my 1/64th addiction

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One of my earliest memories is picking out a new Matchbox car at the local Capps drugstore from a rotisserie type display. You picked it out, then a clerk took it out of this wooden drawer box where they were kept. This would lead to many hours of racing it around a oval throwrug like a racetrack or any other surface around the house. My Mom says that from the time I could walk, I always had at least one in my hand at all times. Fast forward 40 odd years and our local Dollar General had Muscle Machines for a dollar, which I could afford and the bug bit again. Then I discovered the M2 line of Mopar relicas then I had a serious problem. One of the problems was how and where to display them. I searched CL for some time before finding this late 40s-early 50s deco style cabinet that at some point is going to be transformed into a Sinclair Dino themed gas station type cabinet. I intend to make the top shelf a dealership with the 73-4 Charger as the new model to honor the 1-1 scale version in my life. The second shelf has a urban city theme with brick walls, checkerboard floor, graffiti and mini superheroes and villians duking it out around the cars. The third shelf is a dragstrip complete with a timing tower and JL Christmas tree. I want to build bleachers ,a burnout dividing wall , pa speakers, burn out marks and some lighting. I'm working on putting vintage drag cars in it and trading out my Muscle Machines. They and some others are going in this really cool Sikkens cabinet that used to hold our paint alternates at our other shop. I'm also looking for some appropriate scale people to populate this with. They are awful expensive. The bottom of the cabinet has doors that hold my John Deere toys I had as a kid, my collection of tech articles for my 1-1 scale Charger(sorry no A Body:D) and misc. supplies. The top (OMG) is a place for everything right now. You may also notice the license plates off some of our cars of the past, a Stomper Dodge pickup that my girlfriend(now wife of 25 years ) gave me, little tractors and some other cool emblems off new Mopar products. The cabinet has 1/4 inch sliding glass doors, which I took off for pics. Among the pics are some custom M2 favorites, I have. I like to change them up which is easy to do because they screw together. My custom Panther Pink wrecker is my favorite. All chassies on the truck interchange, so all mine have chrome wheels, tanks and dual stacks even if not available.I was glad to find this forum on here and thought I would post some pics an 'fess up." My name is John and I have an addiction to 1/64 scale autos......":burnout:
 

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NICE! I don't get into the whole Diecast stuff, but I have to admit, I do enjoy looking at it, you guys have a lot of nice ones that I've seen on here so far!

I have to say tho, I'd probably buy a '70 Super Bee if the chance so happened....
 
Really nice John, I may have to come see if for myself sometime soon.

I have an addiction to any size diecast Mopar. I have alot of 1:64 Mopars I still havent got displayed bcuz Im out of room on my shelf. I had an old Walgreens display cabinet that spun chocked full of my cars. I could hang them on the outside of the cabinet as well like they hang at the stores. I have a big rubbermaid tote full of Mopar JL,hot wheels & Muscle Machines 1:64 unopended.
 
Im not trying to hijack your thread but, My wife hates to take me to any store because I instantly run to the toys and go thru all the cars, shes like you are like a kid with these hot wheels! Haha I have always been into hot wheels for as long as I can remember.

When I was in high school I worked at the I-57 drag strip on saturday nights and the owner paid us cash and his brother started selling JL diecasts by the concession stand and I would get off of work and blow my money I just got on JL cars!

My wife and her mom had went yard saleing and she bought a BIG box of toys for her daycare and I was right along with my kids digging thru the box and getting out all the Hot Wheels I wanted before it got to the daycare kids! Hehe:glasses7: there probably 100 hot wheels in this box and I only got 2 Cars out of the whole box.
 
Cool collection John! Nice display too. Glad I could help you with your "addiction"! :cheers:
 
Cool collection John! Nice display too. Glad I could help you with your "addiction"! :cheers:

I hope the other guys name is John, also....As thats NOT my collection! (I am not into collecting Diecast, yet, and don't see to much of it in the foreseeable future....)
 
Yep, his name is John too! Those die cast are addictive! Trying to thin out my stash!
 
He thinned out my play money too! But the deals were too good to pass up. Some rainy day for something to do ,I'm going to rip open all those A100s and let them live at my dragstrip!
 
OK Thought for a minute someone thought they were mine (I'm John as well) At least, thats my name but been called worse.....
 
hi John,

nice collection, i too am an addict. i collect 1/64th die cast cars and trucks. i have a collection of M2s i love the muscle cars, auto thentics, and the autohaulers series. these things are great, and the detail and working features are fantastic in this scale look for the cars in the plastic cubes, as they are stackable and display well.

check out pix of my M2 collection, its on another thread in this forum. every time my family and i go travelling, my wife looks for walmarts so i can go check their toy aisles for M2s i dont have.

i collect up hot wheels too. i also have started my little boy whos currently 2 on hot wheels dollar cars, i usually buy 2 of each car i like give him one to play with, and stash the other one in a box unopened.

i have played with and collected these from the time i was a little tyke, some day i will give him my collection when he is old enough to understand the value of these if left in the packages. i have vintage red lines from the 60s and 70s i am holding onto for him.

Matt
 
hi John,

nice collection, i too am an addict. i collect 1/64th die cast cars and trucks. i have a collection of M2s i love the muscle cars, auto thentics, and the autohaulers series. these things are great, and the detail and working features are fantastic in this scale look for the cars in the plastic cubes, as they are stackable and display well.

check out pix of my M2 collection, its on another thread in this forum. every time my family and i go travelling, my wife looks for walmarts so i can go check their toy aisles for M2s i dont have.

i collect up hot wheels too. i also have started my little boy whos currently 2 on hot wheels dollar cars, i usually buy 2 of each car i like give him one to play with, and stash the other one in a box unopened.

i have played with and collected these from the time i was a little tyke, some day i will give him my collection when he is old enough to understand the value of these if left in the packages. i have vintage red lines from the 60s and 70s i am holding onto for him.

Matt
I already checked out your thread, that's what prompted me to do this one. M2's are awesome. They need to do some of the Mopars that nobody seems to get right like the Duster and Dart. Their 70 Bee is dead on. The Autohaulers are my weak spot. I hate to pass up the different ones, but they are almost $20 a pop! :sad10: The guys at work give me hell for taking them out of the package but I told them I have to because the exhaust fumes will build up and fog up the package! That's great to start the little one out early. My daughter has a small collection even though I kept her as far from cars as possible. Our Walmarts have a small car mafia that know the instant the cars are put out so the pickings are thin. I've bought a few off Diecast Alley, they are cheaper on the new ones if you order a few at a time. I limit myself to Mopar only but I fail when something like a 75 Cutlass or 64 Chevy pickup comes along. I'm trying to snag a deal on the IH 65 pickup that Greenlight put out. They are cars from my past and I learned to drive in an ol' IH like that. I had a few redlines from my youth but sold them to pay off bills one time. It was that or a kidney. Mine had some serious "played with" issues. These little cars are fun, relatively inexpensive and nobody loses a eye when you play with them. That's all my wife asks of my hobbies.
 
M2 castline just came out with 50 years of Hemi in 1/64 th scale. theres 3 plymouths and 3 dodges. i was justat walmart an hour ago, bought all 6, and took the display box they came in LOL. it was a bit pricey, but we have a walmart mafia here in abilene too. the cars are all metallic white with Hemi orange stripes, and a 50 years of Hemi logo on each roof

1971 charger R/T
1969 charger daytona
1966 charger

1968 barracuda superstocker
1971 hemicuda
1969 roadrunner
 
....You bastards! LOL Its beginning to rub off!

I got a "new" Matchbox sized Chally today from the Dollar Tree.....Can't beat it with a stick for a buck. (I'll get pics as I have time too)

Got a "little" collection going.....
 
Hi John,

My name is Vic & I am a diecastaholic.

I collect 1/43 & 1/64 diecast post WWII American cars. Got close to 1000 diecast cars & trucks. [Matchbox, Hotwheels, Corgi, Dinky, Brooklin, Franklin Mint. etc. etc.]

Good thing we don't have kids because I'd choose feeding my addiction over feeding my kids. LOL
 
M2 castline just came out with 50 years of Hemi in 1/64 th scale. theres 3 plymouths and 3 dodges. i was justat walmart an hour ago, bought all 6, and took the display box they came in LOL. it was a bit pricey, but we have a walmart mafia here in abilene too. the cars are all metallic white with Hemi orange stripes, and a 50 years of Hemi logo on each roof

1971 charger R/T
1969 charger daytona
1966 charger

1968 barracuda superstocker
1971 hemicuda
1969 roadrunner
Awww mannnn, I have wanted to take the display box so bad but I was afraid somebody would say something! I always chuckle because the M2 cars are always in a mess and I've even heard the clerks gripe about having to straighten it up. If they only knew it's not LITTLE kids that are making the mess, it's the BIG ones. Get this, one night I was out at Walmart about 3:00 in the morning and they were stocking the shelves. So in my most "hey buddy you want to make an extra dollar" manner I asked the stocker if he was going to stock the cars soon and could I see what he was putting out. He says, "I'm not going to stock that part for a couple more hours and I'm not bringing out the cars till then, so you will have to show up tomorrow morning with all the other crazy guys". We have a guy that comes to the shop that actually has a written schedule what day and time the stores put the cars on the shelf! I'm not that bad thankfully.
 
LOL you guys!

Yeah, its contagious!

I started out with a dollar habit at Dollar General and progressed to a $6 dollar m2's and finally hit rock bottom with a every trip to Walmart $16 dollar Autohauler. I really started to see I had a problem when I stayed up late nights surfing the internet for different color 70 Superbees and 69 Roadrunners, making sure I cleared my search history each night so my wife wouldn't find out. I even got so low as to sneak the cars under the groceries and then lie at the checkout about how it got in there. It's a downward slope when you experiment with dollar cars so watch out. It can be ADDICTING........
 
I started out with a dollar habit at Dollar General and progressed to a $6 dollar m2's and finally hit rock bottom with a every trip to Wall-Mart $16 dollar Autohauler. I really started to see I had a problem when I stayed up late nights surfing the internet for different color 70 Superbees and 69 Roadrunners, making sure I cleared my search history each night so my wife wouldn't find out. I even got so low as to sneak the cars under the groceries and then lie at the checkout about how it got in there. It's a downward slope when you experiment with dollar cars so watch out. It can be ADDICTING........

Yeah, your not kiddin, its a "habit".....I'm at every trip to ANY Wall-World to see what 1/24th and 1/25th scale models they have SO in the SAME isle, is this stuff too! Die-Cast and God only knows what else, I have had a habit of looking for the 1/87th cars as I truely am a model railroader and model it in 1:87th to 1 scale Pretty little until you think of the size of "layout" you need.... then its a whole OTHER ball game! Merely, I'm taking a break from it, I've been an avid modeler for all of my life so.... .BUT the diecast stuff, specially the "little" Hot Wheels, and Matchbox sized stuff, has grown on me a bit.....

So yeah, its a effin disease!!!!! Like thats all I need LOL :banghead:

BUT its fun!:cheers:
BUT its fun!:cheers:
BUT its fun!:cheers:


.....now to just get the wife to agree and I'd be all set!
 
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