Hot Wheels Car Culture Series - Japan Historics: Nissan Skyline HT 2000GT-X, Toyota 2000GT, '71 Datsun 510 Wagon & Nissan Skyline 2000 GT-R Kenmeri Police

So I have the Mazda RX-3 posted by itself here.  RX-3 by far was my favorite.  I'm not the biggest fan of 510 wagons by Hot Wheels, but it's my second favorite in the series.  I doubt it'll touch the $uper Treasure version, or the TLV wagon, but it's still cool.

Skyline & 2000GT were 'meh' for me.  Still quite an upgrade over the other Hot Wheels premium line I've been seeing which were consistently "ugh", or "zzz....".

First the Skyline:

Toyota 2000 GT

Very bumpy/grainy looking surface painted in green.

510 Wagon:

My favorite angle.  Great looking rims & tires.

Last one: Kenmeri Police.....  I think this one had the potential to be the best in the series, but in my opinion, it lacked couple of things.  First the good:  Great casting & killer rims/tires.

Now the two points deducted:  1) Whenever the roof mounted police light's missing, you deduct a point for that.  Those things cost money to produce, I understand, I still deduct a point.  2) White fender flares.  See the shot with the Tomica counterpart for example.  To those who are familiar with Japanese "patrol cars"(Japanese name for police cars, 'patocar' for short), breaks/gaps those white fender flares create are strange sight.

Click here for the Tomica Kenmeri patrol car.

It'd been nice if Mattel actually had better distribution channels to get these to your local stores($4 a car).  I check a lot of stores, many different chains & I witnessed exactly one casting(Kenmeri Skyline police).  It was defective, so I left it.  Many collectors paid the markup & shipping from online resellers.