More Hot Wheels: 2010 and on

In 2010, Hot Wheels started releasing First Generation Monte's again.  The only problem is many of them were only available at Walmart, and I try not to go to that place. :)  Well, there's always eBay!

The first is a Hot Wheels Classics, series 5, in red and green "special paint".  It must be - after all, it says so!  Actually it is called 'Spectraflame'.  These do have racing stripes on the hood, it doesn't show up that well in my pictures:

here is a chrome spectraflame version that was only available in a "Classics" 30 car set. 

Here is the set, I believe it was only at Wal-Mart:

and here is red Chase car, not many made... The Green one had a chase version too.



 It has different wheels/tires, same ones at the chrome car above, like this:

Here is the green....

And here is a rare one.  It is the one of the 2010 Collector's Edition cars.  This is a "mail away" promotion from Toys R' Us.  You had to buy something like 20 cars, send in the proof, and they sent you this mail-away promotion.  It came in a clamshell to protect the card /package.

Now thats a neat car!  Here is the Hot Wheels news article about it: http://www.hotwheelscollectors.com/news/news.aspx?archive=true&news_id=1041


In 2011, and Hot Wheels released another series of Monte's, all pretty much the same but different colors, it was called Muscle Mania (series#106) :

I'm pretty sure the orange was a Walmart only color:

You can find some error cars of these, with missing stripes, wrong color stripes, etc.  I suppose they might be letting that happen on purpose, who knows.  There were also some subtle differences in ones sold at Walmart and Target.  I'll include those in the "Errors and Chases" post I'm planning.
btw, Hot Wheels seems to call their model years like the auto manufacturers, like a 2012 is released at the end of 2011.  And it seems we have some 2012 already.  Like this "Mystery Model" which came in a foil pack like baseball cards do, where you cannot see what you are getting.  So you won't find a carded version of this car, at least not yet.  It looks very similar to the Muscle Mania series.

This "Mystery Model" came in bag like this:

Backing up to 2011 again, Hot Wheels had a series called "Hot Wheels Garage" and it included 2 Montes with some nice paint and wheels:

Here is the card:

Then there is a 2012 series of Hot Wheels Muscle Mania, series 107 in metalflake gold.  These stripes remind me of something that should be on the next generation Montes (1973-77)

In April 2012, there is a in purple/black one in this series....

and silver/blue (Walmart-only)....

And new for 2013 (Nov 2012) is a new HW Showroom model (#239), an SS 454 in metallic blue:

Now, mid-2013, there is also a ZAMAC 1970 Monte, in the HW Showroom line:

ZAMAC is an acronym for the Zinc, Aluminum, Magnesium, and Copper that diecast cars are made from.

Also it refers to an unpainted car or base and in this case these cars are just clearcoated with no paint.

This might be a Walmart only car.