GreenLight Ford Mustang GT 1989 1:64

Manufacturer: Green Light
Make: Ford
Model: Mustang GT
Type: Black Bandit series – Black exterior, interior & wheel rims (1 of 3000 pieces)
Year: 1989
Scale: 1:64
Opening part(s): Bonnet / Hood

Like
-  Decent black exterior colour
- Logo and model name stampings:

• Ford blue oval on the bonnet / hood
• 5.0 printed on both the front fenders, representing the engine capacity in Litres (the V8 was earlier popularly called the 302 – it’s capacity in cubic inches
• ‘MUSTANG’ printed on a blacked-out part of the plastic quarter-glass window just behind the B-pillar 
•  Ford blue oval printed on the right side of boot-lid

- The lower half of the car is made from plastic or painted to look like plastic cladding (like in the real car) – looks very realistic!
- Clear plastic headlights with orange hue parking lights (not indicators as I initially mistook) & red colour plastic tail-lights with a painted white strip for the reverse lights
- Special mention needs to be made for the round fog-lights on the lower part of the front bumper these fog lights are also made of clear plastic and not painted, like in most smaller scale models
- Other details include wipers, inside & outside rear-view mirrors & fuel lid marking
- Realistic bulge on the bonnet / hood
- Proper, nicely detailed fastback spoiler with red-painted stop lights
- Number plate at the rear with the letters ‘BB’ (Black Bandit) printed
- Rubber tyres with treads on multi-spoke turbine style matt black rims
- Opening bonnet revealing a neat little engine bay with mechanicals including clearly visible engine, radiator fan cowl, battery and the front strut cover as well
- Although the exhaust is clearly marked on the under-carriage, it is not visible from the rear
- Matt black painted metal chassis with unique serial number stamped with raised details such as drive-train, suspensions and exhausts components

Could be better
Nothing really!

Green Light Ford Shelby GT500 2010 1:64

Manufacturer: Green Light
Make: Ford
Model: Shelby GT500
Year: 2010
Scale: 1:64
Opening part(s): Bonnet / Hood

Like
- Nice sterling silver colour (though looks more like grey) with satin silver stripes
- Logo and model name stampings:

• Shelby ‘Cobra’ image/logo stamped on the passenger side of the front grill and at the rear on a raised circular area with the words ‘SHELBY’ written with a gap between each letter
• Cobra image/logo also on both the front fenders – this is such a minute detail that at first it looked like a speck of debris
• GT 500 written below the logo in the silver coloured sill that runs along the front fenders

- Muscular & nicely flowing wheel arches
- Outside rear-view mirrors
- Realistic air intake on the hood, not just painted
- Slightly protruding door handles on the ridge running along the centre of the car
- Proper, nicely detailed boot-hugging spoiler
- Plastic quarter-glass window just behind the B-pillar
- Realistic number plate at the rear
- Dual exhausts at the two extremes below the rear bumper
- Clear plastic headlights & red colour plastic tail-lights with two vertical silver stripes
- Rubber tyres with treads on 5-double-spoke alloy-look rims
- Opening bonnet revealing a neat little engine bay with mechanicals including clearly visible engine with the extended air intake with conical air filter, coolant bottle & cap and the front strut cover as well
- Metal chassis with unique serial number stamped
- The car feels chunky to hold and is quite heavy as well
- Shop tool comes along with the car – useful for making a Diorama
- Shop tool is a engine hoist in red colour & is made of plastic

Could be better
Nothing really! Finish around the spoiler area could have been better, but then that is me going too deep.

GreenLight Oldsmobile 442 W-30 1970 1:64

Manufacturer: GreenLight
Make: GM
Model: Oldsmobile 442 W-30 1970
Scale: 1:64
Opening part(s): Bonnet / Hood

Even though this model doesn’t have external rear-view mirrors and the lights are painted instead of being plastic, I bought this model as wanted to have a look at a GreenLight convertible and the wheel rims are simply gorgeous!

This particular car was sold at the Mecum auction (famed auctioneers specialising in Muscle and Classic cars) for $93,000

Like
-  Decent black exterior colour with thick white bands on the bonnet / hood & and two white lines (one pinstripe) running along each side of the car
- Chrome look with silver outlining around the windscreen
- Logo and model name stampings:

·         ‘442’ printed on both the front fenders, between the front grill & on the right side of the boot

·         ‘W-30’ printed on the white stripe on both the front fenders below the ‘442’ printing

- Twin rectangular grills with ridged vertical slats
- Muscular & squared wheel arches
- Silver painted quad headlights & red painted vertical tail-lights (2 on each side)
- Protruding door handles on the outside – feel realistic to touch
- Red painted reflector marking on the fenders in the four corner sides
- Prominent sun-visors
- Other details include wipers & fuel lid marking (though no inside rear-view mirror)
- Realistic bonnet / hood with a protruding lip in the centre & twin intake bulges
- Markings for the bonnet / hood open latches on the front two corners
- Realistic folded roof area depicted with raised plastic cladding
- ‘Mecum Sold’ printed on the corner of the windscreen and on the rear number plate
- Dual exhausts at the two extremes below the rear bumper – the exhaust tips extend like two metal pins
- Very realistic looking rubber tyres with treads and sidewalls with the words ‘Firestone’ & ‘Wide O Oval’ in white paint
- Nicely detailed rims with five hollow circles (a very unique design as compared to the normal spoke wheel rims)
- Opening bonnet revealing a neat little engine bay with mechanicals including clearly visible engine with a unique blue painted engine block and round air filter box
- Metal chassis with unique serial number stamped

Could be better
- External rear-view mirrors would have enhanced the realistic quotient
- Lights could have been plastic – atleast the headlights (though understandably the vertical tail-lights are too small)