The Double Zero Mustang is one of the hardest to find and thereby most expensive to own vehicle from all six (at time of review) Johnny Lightning Dukes of Hazzard releases. A lot of die-cast collectors purchase this, even if they are not into the show. It has one of the best paintjobs for a Mustang or any other Johnny Lightning vehicle that has ever been produced. This was part of the 3rd release of 6 cars. Now I've got to be honest it's been a while since I've seen this show and I didn't remember this car at all, but it looked so good I just had to order it anyway. I have now however looked it up and apparently it was from the reunion show "The Dukes of Hazzard Reunion". There were actually two of these things, one had an illegal supped up engine so it could switch with the normal one during a rematch race, apparently the original beat the General Lee years ago. I haven't actually seen the reunion so don't know how accurate that research is. I don't know and that's the thing, Johnny Lightning really should have provided a brief synopsis somewhere on the packaging, explaining about this car and what episode/s it appeared in. Also maybe the bonus sticker could have been a bit more relevant in telling the story. The one you get is just a picture of Daisy. This is by no means a unique problem with just this vehicle, there are many spread over the six (at time of this review and there's so many cars they haven't done yet there will be heaps more) Dukes of Hazzard releases where a similar reliance on memory is needed.
Release 3 also brought some of the other most popular (thereby hard to find now) vehicles of the six releases. They were the most similar to actual used in TV show General Lee, Uncle Jesse's Chevy Ute and Eno's Racing Car (popular in no small part to the sticker of the Enos in uniform and hound). Six vehicles made up release 3 and the other two were the Finchburg County Sherriff (red and white) police car and Molly Hargrove's Plymouth Roadrunner.
Release 3 kept the brilliant innovation of the packaging from release 2 where you can view the vehicle in the packet from all six sides including through the back of the blister pack. Unfortunately though Johnny Lightning did away with the bonus magnet and replaced it with a sticker instead. However they kept the same rectangle format that was much more popular than the cut around the characters way they did with series 1. So there's no difference in viewing the sticker to the magnet if kept in the packaging but obviously a magnet does not bend and droop over time like a sticker does standing behind the car on display.
Like all Dukes of Hazzard Johnny Lightning vehicles, the normal cardboard backing with a small plastic blister has been replaced by the whole thing being entombed in plastic. I like this as it certainly ensures if you are a keeper in packaging type person that it stays in great condition, even if you buy it online and it comes through the post. My only criticism is they could reduce the top part in size (above sticker) as it would then fit on more smaller shelves in people's houses to display it. --James N. Simpson See more.
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