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| Almost everyone has played with diecast vehicles | | | | you look you can usually find a pile or box of |
| when they were a young child. When I went to | | | | assorted toys at a yard sale, these often have |
| grade school my friends and I collected ' Hot Wheels | | | | numerous plastic soldiers, trucks and cars, and some |
| ' cars. We would make race tracks and construction | | | | old non-clothed dolls, and if you dig or search through |
| zones in the dirt piles out back of our school and play | | | | these piles or boxes of old junk toys, you can often |
| with the vehicles at recess time. I remember having | | | | find diecast vehicles at the bottom. The diecast |
| a holder that looked like a suitcase only smaller, it | | | | vehicles are smaller and heavier then the plastic toys, |
| would open and inside I had probably 20 different | | | | so they tend to drop down to the bottom of the |
| vehicles, ranging from cars, to trucks and a few | | | | piles like gold nuggets in a stream. |
| other things. We would play in the dirt with our | | | | Back around 9 years ago when I was still married, |
| diecast vehicles, racing them, or pretending we were | | | | my wife and I bought one of them cheap metal |
| construction crews, and we would dig tunnels in the | | | | detectors, the ones you can get at discount stores |
| dirt, and make hills and bridges to push are little cars | | | | for around $50 or so. We went outside and in our |
| and trucks around on. Probably most folks like myself | | | | yard where we lived at that time, we found 7 old |
| lost or threw away them diecast vehicles we had as | | | | diecast vehicles. Once we took them inside and |
| young children, or they got lost like all of the other | | | | cleaned them up, they were all in great condition, |
| toys we had when we were young. Some folks | | | | despite being buried for a few years. The vehicles |
| saved there's and now days some of them are | | | | were all made by ' TOOTSIE ', I looked on ebay at |
| probably quite rare and valuable to diecast collectors. | | | | the time and discovered that the vehicles were |
| It seems that when I was a young boy, we only | | | | worth around $15 or more, so if you have a metal |
| heard of ' Hot Wheels ', at least that is the brand | | | | detector, you can probably find some nice diecast |
| that my friends and I bought, collected and played | | | | vehicles for free, by searching yards and old school |
| with. Now days there are tons of different | | | | grounds. |
| companies and they make diecast vehicles of every | | | | Once you start building up your diecast vehicle |
| kind, there are cars, airplanes, construction vehicles, | | | | collection, you should consider getting a display case |
| boats, military vehicles, and more. When first starting | | | | to show it off. If you have some talent and a few |
| to collect diecast vehicles, you must decide which | | | | tools, you can easily build a display case in your |
| types you really want because there are a lot of | | | | garage or workshop, or if you look on ebay they |
| choices, you can collect a certain make and model of | | | | always have a large amount of diecast vehicle display |
| car, such as a Chevrolet Nova, or you may wish to | | | | cases. |
| just collect yellow diecast construction vehicles, or | | | | There is computer software that is made just for |
| military vehicles, the choice is up to you. | | | | collecting diecast vehicles. Anyone who has a small or |
| Diecast vehicles are pretty inexpensive for a lot of | | | | large diecast vehicle collection can easily keep track |
| the new ones in stores and for some of the older | | | | of what vehicle they have, the color, condition, cost, |
| ones that are common. You can often find them in | | | | value, scale and lots of other info for each record |
| the local drugstore or any Kmart or Walmart, and | | | | (vehicle). This is the most easiest to use software of |
| even a lot of grocery stores have a rack or area | | | | it's kind, and it is made 100% for diecast collecting. |
| where you can find diecast vehicles, they often sell | | | | The software is described in detail and you can |
| new for under $3.00 each, and sometimes you can | | | | download a free demo version of it at this website |
| find them in a bargain bin or on sale for ' 2 for $2.00 | | | | address: |
| ', or even less. | | | | By Robert W. Benjamin |
| Probably one of the best places to find a rare or | | | | Copyright © 2006 |
| missing diecast vehicle for your collection is on eBay. | | | | You may publish this article in your ezine, newsletter |
| Another great place to often find rare and unique | | | | or on your web site as long as it is reprinted in its |
| diecast vehicles at very low prices is yard sales. I | | | | entirety and without modification except for |
| went to a few yard sales, last summer with my | | | | formatting needs or grammar corrections. |
| daughter and I saw a lot of diecast vehicles, and | | | | |