With this COVID-19 Pandemic going on, there's one thing that I miss doing. Since non life sustaining businesses are closed, that means thrift stores have to be closed. This sucks big time. I now can buy stuff from thrift stores again but I can't. Wait a second, if I can now buy stuff at thrift stores again, but now I can't, that doesn't make sense since they are all closed right?
Well on Ash Wednesday which is the beginning of Lent, I went to The Salvation Army to take a look around, I didn't buy anything that day. However it gave me an idea of what to give up for Lent. By not buying anything that day, I decided to not buy anything from thrift stores for lent. So when the governor shut down all of the non essential businesses due to the COVID-19 pandemic, I kinda got to fulfill my Lenten promise. I'm not going to get religious here. But I made a sacrifice and actually succeeded with my promise of not buying anything from a thrift store for Lent. However it was partially successful due to the shutdown of non essential businesses. Before the shutdown I would still pop into thrift stores to test myself.
There were times I would go in and see a bunch of stuff that I liked and wanted to buy. One day I was in the other thrift store and saw a bunch of hats that I loved and wanted to buy. One of those hats was a Jeep hat. However I stuck to my promise and refused to buy the hats. I'm kinda glad I was able to stick to my plan of not buying anything. My wallet felt fatter.
However since Lent is now over, I want to start shopping at thrift stores again. I'm absolutely positively 100% ready to start buying stuff from thrift stores. Just before the order to shut down the non essential businesses I remember the 25% off color tag that was for the week. There was one item that was that color tag. So next week that 25% off color tag would have been 50% off. I don't know how I remember the color tags before the shutdown but somehow I did. Weird right?
I just want this Coronavirus to go the Hell away already. We are all sick of being cooped up in our houses. I seriously can't wait for this pandemic to end so I can go thrift store shopping again.
Thursday, April 23, 2020
One of my best vintage Hot Wheels finds.
I collect Hot Wheels cars. I have a huge collection of them. So many, that I'm running out of room to store my loose cars. Every once in a while I go to the local farmers market where a few sellers sell Hot Wheels cars, both MOC and loose. Some sellers don't know what the value of some of these vintage cars are, and some do know the value of them. This is one of those stories.
Lately I haven't been blogging a lot lately since I have been busy being cooped up in my house with the Coronavirus Pandemic and being laid off from work as a result. So I thought I would start blogging about random Hot Wheels cars and the stories behind them. This is the story of the 40s Ford Two Door from 1983.
On June 12, 2019, I went to the farmers market. I spotted a vendor who was selling a variety of vintage items, some of which were various vintage Hot Wheels cars. While looking though the box of cars I spotted a couple of vintage cars that I liked. I saw a 31 Doozie redline blackwall that was in excellent condition. I asked him how much it was and he said $5 since it's a redline blackwall. I wasn't going to drop $5 on a car from the 80s. I just can't pull the trigger on that. However he did have some other interesting cars for sale for $1. I spotted a Classic Packard with Whitewall blackwall tires, for $1 and a Tomica Rolls-Royce Phantom VI both for $1. However there was one more car that caught my eye that was also $1. That car was a 40s Ford 2 Door from the 1983 Real Riders Series.
This seller wanted $5 for a vintage redline blackwall but wanted $1 for a vintage Real Rider. His pricing strategy didn't make any sense charging $1 for the Real Rider. I couldn't pass up paying $1 for a vintage Real Rider. You can't argue with paying $1 for one. The 40s Ford Two Door was in really nice shape for it's age. It had very few paint flaws and 2 out of the 4 tires still had Goodyear on them. For a car from 1983, I certainly made out good paying $1 for it. I'm not a flipper, I'm a collector. So I have no plan on reselling it. It's one of the stand out pieces in my collection. In fact it's the only vintage Real Rider that I own. There's still many vintage Hot Wheels cars I need to track down eventually. Just not now because of this pandemic. Once the pandemic is over, I can start going to the farmers market to look for vintage cars again.
Lately I haven't been blogging a lot lately since I have been busy being cooped up in my house with the Coronavirus Pandemic and being laid off from work as a result. So I thought I would start blogging about random Hot Wheels cars and the stories behind them. This is the story of the 40s Ford Two Door from 1983.
On June 12, 2019, I went to the farmers market. I spotted a vendor who was selling a variety of vintage items, some of which were various vintage Hot Wheels cars. While looking though the box of cars I spotted a couple of vintage cars that I liked. I saw a 31 Doozie redline blackwall that was in excellent condition. I asked him how much it was and he said $5 since it's a redline blackwall. I wasn't going to drop $5 on a car from the 80s. I just can't pull the trigger on that. However he did have some other interesting cars for sale for $1. I spotted a Classic Packard with Whitewall blackwall tires, for $1 and a Tomica Rolls-Royce Phantom VI both for $1. However there was one more car that caught my eye that was also $1. That car was a 40s Ford 2 Door from the 1983 Real Riders Series.This seller wanted $5 for a vintage redline blackwall but wanted $1 for a vintage Real Rider. His pricing strategy didn't make any sense charging $1 for the Real Rider. I couldn't pass up paying $1 for a vintage Real Rider. You can't argue with paying $1 for one. The 40s Ford Two Door was in really nice shape for it's age. It had very few paint flaws and 2 out of the 4 tires still had Goodyear on them. For a car from 1983, I certainly made out good paying $1 for it. I'm not a flipper, I'm a collector. So I have no plan on reselling it. It's one of the stand out pieces in my collection. In fact it's the only vintage Real Rider that I own. There's still many vintage Hot Wheels cars I need to track down eventually. Just not now because of this pandemic. Once the pandemic is over, I can start going to the farmers market to look for vintage cars again.
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