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Papa John's selling recovered Camaro diecast, free pizza and charity involved

We're suckers for a happy ending – especially when it involves cars, kids, and hot pizza. Recall, if you will, this past summer when John Schnatter, founder of Papa John's Pizza, was on a nationwide quest to find his beloved 1971 1/2 Chevrolet Camaro Z28 – a car he sold in the mid-Eighties to fund his first store. John found his car in Kentucky, paid out more than a quarter of a million dollars in finder's fees, and then generously gave free pizzas from its 2,600 nationwide locations to all Camaro owners on August 26th. Still ... Read more →

Jack Odell (1920 - 2007) - Creator of the Matchbox car Alex Nunez

Matchbox cars. We collected them. We played with them. We loved them. Heck, a lot of us still do. And over the weekend, the man responsible for making these simple, inexpensive pleasures a reality ...

VIDEO: DIY rocket-powered Hot Wheels Chris Tutor

Show of hands. How many of you used Black Cats and cherry bombs to incinerate large numbers of Hot Wheels as kids? Especially the pink ones, right? Because they were for girls. Do you know how much ...

VIDEO: James May breaks land speed at 1/32 scale Chris Shunk

It probably takes considerable effort to get funding and engineering for a vehicle that can break the land-speed record or 458 mph. To achieve such a speed at 1/32 scale, you only need James May and ...

VIDEO: Polly Wheels to spark auto-interest for the gals Chris Shunk

Click the image above to view Polly Wheels in action Most of the Autoblog readers have been fostering a love for the automobile since a very early stage in life. We collected Hot Wheels and ...

New York Auto Show: Polly Wheels gives young girls their own line of die-cast cars 2 years ago on Autoblog

Update: We just added a gallery of high-res photos of the Polly Wheels collection. There is an exhibit area at the New York Auto Show with a staggering 1,190 vehicles on display. And it's "manned" by a trio of vivacious pre-teens playing "Race to the Mall" with a new line of die-cast toy cars made ...

How to design car toys for high-tech kids 3 years ago on Autoblog

HotWheels Radar Gun ($24.99) Gary Swisher is the guy who has everybody's dream job -- he's the design chief for HotWheels, Tyco and Matchbox, and he's in charge of designing the cool and timeless dream cars in miniature that we only wish we could have when we grow up. He's also the guy ...

Aussie boys borrow grandma's ride, hit the road 3 years ago on Autoblog

A pair of young Australian brothers who were apparently over eager to see their grandfather decided to clandestinely borrow their grandmother's red Holden Commodore on Sunday and set out to find him. The two boys drove around 60 miles, none of which would be news if the boys weren't ages 10 and ...






Autoblog Podcast #154: Gobbling up the News

Chris, Sam, and Dan kick out a podcast just in time for the long holiday drive.

 
 

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