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Anybody here collect model cars?

I do... I have about $250 worth of 1:18 scale model cars and a couple hundred Matchbox and Hotwheel model cars... My pictures will come tomorrow... Post yours here!

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  • JimnightJimnight Posts: 10,592 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Never did.

  • spirityoda1spirityoda1 Posts: 272 ✭✭✭✭
    edited April 10, 2021 11:38PM

    Some Hot Wheels... 1/64 scale.








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  • spirityoda1spirityoda1 Posts: 272 ✭✭✭✭

    Did you get the coins I sent you ?

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  • JimnightJimnight Posts: 10,592 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Nice cars!

  • spirityoda1spirityoda1 Posts: 272 ✭✭✭✭

    cool cars

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  • spirityoda1spirityoda1 Posts: 272 ✭✭✭✭

    Is the 2nd car a Mclaran ?

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  • calgolddivercalgolddiver Posts: 1,310 ✭✭✭✭✭

    I have about 20-30 Matchbox "yesteryear" series. and these ...

    Top 25 Type Set 1792 to present

    Top 10 Cal Fractional Type Set

    successful BST with Ankurj, BigAl, Bullsitter, CommemKing, DCW(7), Elmerfusterpuck, Joelewis, Mach1ne, Minuteman810430, Modcrewman, Nankraut, Nederveit2, Philographer(5), Realgator, Silverpop, SurfinxHI, TomB and Yorkshireman(3)

  • calgolddivercalgolddiver Posts: 1,310 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @DarkRage666 Yes to your above question and yes to your recommendation

    Top 25 Type Set 1792 to present

    Top 10 Cal Fractional Type Set

    successful BST with Ankurj, BigAl, Bullsitter, CommemKing, DCW(7), Elmerfusterpuck, Joelewis, Mach1ne, Minuteman810430, Modcrewman, Nankraut, Nederveit2, Philographer(5), Realgator, Silverpop, SurfinxHI, TomB and Yorkshireman(3)

  • I'm jealous... of the nice cars & I really want the 'dealership' 1:18 model of my cheap car, but it seems difficult to buy and impossible in my color. :'(

    T. Whitmeyer
    Front-end Developer, Collectors Universe

  • spirityoda1spirityoda1 Posts: 272 ✭✭✭✭

    More of my Hot Wheels 1/64 scale....








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  • spirityoda1spirityoda1 Posts: 272 ✭✭✭✭





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  • spirityoda1spirityoda1 Posts: 272 ✭✭✭✭

    My dream car Lambo Sesto Elemento...

    others Lambos I like...

    Mclaran...

    Coolest concept car..

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  • @DarkRage666 said:

    @twhitmeyer said:
    I'm jealous... of the nice cars & I really want the 'dealership' 1:18 model of my cheap car, but it seems difficult to buy and impossible in my color. :'(

    What model? color?

    It's just a lame (but fun) Hyundai Kona (orange) - nothing like the beautiful real and models you all have posted (drool) - but I really think the dealership models in 1/18th scale are awesome with a lot of working details. Unsure if I'd try to buy some for cars I don't own... I collect enough things, probably healthy not to add one more no matter how fun. There are a couple people in the office here with Hot Wheels, though.

    T. Whitmeyer
    Front-end Developer, Collectors Universe

  • JBKJBK Posts: 14,241 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited April 14, 2021 2:48AM

    When I was a kid I had a futuristic-looking Matchbox (still have it somewhere) and many years later they reissued it and I was able to buy my young nephew the same car. I thought that was kind of neat.

    I am pretty sure it is the green car in the lower left corner in this @spirityoda1 photo.

  • BillyKingsleyBillyKingsley Posts: 2,661 ✭✭✭✭

    Yes, my main hobby. I have been collecting diecast replicas since Christmas 1985, focusing on NASCAR since 1992.

    1/64 exclusively, I lost track of how many I had exactly somewhere around 11,000 different cars. And that was a decade ago.

    I also build plastic models...one of mine is currently visible in the most recent Model Cars Magazine. So recent I don't even have a copy of it yet.

    Billy Kingsley ANA R-3146356 Cardboard History // Numismatic History
  • YQQYQQ Posts: 3,239 ✭✭✭✭✭

    I know a lady who has several hundred mini bikes, most still in the original boxes. her deceased HB was the collector.
    she says nobody wants to by them

    Today is the first day of the rest of my life
  • spirityoda1spirityoda1 Posts: 272 ✭✭✭✭

    Tell her to sell them on Ebay.

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  • spirityoda1spirityoda1 Posts: 272 ✭✭✭✭

    @BillyKingsley 11,000 cars wow. Can we see pics of your whole collection. That would be cool to see.

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  • spirityoda1spirityoda1 Posts: 272 ✭✭✭✭

    @JBK that car is called Twin Mill. When I was way young and had original red lines I had that car and played with them. Who knew they would be worth good money down the road in mint state.

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  • BillyKingsleyBillyKingsley Posts: 2,661 ✭✭✭✭

    I have them fully photo documented on my website https://public.fotki.com/ElCaminoBilly/diecast/

    Billy Kingsley ANA R-3146356 Cardboard History // Numismatic History
  • YQQYQQ Posts: 3,239 ✭✭✭✭✭

    the lady is 84!
    and no, I will not sell them for here.

    Today is the first day of the rest of my life
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