My car club has decided to do a Greenlight Promo to help cover the costs of running our website and keeping the club free. We are the Northern Kentucky F Body Association www.nkyfba.com a great group of Camaro and Firebird owners and enthusiasts. I have been in contact with Russell at Greenlight for a couple weeks now, and the pre sale page is now up and running!!. We've chosen to go with the new 1:64 1985-1989 Trans Am Casting for our promo, and we're doing a Blue with silver ground effects 1986 Trans Am. We're figuring the Green machine will be green body (with the silver ground effects) and green base, and we're looking at the clamshell packaging. This is the car we've chosen to model the promo after...
http://i72.photobucket.com/albums/i175/Woody68RS/waynesTA.jpg
and this is the model of the 1:18 scale Trans Am so the 1:64 should be close...
http://www.greenlighttoys.com/assets/images/89transam_18pip.jpg
We need to presell about 25 more sets of 10 (9 regular 1 greenie matching numbers to one of the regulars $70 plus shipping and insurance) to get the templates and have a "final" design to show everyone, and I'm trying to model most things after the DieCastLive sales as far as packages,pricing, etc... because they did such a good job over there.
If things go smoothly, I was hoping maybe we could get these distributed almost before the casting actually hits retail shelves.

I'll keep everyone posted, and hope you all look foward to this one as much as I am!!! :thumbsup:

Sweet! I have and 87 Firebird sitting in the garage waiting for a hop up some day. Keep us posted.

Great news! My buddy is a firebird completist and will be very excited to acquire his first GL Firebird. Please add me to your mailing list.

drdealone@aol.com


Regards, DrDeal

Quote: "1:64th 1985-1989 Trans Am"

This may be the best news of the month. :thumbsup: Please add me to your mailing list as well! kdm_inciteful@yahoo.com Hoping the 1:18ths are coming along as well.

Thanks for the support everyone! The preorder page will be up by the middle of the week!!

Here's the pre-order link!!
http://nkyfba.homeip.net/uploads/ntmid8/greenlight/index3.htm

thanks for the support!!

My Buddy ordered his GM Package today and is very psyched. Please save Maurice a low number GM set.

Thanks, DrDeal

Sales started briskly, and have slowed a bit. We could use your help. We still need about 18 more sets preordered to begin the production process. If you were planning on ordering a set, we'd appreciate the help!! This will be one sweet promo, not to mention a great chance to get your hands on a great first casting!!!
Thanks!!!

Very cool Woody, congrads.

Things are progressing nicely, The TransAm Nationals are coming up in another week in Dayton Ohio, if we can drum up a few sales there we can get the ball rolling!! We're down to about 15 sets to presell to get the templates!!!

Bill, forgive me but I'm a bit slow on the uptake these days :p What is it that we would be getting for $70?

I'm all in favor of promo cars and helping out groups like yours doing them, I just want to understand what it is you guys are offering is all, and then I'll most likely order up a set for myself :thumbsup:

Thanks.

Bill, forgive me but I'm a bit slow on the uptake these days :p What is it that we would be getting for $70?

I'm all in favor of promo cars and helping out groups like yours doing them, I just want to understand what it is you guys are offering is all, and then I'll most likely order up a set for myself :thumbsup:

Thanks.

Hey Rich!
$70 gets you 9 regular issue Blue Trans Ams, and One Green Machine. By ordering a set you assure yourself a greenmachine as opposed to taking your chances at getting a randomly inserted greenmachine (roughly 1 in 10 or so). And the greenie will match one of the regulars in number (if you get greenmachine # 0003 you will have blue Trans Am #0003)

Still looking for a few more preorders to get into the production phase... :thumbsup:

bill, i will be purchasing a few singles by the end of next week! :thumbsup:

Still looking for a few more preorders to get into the production phase... :thumbsup:

Good Morning! Are you still looking for pre-orders? I am very interested in the nine plus "greenie" as they will make excellent gifts for my car-collecting friends, as well as me. :thumbsup:

Thanks!

I'll be preordering shortly as well via money order. These look to be awesome! I'm hoping for #18.

Good Morning! Are you still looking for pre-orders? I am very interested in the nine plus "greenie" as they will make excellent gifts for my car-collecting friends, as well as me. :thumbsup:

Thanks!

Yes we still need about 15 more sets preordered to move on with things!!
Thanks for the interest! :thumbsup:

I'll be preordering shortly as well via money order. These look to be awesome! I'm hoping for #18.

Thanks Adrian!!
:thumbsup:

Did you get a DCL set with the greenmachine? My matched set happens to be numbered 18...if you do I would be willing to trade with you...

Thanks Adrian!!
:thumbsup:

Did you get a DCL set with the greenmachine? My matched set happens to be numbered 18...if you do I would be willing to trade with you...

I do have the DCL cars but my reg and GM are not matching numbers because I came across them seperately. Thank you for the offer however!

Yes we still need about 15 more sets preordered to move on with things!!
Thanks for the interest! :thumbsup:

Pre-order done and paid via PayPal. Can't wait to see these cars in person!

Pre-order done and paid via PayPal. Can't wait to see these cars in person!

Thank You!!!

How close are you to your sales goal, Bill?

Hey Dennis! About 11 more sets preordered and we go with the templates and production! :thumbsup:

Hey Bill, I ordered via paypal instead of money order. Looking forward to this set as I know it will be great! Take care friend!

Thanks for the support Adrian! :thumbsup:

About 8 more sets preordered and we go with the templates and production! :thumbsup: :woohoo: :thumbsup:

About 8 more sets preordered and we go with the templates and production! :thumbsup: :woohoo: :thumbsup:

And now that it's been two weeks since this last post, how many more pre-orders are needed? The holidays are coming and several of these are destined to go to some die-hard collectors in my family. Thanks for the updates!

We're down to needing about 4 more sets. Orders seem to come in waves. Once we get these last few preorders in, I'll have more info to post including template pictures and soon after that, prototypes!!

Just an update. We got the templates from Russell this week, and as soon as we have a good working design together, I'll be posting pics!! :thumbsup:

Very exciting!! :woohoo: Can't wait to see pics!

Thanks for the update.

bill, are there any updates on when we are going to receive these or any sneak peeks of the final product?

bill, are there any updates on when we are going to receive these or any sneak peeks of the final product?


We're simply waiting on Greenlight's design team at this point. Our design was in the incorrect format needed, so they had to take our graphics etc, and rework them into something they could use. They've had things for almost a month, so I'm anxiously awaiting news any day... I can tell you that the regular version will have silver lace rims and silver ground effects on blue paint while the green machine will be gold lace rims and gold ground effects on green paint. I'll be posting followup info and pics of the prototypes as soon as I get any word!:thumbsup:
We appreciate all the patience, and believe me, we're just as anxious as everyone else to get these beauties!:woohoo:

Got this from Russell today...

We need to know if it’s okay if we use a 1987-89 Trans Am body instead of the ‘86 you had previously requested for the promo. Upon further review of our Trans Am tooling capabilities, we do not have the right tooling for the ‘86. This type of discovery only came to light recently when we received the final tool plan from our factory at the completion of the mold. They had tried to get all of the parts for 1985-89 in the mold, but some were not able to fit in the metal structure that produces die-cast cars. I am very sorry for this, as I know you had wanted to produce the ’86. On a positive note, the ’87-89 looks fabulous and is guaranteed to be a hit with your Association and anyone else who buys the die-cast!!!

I think the main differences are the third brakelight in the spoiler, and the fender vents on a non GTA, whish we were thinking might be able to be tampoed on...