[Lee Stewart]

1969 Pink, Rear-Loading Beach Bomb – $150,000

Widely heralded as the most collectible Hot Wheels extant, the rear-loading Beach Bomb is a prototype that for years remained in the possession of a Mattel employee. Unique in that its surfboards load through the rear window, the Beach Bomb proved to be too narrow and top-heavy, so the design was replaced with a slightly different version that featured side-mounted surfboards and a full-length plastic sunroof for a lower center of gravity. Although a few additional copies in different colors managed to slip into public hands, only two Pink versions are known to exist.

This is the second most valuable Hot Wheels car:



1968 Over Chrome Camaro – $25,000

While there are many lime or "antifreeze" Hot Wheels, this is a rare antifreeze-over-chrome-finish Camaro used for advertising purposes. Made the same way as a Christmas ornament, the Camaro showed up in commercials with higher production values, and only 20 Hot Wheels cars with this special finish are known to exist.