What else do you collect

[BIGTRUCK]

On P.S.A.B. last night a short topic came up about other things the guys collected...I was amazed what some of the items were that was not model related... heres a few of mine.....I also collect older 40's thru 60's fishing lures ,

D.A.V. plates from Illinois

and started on 1/18th die-cast but after 30 it was taking up way to much room so I held it down to neater looking matchbox size cars..this buying had to slow up also due to room..

and besides model mags...I started on comic books and MAD magazines..

Besides H.O. , 1/32 and 1/25th slot cars and some older toys , thats about it....wife says I'll never grow up :wink:

[Harry P.]

I collect speeding tickets... :wink:

[455 Rocket]

  harrypri said:

I collect speeding tickets... :wink:

Signatures, as I hand out a lot of these.

[Lyle Willits]

dust

[Steven Zimmerman]

Pewter dragons and wizards,and diecast automotive, in whatever scale strikes my fancy.....Steven Zimmerman aka the'Z'man.....

[gasman]

I've gotten into Hot Wheels recently, mostly Matchbox. some NASCAR diecasts if they catch my eye. some have actually gotten to be very valuable, like my 2000 Jimmie Johnson rookie Busch car. which I saw go for almost $500 on EBAY a few weeks ago. not bad for a $19 investment

[Modelmartin]

Car magazines! I love them.

[Jairus]

I collect Cartoons magazine, Hot Rod Cartoons Magazine, Cycletoons, Surftoons and Skitoons.

I am one away from having all Cycletoons and one away from having all Surftoons ever published.

[jeffb]

i collect dust..and a little mold occasionally....

[crispy]

I collect a little die-cast, mainly 1/64th, but I am very selective in what I buy.

I also collect auto related movie posters. I don't have many, but my crown jewel is my Bullitt Movie Poster.

That's about it.

Chris

[Modelmartin]

Jairus,

Do you have the CarToons with the Terry Gilliam cartoon, "The sports car of Dorian Gray"?

[Jairus]

Andy,

Can you be more specific? I have maybe 135 of 183 total Cartoons magazines...

How about a date, or a year?

[Guest roadkill2525]

current Car Craft, Hot Rod, and Rod & Custom magazines, Hot Wheels, catalogs for my Camaro, computer games that I don't finish.

[Modelmartin]

I don't have the mag any longer but remember the Terry Gilliam cartoon. It was pretty well drawn and I believe it was his drawings. Sorry!

[Darin Bastedo]

Let's see... I collect;

Music, approximately 3,000 LP records, 1,500 45rpm singles, 1,800 Cds, and about 3 terabytes of MP3s

movies over 2,000 DVDs

Diecasts. Matchbox, hotwheels and various 1/43 scale cars.

automotive reference photos 125,000 and counting

car magazines lost count but in the thousands going back to the early 50's

[Mike]

I used to collect a lot of die-cast Muscle Machines, DUB City, and Bigtime Muscle, Hotwheels etc. I've since given 80% of them to my son to play with and now only collect the occasional 60's Camaro and Nissan Skyline.

I also used to collect CARtoons magazine/subscribe, but the flood back in 1997 took all those issues away. :x

[lordairgtar]

I had collected Collectible Automobile, Hemming's Classic car, Sports and Exotics and Muscle Machine lines of magazine but I sent them to Iraq and Afghanistan as well as my model mag collection. I collect Soviet items and have pins with Lenin, a 50 Ruble note, a pin for a soccer team in Moscow. A book on Soviet grade and highschools. Small pen knives with adverts on them.

[SpreadAxle]

For me, any trucking memoribilia I can get my hands on. Pix, prints, hood ornaments, old truck lcense plates, keys, you name it. I try to collect as much from trucking's past as I can. If it so much as shows a pic of a truck, or has a truck related name on it, I snatch it up.

I also collect shot glasses, dream catchers, and some airline related memoribilia as well. I have some unopened, small liquor bottles(I think they amount to about 2 shots) that were served to Eastern Airlines passengers from years ago.

As a child, I collected postcards. I don't know what happened to those.

[Abell82]

:oops: DEBT :roll:

I used to collect comic books, along time ago.

[Billy Kingsley]

As you all probably know by know, 1/64 Diecast NASCAR is my #1 hobby. Always has been, always will be. I have more then 4,100 diffrent cars in my collection. I've been collecting since 12/26/92 and it is how I discovered NASCAR.

I used to collect 1/64 street car but now only get a Johnny Lightning from time to time, depending on what it is, and especially if it (bodystyle)was ever run in NASCAR. My latest purchase is a Olds Rocket 88 which I plan to turn into Red Byron's #22 Parks Novelty Machine Co. car if I can get decals for it.

I havn't activly purchased Hot Wheels or Matchbox in about 5 years now.

I collect trading cards. I collected NBA cards from 1996-2006 and have more then 70,000 diffrent ones of them, too. I no longer collect those, and am even pondering selling some of them. I quit for several reasons...1) I did not like the way the hobby was headed and 2) I could no longer afford it. I had to cut back and they lost.

I collect NASCAR trading cards. I've collected then since 1993 but I neglected them for many years. I only found out exactly what was in my collection in January of this year. I have more then 14,000 diffrent cards, however, I bought a filled to the brim 5000 count box for $25 in 02 or so, and that's where the bulk of my collection comes from. I havnt gotten any of this year's cards yet. I've been spending money on models!

DC Comics. My brother has been reading DC only since 1975. It's his only hobby. I read all of DC's continuity books, but I also read some others too...Star Wars, Simpsons, GI Joe and that's it.

We also collect the DC Direct continuty figures, too.

Star Wars stuff...books and toys. We've been collecting both since before I was born. Don't plan to stop any time soon!

I used to be big time into GI Joe from the 80s and 90s. I pretty much stopped with them in 04 or 05. Like the NBA cards, I had to do some crunching and they both lost. That, and, I lost interested again.

When I was cleaning recently I found my money and stamp collections. While they will never regain as big of a hold as they had on me when I was younger, I do want to get back into them a little more. Most of my stamp collection was actually my mom's from the 60s, so it's mostly old stuff and stuff from the early 90s, around 90-92 when I was active in it.

I was active in the old money hobby around 1992-1995, at best I can tell, because 95 was the newest stuff in the box I found I have a lot of old stuff, because I discovered that if you buy poor condition stuff you can afford more of it I actually don't know how I got most of my collection. I just plain can't remember. I know my oldest, a 1853 Dime, was given to my by a friend. Maybe the rest of the collection came from there too, I just don't know, it was so long ago.

If I get back into either of those big time, it would be the money collection. I find old coins and stuff fasciniting, but since I always have a fan aimed at me, even in winter, stamps are a little more diffacult to do

I collect magazines, although I will soon be cutting back on them. I've been subrscibed to Cars & Parts since 1997 when I was 13 but I am going to let my subscription lapse when it comes up again. I will be down to Hemmings Motor News, Classic Car and Muscle Car, Cars & Parts, and some other non-car related magazines :twisted:

I collect all kinds of useless ######. I can't throw anything away, or at least my mother says so Of cource, the fact that we have multiple storage units proves her correct...

I also collect and play video games but hardly at all anymore. I havn't played my PS2 in over a year and If I play Xbox once a month it's a lot.

I'm not sure if photography counts, considering that I plan for that to be a profession, not just a hobby.

Oh yeah, also NASCAR races. I'm still kicking myself for only starting to record each race in 04 or so. But, I bought a collection of about 180 tapes from the late 80s until about 1992, so I'm happy with that. Of cource, 92-99 is my favorite time in NASCAR and I have less then 10 of them on tape. D'oh! Luckily the tapes I bought were a dollar a piece so I was able to get every one he had.

I know this sounds like a lot of stuff but really it didn't cost much. Smart shopping nets good results!

Photos from almost all my hobbies can be found on my Fotki, in signature

[Modelcarjedi]

I was into collecting Matchbox cars at one time. I got burnt out on them just about the time i started getting into the rare ones

http://public.fotki.com/Keith__Shannan/kei.../matchbox_cars/

keith

[lambertjr]

Mini-Football Helmets.

[promoman]

Let's see:

Lionel Trains ( I have a small layout)

1:18 scale cars ( have appx 120)

Auto emblems

old hubcaps

a few old DAV license plates (from Ohio and Virginia from 1960's)

any kind of gas station mdse, old oil cans, signs etc.

the ceiling in my basement is covered with old auto ads from 50's and 60's

[promoman]

I forgot to mention my promo collection. I collect from the early 60's to mid 70's. Have not bought many lately due the prices.

[DaveInTheHat]

I've been collecting bottle and can openers since the late '50s. I don't know how many I have anymore, last count was well over 1000. I collect old toys, mostly cars & trucks. Hot Wheels cars, flamingos, bendable people, tin cans, 1/43 & 1/42 scale model cars & trucks, metal windup submarines and a few other things.