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Picture Of The Week - 02/16/2008 It's not a cat
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#2
Posted 16 February 2008 - 08:54 AM
Oh wow!
I've never came across one of them at the Pegs. I guess I came in too late, lol.
They look sweet. Kind of like the lost love child of a TVR Cerbera, Jaguar XKE, and a Shelby Daytona.
I definitely like the motor popping through the bonnet.
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Can I get a pint of the Green paint?
I've never came across one of them at the Pegs. I guess I came in too late, lol.
They look sweet. Kind of like the lost love child of a TVR Cerbera, Jaguar XKE, and a Shelby Daytona.
I definitely like the motor popping through the bonnet.
*Added*
Can I get a pint of the Green paint?
This post has been edited by zilleonti: 16 February 2008 - 08:56 AM
. I'm not a big fan of this casting at all.
#5
Posted 16 February 2008 - 01:36 PM
I like the green with the real wheels the best. I wish they did a blue one so I could race one against a Cobra. JL could do a lot more with this casting but I don't think it really sold that well. 
Here is an okay site for some race car pics...
http://www.cheetahra...he_cheetah.html
Here is an okay site for some race car pics...
http://www.cheetahra...he_cheetah.html
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I feel a whole lot more like I do now, than when I first got here!
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I feel a whole lot more like I do now, than when I first got here!
#10
Posted 17 February 2008 - 12:27 PM
Another nice picture, Wyatt.
This was a car that most people never knew anything about it.
Actually, quite an unusual vehicle in its day.
I do remember that this particular casting did NOT sell well from the Rebel Rods releases.
Most on-line dealers, had these castings hanging around for a long time after the initial releases.
I have a couple of them in my collection. They have been put away for a very long time, so I may have to go dig one or two of them out to have another look at them. I believe that the "Real Wheels"TM rubber tire versions had Hoosier tires.
BYW, I liked the casting but just didn't like the wheels that were offered with the plastic tires.
That's just me, and how I felt at the time that this casting was current.
The rubber tire versions do look much better, IMHO.
Cheers. Cobra
This was a car that most people never knew anything about it.
Actually, quite an unusual vehicle in its day.
I do remember that this particular casting did NOT sell well from the Rebel Rods releases.
Most on-line dealers, had these castings hanging around for a long time after the initial releases.
I have a couple of them in my collection. They have been put away for a very long time, so I may have to go dig one or two of them out to have another look at them. I believe that the "Real Wheels"TM rubber tire versions had Hoosier tires.
BYW, I liked the casting but just didn't like the wheels that were offered with the plastic tires.
That's just me, and how I felt at the time that this casting was current.
The rubber tire versions do look much better, IMHO.
Cheers. Cobra
, I have all of the regular and WL versions
#19
Posted 28 August 2009 - 08:49 AM
If memory serves... this one was originally destined to be in the red-card cars sold in drugstores in the late 90s, part of JL's 3-tiered pricing scheme (99cent Rebel Rods, $1.99 red card, $2.99 regular cars). When that plan died a death, I suspect it got pushed into Rebel Rods, just to have a place to use it. It must have been coming along in the process already, but it just tells you how thin the pricing-structure idea was, if castings could be swapped interchangeably between series. (The Cobra was another one of those $1.99 cars...)
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