I had watched this auction on ebay for several days. The buy it now price was $144.00 plus shipping. It was way to rich for my blood, even in the condition it was in. Thursday rolls around, and I get an email alert saying the price had dropped, so I went to my watch list and sure enough, the price was dropped by half! I could not pass this up at that price. So Saturday comes around and the mailman drops off what is probably the best example of these old Cox Lotus cars that I have seen in quite a while. Many of the small parts had never been taken off the trees, both roll bar options were there, as well as two sets of pipes, and all the wheel wrenchs and instructions. The controller works, and looks like it had never been used. Other than some drying of the tires with age, the car is complete, and functioning. I have wanted one of these since I saw them in the showcase at the local hobby shop /raceway when I was about 10 years old. They were way over my paper route budget then, and I almost waited till they were over my budget now! Either way, I own one now, and am as happy as I would have been in 1968.