What else do you collect?

[boneheadandrube]

Adam:

Love those Indy Tickets! Are those difficult to find?

[sb1]

Originally Posted by boneheadandrube

Adam:

Love those Indy Tickets! Are those difficult to find?

I have a large collection of these as well.. mostly complete 1926-1996, Anyone else collect them?

[Exhibitman]

Originally Posted by boneheadandrube

Adam:

Love those Indy Tickets! Are those difficult to find?

Specific tickets can be challenging. The prewar ones are exponentially tougher than the rest but I don't much care for them because I prefer the ones where the prior year's winning drivers are depicted. That started after WWII. Rose was the first to be on back to back tickets, and his two shown here are also from years he won. His first win was 1941 and there were no races from 1942-45. 1947 was the first year that prior winners were depicted with an image on the next ticket but bypassed 1946 winner George Robson likely because he died in a crash in 1946. So Rose is the only guy shown on a ticket the year he won when he didn't win the past year. I know, too much info.

Balticfox: The Scott PC is Wendell Scott, basically the Jackie Robinson of NASCAR. On the Parkie, it's worse that that: the Rose card is from the Dynajector package of cards that was made by Parkhurst but is two-sided and larger than the regular issue cards. I also have the regular Parkhurst Rose cards, postcards and photos but haven't scanned them yet. Why Mauri Rose? Member of the tribe. Same reason I collect Stirling Moss, Jody Scheckter and Francois Cevert F1 cards, and root for Aston Martin in the current F1 (Lance Stroll).

I also like to collect drivers who have successfully raced across different circuits, like F1, NASCAR, and Indy. Andretti, Foyt, Montoya, etc.

[B O'Brien]

I am more of an opportunistic buyer than a collector of whales teeth and whaling industry stuff from the old days, like the harpoon on the wall.

I also have a handful of weather vein direction arrows around here that I have not gotten around to putting on the wall on lightning rod balls.

Also, some entry level tobacco signs, cigar boxes and advertising pieces, nothing like the other stuff shown in this thread!

Happy collecting,
Bob

[Balticfox]

Originally Posted by TheBig6

VintagevToys, mostly character tin wind ups

I love Marx playsets! I don't collect them (yet) myself, but if I did I'd be most compelled by Fort Mohawk, Ben Hur, the Prehistoric/Dinosaurs ones, the Blue & Gray Battle Set and some of the Cowboy & Indian ones.

[Balticfox]

Originally Posted by Exhibitman

Balticfox: The Scott PC is Wendell Scott, basically the Jackie Robinson of NASCAR.

I'm more swayed by his ride than by his personal details. Hopefully he did that Torino GT proud!

Originally Posted by Exhibitman

I also like to collect drivers who have successfully raced across different circuits, like F1, NASCAR, and Indy. Andretti, Foyt, Montoya, etc.

Richard Petty really stepped outside the box when he defected from NASCAR to drag racing for the 1965 season:

The Year Richard Petty Went Drag Racing - Hot Rod

But how about from another part of the entertainment industry to auto racing?

[oldjudge]

Cone seashells. Cones are a type of carnivorous snail. For collectors of Judaica, that's Cone, not Cohen.

[Exhibitman]

Yeah, Marty Robbins. Paul Newman and Steve McQueen raced too.

The King is a favorite collecting subject; he's still around and signing TTM via his museum. His true RC is the 1962 PC:



But most consider the 1972 STP card instead:



I've got it covered either way.

Drivers amaze me, especially today. Fastest I've ever had a car to is about 110; I cannot imagine 200+ mph. The reaction times these guys have, gotta be like jungle cats.

[Balticfox]

Originally Posted by Exhibitman

The King is a favorite collecting subject....

So in October 1973 my father bought us (actually me since I was the one with a driver's licence) a family car. It was a red 1973 Dodge Charger.

I quickly learned that Richard Petty drove a Dodge Charger superficially like my own on the NASCAR Winston Cup Grand National circuit and I became a wild-eyed drooling fan of Richard Petty. Here is Petty side-by-side with the Mercury Montego of David Pearson who at the time was his foremost rival:



Coincidentally our next door neighbour George Beardshaw (still alive at the age of 101 and now a Knight of the French Legion of Honour for participating in the D-Day Invasion) had a 1973 Mercury Montego and our two cars were parked less than a meter apart in our shared driveway!

Here's a writeup on George Beardshaw:

George Beardshaw - Queen's Own Rifles

[Exhibitman]

Originally Posted by Balticfox

I'm more swayed by his ride than by his personal details. Hopefully he did that Torino GT proud!

From the NASCAR HOF:

Scott wasn't the first African-American to compete in NASCAR's premier division, but he was the first to be a full-time competitor.

He served three years in the U.S. Army during World War II where he honed his mechanical skills in the motor pool. Scott started racing in 1947 and experienced immediate success behind the wheel. He won over 100 races in the next decade at local area tracks.

Scott made his first start in NASCAR’s premier series on March 4, 1961 at Piedmont Interstate Fairgrounds in Spartanburg, S.C. He made 23 starts that season, posting five top-five finishes. On Dec. 1, 1963 at Speedway Park in Jacksonville, Fla., Scott became the first African American to win a NASCAR premier series event. Scott won the 100-mile feature race after starting 15th.

Over the next 13 years, Scott would make 495 starts, which ranks 32nd on the all-time list. In his distinguished career, Scott accumulated 20 top-five finishes including eight of them in the same season he won his first career race, 1964. Scott also posted 147 top-10 finishes, more than 25 percent of the races he entered.

[TheBig6]

Originally Posted by Balticfox

I love Marx playsets! I don't collect them (yet) myself, but if I did I'd be most compelled by Fort Mohawk, Ben Hur, the Prehistoric/Dinosaurs ones, the Blue & Gray Battle Set and some of the Cowboy & Indian ones.

Thanks Balticfox. There’s so many great ones. The largest Ben Hur set is the pinnacle. I have the Alamo set because I’m a 5th generation Texan. Some of my anscestors fought for Texas Independence.

Best wishes
Jerry

[Balticfox]

Originally Posted by TheBig6

Some of my anscestors fought for Texas Independence.

Some of my ancestors were in the Roman army in Ben Hur's day.

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