What do you collect?

[Owain-328i]

Camera equipment although I have started selling it off as some lenses make expensive ornaments at an average of £300 a pop, I have a modern digital set-up but find it hard to part with old mechanical gear I've owned for years. Like my cars I prefered older stuff, stuff that was perfectly capable of being used everyday and was high quality but old.I have a few old manual SLRs like Olympus OM1/2s and Nikons F3/FE/FM and a couple of Fujicas and a load of great lenses that were once well out of my reach but now are affordable, some are becoming classic in their own right.Other than that I don't really have the spare cash to spunk on much else, I'd love a set of Cornishware crockery but they seem to go for loads on ebay.

Same here camera equipement, mostly 35mm SLR's, ive got a Olympus om2n with a few lenses, nikon F90x, F4, and an F5 with a few nikkor lenses for them, and a canon eos 1 with a nice canon lens on it. None of which ever get used.... Currently on the lookout for an EOS 1n even though il never use it probably, only run a film through it to make sure its working..........

[madwelshman]

I collect 60's to early 80's Saabs! From the old 3cylinder 2stroke and V4 powered Saab 96's and the Saab 99's with both the Triumph engine up to the 99's with the 2 litre turbo engine.Will

[Minimad5]

I have started collecting Autodata books and have other car repair manuals too.I have a shocking amount of electrics about and computer parts So i guess i collect them too.

[Mash]

Mainly model cars which I have been doing for about 20 years. I started off with British Leyland which spiralled out of control to be anything post war British, then anything European that I liked (which was a lot) and then I discovered old Japanese cars so I started to concentrate on models of them in a big way. I have no idea how many models I have - a couple of thousand probably and I dread to think how much I've spent in those 20 years. On the plus side I bought a lot of high end stuff when I was living with my parents and had wads of cash to do whatI liked with, I'm now seeing a bit of a return on that, though inevitably much goes back in to new stuff.... I've started to try and clear the decks of a lot of models of pre-1960s cars or ones which I have since got better versions of and I mainly concentrate on 1965 to 1989 now although I'm holding on to favourites. I also have a theme of 1973 to 1987 Formula One at the moment thanks to the Minichamps Classics range. I also tend to get most of the models of local buses.I suppose you could call the full size cars a collecting habit too though that will come to and end this year - I must not (and cannot) buy any more!!!Car magazines from the 60s onwards, old telephones, a few old radios, quite a bit of 1950s ceramics which I went through a phase of collecting some years ago when it was cheaper and is now mostly stuffed away because I haven't room for it, 1:24 scale kits of Japanese cars which I have a spate of every now and again but will likely never have time to build and just a load of other random old tat produced somewhere between 1945 and 1990!What I wanted to do when I was younger was to buy a house where I could have a front room completely done out as the 1950s but I soon realised it was not going to be either practical or cheap so now just have a few select bits here and there. I had a lovely old telly in a polished wood cabinet from about 1958 which had a radio in the base which was to take pride of place but it had a severe case of wood worm and we had to all but fumigate my bedroom at my parent's house!It may sound like I can't move in my house but it's not as bad as all that. I've made up my mind to declutter a bit this year however!

[pompei]

I think the only thing I used to get obsessive about was Fiat 500 models and other paraphernalia. I also bought loads of used and NOS spares for mine but just don't bother now - in the internet age, there's nothing that you can't get. I got this last week which is the first model I've bought for years ...

 

 

I used to have a load of 35mm photo equipment which I gave to a friend's daughter who's doing a photography course.

 

Got rid of a load of books and CD's last year.

 

I've just bought another guitar, but it's the only one in Pompei Towers that is playable.

 

The car collection has been thinned out to just the 500 courtesy of The Fuhrer.

 

Life does seem a bit simpler with the absence of stuff and clutter.

[VWPowered]

i've got a shed load of watercooled VW brochures from 1974 onwards collecting dust but proberley gonna flog the lot on the ebay this year, also about 90 Haynes Manuals and of cause 1/43 Models

[andrew e]

I collect styling magazines, and prototype/promotional stuff, but only when its cheap!I might trade in the 100+ pieces of 30's Beswick deco pottery I own too for a posh watch (Stowa or a Nomos). I say this every year mind.

[lovejoy]

i've got a shed load of watercooled VW brochures

... hmmm, interesting! are they from a "Mission Impossible" enthusiasts's collection, i.e. they self destruct if left to dry out ???

[aled]

hillman imps and roberts radios.