K-Mart Mail In Gasser
Had to see this one in the sunlight...
Chinese Remix
I’ve been on a strange hunting tear the last couple of months, and its for an often ignored segment of the diecast world…the generic/ripoff Chinese diecast world. I read a thread over on Swiftys over the summer about these strange knockoff diecasts with UN logos on them, one of which being a white Tundra that was a…
Hot Wheels ’71 Plymouth Satellite
From the 17 Halloween Series, the ’71 Plymouth Satellite. The series has been hard to find around here, I’ve only seen a few in each Walgreens around me, and nowhere else. The Satellite is the standout of the bunch, as far as I’m concerned. Heavy body, metal base, feels like a premium release but at a mainline price…
CF Nissan Bluebird Turbo and Toyota Corolla Levin
Just arrived from the Netherlands today, CF Nissan Bluebird Turbo and a CF Toyota “CorollaLevin”. These were discussed recently via vdubyajohn’s CF 911 post. CF was a mysterious series of diecasts, all Tomica clones, produced by an unknown Hong Kong manufacturer and potentially with original/modified Tomica molds…
Multipack Repacks
Came across about 10 clearly repackaged HW 9 packs at a Walmart this weekend. These weren’t quite the normal repacked returns, however. Typically when these are spotted the one or two good things are removed, and some random crap thrown in…maybe HWs, maybe beat up Maistos, maybe some other garbage, sometimes the…
Goodwill Haul Strikes Back!
Hit up the Goodwill just now, again in hopes of picking up some records…and also to see if any more diecast popped up since my last visit.
Goodwill Hawl!
I’ve read numerous stories about folks here finding good stuff at thrift stores…but it never really happened to me until recently. I’ve been hitting up goodwills and such a lot lately, searching for vinyl records (my current obsession) and I am starting to find diecasts…maybe just because I’m frequenting them more.…
Holy Grail Hawl!
I’ve been a big fan of the MBX National Parks & Forest Service series vehicles for the last couple of years, and have managed (with some degree of difficulty) to obtain all the various models and variations of both series, and also some related vehicles that don’t quite fit in with the series but are accepted by…
Mailhawl!
K-Day 510....should have one or two more coming soon. Can’t wait to crack one open!
HW Scion FR-S Twins…Stance, Yo!
Had some FRSs on my to-swap pile, saw some other custom FRSs using the new sawblade wheels, liked how they looked, and wanted to do a couple of my own. Stanced it a bit for that “I’m going to completely ruin my handling cause I want to look stupid” look that’s ever so popular these days.
Maisto Find
Found this Maisto International Durastar Flatbed with VW Beetle Cabriolet recently, and couldn’t resist. Somebody else here posted one of these sets the other day, and made the argument that the International wasn’t a good representation. I would mostly agree, but I think in this example its cartoonisheness is not…
Matchbox Oldsmobile Aerotech Wheelswap
The buzz last week surrounding the Craigslist Aerotech got me thinking about the Matchbox Oldsmobile Aerotech that I loved as a kid. I loved the real Aerotech as a kid (and as a greying adult), and at the NY Autoshow the year it appeared, I stared at it as long as my parents would let me (much in the same way I ogled…
M2 VW Double Cabs
I was lucky enough to find all the regular VW Double Cabs (No Chases, sadly). I was able to find doubles of most of them, but only opened a few of the doubles. I noticed that some of them were very similar to other M2 VW releases that I own, so here are a couple that stood out to me. And if anyone has a chase tow…
New 55 Gassers
Found a 20 pack on Tuesday in a post-Christmas shopping frenzy that contained a lot of new goodies, including a lovely satin green GT3 RS, the yellow Escort RS 1600, a few other multipack exclusives, and this new blue Gasser.
Tien Integra and S2000 – Dye Experiment #1
Yesterday I posted a Fairlady 2000 that took a RIT dye bath and came out an unintentional clone of the next Fairlady release. That was the second test in my somewhat successful dye experiment. The original test piece was a Tien-liveried Acura Integra GSR. I had done JH swaps on the other original white Tien releases,…
Hot Wheels Fairlady 2000 – Dye Experiment
I’m a big fan of the recent Fairlady 2000 release by Hot Wheels, and have done a few wheelswaps with some of the ones in my collection. I experimented recently with using RIT dye on another casting that I may do a post on soon, and while that one was somewhat successful, I threw a Fairlady into the dye bath along with…
356 Day? Or go the other way….918 Day!
Completely in effort to be pointlessly contrary….the 918 Spyder! I don’t have any pics readily available of any 356s from my collection, but I do have something from the complete opposite end of the Porsche spectrum. I can’t imagine the designers of the 356 could ever have envisioned this one coming about a half…
Matchbox Mercedes-Benz SLR McLaren. 2009 vs 2016
Among Matchboxes recent revival, a standout can be found in the re-release of the SLR McLaren. Somewhat surprisingly, it hasn’t fallen victim to Matchboxes continual cost cutting measures. I dug out my 2009 version and compared it to the new 2016 version, and while the colors are slightly different, it is thankfully…
Whoops?
Latest error find....found in a Dollar General. Weight Reduction Stage 1.5?
K-Day Mail In 55 Corvette
I’ve yet to attend a K-Day, and likely never will, but thankfully the two or three remaining K-Marts near me have a habit of putting everything out in the days before or following the K-Day events. The most recent two I was able to find the exclusives without any issues, and the last one yielded a number of goodies…
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