Dennis, when the mood strikes me, I attend the monthly scale model swap meet put on by a local whiz bang collector named George Zaninovitch. You name it, ppl bring it to these shows.

I was klewless until I read thru this thread that ppl here are looking for truck scale models. Most ppl at these shows pass up two things...scale model trucks and ship models, unless they are the early/mid 50's kits once offered by Revell, Jo-Han, AMT, Aurora, Lindberg...etc.

One of the hardest to find is Revell's 1955 Lincoln Futura kit, first offered around 1957. Everyone wants one, few find it. This Lincoln in real guise, was a FoMoCo Dream Car.

George Barris acquired it in the late 1950's, and later modified it into the first Batmobile, used in the TV show of the 1960's. He really didn't do much to the body besides re-painting it and removing the double plexiglas canopy.

What you see today, is just about how it was displayed at autoshows...and to think...the Batmobile (the original, not the clones Barris also made a few of) was put up for auction by Barris, at a Kruse Brothers "circus" held at the Santa Monica Civic Auditorium in 1976.

No one bid a cent on it...it could have been bought for 5 grand!

What's it worth today? Prolly several mil1ion.

 

Yes and I had one of those.

My model collection was huge back when I was about 13 (1963) as I was a competitor in numerous competitions put on by a local model shop.

I had so many WANTED models it scare me.
Everything was tossed out by my Mom in the fall of 1969 when we moved.

 

That's typical...mom tossing away all of the kids things when they leave the nest.

It happened to me, but it wasn't models, it was my baseball card collection. I could buy several new Bentleys for what that collection would be worth today.

 

The whole family moved ,me with them.
That was her point, we're NOT taking all that crap to this nice new house

I lost my hockey,baseball,football,Zorro,civil war cards
I had 7 Bobby Orr and 6 Bobby Hull Rookie cards

All my Meccano sets, my Dinky/matchbox toys,my Tonka and non-tonka steel trucks,graders,diggers...
Plus my RUNNING 52 Austin went to the wreckers.


Here are some model kit related threads I found for you Bill

https://www.ford-trucks.com/forums/5...odel+kits++AMT

https://www.ford-trucks.com/forums/5...odel+kits++AMT

https://www.ford-trucks.com/forums/5...odel+kits++AMT

https://www.ford-trucks.com/forums/5...odel+kits++AMT

https://www.ford-trucks.com/forums/5...odel+kits++AMT

https://www.ford-trucks.com/forums/4...odel+kits++AMT

https://www.ford-trucks.com/forums/4...odel+kits++AMT

https://www.ford-trucks.com/forums/3...odel+kits++AMT

https://www.ford-trucks.com/forums/4...odel+kits++AMT

https://www.ford-trucks.com/forums/2...odel+kits++AMT

https://www.ford-trucks.com/forums/1...odel+kits++AMT

https://www.ford-trucks.com/forums/4...odel+kits++AMT

 

Dinky's!!

Qwist on a bicycle....did I goof. When I was visiting Warwick Castle in 1999, across the street was an antique mall...and someone had cleaned out a hobby shop.
There were 100's of Dinky's in several showcases...NIB...5 pounds each (about $8.25 then).

I didn't buy a one. I had no idea what they were worth, so...

 

I was there ( Warwick castle and mall ) in June 2000.
I was looking all over for used toys.

My favourite was the Dinky Toy ...Blue Car Hauler

 

Warwick Castle in the UK?

The antique mall was directly across the street, north side...a small place, loaded with goodies.

I did buy one thing...they had a 1/25 scale RHD plastic 1948 Packard police car with a 'friction' motor.

It's NIB, but there's no makers name anywhere...it looks similar to the Marx Packards sold in the US. I paid 20 pounds, and no one I know has ever seen another, or knows who made it.

 

Yes, My Aunt and one of her daughters lives in Warwick, Warwickshire

That restored castle is apparently is the best in England.

I have pics

Aside from driving everywhere (1900 miles in 9 days) My cousins would take me to several places looking for old toys.

But the prices were horrendous.
1 GBP = $2.27CDN

 

I have pics too, on film. I didn't go digital till just recently.

The shop was on the north side, a small white building decorated with the Union Jack, and other flags of the realm. East, down the same street was a pub that the owner had covered the walls and ceiling with pics of locomotives and rolling stock, from all over the globe.

I just happened to have a new book along on the trip my BIL had just finished writing, on the history of light rail transportation in SoCal. I gave him the book, which got me several free Guinness' tho I didn't ask for them.

We stayed at the Warwick Hilton, which btw, was the only hotel in the UK we stayed at in three weeks that had face cloths. I wonder what the Brits use to wash with?

Driving in the UK...how did you like the round-abouts? They took some time getting used to. We were driving a Vauxhall something. The right o/s mirror glass fell off just as we left the rental lot at Heathrow. Luckily, it didn't break...Hertz stuck it back on using duct tape.

 

bucks do a search for "resin" grills they are made.usualy under five bucks.

 

I stayed at my Aunt's and drank/played darts at The Warwick Arms Hotel

I love driving there, I even have a video of me doing the roundabouts that my sister took.

My cousin was an AA attendant in that area so I learned a lot driving with him.

We rented a Honda Accord.

 

Since NumberDummy was talking about Ford promotional models, I have a question about one. Maybe someone can tell me a little about this.

I have a 67 Thunderbird, approx 1/24 scale that has a Philco AM radio in it. It was given to me by my grandfather about 20 years ago.







Jason

 

I found these at the local model train shop; also bought a set several years ago. They are HO Scale (1/87th), about 2 1/2" long. SCS bed, 78/79 grille but exposed fuel fillers. No interior or chassis but fairly detailed anyway.

 

bucks, what is this King Ranch model you speak of? Do you have a photo?

 

Hey its "clueless". What are you "speacial" or something?