Eldon model car kits

[bisc63]

On 8/20/2022 at 6:34 PM, Rocketman455 said:

Here's the PSM Corvette. Its actually a pretty nice kit

Very cool! What a beautiful piece of box art.

[Bugatti Fan]

I built the Milk Wagon a number of years ago and swapped the kit radiator shell to one from a Revell John Buttera kit.

I still have the cab from the Outhouse in bits in a box somewhere and maybe one day I will find a donor chassis for it.

[Claude Thibodeau]

HI!

I built the Milk truck when it came out, and it was a good kit. Was molded in  lavender styrene.  Easier to assemble than the Fire truck show car, for example...

CT

[Novaguy]

On 8/16/2022 at 5:32 PM, unclescott58 said:

I’m wondering what happened to Eldon’s custom model car kits from the late 60’s, or early 70’s. I know that a Japanese model company reissued some of them somewhere a long the line. I only know of the six seen below. Of which I had three. The Pink Panther, the Milk Truck, and the Bathtub. Where there more? I’d love to see the three I had reissued. I remember them as being fairly fun kits to build. 

I’d like to know more about the history of these kits. They must not have sold all that well since Eldon never issued more kits than that, that I know of? In fact I don’t remember seeing any Eldon’s slot cars, or anything else from them shortly after these kit came out. 

 

 

[Novaguy]

I remember buying these kits at Ben Franklin stores and Woolworths I so meany other I still have unbuilt for 75 cents to 1.25$ back when u could but 25 johan kits for the price of one kit now adays my Dad was into models so anytime mom would see new kits when shopping she buy one for me and him. I really enjoyed seeing them pile up so I started building only one I had to off today my unopened collection takes up big room in my basement 

[s.p.e.c.t.r.e.]

 scalemates says that DOYUSHA had the molds as of 1985, with one previous release in the late 70s.

 their online shop shows a category for show cars, so maybe they still have them in storage.

if you want them to release them again, here's a link to their contact form.

Doyusha Contact Form