my 1/64th addiction

moparmat2000 said
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.