{"id":15681,"date":"2023-04-19T08:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-04-19T11:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.w-143.com\/?p=15681"},"modified":"2023-04-19T09:28:05","modified_gmt":"2023-04-19T12:28:05","slug":"disappointed-with-spark","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.w-143.com\/index.php\/2023\/04\/19\/disappointed-with-spark\/","title":{"rendered":"Disappointed with Spark"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

By now, it is more than obvious that I’m a H-U-G-E Spark fanboy. Well yes, the brand makes some friggentastic models in 1:43, for a (somewhat?) affordable price. In fact, I’m almost at the point where I buy the model first and only ask questions later. Earlier this week I found a very rare one that is a must buy for me. One of the 1973 911 Carrera RSR Martini <\/strong>cars.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Image courtesy of eBay.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

If you look closely, you will see that there’s no wing mirror. And yes, the real car had<\/em> a wing mirror on the left side<\/a>. Well, sometimes manufacturers can make mistakes, I know that. However, how the blazes did Spark get the #46<\/a> car right and make such a gross a mistake on the #47 \ud83d\ude23? <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Both these models, the #46 and #47 cars, are nowadays VERY rare, and to me personally a must buy. One of those models that unless Spark reissues them, I probably would never have. And then, out of the blue, I find locally (!) a mint #47 for cheap! Of course I bought it on the spot. However, right after I bought it, while looking over the seller’s pictures, I noticed it didn’t have the mirror. Oh crap, I bought a defective model – I knew it was too good to be true! I then did some research and to my surprise Spark didn’t make it with the mirror. So just a few minutes after hitting the BIN button I canceled the purchase. Boogers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I know I shouldn’t get my panties in a bunch for this, yet… Finding a sought after model for cheap and then learning it’s wrong is REALLY disappointing. Honestly, I expected MUCH better from Spark \ud83d\ude44.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

By now, it is more than obvious that I’m a H-U-G-E Spark fanboy. Well yes, the brand makes some friggentastic models in 1:43, for a (somewhat?) affordable price. In fact, I’m almost at the point where I buy the model first and only ask questions later. Earlier this week I found a very rare one … Continue reading “Disappointed with Spark”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"image","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15681","post","type-post","status-publish","format-image","hentry","category-collectors-corner","post_format-post-format-image"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.w-143.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15681","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.w-143.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.w-143.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.w-143.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.w-143.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15681"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/www.w-143.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15681\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15695,"href":"https:\/\/www.w-143.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15681\/revisions\/15695"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.w-143.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15681"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.w-143.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15681"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.w-143.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15681"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}