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Goodies to go with your car?
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Rick
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PostPosted: Fri Sep 06, 2013 12:06 pm    Post subject: Goodies to go with your car? Reply with quote

What goodies, ie accessories - books - posters - models etc, have you so far been able to track down to go with your car?

Do you insist on, say, a model being the same colour as your real-life example, or are you happy to just find any model of your car, regardless of finish?

Or is it all a bit too obsessive, this collecting lark?

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PostPosted: Sat Sep 07, 2013 2:46 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

For my 1966 Volvo Sport, I have all its original paperwork, right back to the original Colorado registration document,
and first owners Volvo credit card.
I have also collected more than 50 original accessories for it.
All are geniune Volvo items, made for the 121/122/123 during the 60ies.
Many years ago I made a Tekno Amazon that look like my car.



For my Wood & Pickett, have I found a genuine WP keyring.
I collect 8 track tapes (a few) together with WP brochures & old magazine articles.
As the car is built by 2 companies, I also collect JanSpeed stuff.
Simon Lee who built the car, gave me his cufflinks, and a JanSpeed keyring.
He also gave me 2 original badges, who now sit on the car.
They are the same size as the tiepin (upper LH corner)



I dont have any model car of the WP/JanSpeed.
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PostPosted: Sat Sep 07, 2013 8:02 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

I have seven different models of the Riley One-Point-Five and will shortly be getting one in the colour and with the correct wheels of my real car (I hope, I've a birthday in November). My model collection isn't One-Point-Five specific; I have about 120 models of Riley cars, about 30 of which are unbuilt white metal or resin kits.

Then there's the badges, mascots, trophies, books, paintings, manuals, magazines, brochures and photos....
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PostPosted: Sat Sep 07, 2013 8:13 am    Post subject: Re: Goodies to go with your car? Reply with quote

Rick wrote:


Do you insist on, say, a model being the same colour as your real-life example, or are you happy to just find any model of your car, regardless of finish?


RJ


My wife bought a model of my car for me which I gave to the Bodyshop so they could match my car to the model, it would probably have been cheaper to paint the model.
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PostPosted: Wed Sep 11, 2013 8:20 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

I've not gone out of my way to look for Volvo PV stuff as yet, but this Combiplay 444 turned up and was bought from Portugal recently.



Nothing else bought relating to it since then though, although a handbook would be handy Smile

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PostPosted: Fri Oct 04, 2013 11:14 am    Post subject: My collection Reply with quote

Key rings for all three.
A couple of photos of the two Austins.
Small cast white metal models of all three.
British Motor Industry Heritage Trust certificates for the Morris and A35.
Copies of the original tax discs for the Morris and A35.
Some bl**dy greedy previous owner sold the Austin Seven's original registration! Wish the govt/DVLA would do something useful and ban this from taking place, it destroys the car's heritage!

Geoff - Still fixing the lathe I did a nasty to, by bending a shaft in the Apron.
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PostPosted: Fri Oct 04, 2013 7:58 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

I have an original workshop manual, the original handbook, and several full page adverts. I also have the American registration document and an invoice for it's last service in America. Plus a couple of key rings. I also have a Cadillac crest (from a later model) mounted on a wooden plinth sitting on my computer desk
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PostPosted: Mon Oct 07, 2013 10:37 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

I'm a bit obsessive like that - for the Firenza I have the press photos, both editions of the sales brochure, the dealer information pack (though I think there are some bits missing), the owners handbook and two copies of the parts manual - one in printed form, the other on microfiche. I don't have to worry about colour as they're all silver.

For the Sportshatch, again colour is not an issue but then neither is anything else - as it wasn't a promoted model (they were all sold to dealers for promo use) there is no brochure, no handbook, all I have is a press photo from when the first (silver) one was shown at the 1974 motor show.

I did think I was doing quite well, until C&SC featured one of our club members who has cabinets of related stuff, even housed in two ex-Vauxhall Motors filing cabinets. He has a 1/8 scale model (used to test the nosecone), some unreleased press photos from the proposed Mk2 Firenza, and a load of other stuff. Oh, and a (late) father who worked in VM and so had all the contacts. Still, at least it stopped me obsessing about trying to have the best collection of 'stuff'.
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