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| Car of the Day: September 1, 2015; Johnny Lightning '57 Chevrolet Nomad | |
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| Dean-o-mite | Sep 1 2015, 05:05 AM Post #1 |
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![]() Today's car of the day is from corvairjim's collection, and is Johnny Lightning's 1957 Chevrolet Nomad. ![]()
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| Hobie-wan | Sep 1 2015, 10:11 AM Post #2 |
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Great looking Nomad. |
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| daniel60 | Sep 1 2015, 02:02 PM Post #3 |
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She's a keeper! |
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| JeepXJLover | Sep 1 2015, 03:20 PM Post #4 |
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Small casting, but one of my favorites. I think I have all the stock looking releases of this casting. |
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| juantoo3 | Sep 1 2015, 06:41 PM Post #5 |
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Only the second small scale diecast 57 Nomad I ever recall seeing, the first being a crude example most would call generic, I don't remember now if Zylmex or someone else. I'm sure better could be done now, but it certainly is charming. |
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| Dean-o-mite | Sep 1 2015, 06:52 PM Post #6 |
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![]() Car of the Day: Zylmex '57 Nomad |
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| juantoo3 | Sep 1 2015, 07:10 PM Post #7 |
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That's the one. |
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| corvairjim | Sep 1 2015, 09:26 PM Post #8 |
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I've always liked station wagons. I guess that comes from having a succession of 3-seat Chevy wagons when I was a kid. The Nomad was the first 2-door wagon I was familiar with, as a result of my Antifreeze Green Hot Wheels Nomad that was in my stocking on Christmas 1969 (or was it 1970???). That car was my favorite when I was a kid Then 2-door wagons made their return in a small way with the Vega and Pinto wagons. Thing is, they were clapped-out disposable cars while the Nomad just oozed STYLE. Fast-forward to roughly 2010 and my return to the diecast car hobby. Johnny Lightning soon became my favorite brand...AND THEY HAD NOMADS!!! It took me while to score this little beauty, in that I found it in a vendor's tent at a huge car show in Macungie, PA (that's near Allentown for those of you not in my neck of the woods). The guy has probably 600 Johnnies on display for just $4 each every year. Every year I pick up 10-15 cars from him that I didn't have yet. OK, I'm rambling. Bottom line: This is probably my 2nd-favorite Nomad in my collection, second to the Antifreeze Green Hot Wheels Nomad that a friend RAOK'ed to me when I mentioned in a post of his on Hobby Talk that I wish I'd seen the auction on eBay that included the car in a multi-Redline deal.Unfortunately he's disappeared from the website and, as far as I know, all other diecast sites as well. If he's on Swifty's, He's using a different screen name. (If anyone wants to RAOK me my second-favorite childhood Redline, feel free to pack up that purple Olds 442 - You know, the ultra rare one. I'd be a friend for life! I made the mistake of including that one in the box of my old cars that I gave my kids to play with. One day my son got REALLY ticked off with me and went outside with the box of cars, and methodically flattened them on the sidewalk with a brick. I came outside to see what that strange sound was just as the brick came down on the 442. )
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| pjedsel | Sep 1 2015, 09:40 PM Post #9 |
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Station wagons are always great to see in small scale die cast and this one from JL is a winner. I liked that they did the Tri Five series in wagons. I, too, am a big station wagon fan having just retired my trusty "Quirky" '00 Taurus at 250,000 miles. I grew up in a '55 Chevy 210 Handyman 2 door wagon.
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| JeepXJLover | Sep 3 2015, 06:05 PM Post #10 |
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Still hunting for the copper one with gold flames and gold roof. Then I will have all the releases of this casting that I want.
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| corvairjim | Sep 3 2015, 10:37 PM Post #11 |
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Sweet collection of Nomads! I want to find a few more but, with JL being defunct, that won't be easy. version of this great casting.They missed the boat by not doing a BWF |
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| Dean-o-mite | Sep 4 2015, 02:02 AM Post #12 |
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Each of the Johnny Lightning '55, '56, & '57 Nomads were done in BWF.![]() |
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| corvairjim | Sep 5 2015, 11:09 PM Post #13 |
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Cool! That's one I need to be looking for... And the other two as well. |
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Station wagons are always great to see in small scale die cast and this one from JL is a winner. I liked that they did the Tri Five series in wagons. I, too, am a big station wagon fan having just retired my trusty "Quirky" '00 Taurus at 250,000 miles. I grew up in a '55 Chevy 210 Handyman 2 door wagon.


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