Great cars Crzy Cars, actually w could add here our last purchased items here !

Anyway i must buy that minichamps 5 series and also the 7 series, everytime i see them i love them.

By the way my two lasts cars i bought arrived to me this morning, in these case two International trucks:

Fridge one http://www.ashevillediecast.com/images/new-15903f.jpg

And another one of bottles transport
The first photo of a truck in this forum thread http://www.forocoches.com/foro/showthread.php?t=789009

Both at 1:43 scale, and they were very cheap, 9,95 each, New Ray brand, its something like Cararama quality but the price-quality is very good as some of you will know.

Cool trucks, i must show you this truck i bought in August: http://img444.imageshack.us/img444/8687/vovofmnirvingby5.jpg

1:50 Scale by Corgi, so it's fairly large.

This great 1/18 was sadly destroyed when i dropped it onto a path, i really was careless

http://img164.imageshack.us/img164/1335/1985mercedesbenz230elp1.jpg

If any of you have wondered if there is a model W140, look at this i picked up on Ebay for about 9 EUR. I'm not to fond of the red paintjob and matching wheels though, i'm tempted to change them...

http://img529.imageshack.us/img529/1340/mercedesbenz600selamgyz0.jpg

Oh, and Carchasesfanatic, you may of noticed that Minichamps do not do a M5, well look what this guy has converted his to:
http://i196.photobucket.com/albums/aa6/raidou-models/IMG_3046.jpg

Finally i want to show you what this guy can do to your models for $50. I could do this myself with a hammer, although i wouldn't want to damage any of my cars.....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q0BTrUIhiKk

Oh, i'd like to show you all this very cool feature with the Norev A6 i bought today,



Great little detail And this colour really stands out on my shelf

I collect 1:18 scale modeled cars. I haven't bought one though for about a year.

How nice that truck is CrazyCars

Nice transformation of that M5! seems very accurate.

And you destroyed your Mercedes? what a shame that incident has ahppened to me other times.

And nice S-Class! is it 1:18? well i dont like the colour that much...

And that about that guy destroying cars, i like dthe Volkswagen Cabriolet and the SL damage but as you say, i wouldnt do that to any of my cars either

No, the W140 is only 1/43, no company makes a 1/18 of it, many people are complaining because of this....

Logical, it is my favorite S-Klasse, well that one and the one before, i'd like to get a 1:18 one.

Some people pay lots of money to experts, just to get a car that hasn't been released by a top brand, and carchasesfanatic, have you seen the 1/43 W140 by Minichamps?

hmm i dont think so, but there might be some on ebay, about that of experts, in a spanish website i visit about scale models they talk about a guy that had done (as an order from a website) few units of a never released on 1:18 Seat 124 or 1430 (cant recall which one exactly right now but you know they both pretty look the same) but do you know its price?? well, hold on tight TWO THOUSAND EUROS!

You could buy an old real car for that...

Haha that's funny, someone said exactly the same in the Spanish forum.

I hope to get these this christmas:
http://www.1-18scalecars.com/0Maybach_62.htm

1/18 so it's HUGE!! (Make sure you scroll down and look at the interior!

This one looks very good too:
http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Autoart-1-18-Die-Cast-Mercedes-Benz-S-Klasse-2007-Black_W0QQitemZ320172366134QQihZ011QQcategoryZ45349QQrdZ1QQssPageNameZWD1VQQcmd- ZViewItem

And finally this:

http://www.1zu87.com/bilder/14255B.JPG

Incredible interior for the S-Klasse!! i have a CTS with such quality, you know, Kyosho, Autoart are the best ones.

Modelcar collections?…. Well, it seems the virus flowed in my blood since I was 5 years old...let me tell you that I had a brother collecting model cars and a father collecting trains and buses... therefore I felt into very early in my life as young boy with big choice of Matchbox , then Norev, Dinky-toys and Minialuxe...some time some Tekno or Marklin models....as kid, each time I got 4,50 “Nouveau Francs “ , I went to the corner bar& tobacco of my street (Cours du Médoc in Bordeaux) to buy one of the plastic NOREV on display in the tobacco shop and increase my collection...
I stopped collecting car when I was 14 around... but went back to it in the mid 80’s until 3 years ago when I decided to stop again and start to sell my whole collection (almost because I ‘ve kept some english OOscale models of buses EFE/Corgi and older BudgieToys + few 1/43 rd scale )... I ‘ve sold around 30% of my 3800 models (the rarest and highest values)... and I keep on selling them from time to time at swap meetings...
My new collection’s aim is real vehicles (veterans) , but for the moment I have not the place and have only 2 moderns car.

mm, what a shame Sixcyl, i always wodner how can anyone sell their collections when they take many many years to collect, perhaps i suddenly change my idea in a future but for the moment i wouldnt sell any of my cars at all, i think i couldnt sell the crapy ones either simply becuase theyve been with me for a long long time.

You seem to have had a collection with rare pieces, dont you regreat at any point of selling them??

To sell/to buy..that's part of life too!
Of course I regreat sometime some good and nice pieces that I know I'll never find again if I would want to...but in such a case I think about the next collection

Found in the website link sent by Ingo http://www.lostplaces.de/cms/verkehrsgeschichte/tankstellengeschichte-in-deutschland.html


It remind me this HO scale kits , one from East Germany :


1/87th scale kit from MAMOS MODELLE

the other from West Germany.

1/87th Plastic model from WIAD

About Frank Lloyd Wright gas station in Cloquet USA
...same idea with this very funny looking gas station:

Faller kit HO scale of the sixties

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Your attention to and preservation of model and box condition is impeccable. You may want to talk to a local museum, such as one devoted to transportaion or science, to see if you can get space for your collection. I would surely visit such a place if ever I was in Europe. Please don't sell these!