Model car...box art!!!!

Here are a few more. Not sure if any of these have been posted yet. I still have some of the models from the boxes.

 

Here a few from my stash.

 

Wow...memories. My first kit was a Lindburg line T-bucket in the early to mid 60's. No chrome but great looking parts and you actually wound your own electric motor. I built a couple of Barris kits ( Bed Bug, Mail Truck ) and had a great chat with him about them at Winnipeg's World of Wheels a couple years back. The 54 Chevy Highboy, Austin Drag Sedan, 67 Impala, 32 Ford, the list goes on and on...

 

That Revell orange '55 always was cool when I was a kid. And still is today! But I think They were 20 cents more than the AMT kits. And that was the price of a tube of glue. Or a soda at the snack bar. So you know what won out.

 

Great thread! Just found it. I'm glad someone brought it to the top. I had so many of them when younger and now am buying the repops when I see them. Hopefully I will be building some of them.

 

These two have been re-issued...

 

Man, this kills..

 

I scored this wooden model kit at a flea market last summer and the plastic midget racer with the cool box art last week...

 

great memories...thanks

 

Here are a few more. Not really rare or odd but still pretty cool.

 

This is my '54 Chevy Highboy. The car was originally modified back in 1968. It was powered by a 389 Pontiac V8 and a 4 speed. Engine was setback about 20%. The original builder replaced the Pontiac with a Chevy small block and Turbo350 trans sometime in 2000. He passed away in 2012. This '54 was a fixture cruising West Seattle back in the 70's. When Revell released this model kit, it looked close enough to be a replica of it. In fact, when he showed it, the model kit was on display with the car. The photo of it in gray was taken in the early 80's. Car looks pretty much the same today as back then.

Anyway, fantastic thread. Enjoy a blast from the past.

 

neat! I built the sedan delivery version...of the model....when I was about 16

 

Cool old build I bought with a nice original box



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Hello,

I had been looking for a model of a 58 Impala for years. I had completed plenty of scratch build models and other car/airplane kits back in the 50's. (But, they all bit the dust from my mother's massive...you haven't used them in years and it gets dusty/throw away...rant) Ahhh, the memories of those "in one ear... out the other" days...

One day I walked into a toy store in Belmont Shore’s 2nd Street back in 1989-90 and found this model sitting on the car model section shelf. Today, it still has the original plastic wrapper and I keep looking at it thinking one day I might build it. It is a simple model and my skills are at least level 2. (so the box label lists the skill level) But, as the days go by, there are other pressing things to do and this box stays in the garage cabinet until another rainy day in So Cal. Then the ritual starts all over again. What to do…

Jnaki

Value? Not so much to anyone except for me, as it is the model of my real black 58 Impala that got me through the formidable teenage years (racing and cruising) and into the first years of college. I just need to build it one day…(black with red interior and those Buick Skylark wire wheels that got stolen from the real Impala ...etc.) But, the Buick Skylark Wire Wheels in models are hard to come by or the Ebay prices are outrageous and in Europe.

 

^^ Luv the Ventures album, not only the cover, but the music, too. It was one of their best. It fits right in with the rest of your model car box collection.

 

^^^ Like the way you have them displayed in groups according to mfg. ^^^
Nice collection !

 

When I was a kid I had plenty of time to build those kits but no money and no skills, now I have the skills and the money but time? That's something I'll have to work on.

 

Nice collection

 

Back at Ya. You've got a nice display as well. Are some of those boxes actually kits? Nice that you have all three of those Revell double kits....Mooneyes dragster,
Fuming Fiat, etc....very rare these days.

 

Some are full kits and some are just empty boxes. I got the three Revell double kits boxes thirty five years ago and they are among some of my favorites.

 

Here's a couple....

 

Dueces - that 1956 Revell/AMT Autorama box is a real treat to the eyes !
I don't think the museum in Utah had it on display a few years ago.