What did you get today? (Model Car Related Items)

[Rocketman455]

31 minutes ago, 64SS350 said:

I also don't understand the shipped by Autoworld with a Hobby Lobby sticker. But when ordering from Amazon, you do have the choice for items to be shipped in... manufacturer's package...or packaged by shipper in additional packaging.

FYI for later...

Thanks, never realized that.

[Tim W. SoCal]

Arrived Saturday, 11/22/2025. (Not today)

I built the original release as a Cub Scouts project way back when... I've been waiting for this kit to be repopped since the late 70s when my younger brother, whom I shared a room with, threw all my models into the trash when I went away to tech college. Furthermore, even though I have continued buying kits "to build", I haven't finished one since my first wife left in 1983. Since this one will be built straight out of the box with plug wires and fuel lines added, (I'm an AVID kitbash guy), it just MIGHT be the one that gets me over the "not completed" hump. That's the plan, anyway, as well as building the second as a phantom Beadle & Schmidt Blue Max funny car.

 

Edited 20 hours ago by Tim W. SoCal

[Tim W. SoCal]

More Ebay discoveries, all from the same seller, delivered Monday, 11/25/2025.

  I expected the Paddy Wagon and the Fruit Wagon to be reissues from 2014-2015, but they both ended up to be original 1969 releases, still in their original plastic wrap. Now I'm not sure if I want to cut the plastic wrap and break the seals to build them... What's a grown boy to do?!? (Remember when MSRP for model kits was $2.00? Check out the KMart price tag on the Fruit Wagon, discounted to $1.44. That equals about $9.55 in today's US Dollars, think about how THAT price would include your stash acquisition budget!...

[rattle can man]

yes the mixing beads. The ones I bought were steel.

[FoMoCo66]

55 minutes ago, Tim W. SoCal said:

More Ebay discoveries, all from the same seller, delivered Monday, 11/25/2025.

  I expected the Paddy Wagon and the Fruit Wagon to be reissues from 2014-2015, but they both ended up to be original 1969 releases, still in their original plastic wrap. Now I'm not sure if I want to cut the plastic wrap and break the seals to build them... What's a grown boy to do?!? (Remember when MSRP for model kits was $2.00? Check out the KMart price tag on the Fruit Wagon, discounted to $1.44. That equals about $9.55 in today's US Dollars, think about how THAT price would include your stash acquisition budget!...

Wholy Cow! That's an amazing find, did the price lead you to believe they were re-issued?

[Straightliner59]

5 hours ago, Zen said:

Assuming this is in reference to the "mixing beads"? I had wondered if the copper would have a weird effect on the paint.

I think most guys use stainless steel.nI ususally just stir mine.

[Straightliner59]

Nothing too exciting, but, it's been a spell, since I have been able to buy anything. I got an assortment of 30" belts for my disc/belt sander, and a bottle of Fusionfirm Chrome. I still have some radiator mesh, mold putty, the 2025 car contest annual from Kalmbach and a Tamiya 240Z (Blue version) on the way. I've been wanting one of the Zs, since they came out! I must like them, because I have Revell versions in three different boxes, including an original, like the one I had way back when!

[Tim W. SoCal]

44 minutes ago, FoMoCo66 said:

That's an amazing find, did the price lead you to believe they were re-issued?

Not specifically the price, which WAS comparable to the other re-issues listed and currently listed, but more just the fact that they were available.

[Mark]

$2.00 retail price kits were $1.44 at K-Mart every day.  When they went to $2.25 in the early Seventies, K-Mart went to $1.66.

[oldcarfan]

On 11/26/2025 at 6:38 PM, Rocketman455 said:

I have bought a ton of stuff directly from Autoworld.  Always packed carefully in a box, never any problems. Although they did used to ship a catalog with thier orders, last few orders I've noticed they don't include one now. (Not a deal killer though). Thats whats confusing, Fulfilled by Autoworld,  but with a Hobby Lobby price tag on it.

Definitely odd. The HL tag usually means the kit was bought by an individual on their 40% sale or on clearance to be resold.