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)