Show us your library.

[Spiny Norman]

After seeing Stuboy's recent acquisitions I felt inspired to take a pic of my own collection of car mags. A combination of Top Gear from launch to about 2008 plus a few random recent ones and CAR virtually complete from 1969 to about 2008 plus a few earlier ones, and a couple of dozen Supercar Classics. Most of them I've bought myself on publication date, with the pre '85 CARs coming in sets from Ebay. (Including one set of about 6 years worth, in 3 boxes. I live in an upstairs flat, the postman loved me that day! )

 

So go on, show us your reading rooms...

 

[trigger]

I dread to think how many I've got now, I'm always looking for more but the trouble is i prefer to buy in bulk as it's cheaper but the ones that turn up on ebay are always miles away.

 

More magazines for the collection by Trigger's Retro Road Tests!, on Flickr

 

New ebay purchase by Trigger's Retro Road Tests!, on Flickr

 

That lot as just a few ebay wins I've scored, This is my collection in the workshop, the cabinet is full as well as the boxes under the bench and there a load on top of the cabinet including car brochures.

 

[brickwall]

Crikey! Are your floor joists bending..

[stuboy]

most of mine are in the loft

[RoadworkUK]

Ooh, can I finally be the winner at something on Autoshite?

 

 

My brochure and magazine habit is getting a bit silly now. I wrote about it for Hooniverse here a good while ago, since which it hasn't abated one iota.

 

My better half has prohibited me from posting images of our third bedroom, host to Earls Reference Archive, because she's thoroughly disgusted by it. Suffice to say that the brochure collection currently runs in excess of two waist height IKEA bookcases and a couple of substantial cardboard boxes. It also technically covers 9 miles, because my magazine collection (every Top Gear from issue one in '93 through to 2000 with no issues missed then a sudden stop when it became shit at exactly the same time that I first hit uni; together with several hundredweight of Motor Boat magazines of the same era) is still marooned at my parents house in Frinton.

 

These days eBay is my dealer and I score regular hits. This week, for example, I recieved only yank stuff, brochures for the '83 and '84 Thunderbird and '84 Tempo, together with the '89 Plymouth Acclaim and Sundance, and the Horizon America (yes, that Horizon). I also recieved a full line "catalog" for Cadillac's '87 range, and then ironically found that I already had a copy.

 

I get them delivered to work; reading about brand new shiny old shite is a pleasant diversion from dealing with distressed W211 owners with titsup SBC units....