I like the old steel / chrome delership nameplates they put on cars bck in the day I prefer ones that are Mopar related and upper midwest is best Holy Grail for me would be MOTOR INN GARAGE, CENTERVILLE,SD
im a pack rat... guess i learned it from my mom as a kid. i collect vintage radios, old cameras and accessories, old hats, vintage patches, and ive started collecting old motorcycle helmets.
Breeder! Great striped stuff in your living room! Totally bitchin'! Chad! Incredible tools! I just had an elderly patient of mine give me several boxes of old tools that belonged to HIS father! Most are at least 85 years old according to him! Mostly wood working stuff, big-ass hand drills and the like. Also some huge old wrenches! I am currently "UN-collecting".....kind of.....My house is so full of all kinds of crap it ain't funny. My wife aned I are going to a huge antique show tomorrow. Last year I bought a hand grenade there. She collects glass stuff. I collect just about anything else, and have my whole life! The upside of being this packrat, is that if you keep anything long enough, and know what to buy, you can make a shitload of money when you decide to sell it! When I started building my hotrod, I sold some of my rare Hot Wheels cars to get started. Then sold some of my rare model kits, and then some slot cars. I made about 7K in two months of peddling it on ebay. I never missed any of it, and I have the car to drive everyday to show for it! I still love tiki stuff, Roth/Rat Fink, models, have some strange fetish for bottle openers too. In all honestly, I have in my possesion, some of what just about every one of you posted in this thread! Here's a few things from home and my office......
Oil cans, toy cars ( new and old ), BB guns, almost everything but money......except for foreign currency from my travels.
Cool thread. I collect the miniature brass and pewter souveneirs from touristy sites like Washington Monument, Golden Gate Bridge, etc.. I get them on my travels. So far, it's mostly D.C., Cali, NY, England and Germany. Like this...
mostly camping gear 8 backpacks 5 tents 11 dutch ovens 3 coleman cook stoves lots of boyscout stuff (event stuff) and old tools and knives of interest small strange shaped ones especially
I have three Pocher F40's - two red ones and a rare yellow model. Always been into trains. Model cars. Art Original Vintage Tattoo Flash Obscure speed parts. Cars
axeman39 great collection of dogs boxers are good pooches and the old collection s of tools and distributors and toy cars were cool to , all i collect is dust lol
I dont think i've even heard of the yellow F40! I have an early Benz 500k 4-seater, bought from someone here actually. Pochers are neat cars, the subject matter, but also how they're put together. I'd really like to trade my Benz for the Volvo truck. Priorities have changed over the last year or so!
Todays addition to my UN-collecting....... 1 kool old toy dispensing machine, 1 way kool vintage fez (10 bucks!), 1 brand new Starr products Coca-Cola bottle opener new and in the orig. box, and one 74' issue of Cartoons. I also got a small iron cross pendant for 25 cents. My wife bought more glassware of assorted vintage.
Used to collect car magazines. Had over 6,000 magazines from the early '70s to the early 2000s, then a tornado ruined every one of them. Now, I collect various diecast vehicles in a variety of scales. Nothing specific, but I pick up Mopar and Hudson stuff wherever I can. I also have about 200 or so 1/24 and 1/25 scale cars and a couple of semi trucks, most are still NIB and unopened. I plan to build all of them in about 20 years or so. My kid has all of my old HO-scale train stuff, that I had from the mid-'60s onward. Oh, yeah, and 1:1-scale model cars and trucks, too.
Money. Literally. $100 dollar bills mostly. $1,000 dollar bills are very scarce......and expensive. Last one I turned down the seller was asking $1275 for and (kicking myself) I let it get away. And 1962 Chevy Belair and 409 stuff of course.
Spray paint..Vintage rattle cans in long forgotten shades... Vintage World coins...(pre 1900) Vintage Oakland/S.F. area photos and postcards(pre 1950)
Redline HotWheels, old Matchbox, Car related mags. a few old speed catalogs, pocket knives, Drag Strip schedules and tickets. And a buncha other shit I wish I could sell to help finance drag car.
Sun Electric Test Equipment. Have a 404 Distrubutor Machine, 947 analyzer, and Tach/ Dwell/ VATS and others. Ignition test equipment. Tachs, Tach Calibrators. Ford Rotunda Test Equipment for EEC IV stuff. Popular Science Magazines with Gus Wilson Stories. Tech Books. Pontiac Engines and Parts. HEI Distributors. Brass Tags from Electric motors and other machinery. Motto: Collect first Justify Later.
Re: What Do You Collect? T-Shirts... T-Shirts with grease on them... T-Shirts with blood on them... T-Shirts with holes in them... T-Shirts with beer on them... T-Shirts with boogers on them... and long sleeve shirts with snot on the sleeves as well as a set of eyeballs that can't find my cutting goggles . ------------------------------------------------------- The All New/Old Flathead Forurm Is Open For Business, Join Today!
a bunch of tattoos and any ed roth, barris, etc stuff i can afford/get hands on origional business cards, mailing envelopes, plagues, autographs
Dont laugh... I collect antique metal dolls prams from the 40s-50s.. Great for panel beating and painting . Use all the tricks ive learned in car restoration to bring them back to showroom condition. Its an addiction but Ill get over it. got a shed full to do when I retire.
Let's see... boxes and boxes of "stuff". But some of my favorites - WWII vintage posters (no repops), some old-style military jeeps & WWII vintage paper (YANK, Popular Mechanics & LIFE mags, ration stamps, postcards, etc.), and old matchbook covers - got quite a few with HAMB friendly rides - see the pics. Check out the old GI-farts in the jeep, this is one of my favorite pieces!
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