'57 T-Bird, turquoise (#3)

This turquoise '57 T-Bird is bag number 3 in the 1991 McDonald's Hot Wheels Happy Meal, one of two colourways of the '57 T-Bird casting in the promotion.

That promotion offered eight cars across four castings, each in two colour variations, sealed in a baggie inside the Happy Meal box. It is a separate line from Mattel's own retail California Custom series of the same name.

This example pairs a turquoise body with yellow, white and purple side tampos on a gray plastic base. It has blue tinted windows and a turquoise interior.

Franchise
Hot Wheels
Product line
'57 T-Bird
Promotion
McDonald's Happy Meal
Region
United States
Costume
Turquoise '57 T-Bird with yellow, white and purple on the sides, on a gray plastic base, blue tinted windows and a turquoise interior
Commonly missing
original sealed baggie
Edition
Number 3 in the set
Released
1991
Material
die-cast body on a plastic base
Series
1991 McDonald's California Custom Hot Wheels

How to identify it

One of two colourways of the '57 T-Bird casting in this promotion

Gray plastic base with blackwall wheels

Body material, scale, base codes and the verbatim molded base text are deliberately unrecorded: no source states them and no physical examination has been documented.