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There are a few car kits from that era I'd like but I'm not taking a mortgage to buy them

I know exactly what you mean. I’d love to get the KISS van again and the 4x4 Dodge Camper w/dirt bike kit by MPC. There so many others too. I keep watching eBay with hopes of asking prices by sellers are reasonable.

I'd still like to build the Revell 1/48 B-1.

Medicman71 wrote:I'd still like to build the Revell 1/48 B-1.

Ooh, ooh....

Right now I can't think of any kit that I passed on that I want to build now. All the ones I wanted to build but didn't build were kits I didn't have the money for and my parents wouldn't buy for me. I do have a faint memory of a kit that nobody has ever been able to confirm it's existence. I remember it well, having held it in my hands begging my parents to buy it for me to no avail. It was a model kit of a floating drydock, if you can believe that. Now there's absolutely no proof it ever existed. I don't even remember the name of the company that released it; but I recall it being one of the usual suspects back in the day. I I remember that I was mezmerized by the picture of the destroyer sitting inside this thing and that's why I wanted it.

Another kit I always wanted to build as a kid was the old Chitty Chitty Bang Bang car after having seen the movie. Naturally as is my typical luck, none were ever to be found anywhere when I was looking for one. Now they are prohibitively expensive.

Anything else I never built is either in the stash already; is not in my preferred scale, or does not exist in plastic kit form.

Oh my God!! The Chitty Chitty Bang Bang car! I've been looking for those Corgi diecast cars of them. Nowadays they're pricey. The kit even rarer.

Medicman71 wrote:I'd still like to build the Revell 1/48 B-1.

Just had a guy on another forum build one. He literally got out the 80 grit on some areas

Back in the late 70's I got an Aurora VooDoo Vega 1/16th scale funny car. Not sure whatever happened to it but at this point they are prohibitively expensive.

I did get a rebuilder and finally a mint one some years ago. If I told you what I paid you'd want to smack some sense into me. There are a few kits I wish i had built/bought. The Monogram 1/32 scale gasser kits are one such thing. So expensive now for even a rebuilder.