I like Super Chromes.....

I like Super Chromes.  Before I started selling off my collection, I had both Super Chromes Morris Mini(carded & loose).  I even have the Ice Cream Truck from the set.

When one of the collectors from GTPlanet posted his haul one day, saw a brand new Super Chromes as a mainline...... and one of my favorite castings Custom Dodge Van, I'm not gonna lie.  This non-collector was pretty stoked. lol

This Tricera Truck casting is for one of my nephews.  Little kids like weird castings like this.  Shark Bite, that Piranha car, they eat that stuff up, no pun intended.  Very cool vintage JDM, old American Muscle, nothing.  Casting resembling animals, dinosaurs, these guys really get up for those.  :(

Anywho, Super Chromes Custom Dodge Van's for me.  Our family used to have I think '78 Dodge Van when I was a kid.  A conversion van with a TV & VCR, recliner, I thought it was the coolest thing.  Decades later, I still adore this ugly van(beautiful casting by Mattel though).  ;)

Also wanted to share couple other items from Walmart.  If I was still collecting, I'd have bought these:

Bad ass flames.

Always wondered what these Ford vans looked like before the re-release.  Not many of these showed up used on eBay/TTP when I was buying, and when they did, very poor pictures.  This one here actually looks really nice!

Noice.

Hot Wheels 40th Anniversary Super Chromes Set - Ice Cream Truck

I've been meaning to do a post on just Ice Cream Trucks.  For an unknown reason, it's one of the castings I fancy.  Maybe because I like ice cream.  :D

Old pics, on stock Tomicarama Shell set.  Before it grew.

Hot Wheels RLC 2016 Membership '55 Chevy Bel Air Gasser Black/Chrome

So, I've been clearing out my hot wheels/minicars since I stopped actively collecting.  I've been digging out cars I forgot I had & some of them are really cool, like this 2016 Membership cars from the Hot Wheels Club/Red Line Club.  

I think only the first 3,000 to signup received this black & chrome Bel Air Gasser.  Next 4,500 got the red/white, next 5,500 blue/white.  Although Red Line Club is one of the reasons why I'm pulling out of collecting(mercilessly glitchiest website), it's easy to see why I joined in the first place.  These things are work of art.  *drool*

Matchbox Working Rigs - International Durastar 4400 Flatbed Transporter

I didn't buy this, but as a transporter fan, I had to take a closer look at this one.  It screams GreenLight amirite.

Flatbed is big enough to haul your average size hot wheel cars & quality did seem above average.  On the downside, it's not 1/64 & $4.97 is bit pricey.

This Walmart had dump bin overflowing with new cars, but it had already been raked through with butt scratchers.  What I picked up for my nephews:

Clay, or not clay.... That is the question: M2 Machines SUPER CHASE 1970 Buick GSX

Saw this online, M2 Super Chase limited to 250 pieces.  I'm like "this is clay", I always wanted a clay mockup model!

Wait.  Jig's up.  This is not clay.  This is a diecast painted to look like clay model.

You can see the light coming through the painted up windows.

So rare, so cool, but one thing it is not.  Not clay.  lol