What else do you collect?

[UKCardGuy]

Originally Posted by Balticfox

Where do you find most of your lunch boxes? Ebay? Or do you know of any good dedicated lunch box dealers?

And what's the lunch box with the light yellow rim with the Indians on the upper left corner?

I find my lunch boxes online. Ebay sometimes but I tend to find a more interesting selection on other sites. Being based in the UK, I'm restricted to online purchases. Saying that, I did buy my first lunchbox at an antiques fair in England.

One day, I'd love to get to a toy convention on a trip to the States where I might be able to find lunchboxes.

The lunchbox with the yellow trim is called Pathfinder. It was made in 1959 by Universal. The thermos came with a compass on the top but they're almost always missing. I was lucky to find one with the compass intact a few years ago.

[Balticfox]

Nice lunch box!

[bergenbilly0]

I find 1960 Pabst Blue Ribbon Beer vacuform jalopy Backbar Sign Milwaukee, Wisconsin on Ebay sometimes but I tend to find a more interesting selection on other sites. But i wish I could get the one a Little but cheap here.

[TheBig6]

VintagevToys, mostly character tin wind ups

[docpatlv]

Originally Posted by txaggie00

I also have a passion for Toyota Landcruisers.

I currently own this 1990 Japanese Domestic Market HZJ77 right hand drive diesel and 2024 First Edition.
Love those 70 series builds! Unfortunately they were never offered new in the U.S. market.

Hoping to add an Icon FJ44 or FJ45 in the future.

How do you like the 2024? Was considering one.

Mike

[Beercan collector]

Originally Posted by bergenbilly0

I find 1960 Pabst Blue Ribbon Beer vacuform jalopy Backbar Sign Milwaukee, Wisconsin on Ebay sometimes but I tend to find a more interesting selection on other sites. But i wish I could get the one a Little but cheap here.

Gee That makes perfect sense , I 100% believe you’re a real person

[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.

[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.

[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

[Tomi]

Just love these press photos from the original show.

[Exhibitman]

Love the OG Trek pics. Got any with the press releases attached?

[jsfriedm]

I haven't added to this collection recently, but I have a collection of old coins, particularly a lot of 18th and 19th century European silver (Hapsburg, Hohenzollern, Romanov, Ottoman, etc.), collected while spending time in Eastern Europe (back in 2003 you could get a nice silver imperial Russian ruble for $5 in Kyiv).

[Tomi]

Originally Posted by Exhibitman

Love the OG Trek pics. Got any with the press releases attached?

Unfortunately only one has it.

[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

[Michael B]

Originally Posted by Orioles1954

I'm pretty much the Anglophile who's never been to the U.K. I specialize in late-70s U.K. punk, post-punk, darkwave, Goth, new wave, indiepop, shoegaze. I also really dig late-50s rock, early 60s girl groups, mid-60s psychedelic pop and late-60s jangle/sunshine pop. I typically only collect 7" singles/45s. My collection...


https://www.discogs.com/user/indiephiles/collection

I got through twenty pages of your list. A lot of music I listen/listened to over the years. I thought I was one of the few who liked "Mandinka". My favorite song by Sinead. For the Cure my favorite early songs are "Jumping Someone Elses Train" and "Killing an Arab" though my all time favorite is "Inbetween Days"

I worked at a new wave dance club behind Fenway Park so I heard a lot of this music (Killing Joke, Smiths and others). They did have some surpise guests on ocassion. I got to see The Modettes, Chelsea and the Skatt Brothers and The Vapors in the club next door. After I stopped working there I photographed and interviewed The Fall (Mark E. Smith) and The Waitresses (Chris Butler).

Do you like The Plasics from Japan? I photographed and interviewed them at The Paradise. Saw/photographed the Boomtown Rats and Secret Affair there.

I am also a fan of Juliana Hatfield. First time I saw her I thought she was hot. Fortunate enough to see her in 2 record store shows (MA and DC). Tour with Evan Dando in Arlington, VA about 2006 and one year ago for a free show at the Kennedy Center in D.C. just after the release of her ELO cover album.

Also saw/met/photographed a few of the others - Jam, Siouxsie, English Beat, Specials, Damned, SLF, Suicide, Neighborhoods, Thrills, Unnatural Axe (w/Cheetah Chrome), X, James White and the Blacks (Contortions), Bad Brains, Dead Kennedys, Fleshtones.

Lastly, nice to see the Mission of Burma 'Academy Fight Song' 45. I still have mine from over 40 years ago. I think it is much better than "...Revolver" which most people preferred. I saw them open up for Gang of Four 1979/1980 in Boston

[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.

[alywa]

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[Orioles1954]

Originally Posted by Michael B

I got through twenty pages of your list. A lot of music I listen/listened to over the years. I thought I was one of the few who liked "Mandinka". My favorite song by Sinead. For the Cure my favorite early songs are "Jumping Someone Elses Train" and "Killing an Arab" though my all time favorite is "Inbetween Days"

I worked at a new wave dance club behind Fenway Park so I heard a lot of this music (Killing Joke, Smiths and others). They did have some surpise guests on ocassion. I got to see The Modettes, Chelsea and the Skatt Brothers and The Vapors in the club next door. After I stopped working there I photographed and interviewed The Fall (Mark E. Smith) and The Waitresses (Chris Butler).

Do you like The Plasics from Japan? I photographed and interviewed them at The Paradise. Saw/photographed the Boomtown Rats and Secret Affair there.

I am also a fan of Juliana Hatfield. First time I saw her I thought she was hot. Fortunate enough to see her in 2 record store shows (MA and DC). Tour with Evan Dando in Arlington, VA about 2006 and one year ago for a free show at the Kennedy Center in D.C. just after the release of her ELO cover album.

Also saw/met/photographed a few of the others - Jam, Siouxsie, English Beat, Specials, Damned, SLF, Suicide, Neighborhoods, Thrills, Unnatural Axe (w/Cheetah Chrome), X, James White and the Blacks (Contortions), Bad Brains, Dead Kennedys, Fleshtones.

Lastly, nice to see the Mission of Burma 'Academy Fight Song' 45. I still have mine from over 40 years ago. I think it is much better than "...Revolver" which most people preferred. I saw them open up for Gang of Four 1979/1980 in Boston

Really awesome experiences! I grew up a mid-90s indie kid who also loved punk, newwave, darkwave....all that good stuff. With that said, I still have so much love for late 70s/early 80s material. My collection has recently been focusing on late 70s/early 80s UK girl punk/new wave groups (Mo-Dettes, Raincoats, Dolly Mixture, X-Ray-Spex, Marine Girls, etc). Cool to see baseball card collectors also digging great music.

[nebboy]

Alysa - That wine cellar is magnificent!!!

[Michael B]

Originally Posted by Orioles1954

Really awesome experiences! I grew up a mid-90s indie kid who also loved punk, newwave, darkwave....all that good stuff. With that said, I still have so much love for late 70s/early 80s material. My collection has recently been focusing on late 70s/early 80s UK girl punk/new wave groups (Mo-Dettes, Raincoats, Dolly Mixture, X-Ray-Spex, Marine Girls, etc). Cool to see baseball card collectors also digging great music.

I do not collect cards. I collect Olympic photography and items related to Olympic photographers along with some tickets, programs and autographs. This is the only site where I can enjoy looking at others collecting interests and ocassionally contribute to the conversation.

If you are looking at girl groups from that period you may want to check out The Slits ("Typical Girls" & "I Heard it Through the Grapevine"). The lead singer Ari Up (Arianne Forster) was Johnny "Rotten" Lydons' stepdaughter. She died in 2010 in LA. The original drummer Palmolive (Paloma Romero) left before their first album and formed the Raincoats. She now lives about 2 miles from my wifes stepmother on Cape Cod in Mass. I just found her address and may have to send her the CD booklet from the John Peel sessions to sign if I can find a copy.

There is a good documentary on Poly Styrene called "Poly Styrene: I am a Cliché" narrated by her daughter Celeste Bell. I saw it sometime last year on tv. Lora Logic, the sax player on the singles "The Day the World Turned Day-Glo" and "Oh Bondage, Up Yours" left before their only album though they used her sax arrangements. She formed her own band Essential Logic. She also played on the Raincoats album. She is now a film maker.

For a non female band check out The Ruts ('Babylon's Burning', 'Jah Wars', 'Staring at the Rude Boys')

I believe I saw Kula Shaker 'Taatva' on your list. The lead singer/guitarist, Crispian Mills is the son of actress Hayley Mills. They are touring in the U.K. this year.

It is interesting to see 'youngsters' wearing t-shirts of the early punk/new wave bands. Plenty of Ramones shirts (Saw them 5-6 times and met them almost as many). The funniest one for me was seeing a teenager wearing a Dead Kennedys tee. I said casually "I saw them in 1980". The kid started bowing. In 2008 my wife and I were in Cabo San Lucas walking back from dinner. A guy was walking towards us wearing some punk/new wave band t-shirt, maybe Iggy/The Jam. I mentioned that I liked the shirt and saw/met/photographed the group. He asked if we wanted tickets to his bands show at Sammy Hagar's club The Cabo Wabo Cantina. Free tickets, sure. It was the band Slightly Stoopid who play a lot of festivals.

[Vintagedeputy]

Originally Posted by Michael B

Plenty of Ramones shirts (Saw them 5-6 times and met them almost as many).

When I was a kid growing up in New Jersey, seeing Johnny Ramone walking the aisles of every card show I attended was pretty much a standard thing. He was always looking to buy to add to his collection.

[Casey2296]

Originally Posted by Vintagedeputy

When I was a kid growing up in New Jersey, seeing Johnny Ramone walking the aisles of every card show I attended was pretty much a standard thing. He was always looking to buy to add to his collection.

I would love to add a Johnny Ramone owned card to my PC.

[Vintagedeputy]

Originally Posted by Casey2296

I would love to add a Johnny Ramone owned card to my PC.

I’ve never seen anything noted as being one of his cards, but here’s a related story - http://metsguyinmichigan.blogspot.co...ohnny.html?m=1

[alywa]

Originally Posted by nebboy

Alysa - That wine cellar is magnificent!!!

Thank you!

[ruth-gehrig]

Wrinkles and gray hairs

[Michael B]

Originally Posted by Vintagedeputy

When I was a kid growing up in New Jersey, seeing Johnny Ramone walking the aisles of every card show I attended was pretty much a standard thing. He was always looking to buy to add to his collection.

I bumped into him at an old UACC autograph show in NYC in the early 1990's. One of my college acquaintenances went to high school with him.

[Southpaw85]

It's not a 'collecting issue' in this home, rather a 'wall space issue'...

[jfkheat]

Fast cars. I have been into muscle cars since the mid 1970s. I have owned several over the years. I currently have three muscle cars. The first is a 1968 Beaumont SD396 that I have owned for almost 22 years. It originally had a 396 engine with 325 horsepower. It now has a 427 with 543 hp. A year ago this month I bought a 2023 Camaro ZL1 with 650 hp. Last month I bought a 2023 Challenger Hellcat with 717 hp. My daily driver is a 2024 Silverado High Country with 425 hp.

[Balticfox]

Originally Posted by jfkheat

Fast cars. I have been into muscle cars since the mid 1970s. I have owned several over the years. I currently have three muscle cars. The first is a 1968 Beaumont SD396 that I have owned for almost 22 years. It originally had a 396 engine with 325 horsepower. It now has a 427 with 543 hp. A year ago this month I bought a 2023 Camaro ZL1 with 650 hp. Last month I bought a 2023 Challenger Hellcat with 717 hp. My daily driver is a 2024 Silverado High Country with 425 hp.

That's what I like to hear! If you absolutely, positively have to drive somewhere, well you want to get to the next stoplight fast.

Do you favour one piece mag wheels? What's your choice in tires? I'm still a fan of 60 series B.F. Goodrich Radial T/A's.

Which do you prefer? Turbo mufflers or glass packs, e.g. Cherry Bombs?

[ruth-gehrig]

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=VMxjFTtTquc

Hellcat faster than news helicopter

[Alaskanmade]

I collect first edition Magic The Gathering Cards.
Fun fact: each card pictured only around 1,000 were ever produced (in the first edition).

[jfkheat]

Originally Posted by Balticfox

That's what I like to hear! If you absolutely, positively have to drive somewhere, well you want to get to the next stoplight fast.

Do you favour one piece mag wheels? What's your choice in tires? I'm still a fan of 60 series B.F. Goodrich Radial T/A's.

Which do you prefer? Turbo mufflers or glass packs, e.g. Cherry Bombs?

The ZL1 and Hellcat still have the factory wheels and tires, Goodyear and Pirelli. The Beaumont has factory style rally wheels and BFG TA Radials.

[Balticfox]

Originally Posted by ruth-gehrig

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=VMxjFTtTquc

Hellcat faster than news helicopter.

Make mine Hemi!

[jfkheat]

Originally Posted by ruth-gehrig

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=VMxjFTtTquc

Hellcat faster than news helicopter

The ZL1 and Hellcat both have a top speed of 195-200 mph

[Balticfox]

Originally Posted by jfkheat

The ZL1 and Hellcat both have a top speed of 195-200 mph

Top speed is useless for any normal purpose. It's the acceleration from zero that's the key.

[smellthegum]

Originally Posted by ruth-gehrig

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=VMxjFTtTquc

Hellcat faster than news helicopter

Grumman Hellcat faster than Dodge Hellcat. 2000 hp, top speed 417 mph.

[aljurgela]

video games, star wars figures, photos, but mostly soccer (and some F1 stuff)... I thought that I had more pictures, but these rare Fangios will have to do for this post....

[Balticfox]

Originally Posted by smellthegum

Grumman Hellcat faster than Dodge Hellcat. 2000 hp, top speed 417 mph.

Not street legal. Worse yet I can't even find an NHRA class for it.

[Tomi]

Grew up in the 80's playing arcade games and collected Nintendo NES games when that came out. I was talking to my boss about it one day and he said that he had a guy that refurbishes stand up arcade machines and loads them up with modern equipment and puts many classic games on it. This one I got from him has 4610 total games on it. Haven't played any of my Nintendo games ever since as they are on this stand up.

[Casey2296]

Originally Posted by smellthegum

Grumman Hellcat faster than Dodge Hellcat. 2000 hp, top speed 417 mph.

I used to put on WW2 fly-ins along with Ace Symposiums, seeing a Hellcat up close, watching them fly by, and talking to the old timers that flew them in combat was a magical experience.
I had many conversations with Buth Voris who was one of the the most gracious humans I've known about his combat experience in a Hellcat, amazing.
Butch started the Blue Angels after the war in 1948 with Hellcats. I miss men like him in today's society.

[Balticfox]

Originally Posted by Tomi

This one I got from him has 4610 total games on it.

[Bill77]

I have collected comic books, cards, coins, toys, and dice. The comic books are nothing special as I collected in the late 80s through the late 90s. I still have most of my original Star Wars, Transformers, and GI Joe toys, well the ones that survived that is. The things that I actively collect now are old and new Dungeons and Dragons dice, which I have hundreds of, ancient coins, and Magic the Gathering artist proofs of the original 25 artists.

[carlsonjok]

I tell folks, only half kiddingly, that my wife and I collect animals. We have a small hobby farm and have cats, dogs, and horses. Following from that, I collect horse themed pre-war tobacco cards. Mostly early 20th century British issues, but I have also completed all three Kinney Brothers sets (N229 to N231)



I started on the Allen & Ginter World's Racers (N32) but haven't really done much with it in several years, although I do have the album premium



I also help my wife with her mid-century glass collection. She started with barware and has expanded into swung vases, ashtrays, and more recently marbles. Sometimes I feel like I am enabling a hoarder since her collection is starting to consume every flat surface in our small house. But, it makes her happy and she is actively packing away the less interesting items.

[orioles70]

I started collecting cartoon glasses as a kid back in 1973...here is my Holy Grail glass...it's a Terrytoons Mighty Mouse 16 ounce Brockway glass...if interested my other 51 glasses can be seen on my Facebook page...here is a link to my Warner Brothers set

https://www.facebook.com/share/p/1FM1NRhhct/

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[Vintagedeputy]

Originally Posted by orioles70

I started collecting cartoon glasses as a kid back in 1973...here is my Holy Grail glass...it's a Terrytoons Mighty Mouse 16 ounce Brockway glass...if interested my other 51 glasses can be seen on my Facebook page...here is a link to my Warner Brothers set

https://www.facebook.com/share/p/1FM1NRhhct/

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That’s a cool glass. I don’t collect cartoon glasses per se, but I do a lot of picking and reselling. I bought these three glasses about 2 years ago for $1.00. I just thought they were vintage and cool and now I’ve got them displayed with all my other vintage stuff.