• 2003-24: 24/Seven
• 2003-153: Tow Jam
• 2002-110: '70 Plymouth Roadrunner
• 2003-141: Pikes Peak Tacoma
• (unknown): Tow Jam
• (unknown): Dodge Charger Daytona 1970
• (unknown): Plymouth Baracuda

...plus the photos for 2002-177 and 2002-052 are finally included in the website.

Why such a long delay before showing new cars? It was partially psychological.

Oh, and this:

Back in February, I got a call from one of the guys I work with. He was having a productive day at work reading the ott.forsale newsgroup, and saw group of HotWheels for sale. I took down the information, gave the seller a call, and went over to check them out.

140-odd cars, various condition. $90. I figured I'd get $90 worth of entertainment out of the lot, so I paid him.

Now I had a problem. I only have about 200 or so cars, so 140 represented more than a year's worth of collecting, to be processed all in one go. This was a huge barrier to me, since I didn't feel like I should be buying new cars before I processed these older ones. This was partially assisted by the fact that most of the local vendors seemed to be mired in a glut of 2002 series cars. This made the 2003 cars rare, and since I was not seeing them, I could not see if I wanted them. So without the pressure of new cars to process, I could merely look occasionally at the stack of copy paper boxes over in the corner of my office periodically, think I should really do something about those, and get back to whatever it was I was really doing.

Anyways, I was finding a couple of 2003 cars I wanted recently, so now I feel the pressure to deal with the older ones. But because I want to play with the new ones, I'm opening some of them early and putting them up too.

So over the next little while I'll be doing some of this huge batch in a now-and-then fasion.

There is also the problem of what to do with some of the older cars:

These four cars are between six and ten years old, and I'd really like to open three of them. However, they are about the only thing in the collection which even might be worth more than $1, so I'm reluctant. The eBay research I did suggests that they are not worth terribly much, but I'm sure the right person would pay for them. I'd be willing to trade the sealed cars for open cars of the same type, plus something "interesting"... but that kind of deal is kind of hard to put together.

Anyways, there should be a little more activity on the website over the next little while. (I still have four 2002/2003 cars un-opened for next time.)