Show Rod Model Kits. Scotty Gosson

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       Pitching Right-Brain Concepts to Left-Brain Management

       Chapter Five: Collectibility in Today’s Marketplace

       2014 Pricing Factors

       Large-Scale Competition—You’re Not Alone

       Chapter Six: The Model Hunter

       What’s Out There and Where to Find It

       James Bond Aston-Martin DB-5

       1958 Thunderbird

       1965 Pontiac Bonneville

       Cougar II

       Fireball 500

       Black Beauty

       Magnum GT II

       The Man from U.N.C.L.E.

       The Bed Buggy

       Beverly Hillbillies Television Truck

       Super Teen Firebird

       Boob Tube

       Bathtub Buggy

       Badman 1955 Chevy

       Bed Bug

       Milk Truck

       Barnabas Vampire Van

       Vending Machine

       Moon Mixer

       Jolly Rodger

       Baja Beast

       Darracq

       Bad Medicine

       Laramie Stage Ghost

       Trick T

       Li’l Gasser

       Station Wagon Buggy

       S’cool Bus

       Gridiron Grabber

       Der Beetle Bus

       Groovy Grader

       Horn Toad

       Lug Bug!

       Dog Catcher

       Der Volks Van

       Flying Dutchman

       Creepy T/Mummy Machine/Night Crawler

       Firecracker

       Bugaboo!

       Cosmic Charger

       Flameout

       Li’l Gypsy Wagon

       Depth Charger

       Scorpion

       ’27 Street Rod T

       Canned Heat

       Rattler

       Space: 1999 The Alien

       SuperVan

       Beatnik Bandit II

       RC Cola Wagon

       Collecting Connections

       Does Competition Improve the Breed?

       Conclusion

       Chapter Seven: Scratch-Built Renegades

       Street-Level Suppliers to the Glue Huffers

       Greg Wann

       Don Holthaus

       Other Enablers

       Epilogue: Speeding Forward with One Eye on the Mirror

Foreword

       by John Greczula

       Model Kit Development Director, Round 2

      As a show rod fan, it really has come full circle for me over the course of nearly four decades. I’ve been on both sides of the fence: first, the excitable kid, crazy about building and collecting models. Now, so many years later, I’m a person in charge of planning nearly every detail in the preproduction and manufacturing of some of the very same kits I enjoyed all those years ago.

      I became “hooked on plastic” in the 1970s when a cousin introduced me to a new local hobby shop and the excitement of building models. Soon after, my tastes began to focus and no longer would just any old model car do. I wanted the wildest kits with mod exposed motors and cool deep-dish mag wheels. The ones with eye-poppin’ box art in vibrant color that practically leaped off the hobby shop shelves. I quickly began consuming a steady diet of Tom Daniel–designed kits, produced by Monogram. Bad Medicine, Tijuana Taxi, Dog Catcher, Cherry Bomb, T’rantula, S’cool Bus, and others all beckoned and I responded! However, I was far from a brand snob and my interest continued to grow. Show rod models from just about every manufacturer began to overflow from my bedroom closet during the 1980s, as collecting interests overtook building. By late in the decade, I had learned the whereabouts of Tom Daniel himself and began corresponding with him regularly.

      I WAS INTERESTED IN ONLY ONE THING:

       SHOW RODS

      In the early 1990s, many of the older model-collecting peers I had found didn’t take me seriously. They’d allow me to travel with them to the Toledo Toy Fair, held at the Lucas County Recreation Center in Maumee, Ohio, several times a year. But they thought it was ridiculous that when the doors opened and the mad scramble to find collectible treasures in plastic ensued, I was interested in only one thing: show rods. What could possibly possess me to want to collect such silly and outlandish kits, when there were valuable and desirable models such as AMT 3-in-1 annuals to be had? We all have our vices, as they say, and the show rod compulsion had an unshakeable hold on me.

      After attending more and more toy shows, I became interested in the different variations and issues of the show rod kits I was collecting. I began making contact with others who had similar interests and assimilated as much information on the subject as I could. I even went so far as to visit СКАЧАТЬ