Custom Corvette

The Custom Corvette was one of the first cars released in the original 1968 Hot Wheels line-up. According to lore, because of the fact that Harry Bradley worked for GM shortly before moving to Mattel, he snuck out copies of the blueprints into his cane (he had polio) for the real '68 Stingray and used them as a base for the Hot Wheels model. Since he was a designer there, he knew exactly where to get the materials for designing these new "Hot Wheels" in 1967; when the model was released, GM "wa