I have been slowly building my racing odds and ends collection. From Miss WInston to contingency stickers and NASCAR magazines with the 71 car on them. At one point, I had one of the largest privately held antique radio collections in the country but I had to thin that heard. I still have a few, but not nearly like I did. At any rate, I am decorating the new office. Nevermind the cat post. :) My wife collects stray cats.
Children? They're all my own......so far.......
Antique cast iron cookware.
Among other things:
Old car magazines (mainly Hot Rod, I have them back to 1952)
Old Popular Science magazines from the 1920s through 1960s
Model cars, mostly 1:25 scale AMT Pontiacs from the 1960s
Old vacuum tube table radios
Diamond Calk and Diamalloy tools, made in Duluth, MN
Birthdays. I get one every year. Up to 62 so far, planning to expand the collection.
Showed this Mrs. Floating Doc, she suggested: "trophy wives". She's my first. My reply was, "Yes, one and done." 25 years together, 23 married.
Parts to cars I no longer own. Anyone need random BMW M42 engine stuff?
50s power tools, broken cars, and awesome memories of the places ive been/things I've done/people I've met/experience with my family.
Im helping my 9 year old collect the souvenir squished pennies and junior ranger badges.
It's not that I collect cars, it's that people keep offering them to me and I don't know how "no" works.
In reply to BlueInGreen - Jon :
I have Datsun parts. No Datsun.
I collect emotional stuff my parents and grandparents left behind. My dad’s drafting tools, fishing stuff, his antiques, old home movies, and my grandfathers stuff he made as a woodworker. My Italian grandma’s sausage stuffer and her pasta machines.
General stuff I can’t throw away. My grandfathers 1930 Lindblom High School year book.
Mechanical Clocks.
I've got about 40 of them ranging in age from the 1890s through the 1950s.
I just picked up another one last week.
It's a Simples Time Recorder from the 1920s.
Similar to this one.
Cheap 90s Nissan 200sx(s). Only two as of now but if I ever get the space and scratch.
HPDE championship trophies.
Weirdo Italian motorcycles, and apparently guitars. And according to my wife I also seem to provide homes to Needy Vehicles.