After Andy and I traded emails a few times in 2005 and I sent him pics from my collection.

In one of the pics was the Purple Plated Green Hornet prototype car I obtained from the Ken Hill collection sold by Model Motoring in 1998.

Andy explained to me that Aurora was planning on producing a Green Hornet and Batmobile Speedline "Push" cars. They never made it to production. He said when he left Aurora he kept the prototype Speedline metal chassis that were supposed to go with the purple plated Green Hornet I had. Andy said he would get it to me when he could find it in his massive toy collection.

I never heard back about it again.

Andy passed away on 9/11/21. He was 77.

Fast forward to April 27, 2024.

Andy's only relative, his sister, contracted with an auction house in CT to sell off his massive toy collection.

This was done over a period of 19 months with 5 auctions, from September, 2022 to April, 2024.

The proceeds from the auctions were well past 1 million $'s.

I anxiously watched each auction waiting for some Aurora slot car prototypes to come up.

Then finally, at the end of the last auction, there they were.

The prototype Speedline chassis for the Green Hornet and the Batmobile.

But this was just part of a much larger collection of Andy's Aurora slot car artifacts that included T-Jet, Cigarbox, Speedline and never produced lines.

Below are pics of some of the items from the Andy Yanchus collection.