1974 AMC Gremlin X 1:25 Mini-Muscle Car

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The AMC Gremlin (also American Motors Gremlin) is a subcompact automobile introduced in 1970, manufactured and marketed in a single, two-door body style (1970–1978) by American Motors Corporation (AMC), as well as in Mexico (1974–1983) by AMC's Vehículos Automotores Mexicanos (VAM) subsidiary.

Using a shortened Hornet platform and bodywork with a pronounced kammback tail, the Gremlin was classified as an economy car and competed with the Chevrolet Vega and Ford Pinto, as well as imported cars including the Volkswagen Beetle and Toyota Corolla. The small domestic automaker marketed the Gremlin as "the first American-built import."

The Gremlin reached a total production of 671,475 over a single generation. It was superseded by a restyled and revised variant, the AMC Spirit produced from 1979 through 1983. This was long after the retirement of the Ford Pinto that suffered from stories about exploding gas tanks, as well as the Chevrolet Vega with its rusting bodies and durability problems with its aluminum engine.

1979 GMC Tow Truck Captain Hook 1:25 Revell

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Captain James Hook is the main antagonist of J. M. Barrie's 1904 play Peter Pan; or, the Boy Who Wouldn't Grow Up and its various adaptations, in which he is Peter Pan's archenemy. The character is a pirate captain of the brig Jolly Roger. His two principal fears are the sight of his own blood (supposedly an unnatural colour) and the crocodile who pursues him after eating the hand cut off by Pan. An iron hook replaced his severed hand, which gave the pirate his name.

Hook did not appear in early drafts of the play, wherein the capricious and coercive Peter Pan was closest to a "villain", but was created for a front-cloth scene (a cloth flown well downstage in front of which short scenes are played while big scene changes are "silently" carried out upstage) depicting the children's journey home. Later, Barrie expanded the scene, on the premise that children were fascinated by pirates, and expanded the role of the captain as the play developed. The character was originally cast to be played by Dorothea Baird, the actress playing Mary Darling, but Gerald du Maurier, already playing George Darling (and the brother of Sylvia Llewelyn Davies), persuaded Barrie to let him take the additional role instead, a casting tradition since replicated in many stage and film productions of the Peter Pan story.

According to A. N. Wilson, Barrie "openly acknowledged [that] Hook and his obsession with the crocodile was an English version of Ahab", and there are other borrowings from Melville.

2004 Chevrolet Corvette Coupe Revell Hot Wheels 1:25

The Chevrolet Corvette (C5) is the fifth generation of the Corvette sports car, produced by the Chevrolet division of General Motors for the 1997 through 2004 model years. Production variants include the high performance Z06. Racing variants include the C5-R, a 24 Hours of Daytona and 24 Hours of Le Mans GTS/GT1 winner. The C5 Corvette was the first GM vehicle to feature the third generation small block "LS" engines. Pop-up headlights were featured on a Corvette for the final time during this generation.

1971 Ford Mustang Boss 351 Motormax 1:24 American Graffiti

Debutó en 1964​ como modelo 1964½ con un precio de US$2368 ($20 690 en 2023), cuyas ventas anuales estaban estimadas en alrededor de 100 000 unidades. Las ventas del primer año superaron las 400 000 unidades y fueron de un millón en dos años.

El Mustang creó la clase de Autos Pony estadounidenses, distinguidos como cupés deportivos accesibles con capotas largas y cubiertas traseras cortas, y dio lugar a competidores como el Chevrolet Camaro, Pontiac Firebird, AMC Javelin, Dodge Charger, Plymouth Barracuda renovado de Chrysler y la segunda generación del Dodge Challenger. El Mustang también es acreditado por inspirar los diseños de cupés Toyota Celica y el Ford Capri, que fueron importados a los Estados Unidos.

Originalmente se basó en la plataforma del Ford Falcon de segunda generación, un automóvil compacto. El Mustang original de dos plazas de 1962 había evolucionado hasta convertirse en el "concept car" de cuatro plazas Mustang II de 1963 que Ford utilizó para probar como el público se interesaría en el primer Mustang de producción. El concept car Mustang II de 1963 fue diseñado con una variación de los extremos delantero y trasero del modelo de producción con un techo que era 2,7 pulgadas (6,9 cm) más corto. Introducido temprano el 17 de abril de 1964, 16 días después que el Plymouth Barracuda y, por lo tanto, denominado como un "1964½" por los aficionados, pero el modelo 1965 fue el lanzamiento más exitoso del fabricante desde el modelo Ford A. el Mustang ha sufrido varias transformaciones a su sexta generación actual, siendo la tercera saga de Ford más antigua.

Comenzó su producción cinco meses antes del inicio normal del año de producción de 1965. Las primeras versiones de producción a menudo se denominaban modelos de 1964½, pero todos los Mustangs fueron anunciados codificados por VIN y titulados por Ford como modelos de 1965, aunque las actualizaciones menores de diseño en agosto de 1964 al comienzo formal del año de producción de 1965, contribuyeron al seguimiento de la producción de 1964½ datos por separado de los datos de 1965. Con la producción comenzando en Dearborn, Míchigan el 9 de marzo de 1964, el nuevo automóvil fue presentado al público el 17 de abril de 1964 en la Feria Mundial de Nueva York.