MIP 4WD kit Sells for $979 !!!

[mark]

WOW!

A little much for me

[tizeye]

Bormac is a member on here...he's done very well on his MIP 4WD kits..he must of had the inside word on a re-release...

[mark]

Cool, didn't know he was a member, I'd say he did really well on that sale!

[Bormac]

Yeah this was a few months ago now. I knew it was being re-released so I prefered to part with it and buy the re-release kit.
Some of the money went in to buying a very nice TRX-1 though

[mark]

Did you buy that kit new back in 1992? How much did these kits sell for back when they were still in production?

[Bormac]

It was kind of a long story. I heard a mamber of my club had one of these and wanted a few bucks for it. I told a mate, he ended up buying it but felt bad so sold it back to me. I had planned on building it along with my worlds car but when i heard MIP were rereleasing this kit I figured I'd let the die hard collectors have it.

I started the auction at just $1. It was the interested parties that decided the outcome in the end. It cost me far less than what I sold it for though ....but thats how it goes sometimes. Swings and round-abouts.

[civilguy]

I raced in the 80s and the first generation kits for the RC10 cost right in the neighborhood of the RC10 kit itself!! Given what a NIB gold pan will fetch, I was not surprised at the price that MIP kit drew.

[shodog]

I have a NIB sp2 kit and when you add up all the prices on the bags it comes out around $370 in 80's dollars.

[treehugger]

i saw a MIP on a car on ebay for 1400 so i guess everyones offloading there kits cos if there is a re re the value will drop

[badhoopty]

i saw a MIP on a car on ebay for 1400 so i guess everyones offloading there kits cos if there is a re re the value will drop

if you are unloading anything because the cost is going to drop due to a re-re, you are not in this hobby for the right reasons.

thats just my opinion...

[lexus-5]

i saw a MIP on a car on ebay for 1400 so i guess everyones offloading there kits cos if there is a re re the value will drop

if you are unloading anything because the cost is going to drop due to a re-re, you are not in this hobby for the right reasons.

thats just my opinion...

So shall I put this one on Ebay ????? NOT
The car is a mint CE that has never seen daylight. I used an older rear bulkhead
and shock tower for the belt modification and kept the mint parts to put with the car
at some point. I think if the re-release does happen the value of the original kits will remain
stable because after all do we know for a fact that there will be a re-re? and if so an original is always best.

[shodog]

unless the re-re kit is just like the original then it's not going to have too much effect on the originals. I suspect it won't and there will be a limited market for it.

[vintage racer]

If you have an SP2 kit value wont be a problem as I dont think it will ever be re released,just the Legends by the looks of things.

[treehugger]

i hope that its the same but different the same so i can say i have one but maybe a different colour to keep the originals value i see how the tamiya re res are bringing the pruice of some of there models down.

[CNA75]

I don't think the re-re's will bring the price of the originals down too much. To the hardened collectors (who are the ones who part with the serious cash for these things anyway), there is nothing that will replace the original. And, to a large extent I agree that there's nothing like having the original.....although not, however, at USD1400 or thereabouts....