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Post by zarnock on Apr 6, 2009 20:02:44 GMT -5
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Post by frankcor on Apr 7, 2009 8:33:07 GMT -5
 Bad display. Bad bad display  |
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Post by zarnock on May 8, 2009 22:21:46 GMT -5
Guess what came in the mail from Thailand today? Yup it's finally here! My old Race Car done as a Hot Wheels Drag Strip Demon! This is such an honor for me.... It should be in stores for June!      |
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Post by bobbbiez on May 8, 2009 22:50:59 GMT -5
 WTG Mike! Congrats and it is quite an honor. Very proud of ya.  Love the design. 
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Post by zarnock on May 9, 2009 8:05:10 GMT -5
WTG Mike! Congrats and it is quite an honor. Very proud of ya. Love the design. Thanx Barb! Here is the real one.  |
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Post by chris on May 9, 2009 8:31:29 GMT -5
Mike congratulations. Very nice and my favorite color. How was it that you got a Hot Wheels to replicate your car. Did you ask them or do they approach you. Very interesting. I think there is much more to this Hot Wheels than I am aware of. I've always been a fan of things in miniature. Do you still have the roadster? My ex BIL use to be part owner of Utica Hydramatic. Not sure if any of the mechanics worked on race cars in their spare time.
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Post by zarnock on May 9, 2009 9:30:00 GMT -5
Thanx Chris. If you don't already know and most here in Utica don't.... In the Diecast world I am quite famous. If you go to www.MikeZarnock.com you can see what I am all about. So to have my name on a Hot Wheels car and it being an homage to my real race car is kind of fitting. We (the guys at Mattel and I) were talking one day about the new Drag Strip Demons Series that was coming out and I said, "Man, it would be so cool to do my old Altered in that series!" We all laughed and said yeah and left it at that. A couple weeks later I get an email from Marketing asking if I really wanted to do it. Of course I said yes. They sent the contract and the rest is history! |
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Post by bobbbiez on May 9, 2009 23:24:47 GMT -5
Damn Mike, can I have your autograph? ;D I am very impressed with your accomplishment. You'll have to let us know when your car does hit the stores. I definitely want to buy one and just because you're a local boy. Congrats again!
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Post by zarnock on May 10, 2009 11:33:36 GMT -5
No problem Barb.... I have some here if you can't find any in the stores. |
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Post by bobbbiez on May 10, 2009 12:30:33 GMT -5
Great! If I can't find them in the store please save me two. Got two grandsons who would really like them. I'll check the stores in June. Will all stores around here carry them? Let me know.
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Post by chris on May 10, 2009 20:39:37 GMT -5
Me too..... Now is it better to keep it in the packaging. Do you do Paypal if I can't find one here also. ( I collect bears... I bet my 2 1/2 inch one would fit in there perfect)  |
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Post by zarnock on May 10, 2009 21:05:07 GMT -5
Chris, I will give you one.... and yes, it is best to keep it in the package. Only because the package is labled with the name.
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Post by nostalgialady on May 29, 2009 20:01:09 GMT -5
Hi Dick! I wonder if you still remember me? I used to be married to Terry McLaughin and we were always at Utica-Rome Saturday night at the dragstrip. I'm Kathy. We had a '68 Firebird. The last time I talked to him he said he had run into you at Cicero. Didn't we used to have a great time there. Ah.........to go back to those days which we didn't realize at the time were the good old ones.
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Post by zarnock on May 29, 2009 22:18:01 GMT -5
They sure were.... I just got some pic's from my old friend Lynn Nicholas from 77 or so. I'll have to post them!
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Post by zarnock on Jun 2, 2009 15:38:43 GMT -5
There will be an interview on the Utica News TV2 tonight at 5 & 6pm (Tuesday June 2nd) if anyone wants to check it out.
I will also have a link to it later on my site....
Thanx!
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WTG Mike! Congrats and it is quite an honor. Very proud of ya. 
