Luckily, my boating, fishing, shooting, and race car hobbies allow me to retain my man card.
And who are you calling old? While its becoming painfully obvious that I'm not young anymore, I'm still a ways away from old.
Luckily, my boating, fishing, shooting, and race car hobbies allow me to retain my man card.
Is that working out? If so how?Lowgear wrote: ↑Fri Aug 20, 2021 1:30 am After reading through this thread, I'm apparently in the minority. All I seem to care about owning are shelf queens. My requirements are they have to be in overall excellent condition, and be complete. It's a bonus if they have electronics but it's not a requirement. It doesn't matter if they still work or not. The enjoyment I get out of R/C these days is as them being static models that could be driven. With that being the case, most of what I'm into is rare, obscure, one-of-a-kind, etc... So it would be a really bad idea to run them. I know this word is disliked but a lot of what I own is also looked at as an investment. I never buy things with the sole intention of flipping them for a profit down the road, but I enjoy winning items off eBay for far less than what I know their future worth will be. I mean who doesn't like owning something they paid $100 for that's worth $500+ a few years later?
I concur with the guys saying this. I don't consider a project complete unless it has functioning electronics installed and a painted body mounted, regardless of whether or not it's going to be run.
I mentioned that one of the requirements for me is that my shelf queens have to be in excellent condition but I failed to think about the couple of "time capsule" models I have. When I get to them, it will only be to do a light restoration/cleanup as to not hurt their historical significance.
The investment part? Really well. Unless it's something I absolutely must have which is rare, I never pay the retail price for vintage R/C stuff. I don't have that kind of money too! I set a price I'm willing to pay for something which I know is far less than what I can get for whatever it is down the road if it comes to that, and I don't go over. If I win, great! If I lose, I'm usually happy I saved my money until another item pops up I want to buy. If you're patient enough, there's still some amazing eBay deals to be had. Mainly from people who don't know what they have such as sellers who buy out entire estates. Unfortunately though, as we all know, such deals are getting harder and harder to come by.
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