The front half of the car was painted yellow, shading to lime green at the rear, with a bare metal base and grey interior.

Ammo was based on Sting Rod, a weird military vehicle from 1988 that appeared to be a sports car converted into an assault machine. It has to be said that Mattel was not exactly generous with the temporary tattoos; each pack included only one little sheet with four or five small tattoos. Eight pre-production models were shown on the back of the packaging, including some based on different castings. The Hot Wheels Tattoo Machines were cars covered in wild designs, and came with a matching sheet of temporary tattoos. The temporary tattoos that were popular in the 1990s had much more realistic designs and were printed on a thin film that stuck to the skin and could be washed off after a few days.

Painted white with a metal base, chrome interior and grille, plus red-tinted windows, it is covered with a multitude of black widow spiders. Inside the special ball-shaped box, you will find every time a different super tattoo with lots of Hot Wheels cars and a colorful plastiline for fun with your friends to relish fantastic models.

Most purchases from business sellers are protected by the Consumer Contract Regulations 2013 which give you the right to cancel the purchase within 14 days after the day you receive the item. The bumper and front laser guns were in red plastic, the base was bare metal, while the windows, rear engine and exhaust pipers were in chromed plastic. Some of the technologies we use are necessary for critical functions like security and site integrity, account authentication, security and privacy preferences, internal site usage and maintenance data, and to make the site work correctly for browsing and transactions. Also on the card back was a picture of eight models from the range, although these were obviously pre-production mock-ups with some being significantly different from the finished products. Road Pirate differed from the other models in the range in that it was not part of the regular Hot Wheels series.Mike looks back at some of his greatest articles previously published in magazines such as Diecast Collector, Diecast Model World, Back Issue and others, most of which have been out of print for several years. The beautiful, art deco Talbot Lago, probably one of Hot Wheels’ nicest models, which originally appeared in 1988, was given the insult of being changed into Spiderider. To enable personalised advertising (like interest-based ads), we may share your data with our marketing and advertising partners using cookies and other technologies.

The ratings/reviews displayed here may not be representative of every listing on this page, or of every review for these listings. It’s based on a 1978 Ford custom van known as Baja Breaker, and is finished in yellow shading to brown. Turning off the personalised advertising setting won’t stop you from seeing Etsy ads, but it may make the ads you see less relevant or more repetitive.In this guise the car was known as ‘ Blast Trax’ or ‘ Jet Threat’, and was fitted with a circular diecast ‘blast bumper’ at the rear. It is based on Super Scraper, a Chevrolet pick-up with a snow plow which was first released in 1980.

If you’d like to file an allegation of infringement, you’ll need to follow the process described in our Copyright and Intellectual Property Policy. Like the previous model, Dragon Wagon was a generic sports car that had its origins in the Cap Blastin’ range from 1990. Skull Rider was a Mazda MX-5, Road Pirate was a Camaro Z-28, Bus Boys was the Ford School Bus and Dragon Wagon was GT Racer. This model was only released as a tattoo machine in Europe, and came packaged with the graffiti style tattoos from Bus Boys. Some of the models had fairly typical tattoo styles, while others were covered in weird, random designs.Sellers are responsible for following applicable laws and regulations, including posting items with accurate labelling and warnings. Had a great chance to work with great Californian graphic design studio "Lincoln Design" woking on set of vector cars for "Hot Wheels" thanks to Dan Janssen for this great opportunity be part of cool project.