Top-five December 1/24 sales
Kicking off December is a Color Chrome version of Dale Earnhardt’s 1984 “Blue Goose” released by Action/Lionel in 2010.
Earnhardt’s 1984 season included his first win for Richard Childress, and he earned a fourth-place finish in the season standings behind that win and 22 top-10s in 30 races.
Commemorating the Blue Goose over two decades after it hit the track, Lionel produced 661 Color Chrome versions. One example sold for $789 Dec. 7, and underscoring its desirability, the Blue Goose 1/24 garnered its high price and 16 bids despite being sold with a donor box.
Along with the Color Chrome version, just 69 Gold versions of the Blue Goose were also produced in the run, and one example sold in April for $2,650.
Another Earnhardt takes the No. 4 spot, an Elite prototype of Dale Earnhardt Jr.’s 2017 Mountain Dew Chevy SS. Earnhardt made two starts in his Mountain Dew car that season, his final full-time year in the Cup Series, earning a ninth-place finish at Michigan and seventh at Talladega.
The strikingly green prototype sold Dec. 27 for $845 with 27 bids entered.
For the second time in the last three months, a custom from maker gfb00 cracks the top five.
In 1986 Richard Petty made his 1,000th NASCAR start, and the King marked the occasion with a 1,000th-start sticker on the C-pillar of his Pontiac Grand Prix 2+2. Gfb00 recreated Petty’s ride from the Miller American 400 at Michigan in which the King’s No. 43 STP ride finished 13th.
“There is no race version diecast for a Pontiac Grand Prix 2+2, so I made a lot of modifications to the original diecast body, repainted the interior, detailed the wheels and engine compartment to make the car as close to the car KING Richard drove in his 1,000 start,” the listing states.
The custom marking Petty’s landmark start earned 21 bids and sold Dec. 24 for $925.
The runner-up for December makes a rare trip from outside the United States.
On Dec. 14, an autographed prototype of Jeff Gordon’s 2012 Pocono Raced Win sold for $750 Great British Pounds, which works out to about $1,013 U.S. Dollars.
The AARP/Drive to End Hunger No. 24 is already a highly sought-after Gordon Raced Win considering just 504 ARC and 230 Elite versions were produced. As such, the prototype is even more valuable to many collectors.
The NASCAR off-season has been marred by tragedy with the deaths of Michael Annett, Denny Hamlin’s father, Dennis Hamlin, and Greg Biffle, who died alongside his wife, two children and three others on board Biffle’s jet when it crashed Dec. 18.
One of Biffle’s Raced Wins takes the top spot for priciest eBay diecast sale of December.
Biffle earned his final Cup Series win at Michigan International Speedway in the 2013 Quicken Loans 400, leading a race-best 48 of 200 laps. Biffle’s victory was his second straight at Michigan and fourth overall.
Biffle ran his 3M/Give Kids a Smile No. 16 Ford Fusion that day, which had been produced in various “clean” versions. However, his Michigan win had a far more limited run with just 552 Raced Win versions produced, plus 144 autographed Raced Wins.
An autographed example of Biffle’s 2013 Raced Win, one that was apparently signed in person, sold Dec. 22 for $1,200.
It’s not clear when the auction began.
Top-three December 1/64 sales
Red Bull Racing cars dominated the top 1/64 sales recently, but the reign is over (even so, a Brian Vickers 2011 Red Bull Camry missed out on the top three list by just $7). However, two cars from the same driver are in the top-three this month, along with another car that is repeating as the priciest 1/64 sale of the month.
Jeff Gordon earns the No. 3 and 2 spots this month with two cars that nearly serve as bookends to his career.
At No. 3 is Gordon’s 2012 AARP/Ninja Turtles Impala. A hard-to-come-by scheme no matter the scale, the Ninja Turtles No. 24 was a one-off livery for the 2012 Bank of America 500 at Charlotte. Gordon started 13th and finished 18th, two laps down. A 1/64 version of the TMNT ride sold this month for $135.
The Ninja Turtles ride came as Gordon’s career was winding down, while the No. 2 most expensive 1/64 this month came from when the four-time champ’s career was ramping to its peak.
Racing Champions released a special line of “Chase” cars (predating the Chase for the Cup) in the late 1990s. For 1996, this included chrome cars with, unironically rare for Racing Champions products, a relatively limited number produced. One release from the line of chrome Chase cars was Gordon’s No. 24 DuPont Monte Carlo, and it’s among the most difficult-to-find Gordon 1/64s. Just 1,996 of these were produced, and No. 1,383 now has a new owner.
The Gordon chrome Chase 1/64, with an immaculate appearing package, sold Dec. 1 for $150. Perhaps the Christmas of at least one Gordon fan was made.
Still, the most expensive 1/64 sale of the month commanded quite a bit more. For the second time this year, Patrick Carpentier’s 2008 Valvoline COT earns that title.
The only 1/64 to bear the Canadian’s name was the ’08 Valvoline Dodge Carpentier drove for Gillett Evernham Motorsports. Carpentier made the move to NASCAR in 2007 after stints in CART, IRL and the Rolex Grand-Am Sports Car Series. In 59 total NASCAR races he earned two poles, including one in 2008, and a career-best second in his Busch Series debut at Circuit Gilles Villeneuve.
A boxed example of Carpentier’s 2008 Valvoline Dodge commanded $225 on Dec. 4 for the priciest eBay sale of the month.
Two other versions sold in May for $200, the top sales for that month.
Check Diecast Mag soon for the most expensive eBay diecast sales of all 2025.
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