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| Car Of The Day: January 26, 2010; Pit Row '92 Pontiac Grand Prix (Mike Wallace) | |
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| Tweet Topic Started: Jan 26 2010, 03:17 AM (461 Views) | |
| Swifty | Jan 26 2010, 03:17 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 Pit Row (Pole Position?)'s 1992 Pontiac Grand Prix (Mike Wallace). ![]()
![]() For more information and pictures of the real car please visit: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pontiac_Grand_Prix ![]() This one is a bit of a mystery. The brand states that it is Pit Row, but the "Encyclopedia Of Small Scale Diecast Motor Vehicle Manufacturers" indicates this to be a Pole Position product. I vaguely remember both brands being available in K-Mart in the early 1990s and it seems to me as if they are the same. ![]()
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| jedimario | Jan 26 2010, 08:15 AM Post #2 |
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RAWR
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Somehow I just don't see the Orkin man rolling up to my house in that
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| Swifty | Jan 26 2010, 02:18 PM Post #3 |
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The Mustang II is a Mustang too!
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Would make the visit much faster though! And the noise from the engine would probably scare off all the other pests in the neighborhood- stray dogs and cats, birds, neighbors...
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| Sak | Jan 26 2010, 07:20 PM Post #4 |
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Ezekiel 25:17
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They've come a long way, baby... |
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| ivantt | Jan 26 2010, 09:33 PM Post #5 |
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New casting? Quick! Take it apart!
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I think Swifty and I once talked about the sharp rise in quality of NASCAR diecasts, all scales and then how it plateaued in the early 2000's, and now has declined in sales. The 1/64ths were a really big change. I have some early cars that I found in $1 bins at the track sales and trailers, and the crudity and simplified productions back then are almost laughable, now. No attempt to make the markings accurate or to scale with the car--(or the car accurate, for that matter) -just the overall general image, and I guess that's what people were happy to get. Most of the early releases had "stickers" on them, then later water slide decals, and then finally printing and tampos. They got better and better, and now some better brand 1/64ths are just as nicely done as any 1/24 diecasts. They even look quite accurate, nowdays. Quite a ride. This diecast is a good represenation of diecast NASCAR racers back in the early 1990's. It also shows how long Mike Wallace has been active in driving. Edited by ivantt, Jan 26 2010, 09:35 PM.
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| Swifty | Jan 27 2010, 02:14 AM Post #6 |
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The Mustang II is a Mustang too!
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I have quite a few of those early NASCAR diecasts- most with some light playwear as I was still a kid at the time and I enjoyed playing with them! The original Racing Champions pieces were so horribly crude by today's standards- I had a Thunderbird with the windshield in backwards! Not to mention most of the various cars they made could come on any casting they offered (I have Harry Gant in a Pontiac instead of an Oldsmobile). Pit Row was a step up. Racing Champions got better. I liked the Hot Wheels racing line that came out around 1997-98. What irritated me was that Action started getting some of the drivers in exclusive agreements so I couldn't complete my field of cars with all the drivers in similar looking cars. I hated mixing in the Racing Champions and Hot Wheels with the ugly Action castings. I stopped collecting NASCAR diecast for the most part in 1999, and I'm glad I did. The combination of not all drivers being available combined with the drastic price increase at that time combined to kill that part of the hobby for me. |
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| minicup | Jan 27 2010, 06:52 PM Post #7 |
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Midsize
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All I can say is yes the quality that has happened with them is quite a rise from 20 years ago lol... Nowadays you can make a custom NASCAR and you probably won't be able to tell unless you are into it and no what ones have and havn't been produced... All I can say comparing to what I have now... WOW... I like mine glad we arn't to that level back then.. To touch on the side in 1/64 it's disappointing as that's the scale I collect mainly and you would think if anything would go up in sales it would be 1/64 as there cheaper but most have been getting canceled cause of MOQ issues. What can ya do... |
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And the noise from the engine would probably scare off all the other pests in the neighborhood- stray dogs and cats, birds, neighbors...


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