Just picked up some Johnny Lightning White Lightning chase cars. The first is the orange one with white lightning written on the tires. The second one is the white classic gold car with white interior and a white base instead of the blue interior and the bare metal base.
Where did you get them? I dont have the white with white. Any more where you got them? I'd pay for one.
These are chase vehicles, they only pack one in maybe every 10 or 20 cases. I believe less then 5 percent of the total run of cars come this way. Johnny Lightning has been running the white lightnings ever since I can remember. I once found the Scooby Doo mystery machine at a store in the mall ($5.99). I ebayed it and got $90.00 for it. Sometimes you can score a white lightning version cheap but for the most part they go for larger then usual amounts of money.
I just found this explaination on line about the white lightning variations: White Lightning[SIZE=-3]TM[/SIZE] Cars What is a White Lightning car? White Lightning cars are variations-made in small quantities-of regular production models. For 1:64-scale cars, RC2 produces White Lightning versions for 1% to 2% of any production run. We randomly insert these cars into cases at the factory. To give you an idea of how scarce these cars are, consider this: If RC2 produces 10,000 Pontiac GTO models for its Musclecars series, and makes 1% of those cars White Lightning versions, we only make 100 White Lightning versions of the GTO. That's 100 White Lightning models for the entire world. What makes a White Lightning car? With early White Lightning cars, the company almost always painted the body white or pearl white. It didn't take long for people-collectors and non-collectors-to realize these cars were special, and easy to spot. The Johnny Lightning Team has always wanted as many White Lightning cars to get into the hands of collectors as possible. To achieve that goal, they began changing the characteristics of the White Lightning car. It wasn't always white any more. That made the cars easier to hide on the pegs…waiting for a collector's keen eye. Below is a list of White Lightning characteristics. In most cases, any given White Lightning car will have two features that are different from the regular version. White body Pearl-White body White chassis Pearl-White chassis White engine Tinted glass White rims (injected white…not painted) White tires White interior (injected white…not painted) The words "White Lightning" on the tires Metallic gold body (always paired with a white characteristic) Whitewall tires instead of red stripes Common Combinations: White interior and white rims White tires and white chassis Pearl-White body and white interior Tinted glass and white interior White rims and white tires Important Facts to Remember: Not every white model is a White Lightning car. Not every pearl-white model is a White Lightning car. Not every car with a white interior is a White Lightning version. White Lightning cars aren't always white. White Lightning characteristics change with most every release. The fun is in the hunt. Keep your eyes open. Sometimes a White Lightning car may be hanging on the end of a peg, right in front of you.
It just a shame that they chose a 70 Maverick instead of the popular 71/72 Grabber style car w/ grabber hood.
