’38 Phantom Corsair Casting Reference | Loose Hot Wheels
'38 Phantom Corsair
The Phantom Corsair is a concept car from 1938 that was designed by Rust Heinz of the Heinz 57 Ketchup fame, and Maurice Schwartz from Bohman & Schwartz Coachbuilding Company, Pasadena, California. The resulting design was amazing, aerodynamic and certainly bred from unconventional thinking. The cars fascia consisted of headlights that made is look like a half-submerged hippo, the grill slits resembled an angry African animals, but in a row of six, the fog lights had an overall somber complexion, and the slab-shap…
Identify the casting first. Check the value board last.
'38 Phantom Corsair first appears in First Editions. The current catalog tracks it across 1999 – 2003. Designer credit is listed as Mark Jones. Check Description, Versions, Gallery before trusting a vague seller title.
- 1999 First Editions
- Halloween Highway Series
- Mark Jones Designs
- Concept Cars
- Licensed Hot Wheels
- American Cars
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- Match the title to '38 Phantom Corsair before reading price claims.
- Use 1999 – 2003 as the production-window check.
- Cross-check Description, Versions before calling the variation exact.
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