If you can't afford mint Dinkys and Corgis and the ones you can afford are too beat up, look at restorations. These were all bought for between $7 and $20, only the Cadillac cost more.
Hosted on Fotki This Desoto was $14 - a mint one looking this nice would be over $100.
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Hosted on Fotki This Studebaker was $7 - beautifully done, I'd want 10 times that to do the work
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Hosted on Fotki The Plymouth hasn't been restored - someone has simply brush-painted the white over what would originally have been green, thus decimating its value but making it more appealing to me.
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