Matchbox / Hotwheels

[DirkSears]

I was MD'ing an old home (nobody has lived there for 30-40 years) and I got two solid VDI readings of +86 on my Whites M6. I dug both targets and each one was an old toy car?!?! Does anyone know if the paint on these old toy cars has silver in it? Has anyone else dug up toy cars and if so did they read as silver?

It was neat to find the cars, just would have been nicer to find actual silver coins.

 

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[TORPEDOX]

most model cars are cast from Zinc alloys,,,,,"POT METAL"... and I believe the metal grain structure is similar to silver. I got roughly the same VDI readings with the couple of old cars I've found.
lets see some pics.
Its too cold and snowy to get out, where I live.....

 

[imafishingnutt]

I was MD'ing an old home (nobody has lived there for 30-40 years) and I got two solid VDI readings of +86 on my Whites M6. I dug both targets and each one was an old toy car?!?! Does anyone know if the paint on these old toy cars has silver in it? Has anyone else dug up toy cars and if so did they read as silver?

It was neat to find the cars, just would have been nicer to find actual silver coins.

i believe its the aluminum mine reads high when i find them too
i found two hot wheels today

 

[BillyC]

I actually enjoy finding hot wheels cars and such. I have 5 or 6 now, the silver is great but sometimes the old/newer toys are cool also.

 

[robert roy]

You should send some photos.
Robert R

 

[johnnycat]

About 8 years ago I found an old gasoine toy truck (red) and my MXT said, penny.

 

[mastereagle22]

My Explorer always reads in the high good range on those cars. I have about 20 of them so far and they all read the same way.

 

[Cannonman17]

Many/most of them read quarter on my MXT I have dozens of them.

 

[tmanfromtexas]

My ace250 would show quarter and halfs for hotwheels. found a 67 vette with it last year. to bad it was in bad shape, it was worth about 50 bucks on ebay. lol. I havent found a car yet with my Tesoro Cortez, but havent had a lot of practice with it due to the weather. TMAN...

 

[Cannonman17]

Hot wheels worth that much? Holy smokes, I have a ton of old ones that I played with back in the 80's that were hand me downs from my older brothers who started collecting them in the early 60s.

 

[lucky1777]

Hot wheels worth that much? Holy smokes, I have a ton of old ones that I played with back in the 80's that were hand me downs from my older brothers who started collecting them in the early 60s.

The original Red Lines can be worth hundreds or thousands if in the original packages.

 

[Cannonman17]

I wonder what those look like, I'll have to go research. I had the original case for a whole set, I think my son still uses it to hold cars. It was an awful plastic-like material with carboard inserts to make the compartments- can't remember what the date was on it... I think it was from the sixties, had pull out droors... when were these Red Lines you talk about made? Maybe I'm rich! LOL!

 

[lucky1777]

I believe they were made between 68 and 1977. They are called redlines because of the red line on the tires. I know they remade some of these in the late 80s or 90s.