Johnny Lightning Ambulance

This is a future release in the Forever 64 line. Just finished it today after having to pull a car from an assortment. I am sure my new friends and collectors from the NHAA(National Hearse Ambulance Association) will be excited about the release. Look for this one in late 2010. Thinking about doubling up on this one in the cases. What do you think?

Tom Zahorsky
Senior Design Manager
Johnny Lightning

Johnny Lightning Forever 64

Check out two of the releases from F64 release 9. The Beat the Heat release is a special tribute to Officer Henry Canales, who was killed in the line of duty, and the Ford Focus Yorkshire police is a standard patrol car. Look for these in stores later this month.

Tom Zahorsky
Senior Design Manager
Johnny Lightning

Dukes of Hazzard

Just received my production samples today! The long awaited release of Rosco's Patrol car is almost near. The new Monaco, with diecast body and chassis, will debut in JL2.0 R2. It features an opening hood with detailed 440 V8, new lightbar and new police wheels. Look for White Lightnings that have white rims and white tires.

Tom Zahorsky
Senior Design Manager
Johnny Lightning

76 Corvette

By now, most of you have seen our new Rally wheel that was more recently used on the '75 Corvette in the Walmart exclusive set. The old Rally wheel, MC-4, will be retired.
We do have another new rim, a 8-slot mag, that will make it first showing in R11 of F64. This was the original aluminum wheel GM announced as being available in '73 but due to some quality problems GM recalled. The new wheel offered in '76 was the same design but was produced by Kelsey-Hayes.
In addition to the new slotted mags on this Vette is a luggage rack to haul around all those cases of JLs.

Tom Zahorsky
Senior Design Manager
Johnny Lightning

JL 32 Ford Delivery

We'll commemorate release 50 of the 1:24 scale Muscle cars line with this '32 Ford Sedan Delivery. The 24 scale line was launched in 2005 and I am excited to be able to introduce some castings that have traveled along with me in my career. I first worked on this '32 Ford casting in 1997 and introduced into the Racing Champions Hot Rod line later in the year. It has a full diecast body and chassis with detailed chrome engine, chrome exhaust and suspension. The hood is also removable and reveals a 289 V8.

Tom Zahorsky
Senior Design Manager
Johnny Lightning

Johnny Lightning Blog '77 Monaco

This unmarked '77 Monaco in light metallic brown will join the two Beat the Heat releases in R11 of F64 I showed you a few days ago. I always say you can never have enough police cars in an asst so R11 will have three and R12 will also have three, along with a '57 Chevy ambulance.
R12 will have one BTH release, a '71 Chevelle owned by Jim Harris. Jim's Chevelle is black and white with a flaming pro stock scoop, red roof mounted lightbar and big rear slicks.

Tom Zahorsky
Senior Design Manager
Johnny Lightning

Sprint for Johnny Lightning

The sprint will be on shortly for the next Walmart exclusive set, which hits stores in about 2 weeks. This new sidekick assortment includes 12 cars and each are packaged in a new black packaging with the JL logo. There are 36 cars in each sidekick and will be available at all Walmarts, including some that do not normally carry the regular JL Forever 64 line. Some of my favorites in the assortment are the the JL Sprint, yellow AMX, a bright orange '70 Chevelle and a '70 Cuda race car. White Lightnings have white tires and white rims. Good luck with the hunt!

Tom Zahorsky
Senior Design Manager
Johnny Lightning