I have a heywood wakefield kohinoor dresser w/mirror in my guest room...I've always wanted a sculptura nightstand to accompany it.

The stuff is made very well!!!!

I have never met a man that did not PAY for his wife.:D:eek::D

Truer words have never been spoken....

I've sold some of my treasured autographed astronaut photos to buy cards, but not the other way around. Unfortunately, the cards I bought were new boxes not vintage cards. I'm still kicking myself for that.

Awhile back, my wife (who was my fiancee' at the time) and I went to meet one of her friends for dinner. Her friend remarked about how we met on Match.com and whether it was expensive. Without missing a beat and with a straight face on me; I replied "Most expensive purchase I've ever made."

Hahaha

Sold some of mine to fund my "Synthetic Pension" :)

Good luck to your son in the match. My wife is in her first year of residency. I remember that whole process and would not want to do it again.

My wife is in here 3rd year of med school. It's been one of the toughest things we have been though together. Can't wait for it to be over so we can enjoy each other.

I sold a pretty rare Old Judge card to partially fund the repairs we need to make to our house at the New Jersey shore that suffered extensive damages from Super Storm Sandy. Sadly, that's a card I will likely never be able to replace. :(

Too true :)

I hate to deliver the bad news Steven, but medical school is a joke compared to the number of hours you put in as a resident.

Agreed. What type of doctor are you?

Sold some vintage cards early last year to purchase and install new Legendary interior in my 1973 Dodge Charger hemi orange 440/4 speed.

My wife never wanted to drive in the charger so I sold the charger late last summer and bought a 2002 Chevrolet Corvette convertible, with the rarer white exterior and red interior color combination. She loves the car and drove it as much as she could before it was stored for the winter. We also spent a lot of time driving it on Saturday's last fall. So I guess I have some vintage card money in my corvette!

Well, let's see a picture of that bad boy!:D

Here is a photo of the corvette in my frigid garage as it's currently about -5 Fahrenheit outside.

I also attached a picture of the 1973 Charger I sold to buy it. I don't know if there are any muscle car fans on net54 but it was pretty cool and fun shifting the pistol grip shifter.

There are a lot of muscle car fans on here, we had a thread one time. I've owned at various times:

64 Nova SS
69 Z/28 with the original 302 and M22
69 Yenko clone 427 with 560 HP
69 Chevelle L78
80 Z/28 with a 454

At one time, I had an 86 trans-am, 87 monte carlo SS, the Chevelle and a 68 Camaro 327 powerglide trans. Still have the Camaro, which I've owned half my life and a 46 Chevy pickup.

If we ever start the opposite of this thread, I sold a couple of these cars to buy cards!

Those are some really nice muscle cars. Here is a video of a 1972 Dodge Challenger supercharged 360 that I owned a few years ago. The video was of it leaving from Miami being delivered to me. That blower shop blower sounded awesome.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OQ4bCCmr6Uw

My first car was a 1969 Chevy Camaro, 327/4speed in high school. I sold it to buy a 1970 Dodge Charger, Hemi orange, 440/4speed, white interior my senior year of high school. I sold it to a guy in Wisconsin back in 1984 with a blown (damaged not supercharged) engine. IF YOU HAVE THIS CAR I WANT IT BACK!!!! I have been looking for it the last ten years. I have loved mopars ever since but I do love all muscle cars.

I bought a 1969 1/2 440-6pack roadrunner back in 1999 (non matching numbers original 6 pack body restored Arizona body) for $9500 and sold it $11,500 in 2001-THAT WAS STUPID!!!

I was into power boats from 2003-2011 having last owned a 2001 eliminator 300 eagle vhull with twin mercury racing 500 EFI's. The boat's top gps speed was 93 MPH. I could have bought a low grade 52 mantle for the gas that went through that boat each season. But I wouldn't take it back-it was a blast!

Thanks for the response I love your car pics. Tom

You would love the car my dad has. Fully restored 1967 GTX Hemi 4-speed. He has talked about selling it(not for sale now) and I actually thought about selling off a good part of my card collection to get it. I would have had a good story for this thread if that happened!

Nice Challenger, look and sound! Send me a message with your email and I'll send pics of the GTX. Don't want this thread going down a totally different path

PM sent with email.

Interesting topic. I recently sold some cards to buy a building, had a tenant lined up so it made sense.

I'd gladly trade some of my cards...for a building!!!!!:o

Nice cars


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Wow, some really nice cars there. Back in 2006 I too sold some cards for a big down payment on my 2006 Corvette.

The blue one.
http://i101.photobucket.com/albums/m...orvetteLMB.jpg

1984, sold my entire card collection in order to buy animation art. Basically a whole bunch of T3's, T206, T205 for original Disney drawings and cels. The animation art market then went nuts in the late eighties, early nineties, so I sold everything bar two pieces and bought our house.

I have a folder with all the buy prices for the cards. It would make you weep nowadays, but same would be said for the art. No mortgage trumps all though.

Funny, just asked the Queen what she and her sister might like for their birthday. Her answer was a nite on the town in Boston that should include seats for Billy Joel at Fenway Park. Just started looking for the tix and it appears I might be selling on the B/S/T any day now ! PS as far as cars go, sold the 73 vette for a 92 then the 92 turned into a 2007 Cobalt.

Nice 2006 Corvette.

1960 MGA and 1962 TR3B both sold to corner the market on Keith Hernandez and Willie Wilson rookie cards. :D:D:D

http://photos.imageevent.com/rgold/r...hotos/car1.jpg

http://photos.imageevent.com/rgold/r...hotos/car2.jpg

I wanted to retire at age 61 instead of 62, and did a bunch of financial juggling to come up with money to get me thru that first year with no Social Security, and part of that was selling a lot of my collection.

Needless to say, its now 5 years later, and i have re-bought most of those cards over the last few years!! How many of you have re-bought cards you used to have? I bet a bunch of you guys have done that.