boss9
08-07-2004, 10:22 AM
Hello,
For the members who wished my family a safe/fun Holiday-- roadrner, TX Street Racer and Goose--guess what? It worked!! Good fortune smiled on us and I was able to pick up a few (small) things that I'd like to pass on for the positive words spoken. It shows a friendly character and goes a long way with me. It is what I try to instill in my kids. This is a dying practice which makes it a much harder pass on, though. Anyway, if you could please Pm me an address, I will send them out this week. We went to the "Museum of childhood" in Edinbrough, Scotland, which had items from 1906 to the present and they had some old Minic slots. I had a chance to go to a few "car-boot" sales (flea markets) and seen quite an array of old toys and such. HO scale slots are not too popular there. The "biggie" for me was taking the fam' to the Donnington Castle Toy Fair with 1/1 scale racers from the 60's (including Mustangs and Camaros!) tearing around the track, wide-open-right outside! A real bonus and surprise. I can't really describe that day here on the board, but you can image the imprint it left. The exchange rate was about 2 to 1 (horrible) so even a good deal was very pricey. I can tell you it's a die-cast heaven there. Looking at them was like watching an ants--just so many that eventually they became a blur. I'm talking thousands. The majority of the pieces were very well kept and the damaged stuff was generally inexpensive. Scalextric is the big thing with people selling a few hundred off the tables. Everything from Motorbikes to slot-horses to Starsky and Hutch sets. I saw 8 different GT-40's together! I got to run a Williams Formula One car on an eight lane track that was set up. I haven't ran anything larger than HO since the mid-sixties and have to admit it was a blast Man, the detail on those cars are incredible. It's got me thinking real hard about getting a set and some cars--but the other half would cut me off entirely if I started with those. In HO, I found several TCR's--mostly Panteras and Formula cars all in need of something and at $26.00, I passed. I did find about a dozen old T-Jets with some rare colours--a Porsche 906, Cobra Daytona Coupe, Ferrari Dino, all in olive-but all cut badly. They ranged from $26.00 to $36.00 each. I felt this was too much, but someone else didn't and bought the lot. I did pick these up there and thought it fitting for pics of a journeys' end. I only found the two and there are not really for slots--but they looked just too brilliant to pass up. They're hanging off a couple of old Auroras.
Cheers!
http://photos.hobbytalk.com/data/500/8231Pict0173.JPG
http://photos.hobbytalk.com/data/500/8231Pict0171.JPG
http://photos.hobbytalk.com/data/500/8231Pict0169.JPG
http://photos.hobbytalk.com/data/500/8231Pict0168.JPG
http://photos.hobbytalk.com/data/500/8231Pict0163.JPG
For the members who wished my family a safe/fun Holiday-- roadrner, TX Street Racer and Goose--guess what? It worked!! Good fortune smiled on us and I was able to pick up a few (small) things that I'd like to pass on for the positive words spoken. It shows a friendly character and goes a long way with me. It is what I try to instill in my kids. This is a dying practice which makes it a much harder pass on, though. Anyway, if you could please Pm me an address, I will send them out this week. We went to the "Museum of childhood" in Edinbrough, Scotland, which had items from 1906 to the present and they had some old Minic slots. I had a chance to go to a few "car-boot" sales (flea markets) and seen quite an array of old toys and such. HO scale slots are not too popular there. The "biggie" for me was taking the fam' to the Donnington Castle Toy Fair with 1/1 scale racers from the 60's (including Mustangs and Camaros!) tearing around the track, wide-open-right outside! A real bonus and surprise. I can't really describe that day here on the board, but you can image the imprint it left. The exchange rate was about 2 to 1 (horrible) so even a good deal was very pricey. I can tell you it's a die-cast heaven there. Looking at them was like watching an ants--just so many that eventually they became a blur. I'm talking thousands. The majority of the pieces were very well kept and the damaged stuff was generally inexpensive. Scalextric is the big thing with people selling a few hundred off the tables. Everything from Motorbikes to slot-horses to Starsky and Hutch sets. I saw 8 different GT-40's together! I got to run a Williams Formula One car on an eight lane track that was set up. I haven't ran anything larger than HO since the mid-sixties and have to admit it was a blast Man, the detail on those cars are incredible. It's got me thinking real hard about getting a set and some cars--but the other half would cut me off entirely if I started with those. In HO, I found several TCR's--mostly Panteras and Formula cars all in need of something and at $26.00, I passed. I did find about a dozen old T-Jets with some rare colours--a Porsche 906, Cobra Daytona Coupe, Ferrari Dino, all in olive-but all cut badly. They ranged from $26.00 to $36.00 each. I felt this was too much, but someone else didn't and bought the lot. I did pick these up there and thought it fitting for pics of a journeys' end. I only found the two and there are not really for slots--but they looked just too brilliant to pass up. They're hanging off a couple of old Auroras.
Cheers!
http://photos.hobbytalk.com/data/500/8231Pict0173.JPG
http://photos.hobbytalk.com/data/500/8231Pict0171.JPG
http://photos.hobbytalk.com/data/500/8231Pict0169.JPG
http://photos.hobbytalk.com/data/500/8231Pict0168.JPG
http://photos.hobbytalk.com/data/500/8231Pict0163.JPG