Got the car! now the collecting begins...

[25v6turbo]

Ok so you have the car you have wanted for ages after lots of searching,so now you own your new pride and joy do you start collecting all the associated items that go with it,showroom brochures,presspacks,roadtests etc etc.

When you are happy with this do you go onto foreign items again all the same as listed but in languages that you can,t read but the pictures look nice.

Then do you go a little over the top and collect everything that has a single picture of the car/model you own either UK or abroad and spend to much time checking brochure print numbers and dates to see if you have one missing and get every edition of the handbook for the car and hunt ebay/Leboncoin etc JUST incase something comes up that you don,t have.

Do you find it gets a little to OTT and it bugs you if you know you have something missing from your collection,

What about all the dealership items,signs,showroom brochure original workshop tools do you try and track these down even though your car is 20/30/40 years old?

How fanatical are you about your collecting collection.

[Mally]

No none of that for me.

[SierraMikeHotel]

I used to get some odd bits and pieces, but not to that extent!

[pshome]

Did that for my 504 V6, which was my first "classic" car. most is here: http://504cc.de

 

Gets expensive over time once you have everything that can be easily found and start chasing the rare stuff. Obviously no way to ever get the money back spent on all that. Neverthelss, no regrets and i enjoy to rummage through my collection every now and then.

 

Funny enough the two rarest bits i have, were both given to me for free by former Peugeot factory employees: an original blueprint of the 504CC and a guache sketch: a draft for the 1975 sales broschure cover.

 

These days, i am usually happy to find me the original sales brochure of a car i buy.

 

 

[John F]

No none of that for me.

 

Me neither.

[Ghosty]

I thought this was a collection thread. DISAPPOINT

[Skizzer]

Personally I’m too busy buying

a condenser

a coil

a new battery

another battery with the terminals the right way round this time

a clutch master and slave cylinder

headlining

obscure AF spanner sizes

bits of wiring loom approximately the right colour

a brake light switch

head gaskets

moss killer

mould killer

Captain Tolley’s Creeping Crack Cure

a bigger impact wrench

brake light bulbs in packs of bloody three

another condenser

jump leads

HT leads

extension leads

dog leads

three elbows for a socket wrench so I can get to number 6 spark plug

a helicoil kit because I’ve fucked the thread on number 6 spark plug

shit Chinese tyres because nobody decent makes the right size any more

a welder

a welding mask

the wrong sort of welding gas

CV joints for another model

a replacement steering wheel off eBay that’s worn in the same place

Elastoplast

boot locks

gas struts

a petrol cap because I left the original sitting on the pump

a full set of fuses because they’re different from all my other cars

Valium

a distributor cap

a Haynes manual

a spare driver’s door that is even more rusty at the bottom

a rear view mirror fixing kit

a new bit of racking to store the crate of tail lamp lenses that came with the car

and yet another fucking condenser.

[Junkman]

^^

That sounds oddly familiar.

 

If you have the time and money spare to collect fucking sales brochures,

you simply don't own enough shite.

[Hertz]

What you really need next is a front bumper from a Peugeot 504.

[purplebargeken]

I used to with regards to the Dolomites/Toledo but not anything else. I no longer do this. 

[Isaac Hunt]

I used to rush out and get a workshop manual. Then dive in to the repair and consult the workshop manual when I couldn't work out how to put it all back together.

 

Reassembly is the reverse procedure of dismantling............

 

Bollocks to that, just google it these days, there is normally someone else who has been through the voyage of discovery.

 

I do have a wade through the MOT history and occasionally have been known to chuck a few quid at the DVSA for details of previous keepers although I'm not really sure that it tells you what you don't already know in that the car has had several owners and often in different parts of the country whom each of have owned for differing lengths of time.

[SiC]

I used to with regards to the Dolomites/Toledo but not anything else. I no longer do this.

What about that parts manual you bought the other month for a Triumph that never actually got made but a parts manual was printed for?

[Lord Sterling]

Nah, don't do none of that, waste of time and money. Just slap on a couple of poundland wheel trims and maybe some poundland mats and I'm good to go. If it's a good car, I'll wang it in for a minor service and probably chuck a bucket of water over it or whatever. I'm never excited collecting a car because it means parting with money, if it lasts a year then I'm happy.

[mitsisigma01]

So how was the Rover book ....

[Roobarb]

Family and friends often buy me matchbox or similar versions of the car for Christmas / Birthday and sometimes buy an odd one myself if I see one I like.

 

Don't think I've ever owned a brochure of a car I've had. Other than the build manual for a Westfield many years ago. One of the few cases where assembly wasn't the reverse of disassembly.

 

I have to admit, the old 911 engine has me worried - or rather the fuel injection system does. Someone else disassembled that, and I know it's not all there and have no clue how to put it back together...

[MorrisItalSLX]

My Jag came with the brochure (with the prices written in) and all the dealership bits and bobs, including the rear view mirror tag with the dealership info!

 

I did buy the HBOL and the Haynes restroration manual which have been quite usefull to date as the factory service manual is a nightmare to navigate (how hard is it to put in a bloody index!) and I would like the colour/trim choice brochure to complete the set.

 

I will admit to buying a Jaguar keyring though.

[sam simmons]

Not fanatical at all about any of my cars or bikes,too busy driving/riding or fixing them..

[bramz7]

I did used to buy brochures for all the cars I bought but again, given my buying habits, not necessarily a sane thing to do.

 

I have a UK press release folder with tons of photos and manufacturer waffle in it for the Tipo and Tempra refresh in 1994. That's pretty cool. 

[lesapandre]

I bought all - and there is a lot - service manuals for my 1989 Renault Master at an autojumble in France this year ...in French. But very clear and simple and with Googletranslate a cinch to use. Cost about €50.

[lesapandre]

I also have a 1950's Citroen 2CV workshop manual. I don't own one but the manual is a thing of beauty just to look through. 

[mitsisigma01]

Nobody wants to see it anyway ....????

[pshome]

^^

That sounds oddly familiar.

 

If you have the time and money spare to collect fucking sales brochures,

you simply don't own enough shite.

 

brochures take way less space than cartons filled with plastic bits..

[Squirrel2]

Personally I’m too busy buying

a condenser

a coil

a new battery

another battery with the terminals the right way round this time

a clutch master and slave cylinder

headlining

obscure AF spanner sizes

bits of wiring loom approximately the right colour

a brake light switch

head gaskets

moss killer

mould killer

Captain Tolley’s Creeping Crack Cure

a bigger impact wrench

brake light bulbs in packs of bloody three

another condenser

jump leads

HT leads

extension leads

dog leads

three elbows for a socket wrench so I can get to number 6 spark plug

a helicoil kit because I’ve fucked the thread on number 6 spark plug

shit Chinese tyres because nobody decent makes the right size any more

a welder

a welding mask

the wrong sort of welding gas

CV joints for another model

a replacement steering wheel off eBay that’s worn in the same place

Elastoplast

boot locks

gas struts

a petrol cap because I left the original sitting on the pump

a full set of fuses because they’re different from all my other cars

Valium

a distributor cap

a Haynes manual

a spare driver’s door that is even more rusty at the bottom

a rear view mirror fixing kit

a new bit of racking to store the crate of tail lamp lenses that came with the car

and yet another fucking condenser.

+1

 

Also ‘spares’ that seem like a good idea to acquire at the time (a squirrel problem) but end up being a nuisance owing to the sheer physical size and /or weight. In my case it’s a complete spare Land Rover 101 front axle. Flipping thing has moved house with me twice now but cannot bear to part with it whilst a 101 is part of the current fleet.

[mk2_craig]

I once, about a dozen years ago nearly bought a set of new old stock Renner Boutique wheel trims for an R14. From Germany. On the offchance that I might one day own a Renner 14.

 

I haven't owned a Renner 14 at any time since then.

[Lord Sterling]

I once, about a dozen years ago nearly bought a set of new old stock Renner Boutique wheel trims for an R14. From Germany. On the offchance that I might one day own a Renner 14

For some unknown reason, that reminded me of the time I attended an Autojumble sale in Malvern with Jon (Alyconecorporation) a few years back when I'd just bought my (sorely missed) Mercedes E280 S124. It didn't come with floor mats, however I'd managed to get some front mats for it but no rears, when at this jumble sale was a chap with a stall selling loads of old car magazines, underneath one of the tables I spotted 2 plastic boxes full of undisplayed magazines laying on top of non-other than 2 W124 rear floor mats in Grey, a deal was struck for the mats (which I got for a tenner or something) and they took pride of place in my Mercedes.