John2,
Yeah, I can remember various kits on the shelves, but could not tell you the exact year....LOL
All of these hobby shops were in the Los Angeles/Orange county areas, as I lived not far from the LA/Orange county borders...
I remember because I did not buy some of the kits, as they would take too much "work" to make them into the race cars i was into at that time.
In particular, one of the hobby shops when I first discovered it, not only did it have a huge selection of kits, it also had a huge slot car track. Though that was gone a year or so later, making more room for kits and other hobby related items. There were other smaller hobby shops I would track down, some by finding them in the yellow pages.
One of those odd trips netted me 2 GK sprint kits, when they were getting hard to find, even back then......remember I had to talk myself into buying both of them.....LOL
Though, by 1979/1980 I was getting burned out.....a lot of kits that I bought around that time were never built and tossed (No internet to sell them on.) Even some that were started, were disposed of in the dumpster.
Then a move at the beginning of 1981 more or less sealed the fate of other partial builds. No longer had the room to build......Tried a comeback in 1986/87, but that only netted me to finished builds, those being the 1st to Monogram sprints. Other kits were bought and started, but only 2 of those unfinished builds have survived....
