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01/12/2024 9:56 am
Some of you may remember about 15 years ago when Highway 61 released a 1957 Corvette in 1/6 scale. A picture of the model is below.
My local diecast hobby store(back when there were diecast hobby stores) had one in stock on display at a price of $699 Canadian. I stood there for about 20 minutes just starring at this thing. I loved Vettes back then and couldn't believe what I was seeing. The average price that I spent on 1/18 diecasts at the time was about $120 and that was for an Autoart model so to me $699 was an unspeakable amount for a model.I went home and told my wife about this model.She knew how much I wanted one and wanted to buy me one for Christmas. Unfortunately, it was sold by the time she got to the store later that month. End of story. While surfing the net yesterday, I came across one of these Vettes that had sold August 22,2023 at Bring a Trailer.com at an amazing price of $15,000.You can check it out yourself.I thought I was seeing things. Lesson learned:don't put off something that you really,really want no matter what the cost at the time. You only go this way once.
03/12/2024 6:16 am
(I'm familiar with that specific story Ken ) I passed on those when they were less than $500, I was upset because there was no top. Ken, it's fair to say most collectors, scale & 1:1, have stories similar to yours. We've passed on or sold models or real cars that later substantially increased in value. There's an old adage in politics that applies here:
"People who look into crystal balls tend to eat a lot of glass."
Look at all the "suckers" who paid full retail for hundreds of 1/24 Franklin & Danbury Mint replicas.... only to see 90% of them sell years later, on secondary markets, for practically pennies on the dollar. Or how about paying an inflated price for something rare, then seeing the value drop dramatically because it was re-issued.
The flip side is also true. No doubt you've purchased at least a few models for not much money, but today they're worth considerably more.
"Woulda Coulda Shoulda" is virtually "Hindsight is 20/20" said differently. There are VERY few things in life YOU would do identically as YOU did 10,20,30 years ago....but AT THAT TIME it was the right decision.
15/12/2024 10:27 am
Something I was taught at art school "do not measure your progress by others' progressions: concentrate on your work" The same is true of so many things including our collections. We should buy what we know inside we want, and measure the price against the want.
02/01/2025 11:36 pm
Fortunately, while travelling in Pennsylvania years ago, my brother and I saw one of those Corvette models when they were new in the museum at Hershey. It was gorgeous but expensive, so when we returned home, we found one very competitively priced on Ebay and decided to pull the trigger. I'm so glad we did. Here are a few detail pics. It's kept clean and dust-free in a large display case.
03/01/2025 7:48 am
@clifford-read You're VERY lucky! These are fantastic pics - I never knew there was an articulating jack, nice! As I noted, I passed on these when they were < $500 because there was no top. 😔 😔 😔 I have only a few "diecast regrets," and this is one of them!
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