{"id":46535,"date":"2026-03-18T14:10:51","date_gmt":"2026-03-18T18:10:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/?p=46535"},"modified":"2026-03-18T14:10:51","modified_gmt":"2026-03-18T18:10:51","slug":"someones-been-stealing-carburetors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/2026\/03\/someones-been-stealing-carburetors\/","title":{"rendered":"Someone's been stealing carburetors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/hotwheelsdevolve.jpg\" width=\"450\" height=\"635\" alt=\"How Hot Wheels cars have been losing details over the years.\n\n1997: a fully detailed undercarriage\n\n2012: noticeably less detail\n\n2016: an entirely smooth base\n\nTop comment says &quot;I can feel the heaviness of the 1997 through this photo.&quot;\" class=\"aligncenter\"><\/p>\n<div class=\"SPOSTARBUST-Related-Posts\"><H5>&lt;i&gt;And now, some more OAFEry:&lt;\/i&gt;<\/H5><ul class=\"entry-meta\"><li class=\"SPOSTARBUST-Related-Post\"><a title=\"Rustin's Spoils of the Week #197\" href=\"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/2017\/11\/rustins-spoils-of-the-week-197\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Rustin's Spoils of the Week #197<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"SPOSTARBUST-Related-Post\"><a title=\"Hot Wheels Character Cars Teen Titans Go! To the Movies reviews\" href=\"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/2019\/02\/hot-wheels-character-cars-teen-titans-go-to-the-movies-reviews\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Hot Wheels Character Cars Teen Titans Go! To the Movies reviews<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"SPOSTARBUST-Related-Post\"><a title=\"A second real-life Hot Wheels stunt\" href=\"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/2012\/08\/a-second-real-life-hot-wheels-stunt\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">A second real-life Hot Wheels stunt<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"SPOSTARBUST-Related-Post\"><a title=\"Stay home, or get ready for a dance party\" href=\"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/2020\/04\/stay-home-or-get-ready-for-a-dance-party\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Stay home, or get ready for a dance party<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"SPOSTARBUST-Related-Post\"><a title=\"Mattel's SDCC exclusives revealed\" href=\"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/2011\/04\/mattels-sdcc-exclusives-revealed\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Mattel's SDCC exclusives revealed<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&lt;i&gt;And now, some more OAFEry:&lt;\/i&gt;Hot Wheels Pedal Driver review Rustin's Spoils of the Week #125 Rustin's Spoils of the Week #169 A real-life Hot Wheels jump Hot Wheels Let's Go review<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[240],"class_list":["post-46535","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mattel","tag-hot-wheels"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46535","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=46535"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46535\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46536,"href":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46535\/revisions\/46536"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46535"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46535"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46535"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}