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| Car Of The Day: January 4, 2010; Golden Wheel '70 Checker Marathon | |
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| Tweet Topic Started: Jan 4 2010, 12:39 AM (569 Views) | |
| Swifty | Jan 4 2010, 12:39 AM Post #1 |
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The Mustang II is a Mustang too!
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![]() Today's car of the day is Golden Wheel's 1970 Checker Marathon. ![]()
![]() For more information and pictures of the real car please visit: Checker Marathon ![]() This is the definitive Checker casting. Matchbox and Summer have both produced small scale Checkers, but this is by far the best casting. Here it is shown in vintage NYPD livery. Real Checkers would be an unusual choice for a police car, but there is method to the madness in Golden Wheel's case. They produced four new castings and released them in a four pack. '30s, '50s, '70s, and '90s taxis, police, and fire chief cars all using the same castings. I never did figure out what the '30s car is, but the '50s is an early '50s Chevy and the '90s is a Caprice Classic. ![]()
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| bangerkid45 | Jan 4 2010, 02:19 AM Post #2 |
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Ultimate American Banger Enthusiast!
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Great casting! Im glad you put it as COTD! One of my favorite Marathon castings besides the Matchbox one |
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| james_autos | Jan 4 2010, 03:41 AM Post #3 |
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Minivan
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Looks way better than the Matchbox! |
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| Swifty | Jan 4 2010, 05:23 AM Post #4 |
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The Mustang II is a Mustang too!
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You gave it to me on the condition it was made COTD.
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| Sak | Jan 4 2010, 07:58 AM Post #5 |
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Ezekiel 25:17
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James, can you picture an Austin FX3 as a police car? Of course not. And I can't picture this one as one, either. the tragedy is, it's a great tooling, and they did a GREAT JOB on the police livery. Shame it's not on a Plymouth Fury. |
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| craftymore | Jan 4 2010, 01:23 PM Post #6 |
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Support your local demo derby.
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This more than makes up for the lousy one we had for COTD yesterday. . . Scale wise, how big is this one? A winner in my book for zure. |
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| james_autos | Jan 4 2010, 03:04 PM Post #7 |
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Minivan
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They'd be good at accommodating crims (with seating for 4-5 in the back), but not so good at catching them (with a top speed of about 50mph). Funnily enough though, I've never actually been in one
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| be77bt | Jan 4 2010, 09:02 PM Post #8 |
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I like it . |
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| Sak | Jan 4 2010, 09:21 PM Post #9 |
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Ezekiel 25:17
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Zach, I saw them at the York show. Let's say they're not exactly small. 1:60 or so. |
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| STUTZ | Jan 4 2010, 10:42 PM Post #10 |
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Diecast junkie
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Kindda cool casting. Does the police model have a meter like the taxi model?
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| ivantt | Jan 4 2010, 11:24 PM Post #11 |
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New casting? Quick! Take it apart!
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Okay, I'll sort of let this one slide as far as being a cop car, although I got SAK's back on it and it really does walk the fine line line of sillyness. All that said, I'd love to have this one in my collection. |
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| craftymore | Jan 5 2010, 12:48 AM Post #12 |
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Support your local demo derby.
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Thanks for the info George.
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| Dragnet_Supporter | Jan 18 2010, 02:28 PM Post #13 |
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SUV
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Very nice, both car and police design. Never got this one. |
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You gave it to me on the condition it was made COTD.





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