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07/11/2023 3:48 pm
This is a model of a mid-1960's Alfa Romeo 2-seat convertible coupe that I still have. I put this one together as a small kid but was too inexperienced to paint it ! I think scale is around perhaps 1/32 or so.
07/11/2023 5:56 pm
Excellent Mike. Isnt it great you've kept it all these years?
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07/11/2023 7:01 pm
........... Isnt it great you've kept it all these years?
It is !
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08/11/2023 5:47 pm
That's a pretty neat keepsake!
It really is, John ! My Dad sometimes would also get me a Schuco car imported from West Germany after he was on a business trip. I still have some.
06/02/2024 11:32 pm
It's an Alfa Romeo 2000 Spider Touring, US spec, from '58-'62! A lovely kit!
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07/02/2024 5:14 am
It's an Alfa Romeo 2000 Spider Touring, US spec, from '58-'62! A lovely kit!
Thanks, Karl ! The box is long gone so I had only known it was an Alfa Romeo. It sure is a cool automobile and I know I was delighted with it when I was a kid ..... and I still am ! 
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07/02/2024 10:25 am
Now, THAT'S really cool! I wish that I had my models from my childhood! I have none! I do have a couple of Tonka-pressed steel trucks, though.
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07/02/2024 5:04 pm
I am like that, too, Marty. I have a couple 1/25 promos and a few other model automobiles in different scales, but I used to have many more that have vanished into the mists of time.
08/02/2024 10:42 am
It's held up well. Wish I still had all the models I built as a kid. Even though today you can get the same model that I built in the 60's. Only difference is that I paid $1.50 for a kit compared to $30-35 today.
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08/02/2024 5:04 pm
Lol, prices have gone up a bit since back then, haven't they !