Been a GEARHEAD since I left the womb. No idea where it came from; it sure didn’t run in the family! A fascination with motion due to hyperactivity, maybe. I am a lifelong diecast collector; started collecting toy cars probably before I could walk and never really stopped. Sure it slowed a little in my teenage years due to the usual partying and angst but even then I still picked up a Matchbox or Hot Wheels that caught my eye when running errands. By the time my “declining years” began I had thousands of them filling my home.
In 2014, thanks to the mixed blessing/curse of ebay, I “rediscovered” a hobby that never really went away and started collecting in earnest again.
In spite of this lifelong interest I had never been that interested in slot cars; childhood race set notwithstanding, the slot car craze of the 1960’s was long gone by the time I was a kid and I didn’t have a whole lot of exposure to the electrified version of the hobby.
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