Car Magazine Flea Market Jackpot

im still lookin for pre july 1950 hot rod if anyone feels the need to share.

 

I gave away over 1000 magazines this summer to a hamber..who should enjoy em......kept my RJ collection and my R&C's.....but I found this bike a few weeks ago....1970 triumph 650 tr6c....original one owner....and the odometer says 730 miles....still has the tires it came with and they look new. I won't say what I paid.....too many computers with teardrops is a bad thing.

 

I must have got real lucky, cause I got about 50-70 of these from my dad for free. Mostly 55-62, but a few earlier. Mostly Rod & Custom, Car Craft, Rodding and Re-Styling, & Customs Illustrated I think. I haven't looked at them in a while. My dad was mostly into customs. There is one Hop Up. I've wanted to add to the collection, but when I see them they are usually $5.00 and up. Not enough for me to sell, but too much for me to buy.

 

Please see my post from yesterday looking for an issue of Car Craft that featured my Dad

 

So, Ladies and Gents, what would you consider to be a fair price for the little R&C's?

For Hot Rod?

 

I saw the post yesterday. My Car Crafts are all from the 50s and 60s.
However, I will keep an eye peeled in my future hunts.

 

Fair price? Whatever they are worth to you. That's how free markets operate.
Nobody forces you to sell and nobody forces you to buy. It's all by voluntary agreement. That's the fairest way to deal.

For myself, I try to limit my spending in the range of $1-3 for any magazine. Occasionally I will go over the limit for something special, but generally I am prepared to walk away when the price is over my limit. Remember that magazines were printed by the thousands. There will always be another copy somewhere else. You just have to wait for the right one at your price.

Besides, hunting is half the fun!

 

Please Note: Out of respect for each other it was decided long ago by popular sentiment that HAMB members would dispense with this specious and annoying boilerplate preamble.

Continue, please.

 

Several years ago we went to M***achusetts with our son and his wife to celebrate our anniversaries.While we were there,I ran into a friend of mine I hadn't seen in some time and in the course of our conversation,he asked if I knew anyone who was interested in some old car magazines.
I told him I would be but as we had flown out and were on our way to the airport,I would try and look at them when I came back in the fall.
A couple months later my wife comes out to the garage and asks what car parts I had ordered as there are two huge boxes on the front steps that FedEx has just dropped off and she can't move them.
I hadn't ordered anything so I go out to see what it is and I see the return address on them.I can't move them either so I open them up on the front steps and inside there are cubic amounts of old car mags! One box has large mags and the other has nothing but small ones!
I look at the box and see that it cost $151.00 to ship all these things! I call Bob and offer to pay for them and he says no he just wanted to get them out of his cellar.I offer to at least pay the freight on them and he says not to worry;his oldest son works for FedEx so they didn't cost much to ship.
I go through them and there are several first issues of smaller mags and most are in really good shape.A month later I get ANOTHER box of small mags by FedEx with a note saying that he just found these in his attic!
Sort of makes up for all the ones I had as a kid and when I went into the Navy in 64 they all got tossed.

 

i bought a big stack of 50s rod and custom last weekend at a swap meet and they were very nice condition at 3 bucks a piece. there were a lot of folks selling them but 3 bucks was the cheapest

 

Gaaaaah! And thank you!


I was wondering because I overpaid for one that I just had to have but wouldn't pay as much for a large amount.

Yes I agree, hunting is half the fun. Plus these are way better than baseball cards.

 

I have collected car mags for my personal enjoyment for many years.back in the early sixties our local paper used to offer free swap shop ads,and a friend and I saw an ad for magazines.We traded a crosman pellet gun and a worn out 22.pistol for a big box of 50s and early 60s car mags.I still have most of them in the attic.{the guy we traded with is MIA in viet nam} I got another large box of mags from a friend who decided to leave snowy pennsylvania for sunny california.I paid $20.00 for a box that I could hardly carry by myself. a few months later myfriend decided cal.wasnt the paradise he thought and he came back home. I have also got some mint 1950s mags out of the recycling bins{my wife would kill me if she knew I was a dumpster diver} they changed the bins so now it is hard to retreive any goodies. seems they always take away all the fun!{

 

I was vending at a small indoor swap meet last March and was next to a couple of antiquers that I kinda know and am friendly with. I've sometimes given them parts that I've taken off my cars and don't need any more, rather than throw them away.

Anyway, during the meet, we took turns watching each other's spots while the other one took a walk thru the swap meet and after my turn, I came back to my space and showed one of the vendors next to me a few little books I had bought. The guy asked me if I collected them and when I said "Yes", he pulled a stack of them out of a box and gave them to me - wouldn't accept any money at all !! He said he had been a rodder during his checkered youth and although not too interested in rods any longer, wanted the mags to go to someone he knew that would enjoy them !! There were 36 little books in his stash- old R&C's, Car Craft, Rodding & Restyling and Speed & Custom. Made a great addition to my collection.

Moral: It pays to be friendly with everybody. You never know what lurks beneath the surface of an antiquer !!