by Guildman » Tue Mar 12, 2019 4:53 am
My first really hot club car was a Revell 1/32nd Cobra. I wanted a GTO, but the Co-Op didn't have any so I had to have a Cobra. Metallic blue plastic, 29 shillings and sixpence. A LOT of my pocket money in those days, but well worth it. A few years ago at the Little Gransden Air and Old Car Show I found another Revell Cobra in an ancient Scalextric box (oddly) for ten pounds so I had to have it. Mentioning my nostalgia trip to a car collecting friend, I was delighted a few months later when he visited and said Happy Birthday, giving me a large box full of Revell cars in various states of needing repairs, but I love to restore them and I now have every car in that range except the Merc. which I don't like anyway. I got a spare GTO, which I've done in BRP colours for Moss.
This all led to yet more gifts of what other chums thought were "beyond repair", but I have the belief, "Ain't nuttn' can't be fixed", so now have yet more goodies, some on Monogram chassis, some on old Riko chassis and some on Revell ladder chassis. One of them (the Aston Martin, which came with a huge hole in the side) has a 13UO motor, rather than the 16D.
I love these old cars and love to use them when I can. It has even led to my restoring some older Monograms and Strombeckers for American chaps professionally. But that old plastic? Weird stuff to repair, but not always, very odd inconsistency.
Martin