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Not super rare but to me they are special,and hope to restore/build them.

JoHan 1961 Plymouth Fury

JoHan 1962 Oldsmobile 88

JoHan 1965 Cadillac convertible

JoHan 1970 Cadillac Coupe DeVille

MPC 1971 Dodge Challenger

MPC 1969 Pontiac GTO convertible

MPC 1968 Pontiac GTO convertible

MPC 1968 Dodge Coronet convertible

MPC 1966 Dodge Monaco

MPC 1966 Pontiac GTO convertible

AMT 1965 Oldsmobile 88

AMT  1966 Buick Skylark

AMT 1968 Chevrolet Chevelle

AMT 1967 Chevrolet Camaro convertible

 

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i'm not sure how rare these are but they dont show up for sale very often. the scirocco is the most i paid for a kit that wasn't by alpha. i have another golf with a reiger bodykit but it was also sold as a tuner version so only the box is rare. the pontiac has a typo

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I have a 1966 Carrera 6 Porsche kit here in 1/16.......... I looked for one of these for a few years until I was able to find one. It WAS still sealed inside! I've already started it, but some work I've done may get a do-over.....

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1 minute ago, JollySipper said:

I have a 1966 Carrera 6 Porsche kit here in 1/16.......... I looked for one of these for a few years until I was able to find one. It WAS still sealed inside! I've already started it, but some work I've done may get a do-over.....

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i've got an airfix snap kit of that car from the bobcat series they did with heller. 32 parts and 24 of them were wheels, lol

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My last two builds were pretty rare models...

The Italeri Ferrari 250GT SWB Berlinetta. As far as I can determine, it was issued once in the early 90s and never again. Revell was supposed to rebox it a while back but it never happened. 

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Tamiya Aston Martin DBS. Released in 2010, limited 2012 rerelease with additional PE parts, never to be seen again. 

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I suppose my original 1970 MPC Bonneville kit is rare and yes I built it, but my 1966 Monogram 1958 T-bird may also qualify and yes I build that one too. But I have some Palmer plastics kits, most notably a 1972 kit of a motorized 1968 Mustang convertible that I did build and the motor does work.

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On 9/12/2018 at 8:21 PM, PatW said:

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The decals were shot so I found some others..................and finished it last weekend!

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Yes I built them both! I only buy kits to build.

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On 7/6/2018 at 1:03 PM, Tom Geiger said:

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Okay, it's a promo and not a kit, but it's the rarest piece in my collection and the first thing I thought of when I saw this thread!

This is the ultra rare 1966 Valiant Signet promo. 

I've tried to do research on this one and this is what I've deduced so far.  There were Valiant promos, then Craftsman kits, of Valiants from 1963-1965.  Those three are are the same body style.  For 1966 Chrysler made body line changes, including the roof line.  The promo has a totally incorrect roof line and rear glass. The real car has all straight lines.  The flat spot in the trunk lid is also wrong.

I know that AMT made a full order of these because they exist in several colors.  This one is the silver blue.  I've also seen red, burgandy and yellow. I have a photo of a light blue, but I cannot be sure if its not the same color as mine, but in different light.

My theory is that Chrysler reviewed the samples and rejected the lot, ordering them to be destroyed.  I believe that the examples existing today were a shipment sent to Chrysler for internal consumption.   Every one that I was able to trace history on started out as property of a Chrysler employee.

Who knows where the communication resulting in this model occurred.  First thought was that Chrysler gave AMT early plans for the car, then later changed the roof line. We may never know.

There was no Craftsman kit to follow this promo.  In fact, I believe this became the basis for the Fireball 500 kit.  Note that early on people thought that the '66 Barracuda promo / kit became the Hemi Under Glass kit,  and then was changed into the Fireball 500.   Note that the tooling for both of these exists today.  I have examined a Valiant body alongside a Fireball 500 body and there are mold marks that match inside. 

So I relay the entire story here, first for education in the hobby, but second hoping that someone involved with Chrysler or AMT back then can enlighten us!

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Noticed the photos were missing from my 2018 post!

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My oldest kits are special for me.  The Ideal Ferrari 212 was released in 1956 in 1/16 scale and was one of my earliest kits I built.  The Berkeley Allard J2 is dated to 1953 in 1/24 scale and is special because it was gifted to me by Wayne Moyer, Model Car Magazine, and other, model magazines columnist for 1/43 scale models.

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Wow, I just did a quick overview of this thread and just realized how many of our Rare kits have come back or are coming back! And in some cases, we have new tooling for them! 

This is truly a Golden Age of Modeling!

 

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7 hours ago, Daddyfink said:

Wow, I just did a quick overview of this thread and just realized how many of our Rare kits have come back or are coming back! And in some cases, we have new tooling for them! 

This is truly a Golden Age of Modeling!

 

Correct.

And we have Round-2 to thank for a large portion of that.

You know, the same re-introduced kits that haven’t seen the light of day for 40 or 50 years or more that people on Facebook like to piss and moan about because they’re not brand new tooling throughout! ?

 

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This was made from a 1962-ish issue of the AMT '32 Ford molded in black.

I have some rarer kits I'm my stash like a small box '57 T-bird that I'm told is rare.

I have an OG '32 Ford roadster, a few '49 Mercs in the stash. 

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16 hours ago, StevenGuthmiller said:

Correct.

And we have Round-2 to thank for a large portion of that.

You know, the same re-introduced kits that haven’t seen the light of day for 40 or 50 years or more that people on Facebook like to piss and moan about because they’re not brand new tooling throughout! ?

 

Steve

Oh absolutely! They clamor for vintage kits to be brought back, and then they come back and the griping begins on how old they are! LOL! 

Be happy they brought stuff back we though we would never see again! Be a modeler and make it work! 

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This is my current project. Getting ready to start a WIP thread. This kit is a modified reissue of the 500 SEC kit and was issued only once in 1982, complete with body kit and Telefunken car phone. I picked it up at a contest a couple years back complete except for instructions... vintage Tamiya at its best!

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5 minutes ago, jaymcminn said:

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This is my current project. Getting ready to start a WIP thread. This kit is a modified reissue of the 500 SEC kit and was issued only once in 1982, complete with body kit and Telefunken car phone. I picked it up at a contest a couple years back complete except for instructions... vintage Tamiya at its best!

i should have instructions for the stock kit if thats any help to you?

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