Major memory unlocked. This came out when I was 9yo and neighbours kid got it for Xmas. I turned into the god of envy and tried to crash damage a couple of regular HW, but obviously ended up just destroying them. I can't remember why but I needed to have them, nagging my parents didn't worked, probably because they knew that this kind of toys gets boring after a few minutes, so I got creative with a classmate whose father worked in a die cast factory right behind my home. Somehow he discovered the location of a dumpster where they got rid of pre production casts for model cars, doll parts and electric race tracks, which in the 80s means a field near the railroad with an excavator. We spent several afternoons digging with sticks and bare hands through muddy plastic molds and sharp alloy trash, only to retrieve a few pieces with vehicle resemblance which in our mind was an entire fleet of crashed cars for free.