Vintage Hot Wheels models from the late 1960s and early 1970s are especially rare and valuable, attracting big bucks among collectors ... rare Hot Wheels on our list, for $6,000.

Believe it or not, some of those toys from your fond memories are now selling for thousands of dollars as highly sought-after ...

Hot Wheels collectors had mostly lost hope of seeing ... Behold, the oldest casting on this list! My dad must have been six years old when Ira Gilford designed this for Mattel in the late '60s.