Commodore's new (and my Dad's old) C64C

Yesterday the new Commodore, run by YouTuber Perifractic (Christian Simpson) announced their new product, a faithful recreation of the C64C, the second revision of the Commodore 64. Essentially it's the same as the first one they released, but it uses the case of the old C64C which has the same design language as the later Amiga machines. To produce the cases they're using the original case molds which had a small design flaw: “The C64C molding was created using a 2-point flow pattern that resulted in the plastic cooling unevenly in the original production run, creating feint, semi-circular, flow marks that have largely gone unnoticed. By using the original tooling, we’re even bringing these back. [...]” The quote is taken from this article, which has more details and also a picture showing the defects: My dad had this exact model of C64 when I was a kid, and I remember playing Pitstop II with him on it. We had the game on tape, and it often wouldn't load correctly, so when we got it…