Revell model

[rkenly]

Someone gave me today - a new sealed in the box

Revell 1:25 Scale Chevy SSR model - 100+ pieces.

It's GM licensed. Is it worth saving "as is" or better to have some good modeler put it together? If I was still a kid, I'd put it together. Today, I'd probably give up, and be satisfied with sniffing the glue.

Thoughts?

[Jgrden]

C'mon Rod. put it together. I have completed two and it is allot of fun. Now days you can customize the trucks.

[BlueStreak]

I think it is worth more put together properly with a good paint job. Not sure I am capable of doing that, though.

[DOOPHUS]

Originally Posted by rkenly

Someone gave me today - a new sealed in the box

Revell 1:25 Scale Chevy SSR model - 100+ pieces.

It's GM licensed. Is it worth saving "as is" or better to have some good modeler put it together? If I was still a kid, I'd put it together. Today, I'd probably give up, and be satisfied with sniffing the glue.

Thoughts?

Put it together, Rod . . . then sniff the glue!

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[IFytFyrs]

I picked one up at the R.E.Olds Museum in Lansing this summer. If memory serves it was $17... Now that it is partially painted on my workbench, I'm sure it is worth SIGNIFICANTLY LESS

[Doug Allen]

Future value, keep it in the box.

Fun value, build it.....with a big 'ol 671 blower sticking out of the hood, huge meats, and a tall stick shift out the top of the cab.....Uh Uh Uh.

Not unlike stock vs. modified SSR's.

[CJ]

i need to look for one now and see what i can find
all i have is a silver metal die cast one my son and daughter gave me in 04 that i now own the color
how cool is that. it was a birthday gift

[nulogic1]

Testors Glue in the lead tubes. I can smell it now!
Model car contests. Candy Apple! World War II bombers.
The memories are a flowing!

[REBEL]

You should run a model car contest on this site.

[JimBob]

There are 11 listed on E-bay
ssr revell | eBay

I bought 6 last year @ $7.00 and gave them away to the neighborhood kids.
They were not impressed.

[sangus]

I was given one a year ago and it's still in it's original packaging and I doubt I'll ever assemble it. I'm not keeping it for appreciation value, I just can't bring myself to brutalize it by building yet. But, that testor glue in the lead tube...now, that does bring back memories...maybe that's why I managed to mangle every model I built.

[REBEL]

As a kid I would use very little glue to build. Later I would cut them apart and rebuild them. Sometimes swapping parts from car to car. here are my all time fav's.

The SSR kit build one and save one. At best you might double your money if you save the kit unopen. Whats 10$ for storage 20 years .... nothing.

[Shadowman]

Originally Posted by nulogic1

Testors Glue in the lead tubes. I can smell it now!
Model car contests. Candy Apple! World War II bombers.
The memories are a flowing!

Of the glue or the models?

[DOOPHUS]

Originally Posted by Shadowman

Of the glue or the models?

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[SSRDen]

I remember being a kid in a large family that was met with a severe economic crisis. I was home alone and a person from some charity organization left a box full of toys for Christmas for my brothers and sisters. In that box were several model toy cars partially put together. This is what happened to many of those models...not finished, given away, or dropped into the garbage bucket.

[yellow bear]

Originally Posted by REBEL

The SSR kit build one and save one. At best you might double your money if you save the kit unopen. Whats 10$ for storage 20 years .... nothing.

If I bought 2, 1 to build and 1 to keep/sell later...... I would probably build both of them

Price should be NO Object...... Beer cost More...

What do you Want in the end???

[Jgrden]

Originally Posted by REBEL

You should run a model car contest on this site.

We did it, two or three years ago. I thought Rebel was the organizer.

[REBEL]

We did it, two or three years ago. I thought Rebel was the organizer.

I did and YOU where going to run the next years event ... remember?

link to past. The all new 2009 SSR