SHRINK WRAPPED Avante £1500 on Ebay
 

This still has 19 hours to go!:o

Whoever is willing to spend money on this needs to get out more....

man, that is so, so SAD... what's wrong with these people? It's still just a Tamiya for goodness sake...

These kind of saddo's will also collect their own bodily emissions...

Your opinion and their money, some people would spend more than double this on cigarettes and or alcohol in a year. I spend what feels like a fortune on my hobby so I would usually not berate others for spending what they wish on theirs.

it'll be an investment. think how much it will be worth in another 10-20 years?

it is a rare classic.

scrap that, have you seen the sand scorcher from the same seller going for £2500?!!!

he said the last one went for over 5k! Jesus, i thought Avante's were the auction daddies!

Scorchers are a win win, the Tamiya guys want them and the Beetle guys want them and they're not the top of the tree check out the value of NIB Porsche 934 Blacks. I don't think Avante's are even third on the wanted list, have a look at how much NIB 3 Speeds fetch (Original HiLux, Blazer, Bruiser and Mountaineer)

Hhmmm... somehow this thread has been hijacked by tamiya spotters and hardcore serious people...

what's it gonna be worth in 10-20 yrs...? jeez louise... it's supposed to be a plaything dude... get real... collectors suck!!!

How much have you spent on your race equipment, and how much is that lot going to be worth in a year? The Avante is going to be worth the same or usually even more. On that basis who is spending their money sensibly?

Just because some have an interest in the history of the hobby doesn't mean they are 'sad', I'm presuming you have never seen an Avante up close. Can I also assume you are one of the tiny minority only run an r/c car on a track? The majority of r/c bashers would consider it pretty sad to spend all day tweaking and tuning an r/c car for 25 minutes of running on a circuit, compared with spending hours jumping and bashing your car or truck.

If someone wants to collect NIB kits that's their choice, some buy them as an investment. Those with enough money buy them to build and run, to relive their memories of their first time with r/cs. Those who can't afford NIB will buy new builts or runners.
They don't interest me but I know they are a much better investment than the restored runners I have as I prefer to actually give mine a run every so often, based on the age it makes me more like a Sierra Cosworth owner who takes it out for a run every so often, although I presume you would consider that pretty 'sad' when the Cosworth owner could have a new Mondeo for a lot less money.:eh?:

I'm sure they are plenty here who consider anyone who runs touring cars as pretty sad.:p

Id buy it and post pics on the tamiya site of me opening it and building it , then running it at my local club .
Of course id recycle the cardboard box.;)

i run a touring car :mad::lol::p:p

Whooooaaaa... easy there.... my first RC was bought over 35 years ago.... 'n yes I HAVE seen an Avante close up, even driven 'n broken one... 'n like a lot of RC cars of that time 'n earlier it was a bag o' sh1te, cheap thermo plastic that you couldn't run in any ambient temperature lower than the summer of '76 without something snapping... (Kyosho were always better for winter running...) 'n yes I do run and tweak my TC chassis for 25 mins running, but when I'm not using it I can usually be found OUTSIDE (yes you heard right...) with my AE RC10 b2...(bought as built but never run...) or maybe even my Tamiya Fighter RX (bought unbuilt, MIB 2 summers back...) which I like to bash in the cul-de-sac or down on the un-tarmacced rugby club carpark... so come on guys, the RC manufacturers make our favourite things for us to play with... not to sit on a shelf appreciating in price... 'n BTW the true Sierra Cosworth (3 dr. moonstone blue...) was made as a LIMITED homologation run so it deserves to be preserved... it was not a millions produced plastic toy from Japan... I appreciate some things deserve to be saved... but a Tamiya Avante? Go get 'em out of the box 'n give 'em a run... that's what they are made for!!!

actually it was the sierra rs 500 that was a homologation special, bigger turbo and an extra 4 injectors,"not wired up" amongst other things.
and was available in white black and moonstone blue.

LOL... I'm with you on that one...!

BTW, did you read the question someone asked of the seller...? Priceless!!

I was gonna post that description but thought the Tamiya spotters wouldn't know what I was on about... ;)

Each to their own dude, most of us collectors/enthusiasts have cars that we run aswell as cars that we collect. For me, its not about the investment, its about owning the objects of my desire as a 12 year old kid on £7 a week paper round money :lol:. If you have got the money to collect NIB models and thats what you want to do, then i dont see a problem with it. I dont drive any of my vintage Tamiyas as i suspect that they look far better than they will drive compared to what i run today !

Cosworth - yes had one of those too as it happens back when i was a boy racer in 1997. Nothing but trouble as far as i remember - head gasket twice, turbo, hoses etc etc etc. It cost me £6k in 6 months and 6000 miles. That was just the depreciation - never mind running costs at 12 mpg when you booted it. Certainly less smiles per £ than i get from RC anyway !

ok, ok already... each to their own...

This is what makes this hobby so great... PASSION...

Anyway, its now 01-15 and it has stopped raining... I'm off outside to bash the xray... catch y'all tomorrow Tammy geeks...

Kyosho rules.... ;)

Ok you have fun with your XRay in the dark :eh?: :p :lol: :yawn:

Forgive me Sir if I am mistaken but you appear to be presenting yourself as a bit of an ignoramus and I am sure you will vehemently testify that this is not the case.

Opinions are all well and good but manifested in this manner are most definitely not diplomatic or understanding, please in future try to exercise some of these more desirable traits when sharing your personal feeling and beliefs of other peoples interests.

What did you expect, look at the title of the thread and the forum, maybe this is part of the problem, have you strayed from your zone of comfort, please stay and make an effort to better understand others.

To this ends you might like to visit this forum, you maybe surprised to learn that not just Tamiya attract "geeks":rolleyes:

http://www.rc10talk.com/


Kyosho have never ruled, Losi maybe, Schumacher once definitely and Associated on a number of occasions but Kyosho I don't think so:lol:

Once in 1987 with the Ultima I think, but apart from that I believe you are correct!

Yes now you mention it I'm happy to stand corrected, would that have been Joel Johnson with his "Ultima":lol: