New Johnny Lightning '72 Maverick coming next year

So take this with a grain of salt, but there is talk of Auto World resurrecting the Johnny Lighting brand and releasing new cars in 2016, one of which is supposed to be a 1972 Maverick. I can't find any official word from Auto World, just posts on a couple of diecast sites (Hobby Talk and T-Hunted), but any news is good news for new tiny Mavericks!

Here's the T-Hunted link (from Brazil so only partly in English): http://t-hunted.blogspot.com.br/2015/10/a-johnny-lightning-esta-de-volta.html

 

Here is more on this subject, I sent the pic of my car to him and was told my car was chosen later on when I inquired more about the release date I was thanked for the pic but another car was chosen. He informed me that the release date would probably be around November.

You can also take this with a grain of salt

http://mmb.maverick.to/threads/looking-for-1971-maverick-pictures.104602/

 

I would love to see a Maverick Grabber and Comet GT car produced!

 

I guess I will be doing more car hunts at Walmart

 

Holy moly, I missed that thread. That's really cool that they base theirs on owner's actual cars, although a bummer that yours wasn't chosen.

 

They shared this on their new Facebook page yesterday.

 

Awesome!

 

Sure looks like mine but then all blue Mavs look about the same, looks like it has different wheels. Just going to have to get a few anyhow

 

Gotta have it!

MD

 

Another today.

 

Nice!!

 

And here is one of the pics I sent them, I would say it is a close enough match

 

For being less than three inches long I'd say it looks pretty good.

 

Looks like they're starting to show up in stores. A few people have found them at Target.

 

Hey, guess it is my car since it has my name on it. Ass Monkeys got nothing on me with their Hotwheels Corvette