Remember when AMT Model Car Kit was $1.50

I like this attitude.
Paying the price of building a model and considering the time spent and enjoyment vs droping a couple of hundred at the casino?

 

Oh yeah, that story somehow sounds very familiar.

 

found that unassembled 32 this summer at a garge sale haggled it to 5 bucks

 

The Ghoul, Saturday nights on UHF channel 61 Cleveland! Watched him blow up more car models on his show than I can remember.

 

I don't remember blowing up any model cars, but I sure blew up a ton of army trucks and tanks.

 

I blew all mine up at 15... After that, I started chasing the ladies around...

 

A few years ago now I would buy the old ones that were already assembled pretty cheap. I used to see a lot of them but not so much anymore. When I'm too old to start a new hotrod project, I hope to get back into models. I can't believe what they sell for them now.

 

I was on ebay last night looking at some old AMT's.. Some guy was askin' like 200-300 bucks a piece for a couple of "Craftsman Series" kits.. I almost flipped!

 

Stay off of fleabay. If you can find a swap meet for plastic, you can usually find them for cheaper. Some of the Craftsmen style kits were re released too. Trouble is when someone sees what those tools on American Pickers and Pawnstars are buying things for, they all of a sudden get collector-itis and the prices go up. Buy glue bombs and rebuild. Also try emodelcars.com, they are strictly a model auction site and sometimes the deals are better.

 

Sorry! I don't watch reality shows..

 

I remember them costing $1.50.
I also remember in the same era you could buy 6 gallons of gas for $1.50.
What's 6 gallons of gas today?
Its over $4 a gallon around here!

 

That's about the going rate for a new model kit now days.... 24.00 bucks each give er take..

 

I just picked 3 more very cool kits from this gentleman.. www.jimnohio.com

One is the Revell '57 Bel Air California Wheels edition..
Another is AMT WARBUCKS A/FX '65 er '66 427 "Cammer" Mustang..
Last one is the AMT Don Nicholson's '62 Bel Air Super Stocker..
He's also a H.A.M.B. member! Check him out! If he happens to ask, Just tell him Guido sent ya!

 

.... Might even come with a 1/25 scale 6-pack of Billy Beer..

 

It's easier for me to come up with $15.00 to $20.00 for a kit now, than $ 1.50 when I was a kid!!!

 

I remember that, too, but I was making $1.40 an hour before taxes

 

I remember the $1.39 and $1.49 AMT/SMP three in ones and loved the $2.00 double kits: Ala kart-'29 roadster, double dragster, double T, and Willys-deuce sedan.

BTW: WCK has a model show this weekend as part of the Cruisin' Nationals in Santa Maria.

 

Picked up an unbuilt an early AMT '32 Roadster kit Sunday, just like the first kit I ever built. http://www.jalopyjournal.com/forum/showthread.php?t=592238&highlight=amt+street+rod I noticed that the box is slightly different from another early box, FORD is in script on one and block letters on the other. Guess there were copyright problems way back in the early 1960's as there are today.

 

I.... do not. I wish I did..

 

Yeah! Ain't it a shame??

 

One of my girls droped this off to me the other night.........

 

My 8 year old has been asking for a $22 model for months just cant bring my self to do it.

 

Yea, I remember those days, I alway had a good time with models. I tried to do some with my son, WOW I was shocked at the prices! We bought one and I was afraid to lt him touch it. It didn't seem that costly back then.

 

What model is he looking for??? I hope it's not a rice burner...

 

Me? lol not in my house, we don't allow fords muchless anything from Japan

It's a helicopter honestly. I'm trying to get him to meet me halfway on a $16 Dodge A-100.

 

A little red wagon... Cool!

 

I remember $1.00

 

I've got a huge box, I think its 36" square, full of kits in various stages of completion to not even started ones from the 60's and 70's up in my attic that I stashed away. Many AMT's, Johans, Monograms plus a few Hubley metal kits. There's probably about 50 cars and trucks in there. It's sort of my mini antique and classic car junk yard.

 

When model kits were that price you could buy a 1/1 scale Deuce 3 window for less than $500. Everything is relative, plastic model kits at todays prices are still good value and provide a great learning experience for kids. For some of us they also provide the opportunity to build all the cars our crazy imaginations can cme up with. ;-)

 

I remember those days, now I can buy them a dozen at a time and not even blink. Oh for the good old days!