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08/10/2021 9:05 pm
50 years ago, i collected 1/43 scale diecast cars for about 20 years. those were interesting times as we didn't have the Internet and there was only a column in a hobby magazine to communicate. in the mid-80's. I often wonder about one model from my collection and what its value would be today. It was a 1/43 model of AJ Foyt's turbine car allegedly painted with the same paint A J used on the real thing. I'd be curious to know what its value would be today as I think only 500 were made. When I started my collection, an English collector advised me to specialize so I collected only models of sports, racing, and record cars but could not resist a model of the Bugatti Royale from Solido I think. i did travel in my work and met a collector from California who later had a small shop devoted to die cast cars. I also visited a guy named Ed force that had the largest collect of Matchbox cars I'd ever seen. One of my coolest experiences occurred when our baby sitter gave my 3 year old son a box of toy cars from her parents attic. There were about 10 pristine Tootsie Toy cars in the box. I took my son to a nearby toy store and he gotb2 brand new Hot wheels for each of them. I did well trading off he Tootsie Toys to British collectors. If anyone has any information about the A J Foyt model or collectors from that era, I'd appreciate hearing it. Thanks in advance
08/10/2021 9:29 pm
Long,
Was it the STP turbine car that Parnelli Jones raced at the 1967 Indy 500?
https://www.hobbydb.com/marketplaces/hobbydb/catalog_items/stp-indianapolis-racer
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I also started in the late 1960s / early 70s collecting toy cars. Mostly Matchbox and then 1/43. I have all of Ed Force's books but sadly never met him. I never got this turbine car though!  Do you still have a collection?
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Ed Glorius and Ed Glorius reacted
09/10/2021 7:59 pm
This hobby has come a long way in 50 years! There are white metal models worth thousands of dollars. I have a few hundred very nice resin models that average about $100-$150, but I have some BBR Ferrari resin 1/43 models that are worth $400 or more.
I am collecting mostly white metal 1/43 models now. I have about 100 of them and most of those are Conquest, WMCE and the newer Brooklins that are about $250 and up.
The latest white metal models (past 3-5 years) have got very detailed and superb.... the more money you spend, the better the model.
Ben Lampson and Ben Lampson reacted
10/10/2021 8:29 am
Hi LongAgo,  Welcome!  Fifty years ago was around 1970. I was trying to belatedly finish my degrees and support a growing family.  My kit-building remains from the 50s was in storage in my parents' attic (I thought), and my collecting era was still in the future.  It wasn't until the 1990s that the bug struck.  And then it was several bugs, all growing quickly. Today I realize that neither of my children are interested in this stuff and so I have started slowly moving out some of it. Of course, other stuff keeps showing up too.  So I have my several hundred 1/43 models; my metal soldiers, circa 1940; my older toy cars and trucks; and even a small gathering of Elastolin Indians that has grown to nearly a hundred different models. Last night I picked up a Hubley fire truck, late 1940s I think, and it had dust on it! Horrors! (Click on pictures for enlargement.)
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10/10/2021 8:23 pm
@karl Faracars = FAmousRAcingCARS. They only made this one model with press-on decals that were very difficult to apply. It was a very nice day-glow orange though. Since replaced in my collection with the excellent Spark model.
Karl Schnelle and Karl Schnelle reacted
11/10/2021 9:46 am
Ben who made the 2-tone Ferrari 250 GTE? My favorite Ferrari subject.
Karl Schnelle and Karl Schnelle reacted
11/10/2021 9:54 am
@mark-lampariello If you enlarge the pic you can just make out the BBR logo on the right - which would have been my guess anyway. My favorite BBR road car is the '57 410 Superfast 4.9 (chassis 0719 SA) as owned by Gregg Garisson from 1980 to 2003.
11/10/2021 5:16 pm
Ben who made the 2-tone Ferrari 250 GTE? My favorite Ferrari subject.
Yes, Harvey is correct, it is a recreation of one of J. Geils (from the rock band) Ferraris by BBR.
From Wikipedia.....
In addition to passing on an interest in jazz, Geils's father took him to auto races in Pennsylvania in the 1950s. Geils became fascinated with Italian sports cars. He drove in five races a year during the early 1980s, at the peak of the J. Geils Band's popularity.[4] He opened KTR Motorsports, an automobile restoration shop in Ayer, Massachusetts to service and repair vintage sports cars such as Ferrari and Maserati. He sold the shop in 1996, though he continued to use the shop and participate in the company.
In 1982, Geils moved to Groton, Massachusetts. The town honored him by proclaiming J. Geils Day on December 1, 2009.
On April 11, 2017, Groton Police conducted a well-being check on Geils and found him unresponsive at his home. He was pronounced dead from natural causes at age 71.
The Ferrari 250 is shown in the last moments of the video below...