Battered 1982 Ford Fiesta XR2 'hot hatch' is tipped to sell for £22,000 following restoration

Battered 1982 Ford Fiesta XR2 'hot hatch' is tipped to sell for £22,000 after owner spent five years restoring it from metal shell with no wheels, doors, windows, bonnet or engineFiesta XR2 was popular with boy racers in the 1980s but is now a collectors' item among former ownersAuctioneers say the restored Fiesta is the best they have ever seen and possibly the finest in existence The 1982 model has a pre-sale estimate of £22,000 but the figure is likely to be much higher Its...

Inside the heartwarming world of Hot Wheels collecting

In 1995, Sheri Abbey was at a swap meet in California when something small caught her eye: a classic model Radio Flyer wagon Hot Wheels car, with a spoiler, rear-mounted engine and butterfly style steering wheel. Abbey had always appreciated machines. She grew up in Michigan, where she lived in a household of car enthusiasts. Her dad owned a body shop and would occasionally race. Together, Abbey and her father built hot rods, American muscle cars with large engines modified for speed. It made...

Former Clemson standout Tee Higgins to donate Hot Wheels cars to Greenville Boys & Girls Club

Scott Keepfer Greenville NewsPublished 7:32 PM EDT Apr 24, 2020In his younger years, Tee Higgins perceived football and basketball as little more than a means to get what he really wanted: Hot Wheels cars.“He loved those things,” said Higgins’ mother, Lady Stewart. “In fact, my sister Denise had to use 99-cent Hot Wheels cars to bribe him to play sports.”The strategy worked.Higgins went on to become a high school standout in both sports, and the former Clemson wide receiver realized his...