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| Stangfreak | Nov 6 2014, 01:37 AM Post #1 |
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I took inventory of my entire collection and found I have only 32 Racing Champions left, other than tons of the NASCARs they produced. 32 out of well over 400 RCs at one time is not much at all. I have sold or traded all others. These cars looked great inside the packages until you opened them up. I am not impressed in any way with most of these castings anymore. I hate the tires and wheels on most, the tires do not fit the rims good, the hoods don't close right, and most have screwed up paint jobs. The quality of these cars stink. They had the dumb chrome parts that always fell off, especially the over-sized, goofy door mirrors. They never rolled freely or straight or level either. Bodies were out of proportion and way off scale big time too. I do like and kept the Ford Starliners, the Corvair, the Willys, the 49 Fords and Mercs, and the red 41 Lincoln, but with those Ertl had stepped in on most of them and the quality did improve. I also like most of the street rods and the classics due to the looks only, and the 41 Lincoln is the best they did. The Ford pick ups are of poor quality and paint also, except the chromie and the toe truck. Those are JLs. For awhile there M2 seemed to be matching these RCs and I began to loose interest in those also. I am so very glad to see they have gotten almost all those issues resolved and back on track. These little cars are getting quite expensive and I do indeed expect good quality and great detail. I remember collecting the Lesney MBs at $.49 each and when HWs hit the market at $.69 each. Now we're looking at an easy 5, 6, and 7, dollars each. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Edited by Stangfreak, Nov 6 2014, 08:53 AM.
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| GothicCarsUrban | Nov 6 2014, 02:32 PM Post #2 |
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Don't forget metal fatigue. There's reasons most RCs I get go straight to the wheel and glass donor bin. |
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| craftymore | Nov 6 2014, 09:51 PM Post #3 |
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Let's not forget most of these are 20 years in age. They were oddly proportioned but at the time there were not many options in the hobby for muscle and vintage cars unless you went with HW or Mb. Their '59 and '65 Ford F-Series trucks still look decent as do the '41 Lincoln and a few others. |
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| juantoo3 | Nov 6 2014, 10:13 PM Post #4 |
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I remember finding the Mint series when they first came out. Ridiculously priced at full retail compared to everything else at the time, but there *were* some interesting models. I got really picky, so the only ones I picked up were the two seater 'birds. I kept them in the package so it wasn't a big deal to me about the fragile mirrors at the time, but I did see they were pretty big in proportion to everything else out there, including other Mint series. I only ever found a handful of the Ertl American Muscle, and those were only in Kmart. By the time I found them, they were on the way out. So the Mint series to me was an acceptable (meaning "findable") substitute. It wouldn't be long before I got drawn into Muscle Machines anyway, so I didn't have many when they first came out. I like them now as a curiousity, as an example of what was available. I think my biggest disappointment with RC was the Chevy Camaro, the same casting you show above in white. I picked up the blue from the Fast and Furious release, and it is gawdawful ugly and out of proportion. All makers have winners and losers. RC probably had more losers than winners, but they did make some gems...like your Doosie, which is missing its hood by the way. The Lincoln, the Packard Caribbean, the 31 Caddy, the Cord, the 59 Ford pickup (you've got a nice sub-collection there of just that casting!), the Manta / McLaren, and the Munster's Coach, just to name a handful. |
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| 78Gremlin_GT | Nov 7 2014, 06:27 PM Post #5 |
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I have a few Racing Champions cars, my priority was ( and still is ) Tri-Chevies and AMC. I bought more than a few AMC Pacers RC came out with. Quality only matters if you have lots of choices to pick from, RC was probably the first to do the Pacer since Hotwheels and Corgi did, so I wasn't choosy ,and will even buy "cheesy" Pacer diecasts because they're out there. My RC collection does have some of those early Chase gold racing cars, I found a box of them last month while sorting through my diecasts in the basement. At any rate, period pieces are what they are, obviously as better diecast come out, I'll buy those, too, but I accept the condition of them as being what they were during the time period they were created. I do that for all my small-scale ( and large-scale ) cars, I like them for what they are, not how high-quality I wished they were. Jerry |
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| Douglas | Nov 7 2014, 06:46 PM Post #6 |
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I sold some of my RC Mints a few years ago, all of them were still packaged, but the collector who bought them didn't want me to ship them in the bulky packaging, so a couple of those I opened I discovered one with bad paint, all spotted up, and another totally crazed with metal fatigue, as soon as I pulled the model out the hood gave out and fell right off, a number of others were good though....BTW, I informed the buyer, but he didn't care he still wanted them, so I added in a couple others just because those two RCs seemed worthless to me. Even though, I still have many, mostly police and fire, with a number of those open, but probably 50 other Mint's still packaged, I might be a little shy of ever opening them now though. I really like that 59 Ford truck of theirs, but it and other models I don't like the hoods not shutting, I thought they could have done better in this regard for the price. Edited by Douglas, Nov 7 2014, 06:49 PM.
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My RC collection does have some of those early Chase gold racing cars, I found a box of them last month while sorting through my diecasts in the basement. At any rate, period pieces are what they are, obviously as better diecast come out, I'll buy those, too, but I accept the condition of them as being what they were during the time period they were created. I do that for all my small-scale ( and large-scale ) cars, I like them for what they are, not how high-quality I wished they were. 

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