F60's Kyosho Ferrari Collection - Early to Late

Saturday, December 8, 2018

F60's Kyosho Ferrari Collection - Early to Late

1/64 miniature cars.

Dino & V8 MR Ferrari. pic.twitter.com/bUAK2BSn8u

— F60 (@F60BB) December 1, 2018

I don't have overabundance of Kyoshos in my collection, but there are lot of Kyosho collectors out there & for good reason. Hot Wheels, the indisputable champs of 1/64 market, as popular as they are, they don't qualify as "scale models" to many 1/64 minicar collectors. TLVs, while they are now barely about to get their feet wet with exotics/supercars, they focused heavily, maybe nearly exclusively on everyday JDM cars.

Today, I want to share photos from F60. Collector of almost all cars 1/64 I befriended on Twitter. His tweets of Kyosho Ferraris caught my eye, because he wanted to showcase some "old" versus "new". I'll just let the pictures do the talking here.

kyosho design change new old early late models

kyosho ferrari minicar dino new vs old early vs late design change update

Here, the difference is night & day. I don't think it's so much that old Kyoshos are so horrible. The later model Kyoshos are very well designed & crafted.

kyosho ferrari new old early late design update models

Here you can see the original 308 versus the remake. New looks so refined!

kyosho ferrari minicar 308 new old early late design update change

kyosho ferrari minicar new old early late design update

kyosho ferrari minicar f40 early new old versus late model design

This remake F40 in red is something I've wanted for long time. Unfortunately, on eBay, other collectors are always willing to pay more. I'm just glad that Tomytec/TLV is getting in the mix.