Every so often, a Hot Wheels comes along that melts the Internet. Collectors’ heads explode like they’ve just looked into the Ark of the Covenant. The next Nissan Fairlady Z is just such a car. Look, we’re not bragging just because the JNC inkan is on it. We’ve seen it in person, and it is an amazing piece of craftsmanship for a $1 toy car.
Recently, we were at Mattel’s El Segundo design center where we saw the surprise JNC surf wagon for the first time. In that same conference room we saw the Fairlady Z, which we photographed but agreed not to post. We can publish them now that the Hot Wheels design team revealed it on their new official Instagram account, @hotwheelsdreamteam (Be sure to give them a follow for all the latest Hot Wheels news).
So why is it an internet melter? Well, just look at it. It’s a flared, G-nosed, and ducktailed Z in classic Advan livery. That red on black striping is one of the meanest classic racing schemes ever designed, and looks good on just about anything.
The first release, in blue, was patterned after Hot Wheels designer Jun Imai’s real car. With a low down stance and kaido racer mods, it’s quite a departure from the standard Datsun 240Z even though they’re both S30 models.
To top it all off, it’s a Super Treasure Hunt, meaning it will be very rare. There will be a “regular” version with regular wheels and fewer tampos, but only one Super Treasure Hunt will be placed randomly into shipments of several hundred to retail stores.
Super Treasure Hunt versions will also have Real Rider rubber tires over premium wheels typically found on high-end Hot Wheels cars. In this case, they are gunmetal 8-spokes that remind us of classic RS-Watanabes.
We’re pretty certain this is going to be the hottest Treasure Hunt since the Datsun 510 wagon from 2014. We’re once again honored to have JNC featured on it, along with Jun Imai, Yokohama Tire/Advan, and GReddy.
For a complete list of JNC inkan’d Hot Wheels, see the list below.
- Nissan Skyline GT-X hakosuka (2011, white/green with red JNC inkan)
- Mazda RX-7 (2012, black/gold/red with gold JNC inkan)
- Mazda RX-7 (2012, blue/white/orange with orange JNC inkan)
- Mazda RX-7 (2012, white/gold/red with red JNC inkan) — Kroger’s/Ralph’s exclusive
- Toyota AE86 Corolla (2013, black/white with black JNC inkan)
- Toyota AE86 Corolla (2013, white/black with black JNC inkan)
- Toyota Celica 1970 (2013, red/black with black JNC inkan)
- Mazda RX-7 (2013, silver/blue with blue JNC inkan) — Treasure Hunt
- Datsun 620 (2014, orange with black JNC inkan)
- Datsun 620 (2014, blue with black JNC inkan) — KDay exclusive
- Datsun 620 (2014, red with black JNC inkan)
- Datsun 510 wagon (2014, red/white with blue JNC inkan)
- Datsun 510 wagon (2014, dark spectraflame red/white with blue JNC inkan) — Super Treasure Hunt
- Datsun 240Z (2015, black/blue/gold with blue JNC inkan)
- Datsun 510 wagon (2015, yellow with dark blue JNC inkan)
- Datsun 240Z (2015, white/blue/red with blue JNC inkan)
- Datsun 510 wagon (2015, black with black JNC inkan) — KDay exclusive
- Nissan Fairlady Z (2016, blue/black with white JNC inkan)
- Nissan Skyline GT-X hakosuka (2016, white/blue with red JNC inkan) — Japan Historics premium
- Mazda RX-3 (2016, purple with red JNC inkan) — Japan Historics premium
- Datsun 510 wagon (2016, black with red JNC inkan) — Japan Historics premium
- Toyota 2000GT (2016, yellow/green with red JNC inkan) — Japan Historics premium
- Nissan Skyline GT-R kenmeri (2016, white/black with red JNC inkan) — Japan Historics premium
- Datsun 620 (2016, turquoise with gold JNC inkan) — Car Culture Trucks premium
- Nissan Fairlady 2000 (2017, yellow with maroon JNC inkan)
- Nissan Fairlady 2000 (2017, green with black JNC inkan)
- Datsun Bluebird 510 (2016, maroon/black with red JNC inkan) — Car Culture Track Day premium
- Nissan Skyline GT-X hakosuka (2017, white/blue with red JNC inkan)
- Datsun 510 wagon (2017, blue/white/orange with blue JNC inkan)
- Nissan Fairlady Z (2017, black/red/”Advan” with white JNC inkan)
- Nissan Fairlady Z (2017, black/red/”Advan” with white JNC inkan) — Super Treasure Hunt
Ugh, you’re killing me… ;P
How do I get one
Yay ! another one that I’ll never find..
That because walmart employee’s take them or sell them.
So cool, perhaps you guys should make some available to your readers…I know I would be a customer…
Where can you find more info on this , I wanna treasure hunt
Can you put me on a update list thanks ron stewart
Can u put me on a update list thanks ron
how do you get won i look at hot whells all over the plce and cant find it
What’s JNC mean? I had a 1983 Z. Keep me updated too please!
I had a 1983 Z. Keep me updated too please!
Yeah you just keep looking I have not seen any either.
Hot Wheels…. you need to do a better job of marketing to one of your markets… the members of places like JNC. Why not offer them through JNC rather than making people jump through all the hoops just to try to get one. My 0.02 cents.
Another jnc hotwheel that I’ll never come across in the wild and I’m not enough of a collector to shell out the insane markup price by resellers. Great.
And that’s why I keep buying RLC exclusive cars – so I can trade for stuff I really want like THIS!