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