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No Trans Am race car diecasts?

Started by Ghoste, September 10, 2013, 10:18:32 AM

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Ghoste

I've never seen them anyway and you would think with an AAR and TA one it would be a nice addition to have a Posey and Gurney one.  Just wondering.

Aero426

Mattel licensing on the Cuda may be why no one has done it in large scale.    Wouldn't think the Challenger would have any issues preventing it from being done.   

The only ones I've seen are the small 1/64 cars.   Mattel did a couple of nice two car T/A "Pony Wars" sets.  One of them had the Posey car.   

Almost forgot, there were some real nice 1/32 scale slot cars out not too long ago.    They were in fairly low volume.

Ghoste

I have seen those.  You are quite likely right on the Mattel side but yeah, you'd think the Posey car wouldn't be too hard all things considered.

Aero426

It sure seems surprising no one has done them.    Auto Art did the Mustangs.   GMP (now defunct) did the gen 1 Camaros including the modern Hot Wheels 1993 T/A car.   So licensing may not be a complete non-starter.  Although perhaps you'd need one from AAR, one from Chrysler and one from Mattel.     

At 1000 cars each, If they did the 42, the 48, the 76 and 77 it would seem there are enough units to spread out the tooling cost.  Chassis and interior components could be shared.

Perhaps someone with more knowledge like Super Jim could comment.