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White '70 Challenger

Ever seen a white Challenger?

This one belongs to Roger Gilmore and he graciously shared these photos.  If you do a Google search, this car will pop up but with a partial set of stickers attached.  Roger purchased this on Ebay several years back, and cleaned it up quite a bit.  He's seen a picture of one other, but it didn't have the original box.  So there are at least two.  Anyone else have one or know of one?

And then there were three.....

This one popped up in a Facebook group dedicated to promo models in May 2020, then quickly found it's way to Ebay.  I spoke to the owner who first listed it on Ebay.  He bought it (presumably quite cheaply) at a storage unit clean out sale, as he described it "sitting on a pile of junk".  Condition is good- scratched windshield, sligthly UV faded passenger side, small gash on roof.  Note the Drivers Education stickers.  Hmmmm.

And white '70 Chargers?  Roger knows of two, both without boxes.  One he saw at a toy show in Toledo years ago, and it was missing the exhaust tips.  He saw a photo of the other, which is in the hands of a collector.  Anyone else have one? 

Purple '69 GTX

For those in the know, Plymouth didn't offer "In Violet" on any of it's cars until 1970. And this color wasn't available on '69 or '70 GTX promos either.  The car is clearly a legitimate promo and came from the estate of a Plymouth product planner.  Perhaps a gift from Plymouth or Jo-Han?  Likely one of a kind.......

 .............. or maybe not?  Ignore the Torino promo, and check out this box.  There were apparently at least two of these purple met. '69 GTXs made.  

Another odd-ball '69 GTX box and color.  Again, ignore the Mustang.  There were no regular orange '69 GTX promos.  Anyone have a "Monaco Orange" '69 GTX?  Thanks to Jan Saalberg for these images. 

Here's another box of that same style.  Note that the normal white for '69 GTX's was "Alpine White".  So, we have extremely rare plain white '69 GTX boxes with colors and names that are outside the norm.  Can anyone help solve the mystery?  Thanks to Steve Engeman for the photo.

Bobby Allison 1971 Charger Coca Cola Promo 

While these aren't super rare, finding one in this condition would be close to impossible.  Note the original shipping box and the "ship from" location as being in Birmingham.  MPC was in Michigan.  Anyone have an ad for these cars?  How would someone have gotten one in 1971?  Collector Roger Gilmore told me a story about how a promo collector friend of his was contacted by a guy in Charlotte in the late 70s who was cleaning out a warehouse and found 80 of these, still in the original box.  They changed hands for $1 each.

I've been told that these all started out as plum crazy cars, and then were painted.  However, it turns out that these could have started out as any color car.  

This one belongs to Jon Saalberg.  Thanks for sharing.