I'm reminded of a trip west of Fort Worth I took recently(local Mustang Club visit to revisit the Blue Oval Car Barn collection in Mineral Wells -- major collection of '71 Mustangs, with some other miscellaneous Ford muscle cars thrown in...but I digress).

Anyhoo, I stopped off to visit an antique mall on the way back to Fort Worth. The last time I was there, there was a set of '67 Ford wheelcovers there. Forgot the price, but my brain was working out a deal to flip them to someone else (the wheelcovers were used on the 7-Litres...and some Shelby Mustangs in '67). Alas, the covers were gone (my last visit to that store WAS in 2022 or so...) Museum trip was on a Saturday....and I got there five minutes before closing. They told me they were open tomorrow, so I made the 35-minute trip back out there the next day.

Another vendor had some sealed model car boxes there. Looking at the plastic, it was apparent they were resealed (different plastic type, and not the same type of factory sealing). The odd thing was that the boxes felt like...someone wrapped a built kit in a paper towel, then sealed the box with the wrapped kit inside. It didn't feel like a box full of loaded sprues.

Two 'generations' of the Revellogram '65 Mustang, a Revell 2005 Mustang GT, a Lindberg reissue of the old '63 Mustang II concept car, and another Revellogram kit, the '67 Corvette. Recall each kit was $20 or so.

Didn't buy any of them because of the "issue" mentioned above.