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    Amishtat reacted to Remspoor in Eye-catching black and whites   
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    Amishtat reacted to Matty in BMC/BMH/BL Readers wives #End of year round up#   
    Best photo yet. If that was listed on ebay, you'd buy it ( or kick off when you turned up and realised its a 50 footer at best)
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    Amishtat got a reaction from AndyW201 in Shite in Miniature II   
    Won't be riding his bike or sitting on a bar stool for a while.
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    Amishtat got a reaction from AndyW201 in Shite in Miniature II   
    Most of mine is in the loft,some in the attic over the barn,some more in the back bedroom (still not unpacked 15 months after we moved here..) and there's some dotted about in the garage too. I wouldn't be able to get away with a wardrobe stash,but this is the second house where I've been able to have a  diecast shelf in the kitchen. For anyone else who feels like trying this,it seems to help if you're at least a foot to eighteen inches taller than your partner..

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    Amishtat got a reaction from AnnoyingPentium in Shite in Miniature II   
    Won't be riding his bike or sitting on a bar stool for a while.
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    Amishtat reacted to Tenmil Socket in Shite in Miniature II   
    Is Zippy okay 😆
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    Amishtat reacted to Remspoor in One (shite) picture per post.   
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    Amishtat reacted to meggersdog in eBay tat volume 3.   
    not Rallye
    nope definately not

    https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/284829565945
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    Amishtat got a reaction from morrisoxide in Shite in Miniature II   
    Most of mine is in the loft,some in the attic over the barn,some more in the back bedroom (still not unpacked 15 months after we moved here..) and there's some dotted about in the garage too. I wouldn't be able to get away with a wardrobe stash,but this is the second house where I've been able to have a  diecast shelf in the kitchen. For anyone else who feels like trying this,it seems to help if you're at least a foot to eighteen inches taller than your partner..

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    Amishtat got a reaction from Remspoor in Shite in Miniature II   
    Most of mine is in the loft,some in the attic over the barn,some more in the back bedroom (still not unpacked 15 months after we moved here..) and there's some dotted about in the garage too. I wouldn't be able to get away with a wardrobe stash,but this is the second house where I've been able to have a  diecast shelf in the kitchen. For anyone else who feels like trying this,it seems to help if you're at least a foot to eighteen inches taller than your partner..

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    Amishtat reacted to RoadworkUK in Shite in Miniature II   
    I have that Eastern National National! (because of course I have)
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    Amishtat got a reaction from andrew e in Shite in Miniature II   
    Most of mine is in the loft,some in the attic over the barn,some more in the back bedroom (still not unpacked 15 months after we moved here..) and there's some dotted about in the garage too. I wouldn't be able to get away with a wardrobe stash,but this is the second house where I've been able to have a  diecast shelf in the kitchen. For anyone else who feels like trying this,it seems to help if you're at least a foot to eighteen inches taller than your partner..

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    Amishtat reacted to barefoot in The new news 24 thread   
    I'm off to the inaugural Castle Donington Classic Vehicle bollocks meeting in the morning. I shall be driving the classic antidote; Suzie the scruffy silver car and have spent three minutes this evening preparing a plaque to denote; 'Winner of Worst British Respray award 2017' as voted for by the twats on Autoshite. 
    I wonder if I'll be invited back.
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    Amishtat reacted to Split_Pin in The new news 24 thread   
    As indicated in my for sale thread,  I have left a deposit on another car. I kept having dreams that I owned a Cavalier again, the most recent one was where my old schoolfriend Graham Cullen was aggressively wheelspinning away in L620GLS, a satin red hatch with a towbar (yes,  my brain literally made all of this up in my sleep).
    This had been relisted a few times so a cheeky offer was made and accepted. 
    @worldofceri is collecting it on 2nd of June from Hereford and bringing it north (the 2nd Cav I have smuggled up here) to Scotland.
    Can't wait!

    1.6 big block LS so likely no ball of fire but as long as it goes well. All it probably needs is the famous* Split_Pin timing belt treatment, other than that it appears decent.
    These shots were what sold it to me:


     
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    Amishtat reacted to bunglebus in Shite in Miniature II   
    Personally I find the loft is a good place for a couple of die cast

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    Amishtat reacted to sierraman in Shite in Miniature II   
    I hide diecast in my wardrobe as well... the wife goes mad. Fuck ‘em, every man has to have a hobby. 
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    Amishtat reacted to Andrew353w in Lazy spotters thread   
    Spotted over the weekend in 'appy "Ampstead. I've seen it here regularly and it never seems to move!

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    Amishtat reacted to cort16 in eBay tat volume 3.   
    Cheap MOT'd Volvo 240 in Glasgow


    https://www.gumtree.com/p/volvo/volvo-240-torslanda-1993/1433434999
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    Amishtat got a reaction from Remspoor in Shite in Miniature II   
    I'm not sure I can answer the question of why I still like collecting older diecast, certainly until about eighteen months ago I hadn't bought any new Matchbox since about 1990 or so but as mentioned upthread some of them are too good to ignore for the price. Also,I wouldn't buy anything else out of Tesco because their food is mostly garbage I wouldn't inflict on my dog.
    My little selection of sixties Corgi, Dinky and (very few) Spot-on is slightly easier to justify though,at least to myself. My Dad used to let me play with his own collection when I was very young (certainly while my mother was alive,so before I was four) and I've never forgotten just how fascinating I found them and the anticipation I used to feel when he'd go up into the loft and bring them down. The colourful boxes with the illustrations on and the cars themselves,at a time (early '80's) when the real things were rarely seen and usually downtrodden old bangers on their last MOT. Many years later my stepmother decided she'd relieve him of them so that set me off assembling a selection of my own, albeit in mostly worse condition than his were on  account of the ££ asked for mint and boxed stuff nowadays. They'll never be quite as good as the originals in my memory,but it's the best I can do. 
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    Amishtat got a reaction from w00dy in Shite in Miniature II   
    Certainly agree with that, Buragos were a rare treat for me too ,which is why I still have most of my childhood examples. I had a few Majorettes and a few 1:43 Solidos as souvenirs when we began to take holidays abroad from about 1987 onwards, I don't recall them being readily available around Colchester in the eighties.
    The thrill of the chase though,that just sums it up for me. Like most of us here I suspect,I've got a mental list of things my collection needs and it's a strange but pleasant feeling if/when I come across one of them. Probably never will tick them all off but I hope never to stop looking.
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    Amishtat got a reaction from Low Horatio gearbox in Rover P4   
    You may already know this,but there's a lovely period film on YouTube from about 1958/9 called In the Rover Tradition. It's largely concerned with the new 3-litre P5 but it gives an interesting insight into the no compromise quality and construction of Rover as it was,rather than the second-rate gasket-blowing fwd landfill which was later to bear the name. Well worth a watch, I'm afraid I'm not technically proficient enough to post a link.
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    Amishtat got a reaction from danthecapriman in Rover P4   
    A delightful car from the days of actual quality and thoughtful design. Nice to see one retaining its original registration and without the Beirut-spec front seat so many of the survivors have. 
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    Amishtat got a reaction from LightBulbFun in Rover P4   
    You may already know this,but there's a lovely period film on YouTube from about 1958/9 called In the Rover Tradition. It's largely concerned with the new 3-litre P5 but it gives an interesting insight into the no compromise quality and construction of Rover as it was,rather than the second-rate gasket-blowing fwd landfill which was later to bear the name. Well worth a watch, I'm afraid I'm not technically proficient enough to post a link.
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    Amishtat got a reaction from RoadworkUK in Rover P4   
    A delightful car from the days of actual quality and thoughtful design. Nice to see one retaining its original registration and without the Beirut-spec front seat so many of the survivors have. 
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    Amishtat got a reaction from RoadworkUK in Shite in Miniature II   
    I'm not sure I can answer the question of why I still like collecting older diecast, certainly until about eighteen months ago I hadn't bought any new Matchbox since about 1990 or so but as mentioned upthread some of them are too good to ignore for the price. Also,I wouldn't buy anything else out of Tesco because their food is mostly garbage I wouldn't inflict on my dog.
    My little selection of sixties Corgi, Dinky and (very few) Spot-on is slightly easier to justify though,at least to myself. My Dad used to let me play with his own collection when I was very young (certainly while my mother was alive,so before I was four) and I've never forgotten just how fascinating I found them and the anticipation I used to feel when he'd go up into the loft and bring them down. The colourful boxes with the illustrations on and the cars themselves,at a time (early '80's) when the real things were rarely seen and usually downtrodden old bangers on their last MOT. Many years later my stepmother decided she'd relieve him of them so that set me off assembling a selection of my own, albeit in mostly worse condition than his were on  account of the ££ asked for mint and boxed stuff nowadays. They'll never be quite as good as the originals in my memory,but it's the best I can do. 
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