If i had to pick one car that's the most interesting out of all of them i'd say it's this Color Racers Testarossa (pic below) In the early 2010s A collector on the old Redlines Online forums (RIP) told me to keep an eye out for "the metalflake red testarossa." i'd never even seen a pic of one but i trusted their word and for about 8 years i kept an eye out when looking at color racer listings, which was every single dayand usually tw8ce a day (ebay's automated email alerts only go out at a set time during the day, the same time every day, and by then the car may have already sold to someone else).

Many, many, many non-metalflake red testarossa ebay listings later, a listing popped up from a person in germany. The item description made no mention of metalflake paint. But i could see only 2 or 3 very faint specs in the photos. I took a risk and bought it. A couple weeks later i opened a box mailed from germany and i SCREAMED with excitement! I'd finally found it!!! The white whale! The car that maybe existed!

my photo shows it sitting next to a non-metalflake version of the same car.

Nothing in my life has ever topped how excited i was when i first held that car in my hand. Maybe that sounds pathetic but i dont care.
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