Dave Van

Our hobby shop was open on Sunday's back during the boom as we had good sales during races. When JD McDuffie was killed at Watkins Glen I was working......I went and pulled all the JNJ decals and the two built up kits we had for sale along with a few die cast.......within minutes we had a stream of customers looking for JD stuff........it got so bad we started calling these customers 'Dead Guy Stuff Hunters' ...... I am working on three Cup kits right now filling holes in the collection of cars important to me.......

My two lots I sold were NO NASCAR too!!! A little insight. The NASCAR kits are great kits. The Monogram kits are some of the best of the era. BUT...the kits were produced by the millions. When I ran a hobby shop in Charlotte every Monday we would order 3-4 cases of Monogram #2900.....DE Sr Monte Carlo kits. Model builders alone were not buying this many kits.....EVERYONE was buying kits. After a good race Sunday.....mom's and grandma's would come in and buy a few kits. Closets were filled with NASCAR sealed kits. It's just supply and demand. I was involved in the NASCAR plastic kit biz during the boom era. And thus want to have a mint sample of all the kits made. I found I needed 3 sealed kits to fill in the collection....all three were found for $5 each....and I was happy!! I still like these kits and they represent a great time in my life.....but there are just too many to make them valuable.

Good luck Mike.....in collection sales and in general........ Wayne....pretty sure I have every issue of Scale Wheels....it was a good effort. I was not a founding member as at the time I had 3 kids, house and two cars and only I worked......$5 was a lot of cash at the time!!! But Bruce P. Scott A. and many other folks were fellow Charlotte modelers. Thanks

They will get it......their \pipeline' is also kinda slow......but HL is the closet place to me for hobby supplies.....so I like them!!

Hobby Lobby is pretty far down the shipping order at Revell......I am sure they want a bigger discount......

out now......

Very cool!!! Great weathering........looks like something I'd see on Breaking Bad!!!

MK Plymouth still coming....but you have to sell stuff to fund stuff.....

Not to get to off topic....... Road Knights started as a formal meeting that grew out of the Friday night model talk at a toy and hobby shop my buddy ran, Toy Circus at Park Road shopping center. At one time we had about 100 members, hosted two national conventions 1990 and 1992. A great club for many years....... $5 each for modern common kits to a local would be a good deal I think.....as long as you don't have a bunch of 18 wheeler trucks or rare stuff. You tube of our 1990 convention.....https://youtu.be/Xvm8oOlJQOc

Very nice work!!

I sold two lots to a collection buyer in 2016.......about 1000 kits per lot. I got about $4 per kit....all kits were 100% complete....about 50% sealed. When you look at how much work and fees selling on ebay.....I felt like a good deal. Good luck....... BTW I lived in Charlotte for many years.......you every a Road Knights member??

Yep....project #773........

Wish it was a hard top rather than soft...but like the 56 Ford....I'll pick one up.

I use white glue, gorilla glue and epoxy in that order when using any wood during building.....mostly on structures in O scale.

Sorry....fuzzy memories.......I think you are right SCW.......I did artwork for so many of the aftermarket they tend to blur.....was SCW the one with the Gray Ghost Pontiac??? I know I did those decals for someone!!!

thx

The set for 935 you pictured......before you ask...sorry I have plans for them.....if he still has some well worth it for sure

He sent me a set when I did some artwork for him.......no heard from him in years. NICE decals!

Looks good........die cast companies.....WHY not do a Ranchero like a 1967 or 1972 or even 1977???? We have a 60.........

WOW!!

Other than the tires....not a bad kit. I'm changing the wheels and tires for a 60's era T bucket.

LOVE P/S....NICE job!!!

Not w/o lots of mods......IMHO

That's what I thought I'd do........and would have not for the rubber like plastic....killed it for me......someone else want to try???

I have one....big scale toy is all it is......