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Hot Wheels Path Beater: Casting Info & Complete Collector’s Guide

Path Beater is a separate catalog identity for Hot Wheels’ rescue and off-road pickup. The Newsletter catalog records its black #2534 releases, a Color Racer, later police and off-road appearances, Easter pack issues, and modern licensed releases including GBC17 and GJV20. Some collector lists group this vehicle with Beach Patrol because the designs share a pickup lineage; this guide keeps the Path Beater release name and records together.

What identifies Path Beater?

The early black Path Beater carries toy number 2534. Its wheel and hub style separates the 1986 white-hub issue from the 1989 blackwall versions. Later entries use their own toy numbers and program packaging, including the 1998 Off Road and 30th Anniversary releases, the 2008–2009 Easter and Graffiti Rides issues, and the 2019–2020 releases.

The Hot Wheels Newsletter lists 13 Path Beater records. This Muncle Mikes web preserves additional older entries whose imported year or exact version is unresolved; they are labeled clearly rather than given guessed specifications.

See Beach Patrol and Surf Patrol for those separate catalog names.

Path Beater variations web

This guide links 15 existing release records associated with Path Beater. Each child page links back here and to the other records in this family web.

Path Beater · 1986 black, white-hub releaseNot recordedPath Beater · Black catalog record 7 (year/detail conflict)Not recordedPath Beater · Black catalog record 8 (year/detail conflict)MainlinePath Beater · Black catalog record 9 (year/detail conflict)MainlinePath Beater · 1998 black Path Beater record 20Not recordedPath Beater · 1998 black Path Beater record 21Not recordedPath Beater · 1999 City Police · BlackCity PolicePath Beater · 2000 gray release record 23 (catalog name conflict)Mainline · ThailandPath Beater · 2001 Rescue Rods yellow record 25Rescue RodsPath Beater · 2001 Rescue Rods yellow record 26Rescue RodsPath Beater · 2008 Easter Speedsters 5-Pack · J7099Easter Speedsters 5-PackPath Beater · 2008 Easter Eggsclusives · N1142Easter EggsclusivesPath Beater · 2009 Graffiti Rides · N4071Graffiti RidesPath Beater · 2019 American Pickup 6/10 · GBC17American Pickup 6/10 · ThailandPath Beater · 2020 Pixar: Finding Nemo 3/5 · GJV20Pixar: Finding Nemo 3/5 · Thailand

Catalog scope and unresolved entries

The linked set preserves the Muncle Mikes pages currently maintained for this release group. If an older row lacks a country, wheel, toy number or package detail, its child page states what remains unknown. Related names are kept in their own casting guides.

References

  • Hot Wheels Newsletter digital catalog: Beach Patrol, Path Beater and Surf Patrol release records.
  • Hot Wheels Newsletter historical guide to the 73 mm Beach Patrol pickup.
  • Published collector checklist comparisons, noted on pages where package years or casting names differ.