Top 10 Worst

1.  ERTL Cannonball Run Ambulance

This die-cast looks like one of the worst custom jobs EVER!.  Compare photos.  Wrong make of van.  No emergency lights.  ERTL came close with the tampos on the side, but it looks like they stopped before they were finished.   Did we run out of orange paint fellas?

2.  Matchbox Star Car- Grease

Who wouldn't want to see Greased Lightning in 1:64 scale?  Well, folks, THIS AIN'T IT!!!  Again, another example of Matchbox taking an existing casting and slapping tampos on it.  I don't know how something like this gets approved.  It's pathetic.

3. Matchbox Star Car - The Brady Bunch

Here it is folks, The Brady Bunch Ford Taurus station wagon....... HUH?
The Ford Taurus was introduced in 1985.  The Brady Bunch went off the air in 1974.

4. JL Frightning Lightning - Christine

I'm sorry Johnny Lightning, but I had to update my list to include this version of Christine.  On the left is JL's Christine.  On the right, a still from the movie.  What's wrong with this picture?  Oh, let me count the ways.  Did the folks on the assembly line dunk the body in a can of red paint before sending it down the line?  A little white paint would've gone a LONG way.  Click here and scroll down to see how it was SUPPOSED to be done.

5.  Matchbox Star Car - Taxi

I don't know what Matchbox was thinking.  Look at the cab on the left.  They take an existing casting, slap the show's logo on the car and sell it as cab from the TV show Taxi.  This car doesn't even REMOTELY resemble any car seen on the program.  The 70's Checkered Cab on the right was made by Golden Wheel Die Casting as part of its American Cruiser line.  It's almost IDENTICAL to the cabs used on the TV program.

6. Matchbox Star Cars - Jaws

The shark is cool, but that's about it.  Matchbox has used this casting NUMEROUS times,  even using it for Gilligan's Island.  Neat idea, poor execution.  What's the deal with the blue guy?

7. Hot Wheels Simpsons Family Camper

Who green-lit this vehicle?  Hot Wheels took the Simpsons license and came up with this abomination.  The Simpsons "family camper?"  Looks like an ugly van to me.  If you are looking for Simpsons cars, you GOTTA pick up Johnny Lightning's 4-car set.  They put this thing to shame.

8. Hot Wheels Baywatch Rescue Vehicle

"First Aid" is misspelled "Fisrt Aid" on this vehicle.  Nuff said.  Whoever is to blame must have been daydreaming about Pamela Anderson running in slow motion on the beach.

9.  Johnny Lightning - Blues Brothers 2000

Why?  The casting and deco are fine, but the movie was a stinkaroo.  There are so many awesome cars yet to be done, why waste time, money and effort on this?

10.  Racing Champs Hazzard County Sewer Van

I hate this van for several reasons.  First:  it's ugly.  Second:  It's such an awful excuse to reuse a casting.  Department of Sewers????  This MIGHT come in handy if you have a 1:64 scale replica of Hazzard County in your basement.  Third:  These things won't go away.  They are clogging up the pegs of every store that sells die-cast, therefore preventing new product from being placed on the pegs.  I hope someone at ERTL got fired for this one.