Uncommon kits, maybe rare, that aren't too valuable...

[Erik Smith]

Some kits are rare and sought after, making them expensive to purchase. Other kits are rare and, well, not so much in demand.

Here is one I found for a pittance, and see it occasionally for sale for the same or less.

This is not a re-box of the MPC kit either - it's a modified version of the Revell Escort XR-3.

Anybody else have any?

[Austin T]

Here's two.

[Erik Smith]

Yes.

Funny thing, sometimes you see these kits listed on eBay for high BIN prices - search the completed lists, they sell for $10!!

[Rob Hall]

Yep..also they are.subjects largely forgotten and gone in 1:1, but as kits they can be built pretty nicely. Siimilarly the MPC Omni 024/Charger hatchbacks of the early '80s.

[Art Anderson]

Back 20 years ago or so, I was in the basement of a modeler friend's home in St. Charles Illinois--he nearly had a corner on old, but still at that time, not at all popular. Swap meet dealers were still leaving their stash's of Pinto's, Vega's, AMC Gremlins and Pacers at home, rather than take them to shows only to bring them back home once more.

I wonder what my late friend would have thought had he lived to see the day when such kits became really collectible?

Art

[Erik Smith]

True, Art - the Pinto kits, especially the small bumper years, bring some high prices. Vegas, too, typically sell for higher than average prices. Pacers, though, haven't seen the same demand and can be had for "regular" kit prices. The Gremlin bubble burst a bit with Round 2's releases.

[Tom Geiger]

Back 20 years ago or so, I was in the basement of a modeler friend's home in St. Charles Illinois--he nearly had a corner on old, but still at that time, not at all popular. Swap meet dealers were still leaving their stash's of Pinto's, Vega's, AMC Gremlins and Pacers at home, rather than take them to shows only to bring them back home once more.

Add the Volare kit to that list. I was buying Pacers for $5 each just to steal the Suburbanite snow tires out of them for my truck builds. At one show a dealer saw me looking at his $5 Pacer and told me I could have all five that he had for $15. I took it. As I walked away a dealer friend of mine was making fun of me carrying all those Pacers. Fast forward a year or so and he had someone from the Pacer club contact him for kits, now he was calling me trying to buy them from me. No Pacers for you!

In that same era, my club did our first Brown Bag Model Contest. The deal was that you'd get a cheap kit sealed in a brown bag and you had to build it in some creative way. I was tasked with going to a swap meet to get the kits. I wasn't allowed to spend more than $5 a kit. I went dealer to dealer and managed to buy up the 25 or so kits I needed, some were marked higher but once they heard why I was buying them they became $5 kits.

This was the era when people were 'investing' in models. People saw me walking around with a stack of those same kits and were questioning me if I was onto something. Did I have an inside tip that these would skyrocket soon? LOL

The contest turned out pretty cool. I built the Cavalier. Friends built a Fiero, Dodge Omni, Dodge Daytona, Ford EXP, Pinto Wagon and a few others. Consensus was that they were pretty decent kits to build and we all had fun building something we wouldn't have otherwise.

[1930fordpickup]

These kits are cheaper than the popular stuff , that happens to be vintage.

With the 20 dollar price of a new kit these 10 dollar wonders just doubled in price.

[Tom Geiger]

With the Dodge Omni's still growing on trees, try to find one of these, scarce but cheap when found!

[clovis]

A cool thread...but why is it that whenever I want to built one of these once plentiful kits, they seem to skyrocket in price just a few weeks before I want to buy one?

[Tom Geiger]

A cool thread...but why is it that whenever I want to built one of these once plentiful kits, they seem to skyrocket in price just a few weeks before I want to buy one?

Murphy

[Erik Smith]

With the Dodge Omni's still growing on trees, try to find one of these, scarce but cheap when found!

That era of AMT kits are pretty nice kits too...

[slusher]

l have seen 76 pintos go for up to 80 bucks. l see the 76 on ebay to be the most wanted.

[slusher]

Some kits are rare and sought after, making them expensive to purchase. Other kits are rare and, well, not so much in demand.

Here is one I found for a pittance, and see it occasionally for sale for the same or less.

This is not a re-box of the MPC kit either - it's a modified version of the Revell Escort XR-3.

I have never seen this kit before....cool score..

Anybody else have any?

[cobraman]

This one might fit the bill. It's a Ferrari P4 in 1/25 scale. It's an AHM kit but from some manufacturer in Japan. Labeled as a 1971 kit. Never saw another. Bought off ebay and said to be new old stock. Don't believe it ever had any plastic wrap around it. Not a very detailed kit and it is motorized.

[clovis]

Murphy

Ain't that the truth?

There were scads of AMT '95 GMC Sonoma kits on ebay last year. I could have filled the bed of a 1:1 Sonoma with these kits for $10 each, including shipping.

Now they are double that!!!!

[turn1wonder]

I watched this vid the other night and thought it would be interesting to post to this thread. Have any of these been kitted?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XLW1kn9sMs0

Bob

[lanesteele240]

My first car was an exp. it was ugly. Red trimmed in orange and brown. But once the rubber band was wound up, she would fly.

[lanesteele240]

Did i mention it was ugly.

Edited August 6, 2013 by lanesteele240

[chevyfever2009]

My first car was an exp. it was ugly. Red trimmed in orange and brown. But once the rubber band was wound up, she would fly.

I helped a buddy go pick one of these cars up i always thought it looked like a a cross between a porche and a fox body mustang never did get it running so it got scrapped

[chevyfever2009]

Some kits are rare and sought after, making them expensive to purchase. Other kits are rare and, well, not so much in demand.

Here is one I found for a pittance, and see it occasionally for sale for the same or less.

This is not a re-box of the MPC kit either - it's a modified version of the Revell Escort XR-3.

I have never seen this kit before....cool score..

Anybody else have any?

Whats a pittance?

[turn1wonder]

A "pittance" is a very small amount.

Bob

[chevyfever2009]

Ahhhhhic

[Tom Geiger]

The EXP was a bit useless. Basically an Escort without a back seat. It may have done better if it was a convertible, but that was done as the Aussie built Capri.

Later on Ford got it better as the Escort ZX2. It was a sporty looking 2 door Escort with a back seat.