General Mills Salute to Richard Petty

General Mill's Salute to Richard Petty was a set of 18 vehicles produced in 2004. The set included all promotional vehicles produced for General Mills which were previously avaliable during that year, including one 'Bugles' promo, five 'Pop Secret' promos, ten cereal promos and two Volkswagen Drag Bus mail-in promos.
All vehicles (with the exception of the Volkswagen Drag Bus) had opaque black windows with no interior.
==Vehicles==
The following vehicles were used in the General Mill's Salute to Richard Petty Set:
Casting Name 	Color 	Tampos 	Wheel Type 	Original Promotion 	Photo
'01 Dodge Intrepid Stock Car	Red 	Yellow Sides, '44' and Bugles design 	Black 7SP 	Bugles 	
'64 Plymouth Belvedere 	Blue 	Yellow '43', Sponsors Logos and Pop Secret design 	Black LW 	Pop Secret 	100px
'70 Plymouth Barracuda 	Blue 	Red '43', Sponsors Logos and Pop Secret design 	5SP 	Pop Secret 	
'74 Dodge Charger 	Blue 	Yellow Stripe, White '43', Sponsors Logos and Pop Secret design 	Black 5SP 	Pop Secret 	100px
'84 Pontiac Grand Prix 	Light Blue	Yellow & Red Flames, White '43', Sponsors Logos and Pop Secret design 	Black 7SP 	Pop Secret 	100px
'01 Dodge Intrepid Stock Car	Dark Blue 	Light Blue Hood & Sides, White '43', Sponsors Logos and Pop Secret design 	Black 7SP 	Pop Secret 	100px
'64 Plymouth Belvedere 	Light Blue	'400 HP', '43' and Sponsors Logos 	Black LW 	General Mills Cereal	
'67 Pontiac GTO 	Light Blue	Orange Hood, Orange Stripe on Side, 'Wheaties', '43' and Sponsors Logos 	LW 	General Mills Cereal	
'70 Plymouth Barracuda 	Light Blue	'The Original Chex Party Mix', 'Chex by Petty', '43' and Sponsors Logos 	5SP 	General Mills Cereal	
'70 Plymouth Roadrunner 	Orange 	Black Stripes, Cheerios design on Hood, Sponsors Logos and '43' 	LW 	General Mills Cereal	100px
'71 Plymouth GTX 	Red 	Lucky Charms design on Hood, Sponsors Logos and '43' 	5SP 	General Mills Cereal	
'74 Dodge Charger 	Yellow 	Light Blue Roof and Stripes on side, 'Cheerios' on Hood, Sponsors Logos and '43' 	Black 5SP 	General Mills Cereal	
'74 Dodge Charger 	Light Blue	Red Sides and Red Stripes on Hood, STP Logo, 'OIL FILTERS OIL TREATMENT', Sponsors Logos and '43'	Black 5SP 	General Mills Cereal	
'84 Pontiac Grand Prix 	Light Blue	Yellow Stripes, 'Salute to Richard Petty', 'The King', Sponsors Logos and '43' 	Black 7SP 	General Mills Cereal	
'01 Dodge Intrepid Stock Car	Red 	Lucky Charms design on Hood, Sponsors Logos and '43' 	Black 7SP 	General Mills Cereal	
'01 Dodge Intrepid Stock Car	Yellow 	Light Blue Roof and Stripes on side, 'Cheerios' on Hood, Sponsors Logos and '43' 	Black 7SP 	General Mills Cereal	
Volkswagen Drag Bus 	Red 	Hot Wheels Logo and Lucky Charms design on side and Roof 	Goodyear RR5SP	Lucky Charms Mail-In	
Volkswagen Drag Bus 	Light Blue	Orange Stripe, Hot Wheels Logo and 'Wheaties' design on side and roof 	Goodyear RR5SP	Wheaties Mail-In 	
===Gallery===
Hw 2004 General Mills VW BUS promo 1.jpg|2004 cereal promo box side VW BUS Wheaties Lucky Charms
==Project Green Flag==
In a October - December 2019 Newsletter article, Hot Wheels & General Mills worked on a project internally dubbed "Project Green Flag" which ended up becoming the General Mills promotion for the "Salute to Richard Petty" series. The article goes into details about how tricky it was to to ship loose Hot Wheels into cereal boxes, and the creation of the drop baggies that the cars where into to protect them from the cereal, and vise versa, protect the cereal from paint contamination.
The article shows off Prototypes as well. Most notably indicating that in the early stages, Purple Passion & the '65 Chevy Impala where to be apart of the series, but ended up being dropped.
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GM PettyOctober 2019 Newsletter (3).JPG|Test Overwrap Strips
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GM PettyOctober 2019 Newsletter Purple Passion.JPG|Purple Passion
GM PettyOctober 2019 Newsletter whitey.JPG|'65 Chevy Impala on the far left
Category:2004 Hot Wheels
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