Hot Wheels pick up a major success
Story by Jessica Drew (Contact)
6:43 p.m. Wednesday, July 16, 2008
Thousands of hot wheels toy cars are being packed up and shipped overseas.
Amy Cantrell's son is stationed in Iraq.
The soldiers hand out little toy cars to the kids there. Amy wanted to send a few more. She never thought it would get this big.
"So it's pretty exciting that people are getting this involved," said Cantrell. "Joey Baggs just sort of took off with it and this is what we got.".
Joey Baggs, V100's morning DJ, heard about this story from 49 News, and wanted to help. So did one local business.
"They needed somebody to ship them, so that's what I did," said David Stephens from Briggs Kia.
He heard they needed help shipping these little toy cars, so Briggs Kia stepped up.
"Joey had announced that they were collecting these Hot Wheels cars and things for the children in Iraq, so it might be a good idea to call him and volunteer to ship it for them," said Stephens.
Not only did people collect cars, but money has come in from all over the U.S.
Joey Baggs even gave some of his old vintage cars.
All of the cars in boxes will be unwrapped and sent over.
"They have the APO boxes for soldiers, and so we are going to just, we get about 150 in each box," said Cantrell.
Hot Wheels from warm hearts, halfway around the world.
The cars will be shipped next week. It takes about a week to get them to Iraq.
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