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Collecting Diecast Vehicles Is A Fun Hobby For Folks Of All Ages
by: Robert Benjamin
Almost
everyone has played with diecast vehicles when they were a young
child. When I went to grade school my friends and I collected ' Hot
Wheels ' cars. We would make race tracks and construction zones in
the dirt piles out back of our school and play with the vehicles at
recess time. I remember having a holder that looked like a suitcase
only smaller, it would open and inside I had probably 20 different
vehicles, ranging from cars, to trucks and a few other things. We
would play in the dirt with our diecast vehicles, racing them, or
pretending we were construction crews, and we would dig tunnels in
the dirt, and make hills and bridges to push are little cars and
trucks around on. Probably most folks like myself lost or threw away
them diecast vehicles we had as young children, or they got lost
like all of the other toys we had when we were young. Some folks
saved there's and now days some of them are probably quite rare and
valuable to diecast collectors.
It seems that when I was a young boy, we only heard of ' Hot Wheels
', at least that is the brand that my friends and I bought,
collected and played with. Now days there are tons of different
companies and they make diecast vehicles of every kind, there are
cars, airplanes, construction vehicles, boats, military vehicles,
and more. When first starting to collect diecast vehicles, you must
decide which types you really want because there are a lot of
choices, you can collect a certain make and model of car, such as a
Chevrolet Nova, or you may wish to just collect yellow diecast
construction vehicles, or military vehicles, the choice is up to
you.
Diecast vehicles are pretty inexpensive for a lot of the new ones in
stores and for some of the older ones that are common. You can often
find them in the local drugstore or any Kmart or Walmart, and even a
lot of grocery stores have a rack or area where you can find diecast
vehicles, they often sell new for under $3.00 each, and sometimes
you can find them in a bargain bin or on sale for ' 2 for $2.00 ',
or even less.
Probably one of the best places to find a rare or missing diecast
vehicle for your collection is on eBay. Another great place to often
find rare and unique diecast vehicles at very low prices is yard
sales. I went to a few yard sales, last summer with my daughter and
I saw a lot of diecast vehicles, and many were 25 cents each and
some were less. If you look you can usually find a pile or box of
assorted toys at a yard sale, these often have numerous plastic
soldiers, trucks and cars, and some old non-clothed dolls, and if
you dig or search through these piles or boxes of old junk toys, you
can often find diecast vehicles at the bottom. The diecast vehicles
are smaller and heavier then the plastic toys, so they tend to drop
down to the bottom of the piles like gold nuggets in a stream.
Back around 9 years ago when I was still married, my wife and I
bought one of them cheap metal detectors, the ones you can get at
discount stores for around $50 or so. We went outside and in our
yard where we lived at that time, we found 7 old diecast vehicles.
Once we took them inside and cleaned them up, they were all in great
condition, despite being buried for a few years. The vehicles were
all made by ' TOOTSIE ', I looked on ebay at the time and discovered
that the vehicles were worth around $15 or more, so if you have a
metal detector, you can probably find some nice diecast vehicles for
free, by searching yards and old school grounds.
Once you start building up your diecast vehicle collection, you
should consider getting a display case to show it off. If you have
some talent and a few tools, you can easily build a display case in
your garage or workshop, or if you look on ebay they always have a
large amount of diecast vehicle display cases.
There is computer software that is made just for collecting diecast
vehicles. Anyone who has a small or large diecast vehicle collection
can easily keep track of what vehicle they have, the color,
condition, cost, value, scale and lots of other info for each record
(vehicle). This is the most easiest to use software of it's kind,
and it is made 100% for diecast collecting. The software is
described in detail and you can download a free demo version of it
at this website address:
http://www.rb59.com/diecast
By Robert W. Benjamin
Copyright © 2006
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About The Author
Robert W. Benjamin has been in the software business on the internet
for over 5 years, and has been producing low-cost software for the
past 25 years. He first released products on the AMIGA and C64
computer systems in the late 1970's-80's.
RB59.COM Software
http://www.rb59.com/software
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