What's the best item you've ever pulled from a dealer's bargain box?

[Exhibitman]

Depends on the definition of best.

I was going through a box of miscellaneous automotive PCs and pulled the last card I needed to complete the 1962 Racing Pictorial Daytona International Speedway postcard set, which is basically the first NASCAR set. Joe Weatherly (a NASCAR HOFer):



Really, really HTF. Not very valuable, of course, but finding it at random for $0.50, well, that was a heck of a stroke of luck. As it turned out, there is still one more card I need to finish the set, Buck and Buddy Baker. Been looking for that one for about two years.

[JimC]

Originally Posted by Exhibitman

Depends on the definition of best.

I was going through a box of miscellaneous automotive PCs and pulled the last card I needed to complete the 1962 Racing Pictorial Daytona International Speedway postcard set, which is basically the first NASCAR set. Joe Weatherly (a NASCAR HOFer):



Really, really HTF. Not very valuable, of course, but finding it at random for $0.50, well, that was a heck of a stroke of luck. As it turned out, there is still one more card I need to finish the set, Buck and Buddy Baker. Been looking for that one for about two years.

That's really cool. Does Junior have a card in that set?

[Smanzari]

I found a good stack of 1962 Jellos in a Dollar box at a show a few years ago (actually thought they were Post until I got home), spent like $14 for 18, flipped for like $9800 total.

[ullmandds]

3 e94 commons for $2 ea...in the mid 90's.

[jcmtiger]

Not a card show, at a flea market in Michigan. This guy had many different items, mostly books in a large see thru case. Saw a Mickey Mantle Mini bobbing head in the case. Ask to see it, hard to get out of the case. He said if you are going to buy it I will take it out out of case. I said ok, sold to me for $35.00.

[uniship]

I can read stories like this all day long and never get tired of it.

And oh, by the way, John Ramirez is a Baller among Ballers in our little world of card collecting

[Exhibitman]

Originally Posted by JimC

That's really cool. Does Junior have a card in that set?

Junior Johnson? No. So far as I know, the set is composed of:

38087F Roberts, Fireball
38088F Lorenzen, Fred
38089F Petty, Lee and Richard
38090F Jarrett, Ned
38091F White, Rex
38093F Weatherly, Joe

I am guessing the Bakers are 38092F

The Pettys: