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Today I'll add a brand new category into Spam-Alternative: My personal diecast cars collection. I have all sizes, 1:64, 1:24 and 1:18 from the most important diecast brands of all times: Hot Wheels, Matchbox, Welly, Maisto, Tomica, Jada, etc. However, my collection is very much like the movies depicted in this blog: Vintage cars only, so you won't find any sort of Need for Speed/Gangsta type of car in any of the forthcoming entries. 

Today's car is a 1:18 scale Welly rendition of the great 1967 Pontiac GTO. A car whose original features were long imitated by several popular muscle cars from the same era. 

Welly specializes in delivering highly detailed rendition of its cars.

Great look!

See? I told you it was highly detailed.

Here some more in depth information about the car, courtesy of Wikipedia: 

"The GTO underwent a few styling changes in 1967. The louver-covered tail lights were replaced with eight tail lights, four on each side. Rally II wheels with colored lug nuts were also available in 1967. The GTO emblems located on the rear part of the fenders were moved to the chrome rocker panels. Also the grill was changed from a purely split grill, to one that shared some chrome.

The 1967 GTO came in three body styles:

• Hardtop - 65,176 produced
• Convertible - 9,517 produced
• Sports Coupe - 7,029 produced

The GTO also saw several mechanical changes in 1967. The Tri-Power carburetion system was replaced with a Rochester Quadrajet four-barrel carburetor. The 389 engine received a wider cylinder bore (4.12 inches, 104.7 mm) for a total displacement of 400 CID (6.6 L) V8. The 400 cubic inch engine was available in three models: economy, standard, and high output. The economy engine used a two-barrel carburetor rather than the Rochester Quadrajet and produced 255 bhp (190 kW) at 4400 rpm, and 397 ft·lbf (538 N·m) at 4400 rpm. The standard engine produced 335 bhp (250 kW) at 5000 rpm, and the highest torque of the three engines at 441 ft·lbf (598 N·m) at 3400 rpm. The high output engine produced the most power for that year at 360 bhp (270 kW) at 5100 rpm, and produced 438 ft·lbf (594 N·m) at 3600 rpm. Emission controls were fitted in GTOs sold in California.

1967 also saw the installation of significant safety equipment as required by federal law. A new energy-absorbing steering column was accompanied by an energy-absorbing steering wheel, padded instrument panel, non-protruding control knobs, and four-way emergency flashers.

The two-speed automatic transmission was also replaced with a three-speed Turbo-Hydramatic TH-400. The TH-400 was equipped with a Hurst Performance Dual-Gate shifter, called a "his/hers" shifter, that permitted either automatic shifting in "Drive" or manual selection through the gears. Front disc brakes were also an option in 1967.^[7]

GTO sales for 1967 remained high at 81,722."

 I, being a poor loser who can't afford a shit. Spend some very limited bucks collecting this kind of cars, muscle cars, mopar cars.

Welly diecast, remember their name.

Next time I'll show my personal favorite muscle car of all times: the Pontiac 1969 GTO, and please don't worry about the movie reviews, that's the main topic of this blog so I won't forget it, it's just that I want to expand the blog categories to some hobbies I also dig, like diecast muscle cars, action figures and other collectibles. Stay tuned!

PS: The pictures from the car were all taken by myself from my personal collection.

And as a bonus a little video displaying the original Pontiac GTO 1967: