![]() Trust me, there’s a difference from this to the Mustang and Open Fire.įinally, the modern Mustang is from the current Hot Wheels ID line. The 330 here indeed shows the orange peel to the paint, but I wasn’t quite able to capture it as clearly as it is when in-hand. They were indeed cheaper initially, and I didn’t mind the difference, but when prices started going up and quality wasn’t getting better, the move back to the China plant(s) happened for 2016-onward (what I refer to as the “third era”). There were a number of delays and the final products often didn’t have the smooth finish they were hoping for, usually suffering from “orange peel” effect. The hope was to give these cars the same look of the 2002-2012 HWC/RLC cars but for a cheaper price and quicker production times. During this time, they had moved away from the hand polished chrome that was outsourced to doing things in-house, using a process they called “mirrorized”. The ’64 Dodge 330 is from the “second era” of the HWC/RLC, from 2013-2015. I personally loved this line but there were numerous complaints about the price of the series versus the cost of other premium lines like Boulevard, and how they didn’t come with Real Riders. It has a bit of a matte finish to it, literally looking like its a frosty version of spectraflame. However, instead of “spectraflame”, it used a paint the HW team called “spectrafrost”. The Subaru BRAT is from the 2013-2015 Cool Classics line. These were done with castings that were chrome plated and hand polished to give them a nice, smooth sheen to them. ![]() Even among these years, there’s some differences when comparing the earliest of releases to later ones. The Custom ’68 Mustang and Open Fire (the weird custom AMC Gremlin with 6 wheels) are from the first era of HWC/RLC cars, from 2002-2012. These seemingly were done in all metal-metal configurations with multiple colors for most of the releases, a seeming throw-back to the original redline era. The ’67 GTO (along with the ’65 Chevelle, ’65 GTO, ’32 Ford and ’66 GTO Wagon) is/are from the retail Classics line that ran from 2005 through 2009. Within, here’s the different lines each of the cars featured in the pictures here are from. I may try this again with another color and using natural lighting outside. Trust me, the differences are MUCH more clear in-hand. Between a few different lines, there’s been a number of lines to use colors that would often be referred to as “spectraflame”. ![]() ![]() Someone on the RLC boards asked about the different versions of spectra-colors that Hot Wheels has used, wondering the differences. ![]()
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