Hot Wheels Nostalgia Series: Nose Art

The Hot Wheels brand issued a new series in 2012 called Nostalgia Series. One of the lines is called Nose Art featuring beautiful Pin-Up artwork from the '40's era.

This is presented on the blistercards and die-cast cars and stunning artwork is displayed on military vehicles. The blistercard artwork appears to be drawn on the sides of military planes.

What my opinion on this series? I love it! Well done Matty!!!



There are only six Hot Wheels cars released for this series and they look quite awesome dressed up in this military theme!

Here is the reverse side of the blistercard featuring all the models/castings.



These are the cars released for the Nose Art / Pin-up series!

'67 Austin Mini Van

Baja Braaker

Customized C3500

Dairy Delivery

Dream Van XGW

'67 Ford Bronco

Take a look at some of the stunning artwork on actual blistercards for this Nostalgia series!

We have here the ancient lost tool known as the Dream Van XGW. (We haven't had this spirit here since 1986)

Love the blistercard artwork for the Dream Van XGW.



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Dream Van XGW

It has sure been a long time since Hot Wheels released the Dream Van....ah yes, this first appeared in a series called Real Riders back in 1984!

The Dream Van XGW has come out in the following versions:

Real Riders
Met. Blue Yellow, Green & White design on sides Unpainted Metal Grey tint Tan RR Grey 5909 Malaysia Dream Van MtBlRRG
1984 1984 Hot Wheels

Real Riders
Met. Blue Yellow, Green & White design on sides Unpainted Metal Grey tint Tan RR White 5909 Malaysia Dream Van MtBlRRWrt
1985 1985 Hot Wheels

Real Riders
Lt. green Yellow Blue and Red design on sides Unpainted Metal Yellow tint Yellow RR Grey 5909 Malaysia DreamVan Green
1985 1985 Hot Wheels

Stamper 3-Pack Maroon Yellow, Orange & Red design on sides Unpainted Metal Grey tint Tan RR White 9360 Malaysia Dream Van Marn
1986 1986 Hot Wheels Real Riders Lt. Green Yellow Blue and Red design on sides (Darker than USA release) Unpainted Metal Orange Tint Tan RR Grey 9546 Mexico

Then the tool was apparently retired. The Dream Van model is really sweet and it had an opening side door! Well that feature is gone since it's been retooled and now re-issued by Mattel since 2011. Nonetheless I appreciate Mattel bringing this beautiful design back to life!

Oh my, I found a loose one...



Taking a close look at the tampo artwork on the roof of the Dream Van, real nice...




Dairy Delivery

Then we have the Special Delivery...oh wait a moment, it's called Dairy Delivery! Boy I sure would like to see the Special Delivery released again...last time it was released in 1971...and that's it!



I found a loose picture of it too! Now that's rare...



Customized C3500

Here we have the C3500 Hot Wheels model dressed in military style.



A loose picture of one...



Another angle featuring the cool art done of these die-cast cars.





Baja Breaker

Then the Baja Breaker in the blistercard...



Looks good loosely displayed too!




'67 Austin Mini Van

This is a new tool Mattel created for this series!



Nice work!




'67 Ford Bronco

The blistercard for this Bronco...


The Ford Bronco set free...



Ah yes, the artwork on the roof!



Let's hope Mattel continues this series with more art from the 40's era.

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