06-17-2009, 11:40 PM
Hello all:
I've been a diecast collector since I was three (so just about 43 years). I started with the Matchbox cars of the mid-sixties and never looked back.
I currently collect different topics in different scales. I have fire apparatus in 1/64 and 1/50 and 1/32, police vehicle from 1/87 to 1/12, trucks and construction vehicles ranging from 1/87 to 1/16, buses from 1/87 to 1/50 and muscle and movie cars in 1/18.
Manufacturers in my collection span the globe including, Danbury and Franklin Mints, Code 3, Johnny Lightning, Ertl, TWH, MotorArt, IXO, White Rose, First Response, Precision Miniatures, Lane Exact Replicas, Corgi, Highway 61, Maisto, GMP and First Gear.
I live in New England, so winter is an old friend. As such, a good portion of my collection is devoted to snow-removal equipment (a collection I hope continues to grow with the likes of more new models from TWH). I'm in public safety and come from a firefighting family, so those types of vehicles dominate my collection's numbers. As a movie buff, greats such as the Bond cars (Aston-Martin, Lotus and BMW) grace my shelves along with the BluesMobile ("It's that sh#tbox Dodge again...." Tpr. Daniels from The Blues Brothers) and, the greatest vehicle ever driven by the Caped Crusader, the Barris BatMobile. My muscle cars lean towards MoPar and Shelby, but not exclusively.
I was glad to find this board and be accepted as a member of it's community.
Excelsior!
Mike
I've been a diecast collector since I was three (so just about 43 years). I started with the Matchbox cars of the mid-sixties and never looked back.
I currently collect different topics in different scales. I have fire apparatus in 1/64 and 1/50 and 1/32, police vehicle from 1/87 to 1/12, trucks and construction vehicles ranging from 1/87 to 1/16, buses from 1/87 to 1/50 and muscle and movie cars in 1/18.
Manufacturers in my collection span the globe including, Danbury and Franklin Mints, Code 3, Johnny Lightning, Ertl, TWH, MotorArt, IXO, White Rose, First Response, Precision Miniatures, Lane Exact Replicas, Corgi, Highway 61, Maisto, GMP and First Gear.
I live in New England, so winter is an old friend. As such, a good portion of my collection is devoted to snow-removal equipment (a collection I hope continues to grow with the likes of more new models from TWH). I'm in public safety and come from a firefighting family, so those types of vehicles dominate my collection's numbers. As a movie buff, greats such as the Bond cars (Aston-Martin, Lotus and BMW) grace my shelves along with the BluesMobile ("It's that sh#tbox Dodge again...." Tpr. Daniels from The Blues Brothers) and, the greatest vehicle ever driven by the Caped Crusader, the Barris BatMobile. My muscle cars lean towards MoPar and Shelby, but not exclusively.
I was glad to find this board and be accepted as a member of it's community.
Excelsior!
Mike