plastic model car kits

[Road America]

I built lots of these when I was young in the 1960's, and lately I started to build a few again. The prices are just a little different though! AMT kits were marked $1.49, but one store always had them at 99 cents. Now they're more like $25. Some of those old kits are still being made - '40 Ford etc.
The county fair grounds had stock car races every Saturday night and '30s - '40s Fords were real common on the track. Lots of them got beat to death! Us kids would make models of them. We used the runners from the kits to make the front, back, and side bumper guards. You could bend it real nice by heating it with a match.
I wonder how many people still build these - would it be worthwhile for my local rc shop to start stocking them? I suppose the problem would be in trying buy them at a low enough wholesale price to be able to make a little profit. It's really hard to compete with Hobby Lobby and other big companies.

 

[PonkyKong]

Just to help sell paint and air compressors yeah. But you have to buy them like at least once every 2 weeks if he does it for you. Or make a large wholesale order through him and he takes a cut. Order like 30 kits at once. Modeling is still around. But they sell very slowly.

 

[Suburban_Hooligan]

i still build the hell out of of model cars.

 

[Road America]

You do a good job of it too! I like the 32 hiboy roadster.

 

[81exige]

i still build the hell out of of model cars.

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what's the 2nd car? it looks like a dodge dart but that's the black one

 

[Suburban_Hooligan]

what's the 2nd car? it looks like a dodge dart but that's the black one

66 Nova

 

[Tunedfrog]

I used to built a lot of models and even won a Tandy Leathergoods kit from a winning model I built.
It was an old YZ125.