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| Crippled '51 Fod convertible | |
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| Phil A. Pino | Aug 4 2014, 04:56 PM Post #1 |
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Midsize
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Found this seriously damaged Arko 1/32 scale 1951 Ford convertible at a discount store and almost left it there as its injuries were major. The model probably had been dropped from a fairly high height. A missing windshield frame and cracked windshield glass, a missing side mirror, an intact but crushed rear wheel and hub cap causing it to run out-of-round, a missing back bumper, and a deformed and warped chassis were all significant issues affecting an otherwise attractive model. The hood, both doors, and the trunk all open. A little flathead under the hood, but no spare in the trunk. Nice paint job. Straightening the chassis was out of the question as the integrity of the entire convertible model would have, no doubt, been compromised so much so as to render it unfixable. Regardless, what things were done still weren't good enough to make the model very photogentic as it looks better in real life. For only a dollar and a half, it was a fun effort though. Thanks for looking... ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() |
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| Dean-o-mite | Aug 4 2014, 05:27 PM Post #2 |
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Muscle Car
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$1.50 for something that badly damaged hardly seems fitting for a "discount" store. You made it shine, for what it was, and gave it a new lease on life. |
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| SeberHusky | Aug 4 2014, 05:42 PM Post #3 |
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Station Wagon
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You could always get creative and make a little junkyard diorama for it if that's your foray. I see people selling a lot of them on eBay, and they look pretty authentic. Also, welcome to a transition era, Dean. Discount stores are now being transformed into department stores. I haven't found anything beyond R/C cars in my thrift stores. No diecast whatsoever. And it's been that way for the last 3 years. My local Salvation Army sells junk for furniture that wouldn't even look nice in a mobile home park. A 40 year old, 2-drawer file cabinet. Rusted on 70% of the paintwork, drawers that barely budge, and an enormous dent on the back corner making it wobble. What was the price? $5? $2? Wrong! $15! They wanted $15 for it. And those old analog knob TV's that you can't even use anymore without one of those antenna-to-CATV adapters to screw on the antenna jacks? $10 each. I've found old TV's in the dumpsters for free, and at yard sales for a maximum of $1. At my Goodwill, it's pretty much whoever owns the label gun is who is the judge on the prices. I took some Nintendo 64 games out of the cart of stuff the employee left in the middle of the aisle. I took a couple games I wanted, and left the other one I already had behind. I come back to it about 10 minutes later and it's on the shelf with a price of $5. Keep in mind that it has no box, no nothing, just the game cartridge, which for that game in that condition was worth $2 at the most on eBay. The other two games I had that I had taken before the employee priced them, the cashier called the manager about it, who was a young guy that likely was a gamer himself, he looked at them, then looked at me and said "75 cents sound good?" I gladly took them for that! It's pretty horrid to go thrift shopping these days. It would be cheaper going to every yard sale in the classifieds and burning half a tank of fuel, and you'd still come out ahead. lol Edited by SeberHusky, Aug 4 2014, 05:53 PM.
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| juantoo3 | Aug 5 2014, 01:08 PM Post #4 |
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I think you did well for what you had to work with. Push come to shove, you have some spare parts! |
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| wall-e | Aug 6 2014, 05:49 PM Post #5 |
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Have you considered 'merging' it with a Lindberg '49 Ford all-plastic kit? Since it's also 1:32, it might give you a good platform to build the body and trim on, even if you had to do it in pieces. |
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