Surf Deora

The Hot Wheels Deora has been made in many versions.

The Deora was a real custom car and one of the first Hot Wheels cars.

Since the 1960s Hot Wheels has been updating the car and making new ones.

This is the tooned version.  It is a car that has been modified to look like a cartoon caricature of the original.

The drivers compartment is often kept in scale with the original to give the impression that if this were a real car it could be driven.

This is a cute version.

It's part of my surfing project.
 

More Corsair

The back end of the 1938 Phantom.

It's a pretty cool car.

It almost looks like the rear could be the front!

Bottom has a bit of detail.

Batman approved.
 

Hot Wheels Corsair

I live in rural Kentucky where there are not a lot of places to get Hot Wheels.  This place, Big O's is a good and inexpensive place to find old Hot Wheels still in the package.

This is one of several I got there recently for $2 each or less!

This is the 1938 Phantom Corsair which was based on a real car.

The real car could seat 6 adults and go 115 miles per hour.

I think the front looks like it should have two machine guns mounted in those holes.

I think I am going to repaint it for use by the Shadow.

Most likely it will be all black, glossy.

 

 

Modern Abstract Hot Wheels

I am working on a few Batman 66 Villains of my own.

This car will belong to one based on Dutch painter Piet Mondrian. 

He was known for painting pictures of lines and rectangles, similar to the designs on these cars.

This particular Hot Wheels car is very unusual because it comes in crushed condition.

It also has white front wheels and black back wheels.  White wheels are very uncommon on any Hot Wheels car.

The original artist was very abstract in his work and I think the Batman Villain may also be an artist.

Joker and Clock King both had episodes where they were working in the world of painting.

There were also episodes were the there were sculptures of both Batman and Joker.

And who can forget the paintings done by Alfred, butler to Millionaire Bruce Wayne?

Hot Wheels also made this van, which turned out to be a bit of a peg warmer.

So I picked up a few of them, thinking they might be useful for this Villain.