In my never ending quest to give proper custom trading card representation to my favorite movie, Fast Times at Ridgemont High, I've created a third installment of my Fast Times set. You can never have too much Fast Times.
Retrofitting the 1983 Donruss Knight Rider card set into a Fast Times set is another idea I've had for some time now. Originally I was just replacing K.I.T.T. with the VW stoner van, but then I got to thinking that there were a few other notable cars in the movie, and also being that having a cool set of wheel is such a big part of the high school experience, I incorporated three other cars from the movie into the set. Those other three being Mike Damone's 1973 Gremlin, Charles Jefferson's alumni gifted 1979 Camaro Z28 and of course Brad Hamilton's "beautiful 4-door luxury sedan".
From there is it was just selecting 9 cool images I'd want to include in the trilogy set. I wanted to get Mrs. Vargas (Lana Clarkson) on a card because I hadn't previously. I also wanted Spicoli wearing the Sex Wax shirt, Jefferson going H.A.M. on Lincoln as well as Brad's self love session. The others are also cool, card worthy scenes. The Linda Barret card is more of a candid promo photo (and the only vertical card) with the reverse side showing the completed puzzle.
Oh, yeah -- since the '83 Knight Rider set were puzzle backed cards, that's what I did with my set. The reverse side is the Australian Fast Times poster art. It's not one that you see very often so I thought it'd make for a fun puzzle card back.
I think this set could possibly have legs enough for me to do a fourth series using it. Since the template is already done it'd just be a matter of getting the itch for yet even more Fast Times cards.
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