The New Categouries

 

Yes, from the Take Five A Day - finaly a fully revealed plan of all the Cars Themes.

This is the way Mattel and Pixar and Disney and all the other Gods of our collecting lives now want us to complete and combine our Cars and Cars 2 diecast models.

The New Categouries

Airport Adventure Series - 7 cars

1 - Grem with Weapon 
2 - Airport Mater

 
3 - Holley Shiftwell



4 - Security Guard Finn



5 - Finn McMissile




6 - Krate Rainson-Wash
7 - Airport Waitress (Chase)

Festival Italiano Series - 10 cars

1 - Uncle Topolino







2 - Race Team Luigi








3 - Race Team Guido






4 - Franca
5 - Mama Topolino
6 - Francesca (Chase)
7 - Uncle Topolino's Band
8 - Uncle Topolino's Band
9 - Uncle Topolino's Band
10 - Uncle Topolino's Band

Lemons Series - 7 cars

1 - J Curby Gremlin





2 - Vladimir Trunkov






3 - Victor H





4 - Petey Pacer





 
5 - Tubbs Pacer




6 - Tubbs Pacer with Paint Spray
7 - Tolga Trunkov

Lightning McQueens Series - 5 cars

1 - Cactus Lightning McQueen
2 - Lightning Storm Lightning McQueen
3 - Lightning McQueen with Cone
4 - Cruisin´ Lightning McQueen
5 - Nature Drive Lightning McQueen

 

Maters Series - 6 cars

1- Race Team Mater
2 - Ivan Mater
3 - Kabuki Mater
4 - Francesco Fan Mater (Chase)
5 - Materhosen
6 - Dracula Mater
 

Palace Chaos Series - 9 cars

1 - Holley Shiftwell with Screen
2 - Mike Lorengine
3 - You the Bomb Mater
4 - Miles Axlerod with Open Hood (Chase)
5 - Maurice
6 - Victor Paveone 
7 - Mark Wheelsen
8 - Doug Speedcheck
9 - Palace Danger Finn McMissile
 

Piston Cup Series - 18 cars

1 - Chick Hicks
2 - Race Tow Truck Tom
3 - Bob Cutlass
4 - Darrell Cartrip
5 - Mrs The King
6 - Tex Dinoco
7 - Dinoco Helicopter
8 - The King
9 - Al Oft the Lightyear Blimp
10 - Nitroade No. 28
11 -  Marlon "Clutches" McKay
12 - Charlie Checker
13 - Dexter Hoover with Checkered Flag
14 - Lightning McQueen
15 - Sputter Stop No. 92
16 - Elvis RV
17 - RPM No. 64
18 - Race Official Tom

Retro Radiator Springs Series - 8 cars

1 - Sally
2 - Hank "Halloween" Murphy
3 - Lightning Ramone
4 - Dustin Mellows
5 - Brand New Mater
6 - Greta
7 - Edwin Kranks
8 - Mildred Bylane
 

Rust-Eze Racing Series - 8 cars

1 - Dusty Rust-Eze
2 - Mack (semi)
3 - Rusty Rust-Eze
4 - Jonathan Wrenchworths
5 - Lightning McQueen with Sign
6 - Fred
7 - Donna Pits
8 - Vern
 

Tuners Series - 10 cars

1 - Suki
2 - Kabuto
3 - DJ with Flames
4 - Wingo with Flames
5 - Harumi
6 - Yokoza
7 - Chisaki
8 - Snot Rod with Flames
9 - Boost with Flames
10 - Ichigo (Chase)

 

Wheel Well Motel Series - 11 cars

1 - Sheriff
2 - Sarge
3 - Red
4 - Hudson Hornet Piston Cup Lightning McQueen
5 - Sally
6 - Fillmore
7 - Flo
8 - Body Shop Ramone
9 - Luigi &...
10 -  ...Guido with Shaker and Glasses
11 - Waiter Mater

 

World Grand Prix Series - 17 cars

1 - Lightning McQueen with Racing Wheels
2 - Fransesco Bernoulli
3 - Nigel Gearsley
4 - Austin Littleton
5 - Raoul CaRoule
6 - Bruno Motoreau
7 - Miguel Camino
8 - Rip Clutchgoneski
9 - Erik Laneley
10 - Max Schnell
11 - Lewis Hamilton
12 - Shu Todoroki
13 - David Hobbscap with Headset
14 - Darrell Cartrip with Headset
15 - Brent Mustangburger with Headset
16 - Jeff Gorvette
17 - Alex Carvill

The Collection - March 2013

Mostly cars from the first film. Two haulers now. And Santa.

Lemons up front. The Race Teams in the back. And the rare to the right.

Bargain at the Flea Market

 Trunk Fresh - my second hauler. And my last. Or not.

Ok ok ok OKAY! I KNOW!

I KNOW I said erlier in a post some years ago (!) that I should restrict my collection NOT to include haulers. But just WAIT until you get the whole picture here!


So. Here it is. The whole picture:

A picture sent by a friend who was visiting a flea market this saturday.

I got a text and a pic from a friend this saturday. He was at a flea market. "Something of interest?"
"No" I answered. Then he told me that the cars were in mint condition and the price was low. So I asked him about the Trunk Fresh Hauler. "50 SEK but I´ll get it down a bit more!"
50 Swedish Crowns are something like 7 USD. That is cheap, even for the US, right? Here, a new one is like five times that.
So I couldnt resist.

Final price? 40 SEK (like 5,50 USD)

The left side opens up neatly. Plenty of place for Trunk Fresh Race Car.

A ramp for the Piston Cup Race Car. Everything in perfect condition.

Now I got both Trunk Fresh and Nitroade Haulers. And just as I thought in the beginning of my collecting career - they simply take too much space.

So this is the last one.

At least for now.

Treassure hunt at home

It all started with a juice accident.

A was playing with the apple juice pack and suddenly he had juice all over himself and that was the start of that morning.
I yelled at him and then I regret that. He ran into the bath room and locked the door.

After a few minutes when I tried to get him out, a disgruntled voice answered:

- I won´t come out unless we have a treassure hunt tonight.

So we did.

I bought two toy/sweet-things for about a dollar each. And then I draw some pictures and put them on the places I´ve painted above. (The picture above was divied into five different clues.)

Fun!

Rip Clutchgoneski - rare and... ugly

Ok, don´t get upset now, all you people from the Republic of New Rearendia - but I do consider Rip Clutchgoneski the least good looking car by all the World Grand Prix Race Cars.

By far.

All the other 10 cars come from real countries and, with the exception of Lightning McQueen, they are based on real cars. But Rip is a total made up character.

And it´s not that I don´t think Pixar should use their imagination to the fullest. And it´s not that I think a movie like Cars or Cars 2 need to be "realistic" - I know that would be impossible - AND bad.

 It´s just that... He´s so darn... UGLY!

 The colors... The forms. The name. Even the joke-made-up-country is bad...

And as a diecast - it´s not very well done either. The Rims are a lot bigger on the model than in the movie and that makes him look kind of clumsy.

According to the Cars: Character Encyclopedia book, Rip was actually meant to die during the first World Grand Prix race, hence his name Rip (Rest In Peace). This did not happen. I´m very glad, because I can´t see how they should have pulled that of in a nice way in a movie like Cars 2.

Action/feelgood for kids WITH SOME MURDERS! Now worries, no real cars were harmed during the recordings...

Now. Having these complains said... I am very happy to have Rip aboard! Now my Race Car collecion from Cars 2 finally is complete!

And a good thing with the not so good looking cars is - all the other cars now looks twice as good!

New update on my goals - 4 of 6 goals reached!

Goals reached:

35 out of 35 Rubber Tires Piston Cup Race Cars

100 % 

11 out of 11   Team Chiefs from Cars 1

100 %

5 out of 5 Ultimate Chase Cars from Cars 2

100 %

 

 

11 out of 11 Rubber Tires World Grand Prix Race Cars

 

100 %

 

 

Goals left:

27 out of 28 Pittys from Cars 1 to collect - 1 left

95 %

5 out of 10 Team Chiefs from Cars 2 to collect - 5 left

50 %

New Car - Becky Wheelin

This is Becky Wheelin. Not a character of any imoportance but the Mini Cooper is a pretty cool car. It was originally a car made by BMC - The British Motor Company. You can read more about that car here - where I wrote about Austin Littleton:

But the Mini Cooper has not so much to do with the original Mini. When the Mini re-appeared 2001 it was now owned by BMW. The New MINI is spelled with capital letters, and it´s not just the letters that are bigger. The whole car is a lot larger now. And so is the diecast model.

Although I love the paint job on the roof and the rear view mirrors, Becky Wheelin is not a super favourite. A well done diecast of a pretty cool car. But I choose the old one any day of the week.

I bought the car last friday on the flower shop. It now turns out they have a web shop - so check this out fellow collectors! www.carsmastaren.se (means the master of cars) But prices are high, and we are already high here in Europe. But maybe you´ll find that illusive car you´re trying to find so hard...
Good Luck!