I’ve been a Speed Racer fan since I first saw the cartoon as a kid. The Mach 5 was the ultimate race car, and I still love that sleek, 60s, Le Mans era, GT 40 look. These cars were/are, for me, the coolest things to ever come out in automotive design. The Mach 5, with all its ‘toys’, was beyond cool, it was a fantasy car of sorts. Well guess what? The Mach 5 Lives!
I’ll admit there are no toys, but it’s still the coolest thing since first seeing the Batmobile at a carshow. I also have to admit that while it looks great, the corvette in it comes across a little more than I care for. I would actually have liked to see them base it on a GT 40, which has more of the flavour of what the car was actually meant to be. Don’t get me wrong, I was totally entertaining the idea of ownership, the silly personal use agreement notwithstanding. I will just have to settle for 1:18 scale die-cast replica, or the radio controlled racer.
I’m really not fanatical about this. If I were a fanatic I’d be all over the Speed Racer and Racer X salt and pepper shaker set, but I’m not that far gone. Definitely will get the matching Racer X car when it’s available, but that’s it.
Do you need another Speed Racer link? Ok… Speeeed!!
2 responses so far ↓
1 Andre T. // Jun 10, 2003 at 9:18 pm
They now offer Speed Racer toys. I purchased the Mach 5 last week - its a collectors car scale 1:18, which is a pretty good size car measuring about 12 inches long. I t came with Chim Chim, and the car is the 35 year commemorative box. The y also offer Racer X’s car, the shooting star. There is also available another Mach 5 that a collectors item as well.
The web sites to purchase these vehicles are http://www.KBTOYS.COM and http://www.Wickedcoolstuff.com only.
2 kourtnay // Mar 22, 2004 at 11:25 am
i need that sight for a project you crazy person
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