How did this Revell 55 Chevy become so valuable?

[espo]

I'm starting to think I should look through some of my kits. I have tried before selling some of my extras at a local Show / Swap Meet and can't get $20 to $25 for older unopened kits with no luck. At this selling price I could stop being worried about draining my 401k and move to the Bahamas.  

[Xingu]

Relisted and sold for $9.99

[Mike999]

On 2/13/2020 at 6:14 PM, Bucky said:

I'm wondering the same thing. I've only had one bidder actually win one of my items with zero feedback. He paid immediately, and I had no problems. Got lucky, I guess.

Never had a problem with new/low-count eBayers...until last year.  Somebody won a Lindberg Dodge L-700 kit from me.  The solo tractor, no trailer. 

The guy didn't respond to 2 invoices from me or any communication from eBay.  Never heard from him. He was a zero-feedback buyer. But IIRC it's the only time that has happened and I've been selling on eBay since 1999.  So I guess I've been lucky.

At a kit swap meet once, I found a Revell '55 Chevy convertible (for a lot less than $93!).  It was the Pace Car kit, but missing the decals. That didn't matter. The box was stuffed with  two convertible bodies (1 white, 1 salmon), an extra chassis, and a resin Bel Air hardtop body.  Not sure why somebody made that body, since Revell also does the hardtop.  But it was mastered from a Revell body, it has the cutouts for the chrome trim.

[Can-Con]

1 hour ago, Mike999 said:

 

At a kit swap meet once, I found a Revell '55 Chevy convertible (for a lot less than $93!).  It was the Pace Car kit, but missing the decals. That didn't matter. The box was stuffed with  two convertible bodies (1 white, 1 salmon), an extra chassis, and a resin Bel Air hardtop body.  Not sure why somebody made that body, since Revell also does the hardtop.  But it was mastered from a Revell body, it has the cutouts for the chrome trim.

It was probably made between the time Revell released the cvt. and the hardtop kits.

[Oldcarfan27]

I added screenshots to this thread.

The auction ended, and without pictures, it's like being on the outside of an inside joke.

 

Edited February 17, 2020 by Oldcarfan27

[Snake45]

I just bought a Revell '55 Chev Pace Car off eBay for under $25 including shipping, "Buy It Now." 

Damaged box, but all I really want is the front end to graft onto the AMT Sedan kit. Sooner or later, someone will want/need those '55 Pace Car decals. And heck, I might even use the chassis under the AMT if it's significantly nicer than AMT's. 

[bisc63]

1 hour ago, Snake45 said:

if it's significantly nicer than AMT's

It is VERY nice.

[SfanGoch]

5 hours ago, bisc63 said:

It is VERY nice.

Yes, it most certainly is.

[Jantrix]

11 hours ago, SfanGoch said:

Yes, it most certainly is.

Good to know. I'll pick one up when it gets reissued again.

[Mike999]

On 2/18/2020 at 3:11 PM, Snake45 said:

Sooner or later, someone will want/need those '55 Pace Car decals.

The kit decals are wrong (incomplete). As I found out to my aggravation, when I built that kit.  I thought about stealing the missing trunk decals from a second kit, but that won't work.  You need "May 30, 1955" in black letters.

If Revell ever re-issues the Pace Car, they should add the trunk decal.  At least one die-cast '55 Pace Car also missed that lettering.  

Here's a 2014 thread where the builder used the correct Fred Cady decals.  

 

Edited February 21, 2020 by Mike999
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