1/43 car kits used to be fairly popular in the 1980s, but seem to have disappeared. Valley Plaza was a good source. Has 1/43 gone the way of the dinosuars?

try www.little-cars.com or www.grandprixmodels.com

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As you look about you WILL find a number of outlets both in the US and overseas. Do a search under 1/43 in Ebay, that will keep you busy.

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Still a few 43rd kits around. Mostly European. Italy, France and the UK mostly. Nothing like the good old days of the 80s but there are still many nice kits being released yearly. Tameo, BBR, Marsh, Meri, and many others, both old and new, producing new kits.

Most kits are now in the $80-100+ US range tho!

Ready-builts/diecasts, royalty/licensing greed, along w/ hyper cheap PRC slave labor, have all helped to 'kill' the good old days of 30-40 new resin/metal kits a month.

I still manage to buy 1-2 new kits monthly from GPM and still more old kits via eBay. Lots of baby boomers selling off their massive collections of unbuilts before they drop. Wives/girlfriends will just dump them for pennies on the dollar afterwards.

Purchases w/ GPM take 4-5 days via very fair airmail s/h rates to the US West Coast. Many items are backordered but they always come through. Pound/buck rates kinda stink tho nowadays.

Btw, VPH 'died' some (5++) yrs ago. Sad. Nice bunch and their prices, at least for reg customers, were great. Use to always drop by their later Carson City outpost at least once during the Tahoe ski season. Also visited their early N.Hollywood shop many times whenever I was in SoCal. The rest of the yr I used their very speedy mail service.

Anyone know what happened to them?