The Model Car/Collectibles Support Group

[monoflo]

[dad911]

Originally Posted by monoflo

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Have you seen what the old aurora slot cars are bringing on ebay and facebook?

[Fast Freddy 944]

Since everybody on the internet is "woke' and cowardly, I wont show my General Lee replica toy, Yea-verily, we are truly not free thinkers or free anymore..

[aston@ultrasw.c]

Originally Posted by Racerbvd

Not really a model, but I use this one for my Masonic jewelry.

That explains a lot

[HobieMarty]

Originally Posted by Fast Freddy 944

Since everybody on the internet is "woke' and cowardly, I wont show my General Lee replica toy, Yea-verily, we are truly not free thinkers or free anymore..

Here's mine, built many, many years ago.

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[URY914]

I knew a guy in the late '90's and he LOVED NASCAR. He had hundreds of die cast models in every size. He filled a whole room with them. He thought they were gold, "collector items" he'd tell me. I wonder where they are now.

[HobieMarty]

My brother-in-law had a lot of Nascar cars of all different sizes also, lots of Hotwheels and Matchbox cars, lots of collectable movie cars, like the batmobile and I even saw the Mad Max black car. All his stuff was sitting in the open and got very dusty over the years. He had tons of some collectable figures called "Pops", they were everywhere all in their boxes.

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[URY914]

They stop being a collectable, I mean valuable when they sell 100,000 of them and everyone has one.

But from what I have read Dale E. was the first to start getting a cut of the pie and it made mucho $$$ for him.

[svandamme]

Anything is collectable.
Wether or not they are valuable at that point is another argument

With 8 billion people on the world, they are still collectable and if enough people buy em, play with em, and they end up broken with only a few mint ones left they might stil be valuable down the line.

Just look at all those 80ies toys, you have a G1 Transformer mint in the box in 2020, it will be valuable.. regardless of how many were originally made

[URY914]

OK I agree there is a difference between collectable and valuable. You can collect dust but it doesn't have much value. Many people don't realize the difference between collectable and valuable.

Case in point, the Beanie Baby.

[svandamme]

value is in the eye of the beholder
anything can be valuable if some dillhole thinks it is.


beany babies
them hummels
coca cola branded junk

Always interesting to see somebody at 70 or so, suddenly put an entire collection of whatever for sale, at some ridicioulous price because that's what he spent for years and years hoarding all that junk and now hopes to retire on it...

collecting for the most part, is an instinctive thing, its a leftover from the old days when hunter gathering took place, and you collected food to get through the winter.
with modern days , few people still have to fourage like that, they have surplus income, and empty life and they collect stuff as part of retail therapie..

either collect model cars
or stuff related to the hobby, you know that new gadget that will make your life as a "INSERT HOBBYISTNAME" just that little bit more complete...

[Fast Freddy 944]

Originally Posted by HobieMarty

Here's mine, built many, many years ago.

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Thats beautiful!!!!!!! I can't find one kit, or hot wheel or even a steelie. I called up Hobby Clown a while back and they had a few hot wheels of the General on the shelf, and I should have purchased them right then. 2 weeks later, some gent went in and purchased all 18 of them and I was out of luck. Hang on to that beauty. It brings back some good memories of a great series.

[URY914]

Wife and I will stop into estate sales if it's close to the house. Our area of the city has several every weekend. It's a little sad sometimes to go through people's houses with the home owner's children sitting there as they get pennies on the dollar or sometimes nothing for mom and dad's "collectables". Sometimes it will be related to what they did for a living, like working for the railroad or something. If it gave mon/dad some pleasure collecting all that stuff I suppose it is worth it for them.

I try to figure out what the owner did for a living by looking around the house. Sometimes they'll have company mementos; ashtrays with the company logo, group pictures of a company trip, books in the office, convention swag. Americana stuff of a time gone by.

[HobieMarty]

Originally Posted by Fast Freddy 944

Thats beautiful!!!!!!! I can't find one kit, or hot wheel or even a steelie. I called up Hobby Clown a while back and they had a few hot wheels of the General on the shelf, and I should have purchased them right then. 2 weeks later, some gent went in and purchased all 18 of them and I was out of luck. Hang on to that beauty. It brings back some good memories of a great series.

Thank you so much. Last year I took it apart and touched up a few things.

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[mistertate]

Originally Posted by URY914

It's a little sad sometimes to go through people's houses with the home owner's children sitting there as they get pennies on the dollar or sometimes nothing…Americana stuff of a time gone by.

I had an appraiser come when my mom died, there wasn’t a GIANT ****1NG TV, and he was out. I didn’t have the time or need the money so picked it over and gave the rest to Salvation Army. She spent her whole life buying all that, at retail, and two phone calls it’s gone. That was lesson for me.
Spot on Svandamme

[ted]

I just like model cars and don't buy them as investments.
Most of us do this for a hobby, nostalgia and fun.
My Mother in law collected Kleenex boxes because she like the artwork on the boxes.
Seems harmless to me.

[HobieMarty]

Days Of Thunder!!!

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[VINMAN]

Weren't those Days of thunder cars sold at one the the big gas retailers?

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[HobieMarty]

Originally Posted by VINMAN

Weren't those Days of thunder cars sold at one the the big gas retailers?



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I have no idea but these are 1/64 scale and originally came from Hardees, I found them many years ago at a thrift store.

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[Jeff Jagusch]

I couldn't help myself and had to go!
found this GEM! I didn't realize how cool it was until I got home
this is 1/43 scale! and I need to fix the fan shroud sticker! it even has windshield wipers that are crazy accurate scale!