What Do You Collect?

I collect watches from Chris (VTC)

 

When I was younger, my dad and I used to collect stamps. I have a jar full of them back home. We then moved onto the state coins. I collect Hot Wheels, hard to resist opening them too

 

We collect DVDs.... only originals... so far (as of today) 2,115....

All either movies we enjoy, or tv series we like to watch....

We don't have satellite tv and don't watch the 'local' shows here... so about 7 years ago DVDs were the answer... and we enjoy it. My wife has a database set up, and we loan them out (we usually have 40-50 loaned out at any one time). The database is necessary, or we couldn't keep up with all the loaned out movies and shows...

Mike in Kuwait

 

1:18th & 1:64th scale Hot Wheels cars.

 

I've got a crapload of baseball, football, basketball and hockey cards. As a fan of F1 I've always collected odds and ends, but have slowly let things go. I have about 30 Monaco GP posters, but my favorite piece is my Enzo Ferrari letter.

 

I have ADD and been collecting stuff since I was a kid. My dad was a big stamp collector ad has a great stamp collection so I guess that is where I got it from.
Currently collect the following:

Vintage European Racing Motorcycles

Motorcycle Racing memorabilia Mostly ISDT and MX stuff.

Vintage American Electric Guitars

18th century French drawings

17th Century Dutch Prints

18th Century American Furniture

14th Century Asia Bronzes

Vintage Synths

Outsider Art

Records - I have over 10,000 LPs

Stopped collecting cars but may or may not get into it

 

Steve,

Would love to see some pictures of your Vintage Synths...well, and the rest of your collections... VERY Eclectic....

and.... WAY COOL....!

Mike in Kuwait

 

I collect watches (have about 60 right now)... I collect anything that I find interesting, unique, or cool. I have everything from $10 Walmart digital watches to some pretty nice ones like Omega, Rolex. I'd love to have a bunch of Pateks, AP, but I could literally spend millions on watches, so that will have to wait until I win divorce my rich future ex-wife.

I also collect 'vintage' radio control cars. I have several Tamiya Avantes, Egress, Turbo Optima Mid, Burns, etc. And I collect the associated gear (motors, radios, magazines). I have everything from NIB (new in box, never opened), to 'runners', mint condition display cars, etc.

 

1:43 BBRs & 1:64 Hotwheels. & 1:18 cars
1:1 Ferraris
Mixed Martial Arts & U.F.C, & Formula 1 DVDs
all kinds of Ferrari memorabilia (Ferrari Market Letter, Forza, Cavallino), Books, pictures,
Car Magazines
Music (over 350GB)
Music Concert DVDs
Favorite Movies DVDs
Watches

I'm a pack rat. I really collect EVERYTHING!!!!! There are probably 10 more things, Im just forgetting!
Oh yeah, Bad Religion Anything...
Autocourse F1 Books
Formula 1 Helmets
Formula 1 art
Formula 1 Programs
a collection of baseball cards (stopped collecting them though)
it keeps going... Seriously, I'm a pack Rat!!!!!

 

Great thread by the way!

 

i collect sports memorabilia, mostly baseball, but football and hockey as well. i'm constantly adding to my collection, just got another ozzie smith autograph earlier this week on a seatback from the old busch stadium, i'm going to try to get all of the living cardinal hall of famers to autograph it. i'm always looking to add more to it.

 

Since I was a kid, I collected ham radio parts and old electronic bits. And then
a few years ago I found that the tens of thousands of such bits I collected were
worth a MINT on eBay!! So starting in 2002 I began selling them off - to date I
have sold probably 20,000 of these little bits of dross - that's how I bought my
first Ferrari Old radio parts are a LOT like old Ferrari parts - totally not available,
and worth a FORTUNE to those doing a restoration. (Also lots of old audio bits,
Match Box cars, and other bits from my past).

Picture below is just a tiny sampling. But to really get the 'big picture' go to
the following link - it's a BIG picture but fun to look at. Every time I drive Sofia
I think of all these little bits of stuff that turned into one big shiny object. And I
still have tens of thousands left to sell.

Link to big version just for fun: http://tinyurl.com/n8dmz6 Be sure to
hit the '+' in your browser to go full size.
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dust.

 

Unfortunately, real estate. Want some?

 

I collect photos of other peoples' stuff I take out of magazines....


and some Mako shark jaws.

 

Vintage video games.

 

Franklin and Danbury Mint Dicast cars. Total 911 Magazine (I have all of them from the very 1st one all in mint condition) Jeff Gordon stock cars.

 

Antique Audubon prints.

Jesus fans from old churches/funeral homes.

Superposed shotguns.

 

Airport photos!

 

I bought the first issue of FORZA magazine as soon as it hit the stands and immediately subscribed. With the annual renewals, I now have a "collection".

 

Hot Wheels, mainly.

I use to collect baseball hats growing up. In college I collected bottle caps off of every beer anyone drank at the house.

 

Nice to see some very eclectic tastes in this thread !

I collect Micronaut toys from the 70s...unfortunately (or fortunately) I now have every one in every color so now they just sit in storage.

I also have a small collection of 12 original 80s arcade cabinets. if I had more space in the house Id buy more.

Oh almost forgot...I have an extensive collection of crazy ex girlfriends !

 

Wine
Watches
RL Polo shirts

 

I used to collect post cards since our family was always doing road trips. Now, I collect any scale model car and Hot Wheels. Nothing impressive by any means since I only started in the last couple years. I'm slowly trying to build up a Ferrari/Italian car memorabilia collection.