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| Car Of The Day: January 5, 2010; Mandarin '66 Chevrolet Corvette Stingray | |
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| Tweet Topic Started: Jan 5 2010, 05:24 AM (852 Views) | |
| Swifty | Jan 5 2010, 05:24 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 Mandarin's 1966 Chevrolet Corvette Stingray. ![]()
![]() For more information and pictures of the real car please visit: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Checker_Marathon ![]() Not the most flattering C2 Corvette casting in existance, the Mandarin does however make up for it in charm. The casting is large, crude, and suffers from obvious casting lines and undersized tires (which unfortunately don't roll very well). Corvette experts feel free to correct me, but I am thinking this is a 1966 due to the three vents on the front fenders, and the lack of vents on the roof pillar. ![]()
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| craftymore | Jan 5 2010, 10:01 AM Post #2 |
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Support your local demo derby.
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Hey! This one is being ran two weeks too late too! Trying to find something redeemable about this one . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . yeah, I didn't find anything either. |
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| jedimario | Jan 5 2010, 11:51 AM Post #3 |
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RAWR
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Yuck! |
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| Swifty | Jan 5 2010, 02:30 PM Post #4 |
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The Mustang II is a Mustang too!
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Well, it is a Corvette. I don't think it could be redeemable.
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| harlans toys | Jan 5 2010, 03:27 PM Post #5 |
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matchbox
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copy of the lonestar casting? |
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| james_autos | Jan 5 2010, 04:01 PM Post #6 |
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Minivan
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I guess the casting isn't that bad, but those tiny wheels just make it look terrible. |
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| STUTZ | Jan 5 2010, 04:43 PM Post #7 |
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Diecast junkie
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It's a Lowrider.
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| Sak | Jan 5 2010, 05:58 PM Post #8 |
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Ezekiel 25:17
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A WORTHY candidate would've been the HW C2 convertible. There hasn't been much WORTHY lately. Edited by Sak, Jan 5 2010, 05:59 PM.
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| Supraman | Jan 5 2010, 07:32 PM Post #9 |
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Swifty's @Work Alter Ego
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Sometime NEXT WEEK there will be a WORTHY Corvette casting as COTD. There is a theme to this week and it isn't junk. Nor is it "vehicles made or powered by GM"... though the choices up to now qualify for that. Too bad I have something Moparish lined up for tomorrow.
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| ivantt | Jan 5 2010, 09:58 PM Post #10 |
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New casting? Quick! Take it apart!
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Okay, let me guess, Swifty. The theme this week is ? 1. Rubbish or Not? 2. Go-Kart Wheels on Cars 3. No one has heard of these diecast makers. Or cares. 4. The castings are bootlegs of other company's castings 5. Swifty still has a New Year's hangover |
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| jedimario | Jan 5 2010, 11:23 PM Post #11 |
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RAWR
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I'll take all of the above! Except part of #3, yesterday's was nice. |
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| Swifty | Jan 6 2010, 03:06 AM Post #12 |
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The Mustang II is a Mustang too!
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This is close. Actually, the theme of the week is diecast brands that haven't been featured as Car Of The Day yet. We're coming up on two years of this daily feature and I'm shooting to get to 100 different diecast brands represented in that time frame. We'll pass 90 with this week. So not too hard to do it if I can find some more cars. I have enough to run one additional one next week (another Corvette, and that one is stunning and will make up for this one). My other goal is to see how many days I can go with a different diecast manufacturer featured as COTD. Otherwise it becomes the Tomica/GreenLight/Johnny Lightning/Matchbox/Hot Wheels/M2 Machines show. Sometimes the castings are good, sometimes they aren't... @Harlan: Possibly! That was my first impression when taking the pics, the problem is I don't have one to compare it with.
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| Sak | Jan 6 2010, 05:53 AM Post #13 |
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Ezekiel 25:17
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Well, that makes sense. Meanwhile, I've never heard of Mandarin. And, judging by what I'm looking at, I'm justified in thinking the only Mandarin I want to see comes from the Number 1 Chinese Kitchen down the street. |
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| james_autos | Jan 6 2010, 05:20 PM Post #14 |
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Minivan
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I've heard of Mandarin. I saw a small collection of them at a toy fair a couple of years ago. They were all Japanese cars in 'Superfast' type boxes. I think the seller wanted £15 each for them, which was an absolute p**s take considering most people have never heard of them. |
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| ivantt | Jan 7 2010, 10:47 PM Post #15 |
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New casting? Quick! Take it apart!
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Sp far, so good, Swifty. Just remember when you start digging on the bottom of the river, you can expect a lot of rubbish. Hopefully, we'll see a few doubloons found in the silt we have never seen before! Go for it. |
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| STUTZ | Jan 8 2010, 08:39 PM Post #16 |
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Diecast junkie
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Please pick a Greenlight Corvette ('66 or '67 model) for next week Swifty. Greenlight did an EXCELLENT job on these cars (much better than Johnny Lightning). Not everyone like Corvettes, but the Greenlight Corvette castings are the nicest 1/64 scale castings at an affordable price IMHO. |
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| Swifty | Jan 9 2010, 03:19 AM Post #17 |
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The Mustang II is a Mustang too!
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While I agree with that statement 100% it'll be one of those unaffordable castings... But it's really REALLY good! I will make it a point to run at least one GL Corvette later on this year. I'd do it now but I don't want to give everyone Corvette overload right now. |
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| James | Jan 9 2010, 08:54 AM Post #18 |
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Mr.Bowtie
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Nothing wrong with Corvette overload, after all they are ............ |
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