by Retro Racer 44 » Tue Apr 14, 2015 11:13 pm
I raced both 1/24 and 1/32 back in the sixties, and all the cars I owned would fit in my race case (about 8 or 10 depending on size). I built my own cars, so if I finished a new one, to make space I sold one of the old ones, which in turn gave me money to buy parts to build another...
When I got back into it about 4 years ago, I started collecting enough cars to have one for each class we run (about 8). When I realized that some times a car has a problem during the races, I started to add one or two cars for each class. Gifts from friends and family soon got my collection to the point that I could not carry them all in my case.
I now have about 70-80 cars. They are all racers, and I change which cars I take to racing each week. A couple years ago I go back into scratch building, mainly to try to be competitive in proxies. I now have a couple of scratch built cars for each class, and have either sold some plastic chassis cars, or put brass chassis under them. About 1/2 of my collection is now scratch built. The last plastic car I bought was the Sam Posey #77 Challenger. I won a Ford Capri for winning a proxy, and kept it for a while without opening it. Finally I did open it and wished I hadn't. It's going to get one of my next scratch built chassis.
I also won a Carrera Group 5 Kafer VW, but it is a great little car just as it came out of the box.
I own NO shelf queens.
Cheers,
Keith