u/adamsredlines

These are so insanely rare and underappreciated. The two new ones are the dark blue ww solid short card (not white background) and the green bw BP.

Oddball one here, this was a product of Larry Cox at the Mattel Model Shop. They had an internal competition to use existing Mattel components, re-imagine them being used on potential new Hot Wheels lines, and see how well they race. His entry was to use Rrrumbler wheels on the back of a regular HW, he happened to choose the Classic Cord. These were obviously conceptual and crudely done, but still super cool in their own right. He has said, and I can confirm....this performs HORRIBLY on the track LOL. This was part of the RLOL era "Texas Find" that had protos and other oddball (light blue RLBB, pink Roger Dodger, etc) tjat was brought to the collector community by the late Bruce Kalapach aka iamredliner.

Who is the lucky buyer? 🤣

These show up on occasion but are usually trashed. This one has the green showing on driver front fender and ain't in too bad of shape. Interesting that the brown can change to green on these.

That being said, these are in no way related to the BW era "green fender". Those are transition pieces. This is just some weird "fade" or something. Some day one will show up thats completely green, and also not chippy.

Yes boredom makes a guy get into silly stuff.

Black and white.

Yin and yang

Or just a bunch of spare tires?

New to me 5th gen recently, figured Id share and also post up the previous Rams I've owned.

2019 1500 Crew 4X4 6.3ft bed 5.7

2004 1500 RCSB 4.7 swapped to 5.7

2003 2500 QCSB 4X4 5.9 CTD

2001 1500 RCSB 4X4 5.2

Cool snippet from a video interview I found with Larry Wood talking about the Classic Cord. I now own the car shown. It went from Larry Wood, to Bob Rosas, and I bought it from Bob.

I guess he also mentions the patterns too, which I posted about the other day LOL.

Hopefully not a repost.

So first they do the approval sample, which is the one I posted thats a little bigger and rounded. Mattel gives approval for the concept, and then they really work at making the acetate. These are hand made and fully detailed. They only make one acetate, then they make a mold from it and cast resin copies for various purposes. So acetate is 1 of 1, resin can have any number of copies. This was also from the Larry Wood Collection.

Always like this set because of the prominent Duesenberg logo on the header card, and obviously that it has a Doozie Illustrated and included. Has a few other nice black walls with it too LOL

So these old B&W pictures are from the book shown in the last picture, they show three Mattel employees all sitting around the Cord pattern which I now own. I wish I could remember who the third one with the beard is but the other two are Larry Wood and Larry Cox. Cool to have that little extra bit of history with one of your pieces.

Various stages.

Yes its real....

Anybody recognize?

Not the worst mail call I've ever had! Another Auburn/Doozie 2-pak, another dark blue ww Leo Doozie and another green fender Doozie. All are duplicates, but.....Im addicted!

Red: Cipsa

White: Acetate Prototype

Blue: Brass Prototype

Pick this up at the charity auction a few years ago, Larry Wood had a cage at Mattel and all the cars were organized by trays like this and they auctioned off some of the trays in a big lot. Acquired the Doozie one from that and filled it with the green Doozie as it was specified. Something silly, but something cool too.

Canadian Flag Cards are super cool!

No, JPS, THIS is camping in style.

Cipsa Cord and Rrrevers camper.

I don't think these have ever been discussed here. *This is not mine*. Early in the tampo process, there was a proposed use of them to make "Star Cars" series. One was the 31 Doozie with the Cher logo on the side. Others included a Fonzie 57 Chevy, Bionic Woman Vette, spoiler sport and a few others. Kinda neat.