| Almost everyone has played with diecast | | | | often find rare and unique diecast vehicles |
| vehicles when they were a young child. When I | | | | at very low prices is yard sales. I went to a |
| went to grade school my friends and I | | | | few yard sales, last summer with my daughter |
| collected ' Hot Wheels ' cars. We would make | | | | and I saw a lot of diecast vehicles, and many |
| race tracks and construction zones in the | | | | were 25 cents each and some were less. If you |
| dirt piles out back of our school and play | | | | look you can usually find a pile or box of |
| with the vehicles at recess time. I remember | | | | assorted toys at a yard sale, these often |
| having a holder that looked like a suitcase | | | | have numerous plastic soldiers, trucks and |
| only smaller, it would open and inside I had | | | | cars, and some old non-clothed dolls, and if |
| probably 20 different vehicles, ranging from | | | | you dig or search through these piles or |
| cars, to trucks and a few other things. We | | | | boxes of old junk toys, you can often find |
| would play in the dirt with our diecast | | | | diecast vehicles at the bottom. The diecast |
| vehicles, racing them, or pretending we were | | | | vehicles are smaller and heavier then the |
| construction crews, and we would dig tunnels | | | | plastic toys, so they tend to drop down to |
| in the dirt, and make hills and bridges to | | | | the bottom of the piles like gold nuggets in |
| push are little cars and trucks around on. | | | | a stream.Back around 9 years ago when I was |
| Probably most folks like myself lost or threw | | | | still married, my wife and I bought one of |
| away them diecast vehicles we had as young | | | | them cheap metal detectors, the ones you can |
| children, or they got lost like all of the | | | | get at discount stores for around $50 or so. |
| other toys we had when we were young. Some | | | | We went outside and in our yard where we |
| folks saved there's and now days some of them | | | | lived at that time, we found 7 old diecast |
| are probably quite rare and valuable to | | | | vehicles. Once we took them inside and |
| diecast collectors.It seems that when I was a | | | | cleaned them up, they were all in great |
| young boy, we only heard of ' Hot Wheels ', | | | | condition, despite being buried for a few |
| at least that is the brand that my friends | | | | years. The vehicles were all made by ' |
| and I bought, collected and played with. Now | | | | TOOTSIE ', I looked on ebay at the time and |
| days there are tons of different companies | | | | discovered that the vehicles were worth |
| and they make diecast vehicles of every kind, | | | | around $15 or more, so if you have a metal |
| there are cars, airplanes, construction | | | | detector, you can probably find some nice |
| vehicles, boats, military vehicles, and more. | | | | diecast vehicles for free, by searching yards |
| When first starting to collect diecast | | | | and old school grounds.Once you start |
| vehicles, you must decide which types you | | | | building up your diecast vehicle collection, |
| really want because there are a lot of | | | | you should consider getting a display case to |
| choices, you can collect a certain make and | | | | show it off. If you have some talent and a |
| model of car, such as a Chevrolet Nova, or | | | | few tools, you can easily build a display |
| you may wish to just collect yellow diecast | | | | case in your garage or workshop, or if you |
| construction vehicles, or military vehicles, | | | | look on ebay they always have a large amount |
| the choice is up to you.Diecast vehicles are | | | | of diecast vehicle display cases.There is |
| pretty inexpensive for a lot of the new ones | | | | computer software that is made just for |
| in stores and for some of the older ones that | | | | collecting diecast vehicles. Anyone who has |
| are common. You can often find them in the | | | | a small or large diecast vehicle collection |
| local drugstore or any Kmart or Walmart, and | | | | can easily keep track of what vehicle they |
| even a lot of grocery stores have a rack or | | | | have, the color, condition, cost, value, |
| area where you can find diecast vehicles, | | | | scale and lots of other info for each record |
| they often sell new for under $3.00 each, and | | | | (vehicle). This is the most easiest to use |
| sometimes you can find them in a bargain bin | | | | software of it's kind, and it is made 100% |
| or on sale for ' 2 for $2.00 ', or even | | | | for diecast collecting. The software is |
| less.Probably one of the best places to find | | | | described in detail and you can download a |
| a rare or missing diecast vehicle for your | | | | free demo version of it at this website |
| collection is on eBay. Another great place to | | | | address: Robert W. |