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Sports & Exotic
TurismoRed · 1982
TOY # 1694 · MAINLINE
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Sports & Exotic
Turismo
Red•1982
✦Common · 26
9Variations
1981–1985Years
2Series
1694Toy #
- Colour
- Red
- Material
- ZAMAC (unpainted metal)
- Base
- ZAMAC
- Wheels
- BW
- Interior
- Black Interior & Rear Deck
- Window
- Blue tint
- Series
- Mainline
- Made in
- Malaysia
- Tampo / graphics
- Yellow, White & Black stripes, "10" on sides
Notes
Also a McDonald’s premium
About the Turismo
During the 70's and 80's, Bob Rosas was the Manager of Product Development (Boy Toys) at Mattel and Larry Wood was the principal car designer at Mattel. In 1978 they took interest in the DeLorean car, which was getting significant media attention at the time. Joel Rubenstein, Product Legal at Mattel, received a verbal okay from DeLorean Motor Company to produce a Hot Wheels car based on the prototype DeLorean car. Working from photos of the prototype, the molds were quickly developed and samples
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