...what else are your hobbies, what else do you collect ?

One thing I like about these older toys are that they are miniatures of real trucks & heavy equipment. These days there are more imaginary stuff and they tend to stay towards then common "stereotypes", like for trucks you have generic dump trucks, firetrucks, flatbeds, etc. You don't see much niche stuff anymore. Hunting for vintage toys you get niche machines like heavy haulage ballast tractors, airport crash tenders, and even more niche stuff for the heavy equipment.

 

I have quite a lot of Hotwheels cars now as well, feel compelled to buy some whenever I see them. I never realised they do 'Premium' versions with better wheels and paint jobs, got 3 'Hillclimb Legends', they really are nice but expensive when you can't find the last 2 of the set and result to eBay!

I also, being a total VW nut(!) have a big collection of VW diecast models as well, helps that I work for a VW/Audi main dealership

 

I love those special equip machines of any kind - powerful and heavy.

Will have a look!

Cool, I and my wife used to drive a Golf MK4 - loved it.
Do you have a model of Golf II Country 4x4?
Did like those back in the day - in 90s quite a few for that not so mass production version were brought to Russia second hand.

 

I love old British lorries - Leyland, Foden, Bedford. So sad they all gone.
Oh man, now I fell for another beauty Foden S21 Mickey Mouse -
so may various models of that lovely lorry, different chassis, colours -
don't know where to look first..

 

Not that much. Have a look at these prices from the 1975 Argos catalogue.

Sorry for the grotty scan quality.

According to the Bank of England £3 is £25 in 2019 money so a set with four or five cars would have been about £12 to £15.
I you want to check out more prices https://retromash.com/argos/ is the place to go.

For old lorries there are various rallies the local one to me being The Great Dorset Steam Fair. Last time I went a set piece was them actually building a road using period lorries, excavators etc.

Needless to say it got cancelled this year

 

The thing I have noticed is that over the years there has been far more emphasis on people and less on machines. A few examples

• When I was into Lego it was before Mini-Figures had been invented. The emphasis was all on the trains, cars and buildings, which admittedly were quite abstract.
• A magazine I got aimed at schoolkids "Speed and Power" was very similar. An article on Formula 1 cars might name the drivers but the rest of the article would be on how big the engine was, how much power it developed, how quickly it could stop etc.
• Finally going back a bit further think of Steam Locomotives like The Flying Scotsman. It was the locomotive that was famous not the people who drove it.

 

I try *really* hard not to collect things. I only have 3 Walkmans and one Discman. I'm a Back to the Future fan, you can see the soundtrack in my profile pic, so that's my biggest collection. Almost every Hot Wheels release (including the Red Line Club), the 1:18 Sunstar models, a couple of POP! figures, the 1st Hot Toys Marty McFly, the Almanac scanned from the actual one used in Part 2, all the newspapers, all films on Blu-ray (both releases), DVDs (with a handful of autographs), VHSs, and even part 1 on Beta. Plus I have Part 1 and Part 2 posters signed by most of the main cast from each film (10-15 people). Missing the odd person like James Tolkan (Strickland), but have Michael on part 1, Chris Lloyd, Tom Wilson, Lea Thompson and Bob Gale on both, and Crispin Glover on part 1 which is a bit unusual as he doesn't sign autographs normally, and a few more. I also have an '81 DeLorean, '91 Talon, and '92 Jetta (and an '06 Insight as a daily). I love the 80s and 90s, but to be honest I don't want more stuff!

 

Does your DeLorean have a Flux Capacitor. Only a few days ago I was reading that there are 150 with the full Back to the Future time machine makeover.

 

There are at least 100 time machine conversions according to a group that tracks the cars. One of my friends converted his over a decade ago. We use it at Comic Cons to raise money for the Michael J. Fox Foundation for Parkinson's research. For a fee people can dress up and sit in it or stand with it for photos. When the actors attend the same shows they'll do photo ops with fans around the car.

 

Ol' good Scammell back to work..

 

Hello Everyone,
I love the collections Some my other hobbies include collecting and restoring Antique radios and tv's both solidstate and Tube related .
my other hobby and relates to my teaching job is Woodworking and I love collecting Antiques and restoring .
I enjoy working on cars also gardening .

Sincerely Rich

 

I was tidying up my computer desk in order to use a company laptop for working from home and I gathered together these from it

I think I might have a calculator problem.

I know why;

Back in 1978 I spent over a weeks wages on a Casio which I still have and was still working when last tried. Consequently when I see a better calculator for 20p (less than a minutes wages) like the Casio top right I find it irresistible. Back in 1978 if you got a calculator like that for £20 you would have thought you got a bargain, and would have been the best equipped student in the class.

The two Sharps bottom centre were bought new. I don't particularly like new calculators with their "Writeview" displays but have to check them out.
The Casio bottom left was bought from a charity shop still sealed in it packing. I guess someone got it as an unwanted present or something.

 

Apart from Sony DD Walkmans, I also have a little oldschool BMX collection from the early 80s...mostly Raleigh Burner MK1 and MK2 models.

Here are some of them:





It's really fun cruising around with

 

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I used to have the blue/chrome CCM knock off of that bike. It was brutally heavy for a tiny 10 year old kid.

 

If you are a fan of Electronics and Vintage BMXs you need a Raleigh Vektar.
https://www.flickr.com/photos/stevenbrandist/15323680572
The Retromash link to the brochure doesn't seem to work at the moment.

 

Yeah !!! This would be a great combination

 

Hello Everyone ,
I know it has been a while and hope you guys forgive me !
Here is my Latest find a little Japanese transistor radio from the 60s Zephyr Transistor Radio!
now if you look closely you might notice the tuning dial which looks to me like the Space Needle.
Maybe this was sold at the Seattle World’s fair in 1962 as a souvenir.