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31st ANNUAL COLLECTORS CHARITY EVENT REVIEW

By Paul Di Angi

The 31st Annual Collectors Convention has the ’68 Mercury Cougar, produced by Chris for charity. This year’s donations enabled us to
come and gone. This was an amazing gathering Walker aka Night Stalker. The car was well present a total of 81 lots for auction through-
with plenty of activities, fun for the entire family received and all 450 pieces were once again out the evening. The auction alone raised
and great souvenir cars commemorating this sold out! The car came in a beautiful blue $30,000.00 which is a substantial portion of
event. I hope you all had as much fun in Los and orange deco sporting a Make-A-Wish of this year’s total donation. I would like to thank
Angeles as I did. It was great seeing old friends Greater Los Angeles and a Convention logo. It the Mattel Design Team for donating the many
and meeting the many new collectors that was packaged in a numbered acrylic case. This unique, very rare and highly desired FEP’s and
attended this convention as well as associating car was a big hit with the collectors and the EP’s which accounted for 25 of our auction lots
with the diehard collectors that are so important demand exceeded the supply. To assure yours and consequently contributed the lion’s share of
to this hobby. It appears that most everyone at future events you might want to consider the auction dollars to the bottom line. Thanks
had a great time and will be looking forward to pre-ordering. Those that waited until the end to Collectors Events Unlimited for the complete
the next event. of the Convention came up empty handed. This set of this conventions code 3 Charity event
is a great way to own a Night Stalker creation! cars which included all of the alternate color
Our staff had the honor of donating time Sales of the Charity car generated $13,500.00. dinner 3 Window’34 Fords as well as all of the
and effort to raise money for the 31st Annual We also added another $1,080.00 from the sale ’70 Dodge Challenger trophy cars and their
Collectors Convention charity, which benefited of past event Charity cars. alternate color variations and a 1 of 26 Custom
the Make-A-Wish Foundation of Greater Los Otto of which only four were given out at the
Angeles. We had the privilege of hearing a Raffle ticket sales were brisk with the hope of Convention. This package was our high bid item
presentation from a wish recipient who received winning one of the six awesome prizes that Continued on Page 10
the benefits of the donations that the Make-A were drawn during the Grand Finale. Three of
Wish Foundation receives. This was a very the prizes were donated by Collectors Events
heartfelt presentation from a thankful family for Unlimited. They were complete sets of Button
the financial assistance that they received for Bingo/charity code three cars from the 30th
their child. Annual Convention, the 17th Annual Collectors
Nationals as well as a set of this year’s Button
There are seven main functions that generate Bingo and Charity event cars. The other three
money for our charity and reflecting on the prizes were graciously donated by Mattel’s
faces that came through the sales room, I would Hot Wheels Design team. These prizes were a
have to say that a good number of us partic- 2016 Factory Sealed Master Set, a 2013 Super
ipated in at least one of these activities. It is Treasure Hunt set which included all 15 supers
important to note that the dollars we collect presented in an accompanying display case,
from these events go directly to the charity and and a complete HWC Collectors.com twelve car
nowhere else. Please continue to support the series 7 set with a metal carrying case. Raffle
Charity events because it is through your par- ticket sales contributed $5,520.00 toward the
ticipation we as a community of collectors can charity total.
continue our history of goodwill. As we all know
the cars received for playing our Charity games Another one of our events is the Charity Auc-
are very limited low run pieces. This not only tion which was held on Friday evening. If you
enhances their collectability but is your only missed it, you regrettably missed an exciting
opportunity to attain them at the Convention. time. The auction is live with no reserve and
your bidder card is your ticket to securing a
Our Charity fundraising car for this event was rare or unusual piece while helping raise funds
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