Oh, Dayamh! An RX3!
Oh, Dayamh! An RX3!
chandlerGTi wrote: Car Culture Mix A arrived, figured I would share pics.
What a great mix of cars!
Oh my, I must get that RX-3...
Oh happy day!
Triumph Spitfire HO slot car.
In reply to Spitsix:
I have never, ever even HEARD of that, let alone seen a T-Jet Spitfire...
stroker wrote: In reply to Spitsix: I have never, ever even HEARD of that, let alone seen a T-Jet Spitfire...
It's a modern resin casting, don't get too excited. There's 3-4 big producers of things like that. I have a 59 Buick Electra T-Jet from one of them for example, it's sweet.
Most of yesterday's haul from the Hot Wheels show at Hara Arena in Dayton. 2 Lamborghini from Gran Turismo, new Fiat 500 Euro collection (finally), new MX-5, 2 custom painted by Rip City Cuztoms, and that old Gremlin just because. Not to mention that big Porsche back there.
(Not pictured: Opel Kadette/ Vauxhall Astra GTE and a Pontiac Fiero from 1983 still in the packaging.)
That's a great ND MX-5 model -- aside from the enormous wing. I wonder how much work it would be to remove & repaint?
Found this well played with Playart Toyota Crown MKII at a junk shop; $3 for five crappy cars but I really wanted this one.
Pulled it apart to clean it up; Windows disentegated unfortunately but I went ahead. Tried a couple styles of wheels but settled in the Advan style from Japanese Nostalgic RX2.
Stripped the paint off and cleaned up a couple body lines.
It's assembled a bit differently than a hot wheels but I shot the grill and rear panel in "chrome". Then painted the body in a smooth dark red.
Looks brighter there^ but it's darker. Assembled loosely to check figment with the axles raised and it's spot on! Once the paint cures I'll stripe it, detail it and screw it together.
Not shabby!
Nice job! Did that car have a screw-on chassis? If not, how hard was it to reattach?
It was riveted, I'll have to figure out the screws. Probably 4-40 maybe smaller
Awesome work on the Crown! You can make new windows out of the clear plastic bubble from a modern Hot Wheels package 
So we finally have had time to unpack and I was wondering how many we had so far, apparently 227 so far over the past 2.5 years I've been with my GF, good hobby IMHO.
In reply to JtspellS:
You mean until you get hit by a truck and she gives them away because they can't possibly be worth anything.... 
In reply to stroker:
See the silly thing is she has bought close to 1/2 of them and she constantly checks prices between Ebay and reddit to see where we are at price wise.
Sometimes we just get lucky with SWMBO.
Sometimes we just get lucky with SWMBO.
I guess!
I told my wife if I die to give them to my brothers; both collect on a smaller scale and would know what to do with them....sorta lol
How do you find these?! I've never seen any of those in stores.
(I'm sure you've answered this already, but this thread is 64 pages long now)
Found those at Walmart but I have a subscription to the Car Culture cases so I get a case of each mix. Also, I hit about six stores a day right now.
Edit: those MB skylines are pretty rare, 1 in a 64 count case. I've found three.... there are two variations one with carbs and harnesses and one without. You can't see without drilling the car and it doesn't have an opening hood so we are hoping for some sort of premium version coming soon!
Did this custom for my brother in law who has a blue 67 coupe.
Now he can give back the stock one that I gave to his son! haha.
I found the Chevy Track Day at a Meijer but that is the only one so far.
Probably a flea market, toy show opportunity...
I'm trying to complete my Dodge A100 1:50 scale collection and this thing popped up on one of my searchs. If you come across one please keep me in mind, as far as I can tell I'm the only person still trying to track them down (ever since 2008).
Can't show you a carded pic since I can't find one but here is the E-Sheet provided by the graphics designer.
Until tonight I believed (as do most others) that only the Silver, Red flamed and Racing Team versions were made in 2008 and the Orange with silver stripe was made in 2009 before production was cut due to no sales of the 1:50 line.
Thanks Gents
I haven't had much time the past 6 months to hunt or even post here but I got out last week and checked a couple places. Found some JDM goodness.
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