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Volume 24 - Issue 1
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Light! Camera! Action!
January - March 2018 4-5 What’s New
8 31st Annual Collectors Convention
#128 Button Bingo Review
9-10 31st Annual Collectors Event Review
Newsletter Staff 10 Charity Poker
11 Custom Car Contest
PUBLISHER AND EDITOR 12 Downhill Racing
Jim Garbaczewski
13 Sizzlers Races 31st Convention
PROOFREADER Los Angeles, Ca. 2017
Colin James
14 Kid’s Coloring Contest
STAFF WRITERS
14 Hot Wheels Convention Mania
Jim Garbaczewski Kelly Kottke
15 Scavenger Hunt
Barb Robles Jerry Rouselle
15 Vending Machine Pulls
Paul Di Angi Sherdia Davis
16 Hot Wheels Newsletter
Greg Hall Carl Pomponio
Chapter Leader Meeting
Dan Spauling Davis Sprague
16 Casting & Price Guides to Hot Wheels
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Joe Davis Russ Looker
50 Years of Hot Wheels
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PHOTOGRAPHY 18 2018 Mystery Models
Jim Garbaczewski 19 Larry’s Garage Holiday Rods
April 4 - 8, 2018 CHAPTER COORDINATOR 20 Pink Windows
Carl Pomponio
21
Pulling Into Your Station
This Spring
Russ’ Ramblings 22 Chapter Club Meeting
Don’t miss the 18th Annual Hot Wheels® Collectors Nationals!
Activities will include room-to-room trading, Hot Wheels® Another Hot Wheels Collectors Convention is history
and Sizzlers® races, autograph sessions with current and and the Convention Committee deserves a big round of
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