I collect Die-cast 1956 Ford Trucks.

 

Fire hydrants and truck parts, i have bought so many high performance parts for my truck that i don't even have time to install them all!

-Jon

 

I collect DUST, for as much as I sit in front of this damn computer. I do get dusted once a week from the wife though.

 

I love to collect die cast models! I have too many of the m though!!

 

I sort of collect Hess Trucks. My father was in the fuel oil biz for 40 years and up until the late 70s, the wholesalers would give them out to their biggest accounts and he in turn would make them my Christmas gift. After they stopped just giving em' out he/we kept buying them anyway. I don't even know how many I actually have but i'd say at least 25-30 of them. Most are still in their original box. That's the funniest thing about it....my father gave them to me for Christmas but I couldn't play with them! LOL. He must have known something because some of them are worth a few bucks.

Now that I have kids I've been buying two every year...one they can play with and the other goes in the attic. They're not what they used to be though....kind of chincy.

Natty

 

I collect model kits or anything having to do with Ed Roth. (Rat Fink) I have most of the Monsters and a few of the cars. They are being reproduced now,
but I try to find originals when I can. Other kits of 50's through 60's customs and oddities find their way into my posession also. They just have to unusual, really Other than that, I guess guitars are next. Only have five right now, but they are a little more expensive than the kits, hehehe.,,,,98

I actually plan to have a small rat fink hand painted onto the tailgate when I finally get done with my truck. Yeah, I know I'm weird

 

I collect Playtapes and Playtape players, little mini 8-tracks that came out for a couple of years in the late '60s. I have about 200 in unopened packages and another 100 opened. I finnally got my hands on a couple of Beatles titles recently. I anlso like '60's hot rod toys of all sorts including Rat Fink, plasxtic model kits of all types and die cast too. I have had many guitars but the last 5 years I have hung on to my Ovation 12 string and quit playing electric. I would like to get a Tele in the next year. Oh I have 2 mandolins too. I also have restored 3 small displacement Hond MC's from the '60's. My pride and joy is a '67 305 scrambler that I restored from a basket case. I kind of feel like I am repaying the MC gods for all of the bikes I trashed as a youth.

 

Oh yeh, it looks like I'm into vintage amps too. I recently picked up a '68 or so Baldwin proffesional just like Willie uses. Still needs some work though.

98SCREAMER. I thought about the Rat Fink on the truck too. Either that or a pirate skull.

 

I am collecting the signs that say:

Ford parking only, all others will be towed.
Genuine Ford V8 parts.

Stuff like that but they are rather expensive.

I also wanted to collect American/Canadian license plates (ours are so boring)
They sell them here on US car shows for about $7-10 (Hmmmmm)

Also asked my dealer if he wanted to save the old plates which (gr!!) are on used US imported Trucks.
But he is keeping them for himself.

If you have any plates, just send them.
For free of course.

Really, I like your plates.
Dutch plates are so boring.Yellow with black letters.

 

56fordlvr
do you have any life size 56's? that got to be my fav. of old trucks

 

I used to collect trading cards. Baseball, football, and basketball. But, I quit when they started coming out with so many different kinds. It just got to expensive. After all, I've got a truck to feed and support!

I've still got them all. I can't bring myself to get rid of them. About 10 years ago, I sold a Mickey Mantle card, and it made me feel like crap. So the rest of them will be with me for a long time. I still look at them once or twice a year. But that is it.

 

im somewhat into cards but not as much as i used to be as a kid. ive got a couple in the collection that ive had sine i was a kid(19 now, bigger kid) i started looking at them agian and slowly getting into it, and there is some much more stuff than there was before. thats why i stick to 50-mid 80's baseball cards

 

I used to buy my cards at the little Mom & Pop down the street when I was a kid. That was in the early 60's. I tried to get back into it a few years ago, but buying them in card shops was not for me. Too many people into it for money and not enough in it for the fun of it. I don't have anything against making a buck, but not when it's not fun.

 

I collect Molson Golden, preferably in 12 oz bottles, then I just recycle the bottles.

The other night I was making quite a bit of noise and woke up my wife. "What the hell are you doing down there?" she hollered. I said, "I'm trying to get this case of beer up the stairs." She then said, "Just leave it there until the morning." To which I replied, "I' can't, I already drank it!"

Seriously though. I have a collection all types of Camels. Brass, die cast, porcelean, glass, wood, etc. It started due to a giggly fit joke one night and mushroomed into a onehellofa collection. ennis

 

"I'm trying to get this case of beer up the stairs." She then said, "Just leave it there until the morning." To which I replied, "I' can't, I already drank it!"

Thanks, fourhour! That was too damn funny, LMAO,,,,98