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Don't ask questions like that! The first step in breaking an addiction is to admit you have a problem ...... and I'm not convinced I want to do that yet
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Seriously, I only got back into slot cars about 18 months ago and now have in excess of 130 cars (all rally), so I guess I've bought around 7 a month. The collection is mainly, but by no means exclusively, pre-1987 cars.
My wife has only half an idea of the size of the collection. Partly because she's not that interested, partly because they're stashed in a chest of drawers in the spare room that she rarely goes near, and partly because most get delivered to the local shop to save me missing the postie (and thus enter the house under the radar!). I tend to play down the extent of the collection on the odd occasion that my wife comments. She did happen to open a few drawers the other day and raised an eyebrow. I'm just glad she hasn't yet clocked the overflow car park under the bed
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I've bought the majority of my cars on eBay for anything between £5 (old Focus) and £60 (Team Slot 205 ... the most expensive). Otherwise from Pendles, MRE, TopSlots etc when there's a new release I simply couldn't risk not having
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. The average is probably around £20-25.
To be fair, I am fairly addicted. What started out as a plan to collect just a handful of the most significant rally cars across the last 40 years, morphed into trying to collect the champion from each year, where available ...... and then their most significant rival(s). But, as I've collected more and more, the guidelines have been stretched way beyond breaking point, to the extent that I'm now looking to put together the top half dozen entries from specific rallies (with the aid of a few reliveries). I guess it keeps me off the streets
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Don
Seriously, I only got back into slot cars about 18 months ago and now have in excess of 130 cars (all rally), so I guess I've bought around 7 a month. The collection is mainly, but by no means exclusively, pre-1987 cars.
My wife has only half an idea of the size of the collection. Partly because she's not that interested, partly because they're stashed in a chest of drawers in the spare room that she rarely goes near, and partly because most get delivered to the local shop to save me missing the postie (and thus enter the house under the radar!). I tend to play down the extent of the collection on the odd occasion that my wife comments. She did happen to open a few drawers the other day and raised an eyebrow. I'm just glad she hasn't yet clocked the overflow car park under the bed
I've bought the majority of my cars on eBay for anything between £5 (old Focus) and £60 (Team Slot 205 ... the most expensive). Otherwise from Pendles, MRE, TopSlots etc when there's a new release I simply couldn't risk not having
To be fair, I am fairly addicted. What started out as a plan to collect just a handful of the most significant rally cars across the last 40 years, morphed into trying to collect the champion from each year, where available ...... and then their most significant rival(s). But, as I've collected more and more, the guidelines have been stretched way beyond breaking point, to the extent that I'm now looking to put together the top half dozen entries from specific rallies (with the aid of a few reliveries). I guess it keeps me off the streets
Don
