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| Car Of The Day: May 25, 2008; Majorette '88 Nissan 300ZX | |
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| Tweet Topic Started: May 24 2008, 11:57 PM (968 Views) | |
| Swifty | May 24 2008, 11:57 PM Post #1 |
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The Mustang II is a Mustang too!
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![]() Today's car of the day is Majorette's '88 Nissan 300ZX. ![]()
![]() For more information and pictures of the real car please visit: Nissan 300ZX ![]() Two opening features on this casting! Not only do the doors open, but the headlights pop-up as well! ![]() The only real letdown is the yellow plastic headlight piece instead of a body matching orange (it could do with better rims as well, but considering this was a mainline release intended primarily as a toy we'll let that slide). Aside from that, this is an excellent piece.
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| FiatCoupe | May 25 2008, 03:08 AM Post #2 |
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Nice,I've got a couple of those but haven't seen that colour. |
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| davidj94 | May 25 2008, 06:58 AM Post #3 |
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Out hunting for JL
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The headlight feature is pretty neat. There was a little extra time spent on designing this little casting. Is there anything peculiar with the base on this Majorette casting? |
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| ivantt | May 25 2008, 12:12 PM Post #4 |
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New casting? Quick! Take it apart!
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OWWWW! MY EYES! Quick, the sunglasses....orange and yellow with red interior!! BUT the glass is clear!! I guess the interior had to be red since it shares the molding tongue for the tail lights.DAVIDJ is right, you can see they put an extra effort into this piece, and it certainly looks well done and probably the best Majorette I've seen so far. Are those rear bumpers the US required safety standards at the time, and they added them to the base? Do the headlights lift together (connected by a crossbar) or individually? Nice looking piece, SWIFTY, you must have gotten it brand new and preserved it well.
A worthy entry for the CotW competition!
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| Swifty | May 25 2008, 03:50 PM Post #5 |
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The Mustang II is a Mustang too!
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The headlights lift together (connected by a bar). And actually, I bought this one off of Jeff Koch over a year ago. Not from my childhood collection, though we will be seeing some of my childhood survivors eventually.
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| craftymore | May 25 2008, 10:59 PM Post #6 |
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Support your local demo derby.
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Great looking casting from Majorette. The wheels, which can be found on the 80s Impala/Caprice, are the only letdown. I'd agree with Sean though, we can let it slide for such a nice casting. Thanks for the pics! Sir Crafty |
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| james_autos | May 28 2008, 11:38 AM Post #7 |
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Minivan
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I've never seen that colour on that model either. I have the same casting in yellow, but surprisingly the pop-up lights are white? |
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| Swifty | May 29 2008, 01:03 AM Post #8 |
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The Mustang II is a Mustang too!
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I have a white model with the pop-ups in white. I wonder if maybe they produced too many of the white version, resprayed them yellow, and had to go with the white pop-ups. Then phased in yellow ones, only to run into the same problem on the orange model? Or maybe someone at Majorette just thought they should have contrasting colored pop-ups? The world may never know. |
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| Swifty | May 24 2018, 11:11 PM Post #9 |
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The Mustang II is a Mustang too!
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Ten years later... and the world still doesn't know. But we have, however, determined that it takes more than three licks to get the Tootsie Roll center of a Tootsie Pop. Many more. |
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| tksjohn | May 25 2018, 09:32 AM Post #10 |
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Station Wagon
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I've always loved the pop up headlights on this one
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| juantoo3 | May 25 2018, 01:28 PM Post #11 |
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Classic Majo! |
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| Pegers | May 25 2018, 03:20 PM Post #12 |
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Pony Car
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X2. Edited by Pegers, May 25 2018, 03:20 PM.
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| pjedsel | May 25 2018, 05:51 PM Post #13 |
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Muscle Car
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Always liked the pop-up headlights on this Z car offering from Majorette. Think I had a white version of the car.
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| corvairjim | May 25 2018, 09:27 PM Post #14 |
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My wife is a Z-Car fan (she leans more toward the 280ZX) but I know she'd like this one. I can't figure out why they went with the contrasting headlights, though. You have the molds, cast the plastic in a color that matches the paint for heaven's sake! And maybe choose a color that doesn't clash so badly with the red gut. Okay, enough of my nit-picking. It IS a nice casting except for that rear bumper. |
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| Dean-o-mite | May 27 2018, 03:03 AM Post #15 |
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Muscle Car
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I have no factual information regarding the lights, but I wonder if Majorette intentionally used contrasting colors for the headlights to draw attention to the fact that they were additional "Action Moving Parts!"![]() |
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| bison1913 | May 27 2018, 03:12 AM Post #16 |
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Station Wagon
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They just don't make them like this anymore... at least for the price. What a shame. Even in today's dollar/inflation they wouldn't make them like this unless they were charging an arm and a leg. Those are some awesome looking pieces you have there.
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Always liked the pop-up headlights on this Z car offering from Majorette. Think I had a white version of the car.



Even in today's dollar/inflation they wouldn't make them like this unless they were charging an arm and a leg.
Those are some awesome looking pieces you have there.
2:35 PM Jul 11