Yeah. I loved Hot Wheels, and Matchbox cars.
I had the Hot Wheels Sizzlers, too. That was one of my best holiday gifts ever.
The Sizzlers looked like the other Hot Wheels except they had little motors in them that you charged up by hooking to a thing that held four D batteries and looked like a gas pump. The track was made of vinyl, almost like siding but in much thinner strips with just enough "wall" to hold the cars in.
But the Sizzlers were way ahead of their time. That was before alkaline batteries, and I couldn't afford to keep charging them.
So I just started pushing regular Hot Wheels around the track that the Sizzlers came with.
Then because I wasn't using them a lot, I left my Sizzlers up in the attic one summer, and when I pulled them back out, all the motors had corroded. There's no such thing as a dry heat in the South.
Some of my cars were really beautiful reproductions of some of the best muscle cars of the day. Wish I still had some of them.
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