This isn't a rare casting. Rare castings are desired for how difficult they are to procure or how little the number of versions made is. Take the Maserati MC12 for example - pops up in the 2005 First Editions, reappears in the 2007 Mystery Models and then never again. Another Maserati, the Quattroporte. appeared in the 2004 First Editions and then famously was also never to be seen again. But this? This is of course the 2009 Corvette ZR1, which debuted in 2008 and has been released again literally dozens of times since. And yet I have only three.
The first is a lime 2009 FTE release, bought for me at the time by my Dad and thankfully has been pretty well kept. It has both headlight and taillight printing, and looks wonderfully stock. The second is from 5 years later, in 2014, and is a multipack exclusive. The approach of conservative printing is evident, but overall this dark blue version (a recolour of the 2013 version, which was red) is great sitting on white 10 spokes, and I guess I can confidently say that it is one of the rarer versions of the casting. The third and final version is 2015's release, in a stunning Gulf Racing livery, which is practically faultless (yes taillight printing would be nice, but that is a little too hopeful for the mainline these days).
I have searched and searched for the white recolour of the Gulf version, but to no avail. That's not the point of this post though. The point is, if I had to pick three of all the versions released of this casting (excluding the $TH of course), I would probably still be sitting here with these three...
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