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AutomobiliaDarrenW
@darrenw
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...what do you collect?
I've recently been buying model cars on eBay - models of the sorts of things I'd love to own for real but will never have the time, space or money... Not mint-in-box-expensive ones but ratty 99p jobbies... Got a nice collection of Mk1 Golfs coming along, couple of Cortinas etc...
Then there's the magazines... Stacks and stacks of them EVERYWHERE... God knows how many, but it's a serious potential fire hazard ;D
And the brochures... from about 1977 to the present day, cupboards full of 'em...
What about you? PLEASE tell me I'm not the only one!
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A few years ago I bought a a big box of 60's and 70's Car Mechanics and Hot car mags from a car boot sale for £2..... sold one issue of Hot Car for £10 to a guy who wanted it because it had his car (a 'Dri-sleeve' Bugati replica) on the cover..... Still got a load of Street Machine and Custom Car mags rom the 80's and 90's, and all bar about 10 issues of Practical Classics Got a load of models, including about 250 Peugeots, which I started collecting when I had my 504. I still buy models that catch my eye, mainly custom vehicles now, Hot Wheels Ect. (got a cool '49 Ford kustom from Wilkinsons, of all places, the other day) Got loads of manuals, some I've kept when I sold a car, some I've bought because..... well, just because, really ;D Did have quite a few handbooks and brochures, but sold most of them on Ebay....
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... the only injury I sustained was a bumped head when I let the seatbelt of without realizing the car was upside down and that's not really the car's fault.
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oho! Fear not Darren, for I too am deeply afflicted with the automobila bug. Where shall I start? over 4000 brochures from the 70's, 80's and 90's, 1000's of car magazines, inc 70's copies of Autocar, motor, car etc, thousands of photgraphs, more than twice my body weight in books and my real weak spot thousand, upon thousands of toys cars. I have too many. I really do - and they're mostly bread and butter cars from the seventies and eighties. Below are some Datsuns, but I have pretty much entire model ranges, ie entire ford ranges from 70's, Solido Renault/Peugeot 4,5,12,14,17,30,104,304,305,204,205,505,504,604 etc It can be a tidy investment too, I sold a neat italian job box set with the Bedford val coach and 3 minis recently. I paid 25.00 for it new in 1999 which i grumbled at.....its worth a quite a it more now. i've been collecting this stuff for 15 years (nearly all of it stored in my parnets house), but since Ebay getting hold of things have been a lot easier if a bit expensive due to the sheer choice. Let the good times roll. Can you image a life without Ebay?
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Davenger
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It's only metal
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AutomobiliaDavenger
@dminifreak
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I've got stacks of magazines, mostly miniworld going back as far as the second issue summer 1992. Got loads of parctical classics and CCC too ;D
Most of the time I spend at autojumbles if for mini parts or wierd/cool bits that can be modified and fitted to my mini
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I've got plenty of magazines...mostly CC and SM, I recently offloaded most of my Practical Classics mags though. I need a copy of Retro Cars issue one to complete my (ongoing) collection. I did have loads of mags at my Mum's house, but when I went to get them their condition was appalling and I threw most of them away. I've got a Hot Wheels collection (just over 100) which I've built up recently, just by 'accidently' buying one or two when I'm in the supermarket.
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Higgim
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Presumably like everyone on here I had an enviable collection of matchbox / corgi cars as a kid. Wish I had thought on though as a bout of teenage arsony destroyed the majority of them. My favourites were a Matchbox 260Z, a Majorette Renault 18 Taxi (complete with plastic passengers) and the corgi capri with the opening bonnet (from the Proffessionals). These were all the small 1/64 scale. I haven't got much stashed away at the moment having moved house a couple of times and having to downsize the collection of magazines etc.
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AutomobiliaDarrenW
@darrenw
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That's an impressive collection of models!! It's good to know I'm in such good company... I must downsize my magazine collection at some point: CAR - 1984-now and loads of 60s and 70s issues CCC - 1982 - 2003 and LOADS of 70s issues Street Machine - about 50 issues Practical Classics - about 70 issues Autocar and Motor - a couple of hundred from the 60s and 70s Classics, Classic & Sportscar - good few hundred Retro (not Retro Cars ;D ) - Every issue Retro Cars, PPC - Every issue Mini World - Issue 1 up until about 1998 Plus maybe 500 others - a random assortment of old What Car?, Autosport, Motor Sport, Custom Car etc etc etc...
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Stu
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Yep, me too! Loads of mags, brochures, model cars (mostly vw's), I can't help it either - you just see things you have to have! Could be worse I suppose, my Dad just collects real vw's and not models, they take up a lot of space!
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'89 BMW E30 325i Sport, '04 MINI Cooper S, '09 Volvo V70 D5
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I used to have loads of old car mags until I was forced to cull the majority of them . Part of the problem is that they have to share space with various boat mags, which really have to take priority as they are not just hobby but also work related. As for model cars, not much of a collection but just of cars that I'd like to have the full size versions ;D. Of the top of my head, that's a white '70 Challenger (Vanishing Point), Roadrunner Superbird, Dukes Of Hazzard Charger, '58 Fury (Christine), Tucker, Big Healey, '34 Packard.... all at 1:18, as these tend to be not that much more than the 1:43, but for much more detail . Not much in the way of brochures, except for the cars that I own, and anything interesting that's Riley related
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You are never alone! I weeded through my magazines when I bought a house years ago. Mostly all gone in the bin since! Model cars everywhere though. I restore Corgi and Matchbox cars and even occasionally build a plastic kit. The famous Terry Ross has all his Street Machine project models in display cases in the lounge! imagine being allowed to do that!!
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Peugeot 307sw - Suzuki SV650S - MX5.
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I weeded through my magazines when I bought a house years ago. ...and gave some to me...thanks mate!
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RetroMat
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I've go a load of rubbish filling up my garage too, mostly magazines like top gear etc from the mid 90's and loads of brochures from around 1990 (got them every time my dad got a new company car)
i did this too with a hammer most of them had been converted into pick ups or convertibles before hand, but i still have a box full.
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Last Edit: Aug 4, 2004 18:21:38 GMT by RetroMat
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Funny you should say that....I've been buying one a week at my local supermarket. The girls behind the till probabily think I'm a good father.... and heres a few more I've picked up over the last 6 months......usually very cheaply too. I don't believe in pay stupid amounts of cash for them!
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I still have all the old models that I started getting as a kid due to taking any destructive moods out on my brother instead of on my models! ;D Although I was bloody raging that I had to get rid of all my old magazines when we moved house, they were mostly from the 90s, but I had the odd one from the 80s too, mostly classic mags or copies of Street Machine.
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"He's not the messiah, he's a very naughty boy!"
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