ha cool that's what I thought...a buddy is clearing out his collection and gave him to me... F-R-E-E! But I just don't remember the flames from pics I saw...
The flames are stickers that were included with Swerve and applied manually after he was opened (or kept in a bag if you didn't want to put them on).
May I just say bloomin' heck that is an awesome deal! Swerve is mega-hard to find, perhaps the rarest out of all the Alternators. To get him for free is just plain incredible.
Tell me! He is an old employee of mine who is really more into star wars than TFs, so he is making space for that. It's not MISB or anything, but it is complete and only used for display.