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Wondering how to spend that inheritance, college fund or lottery winnings? Here's a thought... This is the first one — chassis #930-570-0001- 1976 Porsche 935 Team Martini and Rossi racecar. This is the car Generation 1 Jazz was designed to emulate. This "repaint" if you will, features no air conditioning, radio, power steering, brakes, windows, or seats. But it does have an estimated 600+ horsepower. The item is up for bids this weekend with bidding expected to hit 1.7 - 2 Million dollars. Yes, a $2,000,000.00 G1 Jazz is pricey, but even the most hardcore, G1 purist would have a tough time finding fault in this work of art. Although, no Autobot insignia or Rub sign will be included.

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One question...is that inspired by Jazz or is Jazz inspired by that?

that is soo damn cool. if i were filthy rich.. i'd collect as many real life transformers cars that i could.

Kibble wrote:One question...is that inspired by Jazz or is Jazz inspired by that?

This car went into prototyping stages in late '74. Jazz was inspired by THIS. Original Jazz (not reissues or Encores) actually feature the Martini brand.

It's him! IT'S HIM!

Mark(NL) wrote:It's him! IT'S HIM!

You rang?

Some of the Transformers were based on actual racing cars..Jazz for one as shown above, but here are a couple of others:

Wheeljack- Lancia Stratos Rally car (wikipedia the Lancia Stratos and you will see it)

Smokescreen- modeled after the Electramotive team's founder Don Devendorf, except his car was #83 not 38 (google electramotive racing team and go to images)

Just a few fun facts, nice find by the way Jason!!! If only I had that kind of fundage!

Mmm that porsche is so gorgeous... mmm.....

AutobotMR2 wrote:Some of the Transformers were based on actual racing cars..Jazz for one as shown above, but here are a couple of others:

Wheeljack- Lancia Stratos Rally car (wikipedia the Lancia Stratos and you will see it)

Smokescreen- modeled after the Electramotive team's founder Don Devendorf, except his car was #83 not 38 (google electramotive racing team and go to images)

Just a few fun facts, nice find by the way Jason!!! If only I had that kind of fundage!

Don't forget Mirage! SOOOO, you're from Wilmington, the Land of Cheap G1's.... interesting.

Wow, this made my day. Cool, I've always known that the car Jazz was based on had existed in the 70's (I had seen it archived on a Porsche website years ago) but I was under the impression that it had long since been disassembled or atleast modified to appear different than this. Glad to see it still kicking around. I have no doubt that it'll go for atleast a million at auction if not more. This brings back so many memories of my original Jazz figure.
I remember seeing him for the first time in K-mart as a kid and wanting one, and I ended up ordering one with that mailaway offer that Cookie Crisp cereal came out with in the mid 80's. Jazz was the only figure they offered but that was fine by me. I would come home from school everyday expecting a package for weeks and it finally arrived and I ended up putting alot of miles on that thing in the dirt in our backyard...oh if I had only known what I was doing back then. Then, 15 years later I was excited again to see his Takara re-release and bought one MIB at a comic shop for $40 bucks (that was alot for me at the time, keep in mind this was before the age of $100 dollar figures in that size class so that was the most I had payed for a G1 figure back then) but it's gone up in value since then. And a few years after that I was glad to see Toys R Us also re-release him in their Classics series. I remeber I bought 5 or 6 of them that year, by then I had disposable income so I did it just because I could. Sorry I'm rambling. Ahhhh memories...

I love me some G1!!!