This set of 20 stamps features some of the most outrageous car designs from Hot Wheels in honor of the car series’ 50th anniversary. 

Featured here: The original surfboard-toting Deora (1968) was included in the first Hot Wheels line. The souped-up Deora II, showcased on the stamp, came out in 2000.

Hot Wheels was born when Mattel co-founder Elliot Handler challenged his design team, which included a General Motors car designer and a rocket scientist, to create a toy car that was cooler and performed better than anything on the market. Mattel soon introduced its iconic orange tracks, which provided children unlimited ways to test out stunts and racing skills. The Hot Wheels toy line expanded rapidly. Since the inception of Hot Wheels, Mattel has produced thousands of varieties of cars. In 2011, Hot Wheels was inducted into the National Toy Hall of Fame. Today, children and their parents still love racing the eye-popping, colorful, lightning-fast cars.