What do you collect (not necessarily hot rods)

bills...old junk and hangovers.

 

Shhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!

xxx
Brandy

 

Long time collector here from a long line of collectors. I come by it honestly.

Most of you would be insensed if I told you that collectors can be "cured" by medicationsuch as Prozac. I've seen it happen.
Too scary to contemplate.

Curently collecting/fighting for space is the Fine Art on the walls, lithography, serriograph and oil both abstract and representative. Inherited from my father who was, yes, a collector supreme.

I've got a garage of mopar stuff loosly organizedinto car like shapes.

Books, Real trashy paperbacks "Commie Sex Bomb" for example.

I'm more interested in in Ephemera these days. Fragile stuff like paper, letters, pamphlets, vintage photos.

I found a bunch of womens wrestling photos from the 20'-40s. There really was a "professional" organization.

Owners manuals and operating instructions for various vintage machines.

Build plates from old machines. Often these are brass and have lots of dtail etched into them. I have one from a Gherlinger lumber carrier. If I can ea way to photograph it I'll put it up.

New York City stuff circa 1930-1970

I am always looking for vintage maps. Especilly of areas that I'm very familiar with. It is instructive how much real estate or streets disappear or are created at the cartographers whim.

Vintage neon and vintage advertising.

I've disposed of the very large nmatchbook collection, the stamp collection and the very cool swiizzle stick collection.

I was an avid baseball card/yearbook collector until it became just a dollar game. The hell with that.

I have a small but stylish collection of sport coats. And wingtip shoes. I forgot about those. Johnson Murphy's.

I'll collect anything 57ish Mopar ie ads, manuals, catalogues, interoffice memos flotsam and jesam.

 

I collect 'Paint by numbers' but only the really really good ones!

 

Beer cans. 12 ounce size that I've drank by punching a couple of holes in the bottom and sucking the beer out. Try going into a bar and ordering a beer in a can and ask the bartender for an ice pick or phillips screwdriver and then punch two holes and drink the beer out the bottom. It's always good for a couple of stares from someone down the bar.

I now have over 3,000 different cans from all over the world that I've tasted the beer from.

 

I collect old bellows type cameras , hand held movie cameras & projectors.

Old cars that I probably will never build too.

 

Ears.

 

So! You're the rascal that stole my roof! My old pig hyde has been getting wet from the rain and slop ever since that roof disappeared. For Shame.

I collect '53-'54 Packard hubcaps, some old tools, and misc. junk. "Call me weird; call me a pervert; that's just the way I get off". (Boogie Nights)

pigpen

 

Including my lil black Triumph car. Ready to sell it yet??
xxx
Brandy

 

I collect all kinds of old crap, mostly automotive or tools. Hoarding shit bores me, I just like finding it, so my collections are rotating. I do have about 40 cast iron skillet ashtrays and #3 skillets on my kitchen wall.

 

That looks kinda familiar, unrestored.


and I almost forgot, my grandpa was a minor league player in the 30's in Bay City, MI, and was teamates with Vic Wertz. There were close friends even after my g'pa quit and Vic went on to the bigs. Vic would bring gramps with him in the locker room and introduce him to the guys once in a while. Here are the baseballs my granfather had signed, one from the '51 Detroit Tigers, the other the 1949 All-star American league players, 'cept gramps brought a national league ball with him, they signed it anyway. These are NEVER leaving me.

 

grease. and i protect it from theives by storing it under my fingernails.

 

BTTT Old guns, especially military. Fasinating why they were made & where/what they been doing. Coke stuff, tried hemis, ran out of room Still have my model cars from elem. school days.

 

I seem to be picking up a lot of old PLUMB tools if the price is right.....I think it would be cool to have a good set for in the back of the hotrod.....

 

EX WIVES

 

Alcohol. It's a little tricky to hold though, so I drink it first and carry it around with me.

 

According to my wife, I collect dust.

 

As long as Brandy isn't collecting ice picks under her bed, she would be the perfect woman.

!958-1960 Impala sterring wheels, got 5, Weind sbc finned aluminum valve covers, 4 sets, rock art posters, I was buying Coops stuff b4 he got famous, Kozik, Griffin, Rbt Wlms, McPhail. Hubcaps, T-shirts, over 200 at last count.

 

I have a small collection of signs, original and reproduction...









TTYL.

Later, peace...

Troy.

 

I collect both early and current 1:25 plastic models.......and then......I......build them. I have about 300 built and 300 unbuilt. I got out of it for a few years when my kids were young but now have a 5 going at once waiting for the paint to dry.

Craig

 

I collect TICKETS... LOTS OF THEM. and WARANTS. No I dont have a liscense. Maybe not valuable, but this collection sure cost me the most $$$$ These tickets are only half of what I have. I quit collecting them whae I was 22. I'm 29 now.

JD

 

Besides most anything automotive, I have collected Soda Pop Bottles (about 400 of them) Albums (about 400) and CDs (about 300). And also interesting junk.

 

Ice picks? Eww very Basic Instinct!

Nah not me. I swear it!

xxx
Brandy

 

I have managed to collect a dozen or so car realted zippo lighters. I am not much of a collector...I think it is time to Ebay them and start on something else.