{"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 #125\" href=\"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/2014\/03\/rustins-spoils-of-the-week-125\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Rustin's Spoils of the Week #125<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"SPOSTARBUST-Related-Post\"><a title=\"Autos in Disguise\" href=\"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/2022\/09\/autos-in-disguise\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Autos in Disguise<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"SPOSTARBUST-Related-Post\"><a title=\"Hot Wheels Fig Rig review\" href=\"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/2013\/06\/hot-wheels-fig-rig-review\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Hot Wheels Fig Rig review<\/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<li class=\"SPOSTARBUST-Related-Post\"><a title=\"A message to all the haters\" href=\"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/2024\/09\/a-message-to-all-the-haters\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">A message to all the haters<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&lt;i&gt;And now, some more OAFEry:&lt;\/i&gt;Rustin's Spoils of the Week #161 Rustin's Spoils of the Week #197 Hot Wheels Let's Go review A bad idea? Believe it! Introducing Hot Wheels Optimus Prime<\/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}]}}