Motormax Buicks, 72 T/A - any good?

[randyc]

8 hours ago, THarrison351 said:

Hey Randy, I was just bouncing around looking at some posts I hadn't followed up on and seen you have the same color T/A as mine. Great job on the wheels. Most of the 'birds I see are white. I see you painted black around the window frame too. I'd love to have one of those Rivvies in Red. Saddly, I don't think $20 shipped is the best price. I guess I'm just a cheapskate. By the way Goober says hey.

Hey to Goober.   My best friend actually drives "squad car tours" on weekends that leave from Wally's filling station.  They have a fleet of proper 60's era squad car replicas that they take tourists on a 30 minute tour of "mayberry" and Andy Griffith's old haunts.  $40 per tour, no matter how many folks are in the car.

Thanks for the compliments.  Waiting on tire decals for it.  I think that will go a long way as well.   And that blue interior on yours is awesome.  I had a 1/18 in white and hated it. 

Yes $20 shipped isn't the best price I found out after Gramps told me to look at local RiteAids.   Not sure who else might carry them on a local level.  Flea markets?   I think the rite aid may have had a red one last week at $10.  Guess I could buy a couple and sell them myself for $20 or so with shipping.  Like the oters on ebay are doing?  LOL.  

I'm also a cheap skate, but also too lazy to do the flea market thing.  I wanted these two and that seemed like an ok price.  I mean you can't hardly buy a plastic kit for $20 so I justified it that way.  

[THarrison351]

Friend drives "Squad cars tours" from Wally's filling station, awesome. Do they keep a shovel and a rake in each of the trunks?  I'm proud to call myself a Tar Heel. Although, not a fan of UNC. Go Duke! My whole family is from NC, Robersonville area and Hildebran area. I was born in Williamston, and was quickly (6 weeks), whisked away to Germany, for an all expenses paid trip of two years in Wiesbaden. Dad was military too. We next lived in Phoenix for a couple of years and when Dad went to tour Vietnam, we stayed with Mom's folks in NC for a year. When we next moved to Sin City, I got to build (ruin) my first model. We were there until just before school started in '73 and came back to NC and stayed with grandparents until family housing opened in Va in early '74. I was there until I joined in '82 and was stationed back were it all started, Goldsboro. Son was born in Goldsboro. That's were my father was stationed and I was almost born in '64. Lived there until '94. My wife's from Hickory. I'm in Kansas due to job skills and the economy. Otherwise I'd probably be back in NC.

[randyc]

Wouldn't surprise me if they kept the shovel and rake - they try to do little things to make it as authentic as possible.

I went to App (Go APps! whatever).  Or ECU where my daughter went( Arrrrr).  Or UNC School of Arts where my middle son is now - Go Fighting Pickles! - yep.  

I lived "down east" for a couple years for work.  Familiar with Goldsboro and that area.  

Funny how the world is so small sometimes. 

My world story is I just bought a car on ebay from Hutchinson KS and saw it went thru the Wichita hub.  THat's about my only KS connection. LOL Haven't been any farther west than New Orleans or Memphis.  

 

[Snake45]

On 8/24/2018 at 9:33 PM, oldcarfan said:

I found one CVS out of four I checked that had a Welly display in our area. Also some Tractor Supply's have them as well.

I checked a Tractor Supply yesterday. No "toys" at all, no Wellys. 

There are a couple CVSs in my area. I'll have to check those out, too. 

[THarrison351]

2 hours ago, Snake45 said:

I checked a Tractor Supply yesterday. No "toys" at all, no Wellys. 

There are a couple CVSs in my area. I'll have to check those out, too. 

Well at least you have Rite Aid. I've been to Walgreen's, CVS, Target, Walmart, and Big Lots. All of them were a bust except for two trucks in a NEX display at one CVS. I guess its eBay or nothing for me. 

[Snake45]

Diecastwarehouse.com has pretty good prices on Wellys, generally $15-20 on the type of things we're talking about here. I'm gonna order a '68 4-4-2 and '71 Chevelle SS from them very shortly. I think they have free shipping (or often do) and they ship fast. Have done two or three orders with them, always been happy. 

[Snake45]

Just got back from my local Rite Aid. Some new and semi-interesting Wellys on the rack. 

*First gen Mercury Capri: Didn't look too bad, but didn't care for the Euro-spec headlights (rectangular) nor the color (very close to Ford Grabber Blue). It was okay, but I'm not that hard up for projects at the moment. Maybe another time.

*'71 Chevelle SS convertible: I'm thinking of ordering one of these, so was glad to see one in person. This one was silver, which I wasn't crazy about (just built a Revell '70 snapper in silver; the one I'm looking at ordering is red or orange), but the deal breaker was the paint had several scratches in it. Ever try to touch up silver scratches? It ain't happening. Overall shape accuracy is kind of marginal on this one, and it seems to be a skosh undersized, but I think I can make it work. But I'll pop the extra $5 for the red one I had my eye on, I think.

*2002 Camaro: Nice looking model, but I have a built snapper in dark metallic green and don't really NEED another one. Plus it had some funky tampoed graphics I couldn't live with. Maybe another day. 

*2007 Shelby Cobra Mustang: Red with white stripes. Also looked good. Came very close to pulling the trigger on this one, but I just built a Maisto (I think?) 2010 Boss 302 in red, so I let it pass. If it's still there two weeks from now, I might not be able to resist its call again. 

*VW Beetle convertible: Just not into VW ragtops. If it were a sedan, I'd have given it a closer look but what I saw didn't look bad. 

*Alfa Romeo 8C: In both red and black. Way cool looking car. Maybe another time. 

Ended up coming home with a Porsche 918 Spyder. I didn't even know what it was, and wouldn't if it weren't molded on the bottom of the chassis, but it was just too hella-cool looking to NOT get. I'll have to do some research to see what if anything it needs in the way of Snake-Fu, but it looks darn good as is. Might not have to do anything but sand the tires. Ten bucks, such a deal! 

[Tom Geiger]

Since this has pretty much turned into a diecast thread, I bought this one yesterday at Hobby Lobby.  Their price $29.99 minus the 40% coupon.

Greenlight  VW  TV themed as Lost -  Dharma Van.  On the show Dharma had several of these in decent shape, below is a shot of the ones the Lost survivors found in the jungle and got to run.   This one is missing the VW front emblem, and has a tampo Dharma logo.  The other version HL had of this van was "Field of Dreams".  That one came in two color schemes and had a dusty look to it.  It had a roof rack with associated holes in the roof. No VW emblem on that one either, it has a front mounted spare tire.  Greenlight calls it 1/24 scale and it does compare well to the later van, Revell's  Van Camper.

[THarrison351]

10 hours ago, Tom Geiger said:

Since this has pretty much turned into a diecast thread, I bought this one yesterday at Hobby Lobby.  Their price $29.99 minus the 40% coupon.

 

Greenlight  VW  TV themed as Lost -  Dharma Van.  On the show Dharma had several of these in decent shape, below is a shot of the ones the Lost survivors found in the jungle and got to run.   This one is missing the VW front emblem, and has a tampo Dharma logo.  The other version HL had of this van was "Field of Dreams".  That one came in two color schemes and had a dusty look to it.  It had a roof rack with associated holes in the roof. No VW emblem on that one either, it has a front mounted spare tire.  Greenlight calls it 1/24 scale and it does compare well to the later van, Revell's  Van Camper.

 

I saw those too, but was disappointed absolutely nothing opens on them. The Dharma emblem isn't even raised. This seems more like a $10 Motor Max diecast. I was a huge fan of lost. Even though the ending was drawn out and stupid. Oh yeah, the 1/18 scale bus has some better details like separate side marker lights, door handles and the Dharma emblem is in relief, but still nothing opens and I don't think the wheels steer.

Edited September 9, 2018 by THarrison351

[randyc]

Who cares if the thread strays?  I On mine, I don't.  Just like hearing about things and see us discussing them.   I've got to post up a couple new ones I got that don't fit here. 

Keep talking guys.