The "This will cost you an hour of your life" thread

So here's my entry: Autoart Car models

FB Page: https://www.facebook.com/pages/AUTOart-models-Official/172028929488815

Website: http://www.autoartmodels.com/en/

Teaser:

See you in an hour.

Good God...

I'd really love to buy just one of these to say I own one, but I have a feeling that's like saying "I'm going to smoke just one rock of crack".

I bought a few AutoArt 1:18's a few years back. They were on a website called GoMotorBids(They went out of business) and I think that I paid no more than $7 for each. They were boring(ish) cars but they were AutoArt and I wanted them. I got a S2000, a late model Celica, a Saturn SC2 and a Saturn Vue. Thats right, a Saturn Vue. Also a MR-S and a 350z.

I had to stop looking. I am not picking up the crack pipe right now. I've got a thing for 1:43 but do NOT need to be buying more right now. That place will be getting money from me soon though.

I have a few Autoart cars, they're very nice. A few years ago they came out with a 1:18 and 1:43 models of a BMW M535i, just like my real one. The 1:43 is pretty basic but the 1:18 has a lot of detail.

Jerks don't have any Jensens. Sigh.

There's also this:

Cool cars!

They have thousands of cars including a HINO Dakar rally cube van. .. about the most obscure vehicle I can think of.

Yet… no mention of any Triumph product.

I think that more or less says a lot about Triumph

Dammit, I've fallen down that rabbit hole before so i knew what that link would lead to....and I clicked it anyway. I've been wanting a Steve McQueen Porsche 917 for a while. I'm glad they were out of stock or else I might have some 'splainin to do.

whew that was close. They didn't have Delta Integrale HF evo.

I've got the 1:18 D-Type. It was the first Xmas present I got from the woman that is now (of course) my wife.

Lancer007 wrote: Dammit, I've fallen down that rabbit hole before so i knew what that link would lead to....and I clicked it anyway. I've been wanting a Steve McQueen Porsche 917 for a while. I'm glad they were out of stock or else I might have some 'splainin to do.

I have one. The damn cat knocked it off my desk and broke off the rear aileron.

In reply to Lesley:

I am afraid of that happening to me as well. I've come home to find the Carrera GT or one of the 911s laying on the tile on its roof.

Nuh uh. I started ordering Herpa 1:64 cars when I worked at a hobby shop, and as neat as they are, what do I do with them?

It would only serve to displace $$$ I could be using on bicycles/motorcycles/music gear/car stuff/tools that I can actually play with. Not to disdain anybody who actually vrooms these things around on their desk, in which case they're getting more of their money's worth...

In reply to Ransom: Hmmm. Good point. I have no problem vrooming the $35.00 Miasto's, the above Jag, maybe not so much. That said, I do mentally take the Danbury Mint Shelby I have behind my desk for a spin where there's a little too much blah blah blah going on in the office.

I only buy 1:43 and I only buy race cars. That way they don't take up too much room, and I can still hold on to the delusion that I could one day own a life-sized version of a street car, no matter how rare.

Maroon92 wrote: I only buy 1:43 and I only buy race cars.

That's what I do. I have a couple of 1:24 models but the 1:43 are awesome because of the plastic case they come in.

Damn those booths at ALMS races... that's what got me started.