Whats your rarest, hard to find, never seen before, Cant get no more, model car kit.

[Repstock]

This is the rarest kit I have. The Tow truck to go with KMCs old 1/72 727 kit.

[sfhess]

2 hours ago, Mothersworry said:

Sam Garret's ride from the TV show The Hero starring Richard Mulligan circa 1966. Mint kit

I have one of those around here somewhere, along with a stock Imperial or two.

[sfhess]

On 4/16/2023 at 10:09 PM, 89AKurt said:

I have a bunch, but since I mentioned this in another thread......
I first saw this in a catalog (remember those?), then never saw it again, anywhere.

On a fluke, saw it on eBay and won the bid.  Trouble is, it's missing the front suspension uprights, and the seats.  I can fabricate those.

This weekend I snatched up this Lexus, which is another scarce kit.  I want to cast a resin copy of the engine, which is what the Boyd car had.  Another someday project has a better chance.

I have a couple of those Sportstar kits.  Also the Divco truck, Astro van and the boat tail Riviera.

Looking through your posts I seem to have a lot of the same kits you are picturing here.

[Tabbysdaddy]

Pretty sure these are my oldest. 

[Richard Bartrop]

I have a Renwal Revival Stutz in need of some restoration, but the rarest styrene car kit I have is probably this MPC reissue of Airfix's Mercedes 280 SL.

I've seen it maybe once on eBay, and I've never seen one assembled.

The very rarest one I have has to be FPP's resin Bluebird.

Edited April 20, 2023 by Richard Bartrop

[NOBLNG]

Some of these poor models have been waiting a long, long time to get built, so….get on ‘em Guys!?

[atomicholiday]

18 hours ago, wrenchr said:

I might have a parts kit of one of those 1/32 monogram funny cars. Yours if you want it for parts. Just need to find it. Not sure if it is exact. 

Thanks much for the offer.  But these are 1/24.

I remember building the 1/32 Stampede funny car when I was a kid.  Loved that thing!

[BlackSheep214]

12 hours ago, mikemodeler said:

Here's a couple of old MPC kits. The Jeep was only issued the one time like this with the snow plow and off road equipment together. The Chevette was a one year only, I believe it was updated to a '79 which had a different grille and options.

Cool Jeep kit. The Chevette I remember seeing in stores in my youth years but never built one.

[mikemodeler]

3 minutes ago, BlackSheep214 said:

Cool Jeep kit. The Chevette I remember seeing in stores in my youth years but never built one.

I have several unbuilt versions of each kit. I also have several Chevette promos, not sure what's wrong with me but they find their way to my collection!

 

[Mopeyguy]

need i say anymore

[1959scudetto]

Of my styrene kits my most valuable is this 1/9 Protar bike kit (got it from my brother for my 60th birthday) - try to find one on ebay !

and the rarest ones are certainly these from the late 60'/early 70's:

 

Rarest resin kits: John F. Johnson's Ferrari 246 SP and 5 kits from Paul Fisher (Chaparral 2 F, Ferrari 512 S longtail and Sunoco 512 M, Porsche 917 "Hippie" longtail and 917/20 "Pink Pig")

 

[magicmustang]

21 hours ago, wrenchr said:

Looks like it is missing the interior part. 

 

There was no interior tin in these Mono 1/32 TD FC kits, there was in the Revell 1/32 funny cars.

Edited April 20, 2023 by magicmustang

[StevenGuthmiller]

MPC 1966 Dodge Monaco.

This one will take a little work to bring it back, but all in all, a pretty solid candidate for a restoration.

 

 

 

 

Steve

[Carmak]

1 hour ago, StevenGuthmiller said:

MPC 1966 Dodge Monaco.

This one will take a little work to bring it back, but all in all, a pretty solid candidate for a restoration.

 

 

 

 

Steve

Is that one going to get the full treatment?

[redscampi]

1 hour ago, 1959scudetto said:

Of my styrene kits my most valuable is this 1/9 Protar bike kit (got it from my brother for my 60th birthday) - try to find one on ebay !

 

and the rarest ones are certainly these from the late 60'/early 70's:

 

Rarest resin kits: John F. Johnson's Ferrari 246 SP and 5 kits from Paul Fisher (Chaparral 2 F, Ferrari 512 S longtail and Sunoco 512 M, Porsche 917 "Hippie" longtail and 917/20 "Pink Pig")

 

Love the Ducati!

[Carmak]

AMT 1955 3 Car Paint and Assembly Kit.  Essentially three unassembled promos. The Ford and Cadillac unbuilt, the Buick missing.

I have three built cars from a 1954 3 Car Set (Ford sedan, Buick sedan and a Pontiac Hard Top) and I have seen a 1953 3 Car set.

[Dave Ambrose]

Lots of great stuff here.

My rarest kit is probably my JoHan Chrysler Turbine car. Got it some years ago at what I thought was a fair price. They seem to have gone through the roof while I was sleeping. As for the rest of my stash? Probably fairly prosaic. 

[StevenGuthmiller]

5 hours ago, Carmak said:

Is that one going to get the full treatment?

Quite probably......if I ever get to it. ?

 

 

Steve

[Mothersworry]

MPC Ford GT40 MKIV with trailer. Complete mint kit.

[Mothersworry]

MPC Charger III...complete mint kit.

[Mothersworry]

Some of my Fisher goodies.

[Dave Van]

One more to add. With all the talk of a big Ford kit going around. Dug this one out and took photo.

It's a AMT kit imported to UK by FROG. Plastic is the same but box and crazy decals are all FROG. KINDA a Wood Bros car, they never ran one and the numbers are rainbow with black roof not candy apple red. 

Paid $80 for it in the 1980's....a lot back then. Still a good deal. 

 

 

[Daddyfink]

A few things laying around that I think might be a bit rare these days. 

 

[slusher]

 

Two of my grails!

[Spottedlaurel]

For me, probably this one:

Random purchase some years ago off eBay here in the UK. Never seen one here before or since.

Whenever I've looked more recently any others I can find for sale are a 3-figure sum. Only one I could see right now is in the USA at $200, and others in Japan in the past were more than that.

It's now one of the few unbuilt kits that lives in the house, not the garage.