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One of my favorite muscle cars of all time is the 1969 Pontiac GTO with "The Judge" package.  It was my first muscle car seen in person thanks to my next door neighbor at the time when I was little, it was my first 1:18 scale model (i'll profile that one later on), and I still love that loud orange color.  One of my first M2 castings was the The Judge GTO, even though it lacked a few features in the Drivers line.  Now I just received the Liberty Blue GTO The Judge from the Detroit Muscle line, complete with more features. Click Here for Photo Gallery "Here comes the Judge!" Wild colors and groovy names was the business in selling outrageous muscle cars with lots of power.  For Pontiac, even though the GTO sold by name itself, The Judge package joined the club with wild paint colors, graphics, and lots of power.  The name came from line "Here comes da Judge" from Rowlan and Martin's Laugh-in TV show in the 1960's.  It was ...

Three trucks with three different personality, all are the essential classic of a Hot Wheels pickup truck. Click Here for Photo Gallery '52 Chevy and LaTroca The first one was released in 2008's Hot Wheels Classic line as a cleaner version of the LaTroca.  LaTroca was released in 2001 as a homage to the lowrider look.  It has the lower stance, gold lace wheels, gold front and rear windows, and windshield shade, detailed front grille with headlight surrounds, Chevy badges at the front and sides of the hood, running boards in gold, rear fender skirts, and a tailgate with the Hot Wheels logo.  The bed: useful.  The interior: nonexistent.  It was a cool-looking truck that came in countless variations, including the (my favorite) primer lavendar with no graphics, metallic green with flames or white with red flames, or the work-truck like rust-colored with faded delivery badges.  Aside from the metallic red 2001 and lavendar 2002, the re...