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Oldies, But Goodies

While delving in my loft the other week I found a carton in the eaves. On inspection it contained several old model car kit boxes. When I went though it carefully, I found it was the old kits which had been started but never finished. It included several dating from the Sixties, primarily from Monogram, that I’d acquired from friends who’d built them and were going to throw them away. I also found a box full of wheels and tyres,). This is a useful online resource that provides basic details about a wide range of plastic models, each with a photo of the box tops and a timeline of their release dates. It was interesting to discover that several of the vintage part-built kits that I’d kept for all those years were either currently available, or had been re-released not that long ago. Quite remarkable!

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