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During the 80ies I'd collected WIKING-cars:
And I own also a special WIKING box "750 Jahre Hannover" (my home town), including three Hanomag-trucks (in 1987 reproduced models from the late 60ies)
I stopped collecting in the early 90ies, because WIKING-models were getting more and more expensive (more detailed, too), and because I was getting busy with my real car, which became my main hobby.
As you know, I'm collecting every kind of literature and other goodies about "my" VW K 70 - but no toy models. May sound strange, but after I've seen how many K 70-models some of my friends are owning, and how expensive some toys can be, I've decided, not to start collecting them. I've said to myself "Let them be the No.1 in collecting K 70-toys, I will be the No.1 in collecting K 70-literature" - so I did.
I only own two K 70-toys, a red WIKING (I got as a three-year-old boy from a neighbour) and a green Majorette with a Sterckeman-campig-trailer, I've played in the kindergarden with.
Somewhere stored is a souvenir from our vacations in Holland in the early 80ies, a 1:18 Renault 4 from Bburago in "ANWB wegenwacht"-trim.
Nearly all toy-models from my childhood in the 70ies have survived
Sure, they are scratched and damaged, but still alive. Mainly SIKU and Majorette, also several Matchbox, Corgi and a few others.
Annother collecting-hobby of me are license-plates. But I've reduced it strictly in the last years, only old German ones from counties, which doesn't exist any more. All other plates I gave away or have sold at eBay. In the garage I've hung the the plates of our own cars and in the cellar are Canadian and US-plates, which I've picked up at vacations in 1988 and 1993.
And I own also a special WIKING box "750 Jahre Hannover" (my home town), including three Hanomag-trucks (in 1987 reproduced models from the late 60ies)
I stopped collecting in the early 90ies, because WIKING-models were getting more and more expensive (more detailed, too), and because I was getting busy with my real car, which became my main hobby.
As you know, I'm collecting every kind of literature and other goodies about "my" VW K 70 - but no toy models. May sound strange, but after I've seen how many K 70-models some of my friends are owning, and how expensive some toys can be, I've decided, not to start collecting them. I've said to myself "Let them be the No.1 in collecting K 70-toys, I will be the No.1 in collecting K 70-literature" - so I did.
I only own two K 70-toys, a red WIKING (I got as a three-year-old boy from a neighbour) and a green Majorette with a Sterckeman-campig-trailer, I've played in the kindergarden with.
Somewhere stored is a souvenir from our vacations in Holland in the early 80ies, a 1:18 Renault 4 from Bburago in "ANWB wegenwacht"-trim.
Nearly all toy-models from my childhood in the 70ies have survived
Sure, they are scratched and damaged, but still alive. Mainly SIKU and Majorette, also several Matchbox, Corgi and a few others.
Annother collecting-hobby of me are license-plates. But I've reduced it strictly in the last years, only old German ones from counties, which doesn't exist any more. All other plates I gave away or have sold at eBay. In the garage I've hung the the plates of our own cars and in the cellar are Canadian and US-plates, which I've picked up at vacations in 1988 and 1993.