Ebay Find of the Century!!!.....not.

[Modelmartin]

The best resin Ebay model ever seen!

I found this pearl while perusing Ebay listings! It looks like a Miller Memorabilia Bondo copy of the original Tucker promo from way, way back. If you take the first 2 digits off of the price it is still too high!! Good yucks, man!

[Sully]

The best resin Ebay model ever seen!

I found this pearl while perusing Ebay listings! It looks like a Miller Memorabilia Bondo copy of the original Tucker promo from way, way back. If you take the first 2 digits off of the price it is still too high!! Good yucks, man!

Take

Take off the first three digits and it's still too high to me..........

[charlie8575]

That is a bit of a dog, isn't it?

I think I'd rather have one of Don Holthaus' beautiful kits at about 1/3 the price.

Charlie Larkin

[Modelmartin]

Take

Take off the first three digits and it's still too high to me..........

How about the first 4 digits?

[Nick Notarangelo]

Someone beter put down the Hooka pipe and get some fresh air.

[JamesW]

WOW, it's so rare and so well casted I think I'm gonna sell my truck just to buy it.

[Rob Hall]

Hmm...for a crudely formed shell like that, $2.99 would be a more realistic price.

[JamesW]

Look someone made an offer

Did you offer $1 for it?????????

[Nick Winter]

WOW, it's so rare and so well casted I think I'm gonna sell my truck just to buy it.

I think I'll sell mine and we can pool the money.

Edited May 4, 2010 by Dukefan69'

[Wagoneer81]

Now that's funny!!! I needed a good laugh! What gets me is that he lists it for that price and still has the gall to charge $9.99 shipping...

[diymirage]

just for kick and gigles i asked him what to use as a donor

this oughta be interesting

[Rob Hall]

just for kick and gigles i asked him what to use as a donor

this oughta be interesting

VW Beetle, of course, since it has an air cooled rear engine..

[Harold]

Yikes- that thing is horrid . It makes my many failed attempts at casting look almost professional...

[Zoom Zoom]

I remember a vendor in Toledo having these oddly coloured resin repops of old slush-cast promos sometime back in the early-mid 90's, they were all about $35 or so and what you see is what you get. They had the Tucker but I bought a 48 Packard CV from them, a lot of work later it became "Packarderm" aka the "Pregnant Elephant" as the cars were called. The resin is nicer than Sam Miller's was. Pretty much urethane resin, cast in color. Sam used bondo and fiberglass resin a lot. These were overpriced at $35.

I feel like stripping it down and refinishing it; the clearcoat yellowed and the ultra 80's/90's street rod look is terribly dated now, and my building/finishing skills are also a lot better.

Sam Miller's cars could look decent w/a bit of work:

[Raul_Perez]

That reminds me of a resin kit that my friend Jerry Cardinal once built. The resin was so thick that he had to use his Skil saw to cut open the hood.

[GrandpaMcGurk]

Good grief! The ad says no model was available and doesn't mention what scale it is?

Well, buds, there "is" a model of the Tucker (I know that for a fact as I have one in super condition).

It's a complete car not just a body....I'd have to check but I think it's 1/18th. It's an older die cast model.

If you think the price of the resin casting is to high......I couldn't part with this die cast for much less than 40 bucks, hee, hee. Add to that the cost of casting one of your own from the die cast body and you still be way under that price! Let the buyer beware....eBay ain't what it used to be.

Edited May 5, 2010 by GrandpaMcGurk

[Jon Cole]

Back, way back, I actually bought that... lump. Bob's price sounds more familiar than that EvilBay fantasy.

Truely aweful... but at the time, it was the only Tucker 1/25 (or so) model around. I did the "chrome" in BMF, the paint in MM Enamal. Later, I started noticing air bubbles in the foil. I guess that resin wasn't done gassing out.

There is a second pic, but I'll spare us.