.
i sold a MATCHBOX make prototype around 2016 for 170 uk pounds......i paid 1 uk pounds for it......was told it was very rare and only known one.....i was happy with 170 for it.
Wow....crazy. And just think...all the Hotwheels we, I had as a kid that we just destroyed because it was "just a toy car"...
that's the orignal knock-off matchbox car?!? WOW!
owning a prototype hot wheels is kind of a weird flex
rick from pawn stars would have offered $50 bucks but only after he got his buddy down there to inspect it and tell him the value
Original Hot Wheel set with the orange track and loop. G.I.Joe. Baseball cards. Matchbox cars and carrying case. Early comics. All gone because of impending adulthood. 💩 happens.😕
Thanks Dad, you were right.
His dad set up a retirement account for his kid and he didn't even know it. Nice!