I was all excited today! There was vendor at the local flea market with T-Jets!! WOO-HOO!! Then I looked closer at them.

First I picked up the tan Camaro. Poorly cut wheel wells, worn chrome, rusted screws. RATS!

Next I picked up the Toronado (always been one of my favorites). Again poorly cut wheelwells.

Looking at the brush paint jobs on the other cars and the $25 each sticker, I took this picture and walked away.

Marty

It's so rare to find t jets, then to have either junk or amibitious restoration projects put out at high prices....
I think it's more frustrating than not finding any at all.

Similar situation happened to me last month - t jets and AFX in a case at one of the "chain store" antique malls in Lake City FL! I just about fell out! Once I got in the case for a closer look.....

Black "Aurora" Willys body was cast and painted black, had casters mark on underside, and had cut down rear post to boot.
Decent but worn tow truck had a price tag of (!!!!!) $85! In non-original box represented as original by impatient clerk (who dropped two cars reaching into case, as I wasn't supposed to do that after it was unlocked).
Common color sand vans were both missing parts or had unoriginal drivers glued in, but "only" $39, each ($29 was scratched out).
I could go on, as there were more AFX and some Tyco stuff I had been looking for, but most all were missing something (that RRR doesn't make) or were just broken.

I will usually always buy something fixable or overpriced when given that kind of opportunity - in hand, and no shipping cost or waiting - $20 for a $10 item isn't so bad. But this was someone who knew what they were doing putting high prices on picked over and gutted culls. I didn't want to know what the chassis looked like inside, not that there was any way to tell.

I expect some stuff to be way overpriced at a place like this, but I hate it when stuff is misrepresented. Not like everything there was, but the clerk who unlocked this particular case could have cared less.

Walked away with nothing, and a lot less likely to stop at Webb's Antique Mall in Lake City next time through.

That's one thing I like about slot car shows, when I can get to them... beat-up stuff like you guys are describing is usually in the $1 box or pile...

--rick

Hehehehhe-

That all you found because I already bought the Batmobile, Black Mustang and Candy Corvette all at $25.00!!!

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