I was at my local Racing addiction store the other day.
Guy had about 6-8 cars in the back case on a wicked sale....$125 down to $25.
I saw the Jeff Gordon 2000 Elite sitting there with a whopping $25 marked on it!
I about $#@% myself!!!

He said as I paid for it....."My loss is your gain" Wife was SUPPOSED to mark $25 off the car....(Making it $100)
Lest He was true to it's marking and let me have it.

MIB $27 with tax for a Beckett Priced $150 car. :woohoo:
Oh yeah it was limited to a Total Production of 7500 and this one was #969.

that depends on the car or car you bought. 7500 is a load of cars these days. i just sold a lot of 21 diecast, all like new in box. all 1/24 scale except the tony stewart rookie 1/18 scale. 11 were gordons, to include carolina ford, baby ruth, million dollar car, chromalusion, superman, star wars, and on.....rusty wallace elvis, harvicks rookie car......(all rcca also, no cheap crap like winners circle makes now, i see it everywhere when looking for hot wheels. ollies had 2007 years wc 1/64 for $1.99 before christmas, and dollar general had them for a dollar, same thing a wally world for $4.99)

anyway, for all 21 cars, i got $225.00 for the lot. and had to really sell to do that. that's barely $10.00 a car. about the going rate here. these cars were underproduced when made, because nascar was so popular. now they are toys, because 7500 may as well be a million today, as another nascar fan of the past and i agreed. nascar has lost it's fan base. and it's fan base spent the money. not the white collar people into it now.

i dropped nascar slowly over the past 4 years to no races last year. i spent my sundays at the local single A baseball stadium. there was a time when my life was organized around the "race' on sunday afternoon. now i don't have a clue. it's history, they ruined the sport.

that depends on the car or car you bought. 7500 is a load of cars these days. i just sold a lot of 21 diecast, all like new in box. all 1/24 scale except the tony stewart rookie 1/18 scale. 11 were gordons, to include carolina ford, baby ruth, million dollar car, chromalusion, superman, star wars, and on.....rusty wallace elvis, harvicks rookie car......(all rcca also, no cheap crap like winners circle makes now, i see it everywhere when looking for hot wheels. ollies had 2007 years wc 1/64 for $1.99 before christmas, and dollar general had them for a dollar, same thing a wally world for $4.99)

anyway, for all 21 cars, i got $225.00 for the lot. and had to really sell to do that. that's barely $10.00 a car. about the going rate here. these cars were underproduced when made, because nascar was so popular. now they are toys, because 7500 may as well be a million today, as another nascar fan of the past and i agreed. nascar has lost it's fan base. and it's fan base spent the money. not the white collar people into it now.
i dropped nascar slowly over the past 4 years to no races last year. i spent my sundays at the local single A baseball stadium. there was a time when my life was organized around the "race' on sunday afternoon. now i don't have a clue. it's history, they ruined the sport.

REALLY??
Wow sounds like me I clear my Sundays just to watch the races!
If I were dying it'd hafta wait till the race was over! LMAO
Form what I hear NASCAR is growing Very fast and soon to take over the other sports.

BTW: IMHO due to the HUGE Money the Sports Guys get...Baseball and Football it's ruined Sports in general.
My Baseball days came to a hault in the 80's when the had the lockout.
NOBODY is worth 3-5 million a year on a contract!!!
Baseball players played for the love of the game before then....now it's about the money.

I think NASCAR drivers in general race for the love of Racing.
It has turned out to be a cash cow but for most of em that's just a plus.
If they don't do good they don't make much....unlike Baseball or Football.
IMHO

your not reading yahoo sports or other news mediums. ratings for nascar were way down for the 3rd year in a row. nascar peaked in about 2002 and it's been downhill since. i still read articles because i think nascar deserves it for betraying it's base. but, they are looking at making changes wholesale or dropping the chase. ratings were doun 12 percent from last year for the last 10 races and also for the entire year overall, ratings have gone down 4 straight years. many venues are never sold out now. i know at dover this year they were handing tickets out for fre like candy to get the stands full for t.v. everyone had tickets or games on radio or t.v. with tickets as prizes.
hockey may actualy overcome nascar, especially with the infiltration of the irl. oveerall, the fan base is not into that or toyota either.
notice qvc? they've dropped the for race fans only show by about 40 percent i read due to lack of sales.

Hopefully NASCAR will realize that nobody wants to watch IROC every weekend before it's too late. Then they will possibly go back to running Chevy's, Ford's, Dodge's, Pontiacs, Mercury's..... and the rest of the makes that the fans can recognize. NASCAR from it's inception has always been "Win on Sunday... Sell on Monday" until recently. Where can we buy a COT? well... I think they all look like Camry's now. pfffft.

i think they look like turtle races. nonetheless, a waste of my time.

Got a photo of it now!

http://graphyfotoz.smugmug.com/photos/246240787-L.jpg

that is a nice looking ride.

It is really a shame what Nascar has become. I used to photograph the circuit for a nationally published magazine. When things started going south my magazine went from 6 hot passes per race to only two cutting two thirds of the photographers out of the hot areas, which for all intents and purposes cut you out completely because the shots they wanted were pretty much all from hot areas. I used to live for nascar, Sunday I was either at the race shooting it or in front of the tv watching it. Now if I catch it cool, if not no problem. Cars of tomorrow and allowing Toyota to run in nascar will add furthermore to the demise of a once awesome racing circuit. I would much rather go to my local Saturday night short track for some good ol grass roots stock car racing at this point.

On the die cast side of it, I bought thousands of dollars worth of nascar die cast over the course of many years, now I would be lucky and I do mean lucky to get a very small fraction of what I paid for them. I have tried selling a few pieces here and there but I refuse to basically give them away, I will let them sit in storage all in their original packaging first. I have begun giving many of my 1:64 scale pieces to my sons to play with, hell, if I have to give them away, better to give them to my boys to enjoy. I still have probably 500+ 1:24 scales, about 50-60 1:18, and I have no clue of how many 1:64s I still have, boxes, boxes and more boxes. I had to get a large storage unit just to keep them, so they are still costing me money lol.

mudslinger, i hear you. i sell all i can that's got value left. made up for losses selling other things, like beanies, star wars, etc., while they are hot. i'm close to breaking even with all i bought, and making back $$ on other items.

i post things, and accept best offer, as long as it's reasonable when i can i'll sell. i got so darn much of it. but, i won't give another thing away for free, or an absurd price. i'm single, no heirs, so it all goes in the trash if it isn't bought. i'd rather sell it and get something, but i won't take $5.00 for something i paid $60 for. principle of it all to me.
when i get there, about $3000.00 of NASCAR items, in real dollars, not book value (we know book value...that's a joke), are going in the trash. i've given all i'm going to. if no one will buy it, it's worthless. if it's worthless, it's garbage. and gets treated as so now.

$3000.00 of NASCAR items, in real dollars, not book value (we know book value...that's a joke), are going in the trash. i've given all i'm going to. if no one will buy it, it's worthless. if it's worthless, it's garbage. and gets treated as so now.


I hear ya on "book value" I love these guys that state the "book value" when they are selling stuff, the true value is what someone is willing to pay for it, which is very rarely anywhere near book value.

I love this part, lol...

"if no one will buy it, it's worthless. if it's worthless, it's garbage. and gets treated as so now."

At least I have my boys to leave all my stuff too, maybe by that time they will be worth something again.

agree on one thing mslinger,
someday, all this will again be valuble, but it will be when your kids are middle aged i believe.
especially with folks like me tossing stuff out completely.

You want a True BOOK VALUE, research Ebay's completed auctions for the past 30 days then average those prices with shipping. Thats true book value because millions of people can bid on it and what they are willing to pay is todays book value and like stated above its only worth what someone will give for it.

As far as ur gordon car u got a good buy & alot more realistic price than 125$

As far as nascar in general yes they abondoned there TRUE& & FAITHFULL fanbase for the people that think its the IN THING TO DO OR LIKE. Nascar is gonna have a RUDE awakening when the new fair weather fans say ok enough nascar its back to watching the world series of poker, because they have lost there TRUE fan base and there Temorary one also.

As far s Toyota its a tough call i am more offended by the car of tomorrow rather than Toyota coming in. I say let whomever wants to race, race Toyota, Lexus, Audi, who the heck ever the more the merrier and it makes it sweeter when the makes that were born in the USA kick there ARSES. Actually Toyota is more American than the other 3 in nascar, as the big 3 are killing plants and taking factories overseas to cut labor costs, Toyota is reopening them plants giving laid off USA WORKERS jobs and helping the economy in the USA. Its not suprising they are the #1 automaker as far as sales in the US right now, built in the USA, by American workers + they last forever. So in that sense Toyota is as American as the big 3, they just never started here.

Before you flame me for not being loyal, I AM FORD TO THE CORE, EVEN BLEED BLUE BLOOD AND WOULD BUY NOTHING BUT A FORD, BUT I CAN SE OBJECTIVELY AND CALL IT HOW I SEE IT.