Vintage japanese kits (where ARE they?)

[Ansel Marrow]

Im working on a series of 5 cars, the history of japanese motorsports. no big deal, i have a 240z, a 2000gt skyline, 1600 celica, and i PLANNED on buying a mazda cosmo sport and a few older imports (HAS to be japanese and not another of the car brands i have already(yes i know nissan is datsun but yeah)). but the cosmo is gone, and i might have to settle for a widebody 83' RX7.

Anyways, i am looking for sites selling discontinued kits, from the 1960-1975 era of japanese cars, preferrably some hondas or older cars signifigant to japanese racing history. If bad comes to worse ill buy a toyota 2000gt and a later model skyline. Any suggestions of what models to include would be great also.

[hks_kansei]

only place i can recommend is EBAY. (but i've heard bad stories about the sellers where it says "ships from Hong Kong")


BTW: what about an early Mitsu Cordia? (don't know if there's a model of it though)

[Ansel Marrow]

ill do a search. im REALLY antsy about paying 50 something thru paypal to hong kong or signapore. feedback makes me feel better, but i still get worried.

WHERE CAN I GET AN OLD COROLLA? i see them alot on here...

[7th_skyline]

Have you been to http://www.hlj.com or even hobbyworld?
HLJ normally has quite a few of the "old school" models, and the fujimi TE27 Levin (corolla, early 70's) is far from uncommon.
Nichimo and Arii make some less common ones - 1800SSS bluebird (610), RX3 and so on.

[Bobble83]

Well i have payed nearly £100 thru paypal on Ebay to Hong Kong. Good guy on ebay is in the stores section Tomchina. very nice guy. he found the instructions for my 99t were missing so he knocked a load off it fo me. try him he sells all sorts

[Layla's Keeper]

Is this the kit you're after?

http://www.1999.co.jp/asp/GoodsDetai...op_right_e.asp

Or perhaps this?

http://www.1999.co.jp/asp/GoodsDetai...op_right_e.asp

I would also suggest building a BRE Datsun 510, a Mazda 787B, and the Honda RA272 formula one car.

[Ansel Marrow]

787b is too modern, but that racing cosmo was the exact car i was looking for. thanks for the links, i have been browsing HLJ for hours today.

[baggish]

There is the Tamiya Honda S800, and Hasegawa do/did the early 70s Levin/Corolla, in rally spec at least (Mikkola?).

I've never had a problem with the Hong Kong ebay sellers, although I've only dealt with the smaller ones.

Jon

[Rtuned]

I got some very old car for sale too...PM me if you are interested in these car like... '73 Cherry, 70's Mitsubishi Colt, bluebird and Subaru Leon. All are by Doyusha NH series. Batteries based. I had build some last year.

[imeonic]

http://stores.ebay.com/Toycup_Plasti...QQftidZ2QQtZkm

http://stores.ebay.com/tamiyatomchina

http://stores.ebay.com/Tamiya-Super-Store