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| Car of The Day: April 12, 2010; Hot Wheels '71 Ford Maverick Grabber | |
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| Tweet Topic Started: Apr 11 2010, 09:58 PM (535 Views) | |
| craftymore | Apr 11 2010, 09:58 PM Post #1 |
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![]() The car for today is Hot Wheels' 1971 Ford Maverick Grabber. ![]()
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![]() This is from the HWs 2010 New Models series and is a new casting. Nice to see them use the same size wheel front and back on this Mav. ![]() ![]()
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| James | Apr 11 2010, 11:29 PM Post #2 |
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Mr.Bowtie
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I am happy with it. It was a car worthy of memorializing in diecast.
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| Sak | Apr 12 2010, 07:36 AM Post #3 |
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Ezekiel 25:17
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They certainly captured it! It was a car for young working people, built to a very low price. Some of the early stripper editions didn't even have a glove box!!! The Maverick was a brisk seller, especially in six-cylinder form, after the 1973 gas crisis. The Falcon, happy to say, never died- they continued building it in Australia, where now it's in its seventh or eighth generation, and is an enviable vehicle. Mavericks have been available from Tiger Wheels, Motor Max, and Johnny Lightning. There was also the Hot Wheels redline, and Topper Johnny Lightning versions of an earlier day. |
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| WoloMan | Apr 12 2010, 12:23 PM Post #4 |
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Midsize
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HW did a really good job on this one...a lot of detail for a mainline. In my area, this is as hard to find as a hunt.
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| Swifty | Apr 12 2010, 04:37 PM Post #5 |
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The Mustang II is a Mustang too!
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This is definitely a challenging one to find- I grabbed one but never did find another for the junkyard! The details are a bit lacking (headlights, taillights) but that's the only complaint about this car. I suspect we'll see a higher detailed version at a higher pricepoint in the not-too-distant future. |
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| craftymore | Apr 12 2010, 05:12 PM Post #6 |
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Suspect this might be done intentionally by HWs in some respects. I'd think this would make the Mav casting a future favorite of customizers. You mentioned earlier Swifty that HWs does pay attention to those that chop and repaint HWs, perhaps this is one of those instances. |
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| ivantt | Apr 12 2010, 05:36 PM Post #7 |
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New casting? Quick! Take it apart!
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Amazing Swifty, they are all over the stores here, including the short cards at all the Walmart checkouts I go to. |
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| Swifty | Apr 12 2010, 06:35 PM Post #8 |
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The Mustang II is a Mustang too!
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Not really surprising- at the end of last year/beginning of this year my Walmart (the only place I ever really check as it's the only place open on my schedule and local) got a flood of old cases (like early/mid '09- I found the GMC Motor Home and '55 Chevy Treasure Hunts....in November, if that gives you an idea of the selection). And we kept getting the same cases in. It was horrible! The pegs have only just now started to sprout new cars. The same thing happened to Matchbox- they kept sending an endless stream of the same few batches over and over again, to the point where we were three or four batches behind at one point. We finally caught up in the last month. So just a run of old cases clogging the pegs as collectors already had the cars and so did a lot of the kids, too. Easter helped clear a lot of that out, thankfully! |
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| Tone | Apr 12 2010, 09:24 PM Post #9 |
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Rocket 88
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I remember seeing a photo of a Falcon Ghia from Argentina made in the 1990s that somebody posted. It used the original 1959 era Falcon body style. |
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| Swifty | Apr 12 2010, 09:36 PM Post #10 |
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The Mustang II is a Mustang too!
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1982: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Ford_Falcon_Gh%C3%ADa.jpg Looks like a Tempo (or a MK II European Granada) front end on a '60 Falcon! |
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| STUTZ | Apr 12 2010, 11:34 PM Post #11 |
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Nice HW casting for a buck! |
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In my area, this is as hard to find as a hunt.


3:20 AM Jul 11