My first Mint diecast.

[THarrison351]

This is the first Mint die cast I ever owned. My dad gifted it to me almost thirty years ago. Franklin Mint's 1977 Petty Oldsmobile Cutlass. It's still attached to the same plastic plate from the plastic model display case I put it in when new. The paperwork is in an envelope taped to the bottom. I have the box and Styrofoam clam shell it was shipped in too. It survived moves from North Carolina to California to here in Kansas. Finally, it went through the move across town here in Kansas. It hasn't been out on display for almost 7 years. It's not a bad representation of Petty's car from 1977, considering it was modeled in 1992. Two of the most glaring things wrong in my eyes are it should have mesh and frame on the grill instead of being open and I've never seen wheels on any NASCAR racer like it during that time period or any as far as that is concerned.  My dad eventually gave me 3 more Franklin Mint Petty cars, which I still have. Anyways, here it is:

[cobraman]

Pretty cool !

[Gramps46]

Very nice survivor.  Thank you for sharing it with us.

[slusher]

That’s a real beauty!

[randyc]

I've seen the five hole wheels but not quite like those. Nice piece.  

[THarrison351]

7 hours ago, randyc said:

I've seen the five hole wheels but not quite like those. Nice piece.  

Hi Randy. This is an old picture someone posted from the way the car looked in America’s Car Museum in 2013. I'm pretty sure these are the wheels they attempted to duplicate. I think they missed the mark.

Edited June 13, 2020 by THarrison351

[randyc]

I agree.  Not quite right.  You might get some monogram NASCAR T bird wheels from the original kits to work... if ya wanted to mess with it.  Not sure I would. 

[THarrison351]

No, I'll probably leave this one alone. I had planned to get a beat up one to strip and repaint into this:

I've had a set of decals to build it for years. Now that Salvinos has released an Olds, I'll probably use one of those.