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Locoboy5150

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Wow that's crazy!

Shipping isn't even included either. The seller's estimated cost of $130 for shipping seems very high to me. I just had an extremely large and heavy LGB locomotive mailed to me from across the USA and it only cost me around $40 including insurance. That locomotive box was much longer and heavier than a Hilux too.

Life on the other side of the tracks must be pretty good to be able to afford that. :)
 
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truckerbuddy2

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i saw one in one of the ebay seller stors Tamiya-RC MIB kit for i think 2 grand. thats crazy high. i wonder what makes it that special? are they really getting that rare?
 
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shodog

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shipping is so high because it's coming from Hawaii. My aunt lives in Oahu and when she sends us stuff it cost substantially more than mainland postage costs
 
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william g

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that is higher than any other I've seen
the 130 shipping from HI is probably close, it's crazy pricing over there.
Almost everything in HI is expensive because of shipping to or from the mainland.
 
Electrohacker

Electrohacker

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nothing i haven't seen before... people like 3 speeds and the newer the better, unfortunately that one will probably be built
 
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Spoon37

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true.. but I'd like to have enough money to be able to buy old kits like that and build them..... for me the building process is part of the fun, its not quite the same buying someone else's truck and re-building/restoring it...

:truck
 
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4wdmt

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I always see that ebay member bid on NIB 3 speeder. I just couldnt imagine how many NIBs or 3 speed he owns now.
 
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shodog

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If I bought that truck it would stay NIB. Just as much as I would get a kick out of building it, I would like it better all pristine in the box.

This is the reason i still have my sand scorcher NIB after three years of ownership.

Spoon, I disagree about your restoring comment. I think it's more fun to take some piece of carp strip it down to the core and rebuild it up beautifully. To me its a bit anticlimatic to build a car from new parts.
 
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Spoon37

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oh dont get me wrong, I'll happily restore something to get a nice ride out of a basket case(thats how I got my Sandscorcher, Grasshopper and now Monster beetle), but I really love the way a good Tamiya kit just falls together as you build it, certainly ones with alot of parts like a Juggernaut 2 are really satisfying.

Also I've had a few which arent really collectible or rare like a few TA03's where I thoroughly clean and rebuild it to get it 'just so' to suit me, but I get a bit tired of cleaning off other peoples dirt....like they couldnt have cleaned it before they sold it? :roll

but thats me, everyones entitled to an opinion... :)

:truck
 
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outcastrc

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Only if I won the lottery... Then I would tear it apart and build it just because thats what it was made for! :)
 
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tetsulo

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This is all just proof that you need both types of folks in the hobby. Those that collect them and sell them later NIB allow the folks who like to buy NIB and build models that they otherwise couldn't.

I'm with Shodog -- I love picking up the beaters and making them beautiful again. He's far better at it than I am though. I'm working on restoring a JRX2 right now -- it'll never be pristine but it'll be accurate and reflect the time period from whence it came. It'll look great sitting beside my RC10 Graphite edition that I recently overhauled.
 
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4wdmod

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holy crap is an understatement!, i once seen mountaineers clearanced for $199, boy i wished i had bought a few grand worth of those bad boys, mark.
 
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