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Last April I found one of my grails, the Tamiya  FW 24. It was the only 1/20th Tamiya  F-1 car  that I didn't have in my stash. My next choices would probably be a complete AMT '62 Buick Special station wagon kit and an MPC '67 STP turbine car.  I ruined the Special as a kid and I recently obtained a built up one. The turbine car I've never had and always thought it was a cool car. 

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7 hours ago, Snake45 said:

Wasn't that reissued a couple years ago? I seem to remember it was.....:huh:

it absolutely was.

An AMT (Model King) repop.

It was reissued in limited numbers a few years ago & is not terribly difficult to find.

So we know that AMT still possesses the molds.

It could be reissued again at any time.

 

Steve

 

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20 minutes ago, StevenGuthmiller said:

it absolutely was.

An AMT (Model King) repop.

It was reissued in limited numbers a few years ago & is not terribly difficult to find.

So we know that AMT still possesses the molds.

It could be reissued again at any time.

 

Steve

 

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They are hard to find and if one pops up on EBay. Final pricing is high. I can’t pay $70 for a kit. But it.was my first car, Black with red interior. Only had a 6 cylinder in it but it was a sharp car.

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I have a '67 Ford Galaxie convertible rebuilder, and a '69 Galaxie kit, so the '68 Galaxie is on my grail shopping list, too. A bit scarce, and out of my range when I do see one!

Another Ford on the grail list is a decent '58. I prefer a kit, but a good ,reasonably priced rebuilder would do.

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1 hour ago, Renegade said:

My second car. Red on red. 289 engine. Built one to replicate my 1:1 car. Bought when it came out so wasn't that expensive.

I wasn’t building when it was last issued or believe me, I’d have one. Maybe one day.  :) 

I’m going to build one of my other favorite carS that I owned. 1964 Galaxies. Light yellow with black interior. 390 4 barrel with auto. That car would move. 

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On 10/2/2018 at 9:45 AM, Ich_Will said:

I want to do two more Tamiya Rothman's 956 kits...so I have all three numbers. Not much of a stretch but I think it would be fun.

I recently acquired one of those from an estate, and just looked at eBay to see .... ok ..... glad I snagged it.

I happened to have filed a few pages from old catalogs, been looking for :
Testors - Sportstar resin kit 473, don't think they got around to producing it, about the time Boyd died.
Airfix - Maserati Boomerang
Heller - Bugatti T50 1931Jaguar E Type coupe
Otaki - Lamborghini Cheetah

I'm not asking for much.  :P

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5 hours ago, ewetwo said:

They are hard to find and if one pops up on EBay. Final pricing is high. I can’t pay $70 for a kit. But it.was my first car, Black with red interior. Only had a 6 cylinder in it but it was a sharp car.

Well, they're not exactly like picking up stones from a gravel road, but they are out there.

As far as price goes, any time you have a kit that is OOP, you are going to have to pay a price for it.

$70.00 may sound high, but it all depends on how badly you want one.

You can buy 3 modern kits that you can live without, or you can save your money & buy one that you really want.

It's all relative.

As they say, you have to pay to play. :)

 

Or, you can wait & hope that Round 2 re-issues it sometime before we die!

 

Steve

 

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