Ferrari Mailing List: Re: more models....

[George (ygpz4re]

Lashdeep,

Your comment brings back some memories.  When I lived in Laurel, my apartment was broken into and the rat-bastard thief stole two 1/8 Pocher Ferraris I had built (TR and F40).  Insurance settled on about $1200 each, and I bought another Pocher kit - Alfa Romeo 8C 2300 Monza, for about $400.

This kit was incredible - real museum quality.  Crank/pistons moved inside the engine, lights were wired to work off a tiny battery hidden in the model (and the lights went on/off with the light switch on the dashboard!), brakes worked, and wire wheels were built spoke-by-spoke.

Needless to say, this kit was stashed while I built other things, hoping to beef up my modeling skills until I was ready for this very serious challenge.  And then ebay came along.  One day I saw this same kit sell for well over a grand on ebay, so I took some photos, put mine up there, and also got well over a grand for it!  I think I did well - I've seen them recently for under a grand.

Still not sure if I ever would have gotten past building the wire wheels!

gp

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From: Lashdeep Singh <lashdeep [at] yahoo.com>

Are these the ones that are routinely $400 plus on ebay?

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