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Love a Parade: Legendary Motors’ 1956 Chrysler Parade Phaetons are here

Back before a certain November morning in Dallas, the idea of a presidential parade usually included a glimpse of the Commander in Chief, either seated in, or standing and waving from, a special parade car. If not the leader of the free world, then beauty pageant winners, television personalities, or foreign heads of state got […]

The Phantom Menace: Automodello’s Corsair is on deck

Those 57 Varieties must have been running pretty well when Rusty Heinz contracted Maurice Schwartz (of Bohman & Schwartz coach builders) to help design and build a special car, atop an already special machine. Thus the dashing coachwork of the Phantom Corsair, of which only one would ever be made, was built onto a Cord […]

Variation Alert!: 2012 Hot Wheels “Flight `03”

2012 Hot Wheels Flight `03 Notice the stripes on these are different – the roof has yellow, orange & white; on one, the side stripes are correct and match. On the others, the yellow is gold. The orange stripe is a different color on some, too. I think the ones that match with yellow in […]

Greenlight Announces Two New 1968 Ford Mustang Fastback Decos

GreenLight has recently announced the release of two new paint schemes on their 1968 Ford Mustang fastback tooling. The first car features a classic black paint job that accents the clean, aggressive lines on the iconic Ford; the second draws on the popularity of the race inspired Mustangs, with a “Jimbo’s Pure Oil ‘Go Go […]

Making a Marque: New from MiniMarque of England

Get those shelves ready: MiniMarque’s Limited Edition 1955 Cadillac Eldorado will be available within the next 30-45 days. It will debut in 4 factory colors – Pacific Coral, Mist Green, Dresden Blue Poly and Deep Cherry Poly. It gets better: you can choose top-up or top-down versions, for a total of eight various exterior trims […]

Bonus Photos! Tamiya 1:12 Ferrari 288 GTO

When space becomes the final frontier – which it always does at deadline time – we have to pick the photos we’ll be using in print. It’s never easy, and it always means that a bunch of snaps get left on our virtual cutting room floor. That’s a shame, because the photos are already-processed, nicely […]

End of the Line: Supercar Collectibles’ 1:18 AWB Plymouth Final Four

All good things really do have to end, and that’s the case with Supercar Collectibles’ successful lineup of 1:18 1965 Plymouth AWB – “Altered Wheel Base” – drag cars. This trio – a Sox & Martin car, and a brace of “Golden Commandos” machines, in injected and carbureted form – are new to the market, […]

The “Die Cast X Road Show” coming to the Hershey Matchbox Show at the AACA Museum

I’m looking forward to joining my Die Cast X Magazine pals as we bring the Die Cast X Road Show to the Matchbox Toy Show at the AACA Museum in Hershey, PA this Sunday, September 25th, 2011. I will be there along with Joe Kelly Jr. and Andy Goodman – stop in to the booth […]

TrueScale Miniatures 1:18 Tyrrell P34s: The Odd Get Even

Oh, to be odd. To flip convention off like a bad pair of shoes. To break through the walls of normalcy with a loud crash… okay, scratch that last one. Crashing isn’t what most race car designers and engineers are aiming for, per se. But sometimes, it takes a trip far afield to cheat physics, […]

GreenLight’s “Under the Hood” Collectors Contest!

Who has the ultimate GreenLight display? GreenLight’s Official Collectors Club, “Under The Hood” (UTH), is opening its doors and welcoming the die cast community! What was once a paid membership club will now be offered as a free, interactive GreenLight Community, starting September 1st, 2011. From production to distribution, this will be the one-stop place […]