New York Yankees 1964-1/2 Mustang ERTL 2005 Die Cast Car New In Box

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New York Yankees 1964-1/2 Mustang ERTL 2005 Die Cast Car New In Box. A collectible Ertl Diecast Cars item from Ertl. If you are looking for york yankees 1964 1 2 mustang, this is the one to grab while it is still available. Full details and specifications from the original listing follow below.

New York Yankees 1964-1/2 Mustang ERTL 2005 Die Cast Car New In Box: Product Details

This is a rare opportunity to own a piece of baseball history. The New York Yankees 1964-1/2 Mustang ERTL 2005 Die Cast Car is an officially licensed product of Racing Champions. It is a one-size diecast car that comes in a grey color and features the iconic team logo.
This unique collectible is perfect for any Major League (MLB) fan and is a must-have for New York Yankees enthusiasts. It belongs to the Sports Mem, Cards & Fan Shop category and is a great addition to any fan's collection. Don't miss out on this opportunity to add a piece of Yankees history to your collection.

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Ertl diecast cars: collectible 1/64 scale diecast, including team and classic car editions, new in the box.

Ertl built its reputation in Dyersville, Iowa, first on farm toys and then on diecast vehicles of every kind, and its sports licensed cars joined two collecting fields in a single object. A 1964 and a half Ford Mustang is itself a piece of history: the original Mustang launched in April 1964 as a 1965 model, the early cars are forever known as the 64 and a half, and it became one of the most successful car launches in American history. Carrying New York Yankees livery under official licence, as the listing describes, this Ertl car is aimed at the overlap between Mustang enthusiasts and Yankees fans, and that overlap is wide: both are signature American icons of the same postwar decades. Racing Champions, associated with the release as the listing notes, specialised in exactly this kind of licensed sports diecast through the 1990s and 2000s. Team cars were sold at stadiums, in fan shops and through catalogs rather than mainly in toy aisles, so their survival new in box follows a different pattern from ordinary toy cars, and a boxed example preserves the full fan shop presentation of its year.

The New York Yankees are the most collected team in American sports, and their memorabilia crosses every category this figure and car touch. Twenty-seven World Series championships, the pinstripes, Yankee Stadium and a roll of names from Ruth and Gehrig through Mantle and Jeter created an audience for Yankees items that no other club matches, and manufacturers have put the interlocking NY on everything from action figures to diecast cars for decades. Yankees pieces tied to a specific player or a specific car carry the additional identity of that subject, but the team connection is what unites them on a shelf: a collector can build an entire display from Yankees releases alone, across brands and product types, and the display reads as one collection. Items from the 2000s in particular capture the final years of the old Yankee Stadium era and the 2009 championship season that closed it, a period Yankees fans treat as its own chapter. Officially licensed team marks, applied under MLB licence as they are on these releases, are the detail that separates team memorabilia of record from novelty items.

Diecast collecting is built on scale, and 1:64 is its most collected size: small enough to gather by the hundred, large enough to carry a recognisable body shape, wheels, tampo printed details and a real sense of the full size machine. The great names of 1:64, Matchbox and Ertl among them, built the hobby across the second half of the twentieth century. Matchbox, founded in London in 1953, literally took its name from the matchbox sized packages its cars were sold in, while Ertl of Iowa became the American diecast institution for farm toys, trucks and licensed Americana. Licensed character and team cars are a distinct branch of the field: a Nickelodeon character car or a Yankees Mustang is collected by the character’s or the team’s fans as much as by diecast specialists, and its packaging, showing the licence and the era’s graphics, is part of the piece. A car kept new in its box preserves that whole presentation (the casting, the card art and the blister) exactly as it left the store, which is the form in which the strongest examples of common cars survive, because most were opened and played with.