Every year (well twice a year) i go up to zephyrhills florida for the classic car swap meet. There always killer deals on parts , memoribila , literature and of coarse lots of classic cars....
This year i decided to bring some cash with me and pick up some of the killer deals on diecast and history books ..
So not to be outdone by lowlows recent cars heres the cars i got :
1973 Eldorado Indy Pace car
1988 Audi Quattro LWB coupe
1984 Mustang SVO
1985 Fiero GT
heres some pics of the collection , some cars are tucked away right now ....
the caddy shrine
the svo
this one mccombie might love , the two baddest rally cars of the 80s:
fiero , chevy crawford and kitt
The Audi (im loving it !!)
As for the books :
1)Standard Catalog of Cadillac 1903-2005 ,this thing is awesome year by year changes and numbers its like haveing sandy in your room only without the cigar smell
2) Cadillac Allante book , basicly all the magaize articles that came out on it over the years , very interesting year by year notes ...
3) 1984-1988 Pontiac Fiero performace review
4) American Firetrucks Photo book (i love my firetrucks)
Ahhhh... Z-hills. Spent a week there in the mid 80's throwing myself from various "perfectly good" airplanes (including a 1923 Navy N3-N3) plus a little off-airport activity involving a female park ranger. :shhh: :devil:
ah :annoyed: piss on stock, its no fun. boring. so what size are all yours? i dont hardly collect 1:18, they are too big and take up alot of space. i do like the detail though. i have made a few special occasions, like Cadillac XLRs and Maserati's and Corvettes and Ferraris. but other than that... nah. i did get a Dropstar XLR in 1:24 (actually i think theirs are 1:20 but im not sure). and i got a 1:24 Big Time Muscle Corvette.
huh, our parts counter doesnt sell them, it would be cool if they did though cause id already have them. shoot they are like what 80 bucks or something? im gonna check Cadillac's website.
hey, you still got that thing from Hallmark you showed us, what was it, last year? that Cadillac/ Buick dealership from the 30s or something? i wonder if they still sell them?
and most of mine are 1/18 ...detail is what i want ....
my dad collects 1/18 indy cars from the 50s and 60s ....
reminds me i need to holler at mccombie , to see if he can get me the diecast indy turbine thats only sold there ....too bad its the small 1/40 scale ...but weve been after one for some time now
as for stock ....well one day once i have the room id like to buy about 5 EXTs , a few devilles and others and set up liek a 1/18 dealership
ok i looked at their website and it is 60 bucks... so is the V. ha suckers i got them for 49.99 and for 39.99. the V race car is 85... oh come on, overpriced. oh wait, GM duh.
now that would be cool. i am gonna make an older dealership from the 30s like the hallmark one. i got a 32 Phaeton and a 34 Fleetwood so i got two for my 30s collection. they are 1/32, i wish i could find more of the 30s model Cadillacs. that is my dream to make one of them.
ok i looked at their website and it is 60 bucks... so is the V. ha suckers i got them for 49.99 and for 39.99. the V race car is 85... oh come on, overpriced. oh wait, GM duh.
the CTS-V racecar has been a dissapointment for me .....while its detailed to the max and it looks wesome nothing opens up ....its a curbside ....but i got it becuse i like the cars so much ...otherwise i normally dont buy ....i like to open them up and look inside and everything ...
GMP's Grand Nationals are frickin sweet too , they even have keys in the iginition that dangle like the real thing ....I still havent bought one ....I know i can get them pretty easy so i passed 3 up to get the SVO which is very hard to get now
I have that Eldorado Pace Car too. They also used to have normal Eldorados thats what I really wanted but they don't make them anymore and I couldn't get one the colour I wanted so I got the Pace Car instead.
no more moves for me , parts blew my budget , and are gonna blow it more tomorrow , #2,3,4 mains arrive .....nother 130 bucks ....today parts alone was 140 ...AT COST!!!!
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The Mexican government has deemed the brewery group that produces Corona beer as non-essential.
https://www.businessinsider.com/mexico-stops-brewing-corona-beer-deemed-non-essential-in-epidemic-2020-4
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Hello... thinking about buying a 2008 DTS
Can someone decode this vin# 1G6KD57Y18U178562
It has 122,000 but a clean car. The Carfax showed it was serviced at the dealer a couple times.
Nice looking cars Thanks
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Here is a few good songs where Cadillac plays a role or is mentioned. Love every second of those.
https://youtu.be/8AEk_UMFlQk
https://youtu.be/DkS5H3Of4-E
https://youtu.be/oVEBZLrjpw4
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considering all the hoarding some people are doing, the ultimate irony happened last night on Interstate 20 in Dallas. A big rig carrying toilet paper caught fire and burned. The TP that didn't burn was rendered useless by the water. Westbound I-20 was shut down for hours.
j/k I'll make my move this weekend.
