1998 Racing Champions Stock Rods ’66 Chevy Nova

The last of the non Hot Wheels items in the JG Collection is this colorful Nova from the 1998 Racing Champions Stock Rods. This series posed the question, “What if your favorite drivers traded in their stock cars to race in a classic hot rod from the past?” This ’66 Chevy Nova wears the familiar Kellogg’s Corn Flakes #5 livery that Terry Labonte had on his Chevrolet Lumina (and later a  Monte Carlo) after he began racing with Hendrick Motorsports in 1994.

I actually have a few more of the Racing Champions Stock Rods, still in there packages – and believe it or not, one of them has a different Terry Labonte Kellogg’s #5 livery – which you can see by clicking here.

Racing Champions | 1998 Stock Rods | #106 | ’66 Chevy Nova | 09306/19,998 | red and yellow Kellogg’s Corn Flakes racing trim, opening hood

1998 Hot Wheels Jiffy Lube ’65 Impala

This is another one of those cars I’ve had on my want list for awhile. About the same time I was on eBay to buy my Marcus Forklift, I decided to grab a Hot Wheels Jiffy Lube Special Edition ’65 Impala as well. It looks like there are at least 10 different Hot Wheels castings that were given the Jiffy Lube Special Edition treatment between 1998 and 2001. The Jiffy Lube ’65 Impala came out the first year of the casting, in 1998. Though the Jiffy Lube graphics are not my favorite, it has nice pearl white paint and wears a sharp set of Real Rider whitewalls.

23398 | 1998 | Jiffy Lube Special Edition | ’65 Impala | white with red and blue Jiffy Jube graphics | RRww

Of the 35 or so variations of the Hot Wheels ’65 Impala, I have many of them, including the gold beauty that was included in the 2017 HW Flames 5-pack.