Introduction - 69 HK Volkswagen Beach Bomb - Rear Loader

1969 Hot Wheels
HK - Volkswagen Beach Bomb - Rear Loader - RLBB (6274) - [1969]

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RLBB - Rear Loading Beach Bomb Information

- - The Beach Bomb prototypes are die-cast metal chassis, Redline wheels, parchment colored interior, clear plastic windows with orange and yellow surfboards loaded through the rear window.
    This car did not work properly through the Hot Wheels Supercharger. Its center of gravity was too high, and did not stay on the track well on turns. This resulted in the car being reworked making the sides wider and lowering the over height.

The Numbers - Whats out There??

- - A TLBB from the actual Blueprint
  - RLBB & TLBB
    Grand Total = 43
    Type1=25, Type2=14, TLBB=4
    
    RLBB - Rear Loading
    Count - Color
    8 - Red
    
    7 - Green
    
    5 - Antifreeze
    
    4 - Purple
    
    3 - Zamak
    
    3 - Rose
    
    2 - Blue
    
    2 - Light Blue
    
    2 - Gold
    
    2 - Pink
    
    1 - Red Enamel
    TLBB - Transitional Loading
    Count - Color
    2 - Antifreeze
    
    1 - Blue
    
    1 - Zamak

RLBB - Rear Loading Beach Bomb - Creation

- - The Rear Load Beach Bomb (RLBB) Tooling was created at Neward DIe & Manufacturing in San Bernardino County, California. This company was hired by Mattel with the responsiblty for creating most of the tooling for the first several years of Redline Hot Wheels. Plastic Injection Molding facilities also existed at this location and where used to run various Hot Wheel plastic parts. The bodies and chassis of the cars were actually made of Zamak (Zinc Aluminum Metal Alloy Casting), a metallic alloy. The Zamak Tools were shipped to A&A Diecast for running test shots.

Creation Time Line
Date	Part	Company	RLBB - Rear Loading

06-Feb-1969	Body	Mattel	Date 1st drawings completed.
11-Feb-1969	Body	Mattel	Date the Body drawings to be completed.
14-Feb-1969	Chassis	Mattel	Date the Chassis drawings to be completed.
23-Feb-1969	Interior	Mattel	Date the Interior drawings to be completed.
25-Feb-1969	Glass	Mattel	Date the Glass drawings to be completed.
	All parts	Newards	Required at least 12 weeks to return a completed car.
10-Sep-1969	All parts	Newards	Revision A - Turn the RLBB into the TLBB/SLBB
21-Oct-1969	All parts	Newards	Revision B - Various dimension changes
17-Nov-1969	All parts	Newards	Revision C - Rear body lower, Rear window shorter, Rib added to interior
Oct-Nov-1969	Car	Mattel	Type 2 RLBB car with prototype SLBB base shows up (Pink #1)
2-Mar-1970	All parts	Newards	Revision D - Redesigned various for adapting Wheel Strip - don't think this was ever produced

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