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%$#% ebay snipers

Well for one thing I was the high bidder for 4 days with no other bids placed, that is up until 5-10 seconds before the end of the Auction.

Secondly yes I am a builder but I have a special attachment to the Turbine car that goes back 40 years when my dad was in the processes of trying to test-drive one of the cars. I have been trying for decades to get my hands on a first edition of the kit. Why? Because the parts and quality of the moldings are far better then the later editions due to the molds being new and did not suffer deterioration.

The below link gives you a history of the kit and its various issues. I have built a model of the car and placed second at this past IPMS National convention. I had to part out three white box kits to get mine done due to the fact that the white box kits that are found on the market suffer from some serious quality issues that make some kits unbuildable.

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For those interested here is a link to some pics of my Turbine car.

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So if I am a bit miffed so be it. I'll get one soon or later.

Reply to
The Model Hobbit
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Chrysler made Turbine Car convertibles?

Reply to
Al Superczynski

I've never heard of one. There is one in private hands because it was on "My Classic Car" once. It was real cool to hear that car in action. As I heard it Jay Leno helped the owner acquire a turbine engine to put in the body he had.

Bill Banaszak, MFE

PS. Shame there wasn't a droptop. It'd have been a good looking car.

Reply to
Mad-Modeller

My bad...

I was thinking of some other car this guy had. (had to get my brother to remind me) Sorry but I was only five at the time.......

My neighbor was always bringing home some kind of weird new car. (last name was Reins)

He brought home some kind of concept car once, I think it was one of the concept Corvettes that they were thinking about. Thing looked like the Batmobile..... The front of it looked like a big pointed spear

Nice guy though, Always took all the neighborhood kid's for rides in every new car he brought home :) (he would get what seemed like dozens of them every year)

AM

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AM

in article -fWdnf61pMIGQ6LenZ2dnUVZ snipped-for-privacy@comcast.com, AM at snipped-for-privacy@comcast.net wrote on 10/2/05 8:20 AM:

Where did this neighbor work? I wonder if it was the GM Design studios?

Reply to
Bill Zuk

Nice job on the car !

Dont be miffed that someone else wanted it more than you. Just pony up more $$ next time.

Be forewarned that a friend of mine is looking also, and he is an eBay sniper extrodinare. You will not see him till the last second...............

You should also try yard sales. Thats where my brother got his first brown box Turbine car. (never seen another since) Also got quite a few 1/32 Hasegawa kit's for less than $1 apiece :)

AM

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AM

Jeff Barringer wrote: : : I'm losing about 1 in 3 auctions to snipers. There has got to be a more : sane way to find/buy oddball kits. : So download "jbidwatcher", and you can snipe too!

I like jbidwatcher for the following reasons:

1) I don't worry about when the auction ends. 3 AM or PM is all the same to me.

2) Nobody knows what I am bidding on/interested in until the snipe goes in. If you bid, I can search your ebay ID to see what you are bidding on. It is a good way to find items without having to search for them.

3) I don't have any regrets (well, not too many...) about the price. I consider what I am wiling to pay, and enter that as the snipe price.

4) I have no stimuli to increase my bid amount under "the heat of the moment". So, if I overpay for an item, I did it to myself. :-)

Note that jbidwatcher may not work too well for those of you running windoze or macs, since I am not sure how you can sync the time the machine thinks it is to a time server.

And, as has been pointed out, if your proxy bid is more than my snipe amount (proxy bid), you still win.

As for shipping, hey, ebay has _always_ been "caveat emptor", or "buyer beware". If you don't like the postage don't bid. If you don't see the postage, ask. And, don't count on ebay helping you out, as a buyer.

Bruce

Reply to
Bruce Burden

You mean your memory's as bad as mine? ;)

Reply to
Al Superczynski

It's worse......

Working on as many kit's now as I do, I wind up highlighting every step I do on a model on the instruction sheet and include the date.

At least when I come back to a kit, I have some idea where I left off. Of course this dosnt help with parts being scattered in different sized boxes everywhere.

Two steps forward, and one back will still get a model done, eventually..........

AM

Reply to
AM

In article , Al Superczynski wrote: what's his name?

what? were you speaking to me?

Reply to
e

Indeed, it begins to sound more like one of GM's Firebird Turbines. Were there big fins at the rear?

Bill Banaszak, MFE

Reply to
Mad-Modeller

I dont remember, I was five or six (remember the snow of '66) It was extremely low !

My friends name was Nikki Reins or Reighns I cant remember anymore. (dont know Dad's name) But the car's were cool until they moved away.

Werner Von Braun was also a neighbor, and he had an observatory dome in his backyard, which to a kid interested in astronomy was far more cool !! (I now have three telescopes, up to a C 11, G 11) Used to deliver papers to them.

AM

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AM

Oh, a kid! ;) I have about 11 years on you.

Doesn't help.

You had a dandy neighbourhood! Everybody in mine just had jobs. Pretty good things to have - but no excitement. I know there was a story on the Firebirds in "Collectible Auto" within the recent past. I'll have to dig in and see if any pics are scannable.

Bill Banaszak, MFE

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Mad-Modeller

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