sewlow
Bitchin' Stitchin'
I'm specific in what I collect.
Even then, that's kinda all over the map. 1/18's, some 1/24's, some 1/43's & a lot of 1/64 Hot Wheels along with nice J/L's.
If I can, I try to get the same vehicle in the 3 common sizes, (not much in 1/43) such as the Stone, Woods & Cook '41 Willys. Both the red & the blue versions. Many times I have to buy the 1/24 as a plastic model kit & then build it to match.
I have the yellow Greer, Black & Prudhomme dragster (GMP) in 4 sizes. 1/64, 1/43, 1/24 & 1/18 (1 of 540).
GMP also made a run of 200 in 1/6. (one SIXTH!!!)
28" long! Amazingly super detailed but it had damn well better be when it had a list price of...(*cough*...ready?...sitting down?...)
...$1985.00! (+20% Cdn. exchange, + shipping. $2500.00 to my door. Ouch!) IF I could find one! Guys with deep pockets snapped them up pretty quick. I mean guys like Foose that has one in a glass display case on his desk, fer F's sake! (It's a big desk!)
That collection started with this poster.
Once I had the G.B.& P cars, I started collecting the other ones on the poster.
I have since collected 2 of almost everyone. 1/64 & 1/18. That's taken a while. 22 years. The poster's from '99, & I still need 2 more to complete it.
Others I collect are '32 & '40 Fords. HotWheels. Every body style & most every color version of each.
Lead sleds. 1/64 & 1/18.
I have three 1/24 Cadzilla's. One for display. One's only ever been opened once & the 3rd is stilled sealed in the box. Sequential serial numbers! They come with the matching 1/64.
COE's & Car Carriers.
Every type of trailer imaginable. Flat-deck to utility to AirStreams.
Novas, Chevelles & El Caminos.
V-dubs.
Probably the largest concentration is anything pre-'67 Shelby.
...and yet, my blood runs Chevy Orange! Yea. Weird Whodathunkit?
Probably 50 1/64 Cobras. (Yea. I don't know why, either.)
Probably that many more of various other 1/64 Shelby cars. Pre-'67 only.
3 sizes of GT40's. All Blue w/White stripes.
Same for Daytona's.
A 1/18 '65 Ford F100 shop truck custom painted in Wimbledon White w/LeMans Blue stripes along the rockers ('GTF100' Our drag bus guy painted it for me.) & a matching trailer carrying a race-worn '65 GT350.
A whole same-color Shelby 1/18 shop set-up including a hoist, tool boxes, ramps, a creeper, compressor & air tools, battery charger, oxy acetylene tanks, a stick welder.
A 'new' street version 1/18 '65 GT350 in blue w/white stripes.
A 1/18, dirty, White/Blue race-worn Cobra + a matching Blue/White clean street version.
A 1/18 British Racing Green 289 Cobra + a matching 1/64.
I should actually sell a bunch. Not my personal collection, but the ones in the big plastic bins upon bins upon bins which haven't been opened for y-e-a-r-s.
Everytime I've moved, I've had to lug those damn things around! They sure get heavy! Lol!
Probably just about break-even. But even still, it'd be cash in the jeans! $$$ towards the swap in my '98.
I won't be posting them up here, though.
I've already done enough thread-jacking & don't want to be that guy that jacks your sales, too!
Anyways...
Apologies for the left turn. I'll shut-up now.
Even then, that's kinda all over the map. 1/18's, some 1/24's, some 1/43's & a lot of 1/64 Hot Wheels along with nice J/L's.
If I can, I try to get the same vehicle in the 3 common sizes, (not much in 1/43) such as the Stone, Woods & Cook '41 Willys. Both the red & the blue versions. Many times I have to buy the 1/24 as a plastic model kit & then build it to match.
I have the yellow Greer, Black & Prudhomme dragster (GMP) in 4 sizes. 1/64, 1/43, 1/24 & 1/18 (1 of 540).
GMP also made a run of 200 in 1/6. (one SIXTH!!!)
28" long! Amazingly super detailed but it had damn well better be when it had a list price of...(*cough*...ready?...sitting down?...)
...$1985.00! (+20% Cdn. exchange, + shipping. $2500.00 to my door. Ouch!) IF I could find one! Guys with deep pockets snapped them up pretty quick. I mean guys like Foose that has one in a glass display case on his desk, fer F's sake! (It's a big desk!)
That collection started with this poster.
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Once I had the G.B.& P cars, I started collecting the other ones on the poster.
I have since collected 2 of almost everyone. 1/64 & 1/18. That's taken a while. 22 years. The poster's from '99, & I still need 2 more to complete it.
Others I collect are '32 & '40 Fords. HotWheels. Every body style & most every color version of each.
Lead sleds. 1/64 & 1/18.
I have three 1/24 Cadzilla's. One for display. One's only ever been opened once & the 3rd is stilled sealed in the box. Sequential serial numbers! They come with the matching 1/64.
COE's & Car Carriers.
Every type of trailer imaginable. Flat-deck to utility to AirStreams.
Novas, Chevelles & El Caminos.
V-dubs.
Probably the largest concentration is anything pre-'67 Shelby.
...and yet, my blood runs Chevy Orange! Yea. Weird Whodathunkit?
Probably 50 1/64 Cobras. (Yea. I don't know why, either.)
Probably that many more of various other 1/64 Shelby cars. Pre-'67 only.
3 sizes of GT40's. All Blue w/White stripes.
Same for Daytona's.
A 1/18 '65 Ford F100 shop truck custom painted in Wimbledon White w/LeMans Blue stripes along the rockers ('GTF100' Our drag bus guy painted it for me.) & a matching trailer carrying a race-worn '65 GT350.
A whole same-color Shelby 1/18 shop set-up including a hoist, tool boxes, ramps, a creeper, compressor & air tools, battery charger, oxy acetylene tanks, a stick welder.
A 'new' street version 1/18 '65 GT350 in blue w/white stripes.
A 1/18, dirty, White/Blue race-worn Cobra + a matching Blue/White clean street version.
A 1/18 British Racing Green 289 Cobra + a matching 1/64.
I should actually sell a bunch. Not my personal collection, but the ones in the big plastic bins upon bins upon bins which haven't been opened for y-e-a-r-s.
Everytime I've moved, I've had to lug those damn things around! They sure get heavy! Lol!
Probably just about break-even. But even still, it'd be cash in the jeans! $$$ towards the swap in my '98.
I won't be posting them up here, though.
I've already done enough thread-jacking & don't want to be that guy that jacks your sales, too!
Anyways...
Apologies for the left turn. I'll shut-up now.
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