How do you identify a CarTuned Red Bottom chase?
Short answer
Turn the car over and look at the base. A Red Bottom is the chase version of a CarTuned release, identified by its signature red-painted base instead of the finish used on the standard release of the same casting.
The identifying detail
Red Bottoms are limited chase variants of standard CarTuned releases. The defining, checkable detail is the base: it is painted red, while the standard release of the same casting is not.
How to check a car in hand
- Flip the car over and look at the base plate, not the body.
- Compare it to the standard release of the same casting in the ClubTuned catalog.
- Confirm the casting first (year, make, model). A red base on a different casting is a different release, not the chase of the car you are holding.
Why ClubTuned catalogs it separately
A Red Bottom is its own catalog record, not a checkbox on the standard release. That matters for collectors:
- Your Red Bottom count is tracked independently of the standard release.
- A Red Bottom is never mixed into the standard cars for its series.
- Red Bottoms and Double Dripped chases are separate chase types and are never combined.
Where to look on ClubTuned
Browse the Red Bottoms view to see the documented Red Bottom records in the catalog, and open any release page to see whether a chase record exists for that casting.
What this answer does not claim
ClubTuned does not publish production quantities, print runs, or odds for chase variants. Where a number is not documented in the catalog, we do not estimate one.
More answers
ClubTuned is an independent collector reference. See about ClubTuned for how we source catalog data.