What do you collect?

[greengartside]

I collect old tax discs, usually from scrapped cars in the local scrapyard - I also collect other strange things like car badges, gearknobs, time clocks and the like from the yards too. Even number plates (although I am not as daft as to use them on other cars) I just like knowing they were once on a car at some time. This has led to a drawer full of car related memorabilia. I also dabble in old car brochures but that's few and far between.I'm probably rather too sentimental for my own good but hey-ho!

[whitevanman]

Scalextrics...huge collection in the spare room...must sell

Ohh, Ohh, Let me know when, Pleeeease

do you have any particular wants? I have complete sets and lots of rare cars and track etc, etc

[Waderider]

I'm into everything old and rendered obsolete in error, by our unthinking consumerist society.I like collecting other peoples cast off computers. I have one bought computer, powerful enough to be a server to my currently five other ones. I chuck away windows, bash linux onto them, and network them so I can stream television, files, and music about the house. The server is set up as a PVR (fancy hard disk recorder) controllable from any old computer in any room. When I go to the local council dump, if there is a computer there, I lob it into the boot of my Ovlov. I've got boxes of computer tat.Likewise Mountain Bikes, beg borrow and steal, I've got a virtual museum of high class Iron, from top end brands, all the way back to 1989....early for a mountain bike. I've also got boxes of bike tat.I used to have stereo tat, but the wife put paid to that.(That's why I mainly lurk on this site. A healthy appreciation that with care things last a lot longer than society dictates. Although my only car has recently changed from an S Reg Bravo of crapness, I had it from nearly new until utter death, and the 'new' Ovlov is for life also. I've restored a TR7 and a 1.3 Viva in the past, hopefully that ups my shite creditials).

[Mr Lobster]

I used to collect car brochures. Had loads of them and then before I last moved house about four years ago decided to get rid. Some sold on eBay, most didn't. Sadly ended up getting recycled along with a lot of old motoring magazines. Regret that now though. Otherwise, my interests are cars and to a lesser extent ships and the sea. I find shipping fascinating and have a small collection of ship / ferry tat bought of evilbay. Plus a fair bit old old French car stuff. I do collect model cars seeing as I am in a perfect position to get them, most are sat in boxes in the loft at the moment as I really need to find somewhere to put them. Need to see about getting a decent sort of display thing really.I'd like to start collecting money as well but that just doesn't seem to be happening

[Ratdat]

I'm not sure if I collect as such... rather I just accumulate stuff. Apart from full size cars (24 at present), I've got loads of car books, magazines, brochures and assorted automotive literature, thousands of toy cars, model kits, technic lego, car parts, tools, old electronics and assorted general automoblia. I just buy any old shit that'll amuse me for five minutes, especially old stuff. My latest purchasing program has been to replace every domestic appliance that packs in with something from the 70's or earlier. So we now have a late 60's toaster and kettle and I've just bought a georgeous old Pheonix vacuum cleaner from the 50's to replace our failed modern plastic tat. It works brilliantly and there's no fragile placcy bits in sight. I'm unlikely to ever move again so I can happily work towards an Edmund Trebus lifestyle in my later years.

[2Thumbs]

Car parts.I buy them new and fit them to the car as required on a near monthly basis. I used to collect classic car badges, own in the region of 300 at the moment. All stuffed in a box somewhere.

[Tayne]

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[AXrescuer]

Harking back to a childhood obsession, I collect (and still build) plastic model kits. I have over 2000 so far, mostly aircraft and mostly by Airfix, Matchbox and Revell.Most valuable kits I have are the old Airfix/Lyons Maid kits of Fireball XL5 and Stingray. I've been offered a grand for both together but will never sell.

[sludgeguts]

I collect vintage radio controlled cars,mainly Tamiya cars from the 80s-early 90s and anything else that I like the look of. Also have quite a collection of Iron Maiden stuff-CDs,vinyl,tour t shirts etc. Got a few 1.43 scale models aswell,picked up a few of the Altaya models recently.Great models for the price.

[pogweasel]

Not much. At one point had A LOT of old car mags, cupboard under the stairs full, several 6ft piles in the bedroom, plus half the loft. But they are all gone now, aside from one drawer. I have recently started getting a few 1:43 models, but it's not obsessional like most here, just a few choice ones that really appeal to me - mostly bona-fide shite or just stuff that has a personal connection. I'd love to have a house full of lovely retro cool old stuff, but with 3 youngsters and two silly dogs, anything within reach is bound to get trashed very quickly. Also the amount of "stuff" the children accumulate,plus 'Er Indoors reluctance to throw anything away means there's naff all space for anything I might like. Oh and a hard-drive full of amputee p0rn, obv.

[CIH]

I've got a bunch of model kits too. I had some lego but it got binned with a load of old Opel Manta car parts/tat. Choked on that, must have been worth an easy £200 :(I tend to go through nostalgic phases. Onlt thing I've got that really like is the SuperNes. I'll never sell that, though it can be a couple of years between sessions.

[Slaighty]

haemorrhoids

[Rusty Pelican]

Used to collect old car radios , 60s and 70s stuff mainly , motorola and radiomoblie were the best but i also had some pye , lampitt and Phillips crap , only got two left now , a huge Sony in car / portable one and a crappy Siran all chrome faced one , got loads of 60s and 70s mags as well , motor and the like , still a great read especially the prices of S/H stuff

[j-j]

I collect vintage digital watches 70s through to the early 90s where, just like cars they began to become shit and boring.I'm quite proud of my 70s LED watch and ultra rare 80s Casios with weird 'sophisticated' features like altimeters, barometers, digital moon phase, databanks etcThe stuff of (childish) dreams

[Jon]

I used to collect models (ie toys) of Ford Transits before adolescence hit me properly. They're still round at my parents and I own about 100-150 of them from Dinky, Matchbox, Corgi, Majorette etc.

 

Keeping them company are a few hundered car mags, which I enjoy perusing when I go round. Also got some pong machines (mostly from Grandstand but one's a Commodore), all with different features and associated gubbins and all picked up from car boot sales.

 

When I moved to our current gaff, we needed some crockery, so bought some Hornsea pottery from car boot sales:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

And just to prove it's not all brown:

 

 

Have been buying bits for a couple of years now and have 150-200 items, probably for about £75 outlay. Mostly collect late 60's to early 80's stuff, as this period's the cheapest and easiest to find. Beyond this period, Hornsea lost the plot and chucked out some real chod

 

 

 

However, this was on the shelves until 1990!

 

 

All in everyday use, though I suppose there's nothing really to go wrong with it! Everyone who sees it say they like it and know others who have bits sitting unused. Why would people stop using something so well made (in the UK) for some cheap stuff that's boring and chips easily?

[pogweasel]

Wow, ^thats^ like having tea at my mums house.

[Guest]

I tend to hoard electrical goods quite readily, especially audio visual stuff. But I never really have the time to connect everything up properly, so the equipment and wires end up in a kind of organic state from where I've chopped and changed things to suit what I've decided to do that day. "I know! I'll record the instrumental versions of The Sweeney music from DVD onto audio cassette!" etc.

 

So I end up with foolhardy deathtraps like this:

 

To be fair that's the best it's been for years, there's a socket free on that 10-gang and the audio stuff isn't all connected which probably adds about 30 wires onto that little mess. Behind the computer is another "good laugh".

[j-j]

 

Have been buying bits for a couple of years now and have 150-200 items, probably for about £75 outlay. Mostly collect late 60's to early 80's stuff, as this period's the cheapest and easiest to find. Beyond this period, Hornsea lost the plot and chucked out some real chod

 

 

However, this was on the shelves until 1990!

 

 

All in everyday use, though I suppose there's nothing really to go wrong with it! Everyone who sees it say they like it and know others who have bits sitting unused. Why would people stop using something so well made (in the UK) for some cheap stuff that's boring and chips easily?

Excellent! my M + D have had a bunch of this stuff since 1972 (wedding gift) and still haz themz. Also in use but only for guests' post dinner coffee ness. (they have the coffee cups and set of this^^ pattern)

[barrett]

well other then my old model cars, which i haven't added to for years, and the cupboards full of car magazines (several hundred), I collect old vinyl. Mainly jazz and prog but lots of other stuff too, although i have now 'given up' this habit as i'm trying to save as much money as i can before summer for my upcoming trip to the states (must be near 7k now, not far to go!). Also i've got lots of old non-specific 60s/70s bits&bobs like table lighters, telephones, ashtrays, cameras but since i moved back in with my mum last years its mostly all packed away. Oh yeh and also foreign fag packets, i've got stacks of those too. Decided recently that i want the full collection of James Bond books in the mid-60s Pan paperback issues, but i've got a long way to go before i have the whole set.....

[Tayne]

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[AXrescuer]

haemorrhoids

Stop getting knobbed and let em heal then!

[barrett]

May be in a position to help you with that.Have to read them first though.

Wow brilliant! I have a couple in 90s issues that I can swap if you want? A mate of mine recently picked up loads of the 60s ones for 25p each in a charity shop, I was well gutted!

[Tayne]

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[Renault18]

Oddly enough for me - Renault Spares - Genuine stuff only. Got most service parts and exhausts for every model ever made from the Renault 8/10 upto the 2002 Megane.Got nearly every genuine panel for a R18 and all the rare dash bits for the R11 Electronic brand new. I have also acquired a pair of genuine R15/17 front wings that are up in the loft. Did have R16 front wings until about 9 years ago - possibly still have a pair of mega rare rear suspension bushes for the R16 - certainly do for Mk1 5.Beginning to think that 1. Autism does affects us all - me especially and 2. I'd probably be quite a bit richer if I sold some of the rare stuff, coz I'm starting to see people pay serious money for it.

[ChinaTom]

Wow, ^thats^ like having tea at my mums house.

+1!! Feel slightly guilty breaking so much of it! I've denied them an Ebay income.

[Hertz]

I used to collect rubbers (not those ones ). Now passed my not so huge collection onto my 4 year old daughter who insists on visiting the souvenir shop when we go anywhere interesting.Burago cars as well, not kept any boxes which I thought I would regret but I doubt they will ever be really collectable as they were pretty poor quality.

[lovejoy]

Coconuts. Especially vintage ones. Very useful for BBC-style sound effects as in "The Archers" and so on. This place abounds in coconut technology, find a new use every day.Perfect for a large measure of rum.....

[Tonka]

Tonka Toys, got around 400 now, about half of which are boxed examples, never had them as a kid (Lego was thought to be more suitable by my parents) about 10 years ago I saw one at a car boot sale and bought it.....................

[Gompo]

Nothing particular, I'd like to collect cars or atleast models but it's not something I can do realistically yet.

 

At the moment the closest thing I come to collecting are CDs and music/band t-shirts; but neither are something I go out of my way to 'collect' per-se. I do have 4 bikes which is more than most, but I barely ride any of them. Oneday.

I can also see myself collecting watches, but again it's another thing that needs to wait while more important things are sorted. I have 4 or so that I intend to keep at the moment. Also have 100s of magazines, but some have been chucked out and I there's more to go. Late 90s MBUK anyone? 90s Kerrang! Raw and Shoot!? They're not mine but not wanted. Cant remember how much is left though.

 

..This is a cool collection, well done:

 

Retro handheld games for me. The ones I wanted as a kid. And a few others too.

 

 

[morris_ital_lover]

Airfix, Model Railways, RC Cars and mags... train/car mainly!m0rris