Model car boxes (different then the other post)

[chevyfever2009]

Ok I have a question for everyone. Why do people buy just the old model car boxes? I've seen some of these boxes go for more than some complete kits go for.

[Dr. Cranky]

They collect them as art. It's yet another way to enjoy the hobby. But people who collect kits need lots of space.

[Kris Morgan]

Some use the boxes for display. Others may have picked said kit up without the box and want the box to complete the package.

[cobraman]

I will buy one once in a while if it is better than the one I have my kits in.

[disabled modeler]

I love the old box art myself....just a joy to look at and reminisce my childhood days and a great era in models

[Austin T]

I don't really do it that much,but I have before. I recently picked up the Pete Brock BRE 240z that had a half built kit just for the soul intentions of the vintage box and decals. It's a pretty cool box, now if only I had it's sister kit the 510.

*Image borrowed from Worthpoint*

[peekay]

They collect them as art. It's yet another way to enjoy the hobby.

That's me. So far I've bought 5 old boxes at an average of $10 a pop but it would be many more if I had a deeper wallet.

Of course I would rather get the whole kit but then it would get really expensive. This Little T is a good example:

I also keep the nicest boxes when I've built a model.

[Tom Geiger]

I have bought maybe a half dozen boxes. All of them were cool old box art, and pretty much the product of opportunity. I saw them at a show cheap, etc. The one I actually bought on eBay was the original 1968 release of the Revell '57 Nomad kit. You know, the Nomad beach scene. I took it to GSL and had Bob Paeth sign it for me. Now one of my treasured possessions.

[Casey]

That's me. So far I've bought 5 old boxes at an average of $10 a pop but it would be many more if I had a deeper wallet.

Of course I would rather get the whole kit but then it would get really expensive.

Sometimes the box art is the best part of the kit, like the Revell '56 Ford Pickup I recently bought. Great box art, but the actual model, not so much.

[Ramfins59]

Yeah, I've asked that same question myself many times. Since I'm not really a "collector" it never made sense to me why anyone would pay outrageous prices for an empty box. Now I have a few old promo boxes from the ones that I've rebuilt and maybe some day I'll sell them on EBAY.

[Casey]

I think some people buy them because they only need the box to "complete" the kit, and if they're going to re-sell it, it has more value to them if the box and all the parts are sold together. Sometimes the most difficult part to find is the box itself, as so many are crushed, drawn on, torn, faded, split at the corners, have glue and paint spilled inside them, etc.

[Erik Smith]

Why does anybody buy anything? Either they need it (food) or they want it (unassembled plastic car, decorated paper container to hold plastc car). Look for 3 minutes on eBay and you will find a million things that people are buying for no reason other than they want it...