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A old trick with small diecast for years is to
steam them open. Just get a old whistling hot kettle and let it go it will take
the factory glue off easily. Not sure why people would do that except to maybe
put a inferior diecast in there and keep the original mint one for themselves
perhaps. With the bigger ERTL ones, there is a company called Tommy's Toys
that would take these cars, and turn them into 'junkyard' or '1 of 25' for about
$20 a model, like custom paint and body, such as a California 500 aMX for
instance. Then professionally reseal them, number them and send them back to
you. Then you drop them on ebay and watch people bid them up to $450 (true
story). For awhile, Ebay was littered with these. Some were worth buying, others
you wondered why the people trashed the toy and no one bid, or wanted it. Some
other fought over like Katrina refugees in a FEMA line at the Astrodome. I
would guess that all of them, especially those that people gambled on and had
altered, whether low 1 of 25, or high 1 of 100, are long since in the hands of
private collectors
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