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The rivets are untouched. The rest of the pics include the other Z28s from my collection just for some comparison. Note the differences in tampo colors. Now see if you can help me try to figure out which ones are different tampo colors from the factory and which ones are simply faded with age 🥴😵‍💫 It can be tough to tell with Color Racers cars.

I'll make a separate post this weekend for the rest of my recent haul of color racers
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another addition to my 3rd gen firebird collection

It was by far the most beat up car in the box, but man, the "barn find" vibes are undeniable. I love it.

Photo #3 i tried to simulate "track-side photographer practically falling over to get the shot but it comes out blurry because the cars were going faster than he expected" 😂

Surely some of you photography nuts will be there too, right? 🥲 I'll be there with my father, hoping to see some IRL copies of some vettes in my collection.

obligatory corvette photos attached. I've been messing around with a lot of post processing stuff, seeing what works. "Pixlr and Paint make me the photographer I ain't" 😉

>!It's painted over, which means it was broken at the factory before it was painted. Also this is a color changer which is why it appears to have thicker paint than other cars.!<

I bought the lot for the color changers, but it came with some crack-ups and a flip-out car, too. They all work 🤗 I've never had one of those, so they're a nice cherry on top of my bubble-wrapped cake! Edit: i'll post more pics this evening, also I forgot to show a before & after of the baja bug and the '55 chevy

One car has a much longer gear shifter. Both cars are otherwise identical. My realriders red cobra (not pictured) has the longest shifter out of all of them. I didn't notice this difference until today.

I'm also wondering if there is any correlation between what years of the red cobra (particularly the blackwall ones) got long shifters and which ones got short ones, or is it totally random? I dont have any of these cars carded to be able to say so myself because the 3 BW red cobras are identical outside their packaging.

Could it be some kind of release agent used in the casting process? Or is it just play-doh? 😂

Black - 1987 - mainline - Malaysia

Green - 1991 - mainline - Malaysia

Blue (metalflake) - 1993 - 25th Anniversary Ford 5-Pack - Malaysia

Hot Wheels "The Hot Ones" Ferrari F40 chase from 2011

2011 was the first "revival" year of the original Hot Ones series (please correct me if i'm wrong), and each and every car in that series had it's own chase variant to be found. Unlike today, Hot Ones chase cars back then had red or white lines on the wheels. A car without any lines on the wheels was the common variation.

Why did they stop doing chase cars this way?! What's wrong with there being a chase version of every car in the series? I wish they never changed that!

I'm still missing a bunch of mainlines but the '77 Firebird collection is slowly growing

I never wanted this many sheriff patrols buy everytime I buy a group of color changers there's a sheriff patrol or three included. If you don't already know, the casting is based on the real life 1978 California Highway Patrol Dodge Monaco and debuted in its hot wheels form that same year. In the last pic you can get a good look at that robust cop pushbar attached to the cop front grille and beneath the cop headlights. You don't really get a sense of how imposing it is until you look at it up close.

The gimmick with the color changers- specifically the ones with tampos- is that when the car is in its darkest (coldest) color only the white "TAXI" tampos are visible, and when in its lightest (warmest) color only the POLICE tampos are visible. In theory. Unfortunately it's been 37 years and their ability to change colors has diminished quite a bit and doesn't really sell the illusion anymore. (Is there anyone here who had these back in the '80s and can tell us if they ever worked that well, at all?)

There are only 4 body color variations, of which I have 3. The 4th has yellow stars, white "STAR TAXI" and "TAXI" text, with all other tampos being a nice shade of royal blue. It seems to be the most difficult variation to locate.

I recently found out through someone else's ebay listing- of all places- that there is an uncommon base variation featuring the number "75" above the word "SHERIFF." The first release of the sheriff patrol was in 1978, so I have no clue what the number 75 is referencing. Aside from that, there are only 2 other base variations I'm aware of. One is identical to the 75 SHERIFF version but without the 75 SHERIFF part, and the other prominently features the HOT WHEELS banner logo. The variation with the banner logo only appears on the Automagic version of the car.

STACKABILITY: 9/10. Fantastic. In just a couple minutes I was able to get two different styles of stacks that were each 6 cars high. I'm sure if I kept at it for an hour I could get 8 or more in a stack. I don't like to fiddle with car stacking for too long, though, because it only takes a couple oopsie daisies before paint chips start appearing. And I don't know how many of these hefty metal-on-metal cars it takes before the axles on the bottom-most car start to bend, and I dont want to find out.

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Corgi was a British die-cast manufacturer bought out by Mattel in 1989. Hot Wheels subsequently re-released some cars using Corgi's old castings, thus we have a few hot wheels releases from the 1990s known as Corgi cars. This period only lasted a few years however, as the Corgi company was purchased back from Mattel and allowed to be their own company again in 1996. Corgi regained rights to their old designs and Hot Wheels was forced to make their own dies from their own designs should they ever want to release those car models again. And that's exactly what happened. Let me know if i got any of the details wrong; I'm only just now learning about Corgi myself.

Personally i much prefer the contemporary Hot Wheels casting of the 308 GTS over the old Corgi design. The same goes for the Corgi Testarossa and Corgi Ferrari 348. I am not a Corgi fan 😐

This was not AI generated. I'm autistic and I write like a robot.