Ok collectors, its time to start warming up those “double-click” fingers because the highly anticipated sale of the Pope Designs/Race Grooves VW Flag Truck is almost here!

The sale kicks off this Sunday at 9pm EST on eBay as a “But It Now” auction under the seller name “pope-designs.” Buyers can order up to 2 pieces during the sale which will include 35 standard flag trucks and 5 special chase editions. Don’t forget that there are only 50 pieces total in the run, so this is definitely an ultra-rare vehicle. The price has been set at $50 each (plus $7 shipping), and distribution of the chase pieces will be 100% random.

Congratulations to Pope Designs on another masterful creation, and to both Pope Designs and Race Grooves making this piece a reality!

[via popedesigns.net]

As of this week, the much anticipated DIECASTLIVE.COM Greenlight Camaro Concept Club Car is shipping! Orders started going out this past Monday and all orders will be in transit by Thursday the 28th. The 10-pack sets which would guarantee buyers a Green Machine have completely sold out however, single cars are still available and you always have a chance of getting a “Greeny” through that method!

Single cars are still just $9.99 plus shipping and orders can be placed through the DIECASTLIVE.COM main page using the link below. Congratulations to the entire DCL Team on a job well done with this fantastic club car that makes a great addition to any collection!

[via diecastlive.com]

This past week collector Roy Nakamura shared a link over to his Photobucket account where he has pictures of 330 Redlines from his personal collection. The impressive part is that they are all “minty-fresh” in their original blister packs! You certainly don’t see that every day!

330 cheers to Roy for taking the time to shoot and organize all those photos!

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Forum poster bestjada over at JOESDIECASTSHACK.COM shares some nice close-up shots of the upcoming Yard Dawgs set from the Jada Toys Snap Shots line. These pictures truly do the set justice and prove that it will definitely be a hot seller when it finally comes out. Pricing and availability are still to be determined. Click on the thumbnails to see the full photos.

[via joesdiecastshack.com]

I’m a little late in getting this to the site as I was away on business all last week, but I thought I would share the news in case any of the readers/listeners hadn’t heard yet. As it turns out, my submission to the “Chub City In Action” Film Contest from Jada Toys won the Grand Prize!!

My video plus all the other winners can be found on both the official Jada site as well as at WWW.IPLAYAZ.COM. And yes, thats my son giving the thumbs up in the still photo on the site. He was the star of my commercial and will probably be demanding a much higher salary now..!

Thanks to the folks at Jada for putting on a fantastic contest!

[via jadatoys.com and iplayaz.com]

Rat Rod fans rejoice! Castro, the uber-talented designer at Maisto gave collectors a glimpse of the new “Outlaws” line that should be showing up in stores soon. He also indicated that there WILL be chase cars mixed into cases. Infact, the Bare Metal/Black ‘29 Ford Model shown in the picture is one of the chase pieces! Click the picture for a close-up.

[via joesdiecastshack.com]

Travis1960 over on JOESDIECASTSHACK.COM shared a link over to some information on a possible new Hot Wheels drag racing oriented series coming from Mattel later this year. The article states that Mattel might be looking to get into the Nostalgia Funny Car movement and will offer a total of 10 replica funny cars. Whether the series will be available at main stream retail or as limited edition hobby-only pieces seems to still be up for debate. Ultimately, it will be interesting to see how they compare to Johnny Lightning’s Funny Car Legends release from a few years back.

Hopefully more information on this new series will surface soon (hint, hint, AIRLAND!!).

[via joesdiecastshack.com]