I started collecting all kinds of toy car since when i was 3 years old, i pursue to buy all model of cars from trucks.buses,airplane,jeepneys, small cars even a big cars.
My second favorite is lamborgini, it is color yellow gold nice setup,full metal,and nice tire.I am addict collectors of different brand also such as Toyota, Honda, Mazda, Porsche, Mercedes Benz, Mitsubishi, Nissan, Wagon, Audi & Chevrolette.I want to join a competition in most beautiful setup of toy cars and offcurs i want to be a real thing because i want become famous drug race in the world.
Ron Sturgeon and Rodney Ross discuss collecting rare toy cars, including early tin, wind-up, pressed steel and other models. Ron Sturgeon is the founder of the DFW Elite Toy Museum in Austin, Texas, a member of our Hall of Fame. Rodney Ross is the curator.
Ron Sturgeon: I had an automotive repair shop in about 1976 and spent a lot of time repairing Mercedes. About 1979 I decided to start collecting Mercedes toy cars. I was young and naïve and thought I could own every Mercedes model ever made. I’m still very interested in Mercedes, and that is the bulk of my collection, but I’m into a lot of things these days, more quality and very rare models. This is an important tip, to be more discriminating in stead of buying the cheapest. The higher quality, rarer items are always going to be better and I don’t think a lot of newer collectors realize that.Sturgeon: I bought an expensive little toy Volkswagen made by Tyco, at the time it was the most I’d spent for a toy, 300 dollars. Now it’s worth about 1500. Then I was in London in 1984, on Bond Street and there’s a Sotheby’s auction house and there was a toy auction there. I registered and bought a Marklin truck with a trailer for about 200 dollars. Its one of the more significant toys I’ve bought. I ended up bidding against a famous toy collector from Europe, David Pressland, who wrote a book called The Art of the Tin Toy. His knowledge base is in really old toys, Marklins and old steamships from before the 1930s.
Although I didn’t start out collecting such unique toys, I just bought them here and there and now can’t believe how many rare toy cars I have. In the early 1990s I bought some toys that were hand made by Michele Conti. He later became well known as an expert craftsman and toy builder, but when I bought them they weren’t worth that much, but now they’re some of the most valuable in my collection.
I also have some large scale models by Jeron, like the Chrystler Imperial in red and blue. I have a whole case full Tyco World War II era toys. The most interesting toy on my site, that also spawns the most amount of controversy is the Eva Braun car. A lot of historians say that Hitler would never give his girlfriend a car, and question if the car existed. I get a couple emails a month from around the world saying that Hitler never had a girlfriend and so on. Really I’m just interested in the rareness of the car and it’s historical value.
Sturgeon: I almost never buy modern toys. I get a lot of chances to buy large scale where the builder is still alive and there may be a series of 10. I believe that like a new car, they drop in value and don’t come back up for a very long time. I’m guessing that makes me a little different from most collectors. I was a car salesman and then spent my whole life in the auto salvage business and bought most of my toys then. I’m just an old horse trader and I always try to buy something I think has the potential to be an investment.
Some people buy toys because they’re passionate about the toy and I’m not saying I don’t enjoy the toy, but I won’t buy a toy that is way overpriced or is likely to go down in value. I pay crazy money for a toy that is extremely rare, because my experience says that it’s so rare there will always be someone willing to pay.
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