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BIG thrift store scores, 80% are keepers...; Welly, Siku, Yatming, others...
Topic Started: Jan 19 2014, 05:55 PM (862 Views)
78Gremlin_GT
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Well, while heading to Lowe's for some project material, I stopped next door to check out the diecast selection at the Thrift store I like. Boy, was that a good/bad idea! :rolleyes: I had my arms FULL staggering up to the cash register, I actually bought a 60 cent tray to hold them while I took them out ( London Tube route on tray, neat, since my company President is British :) ). Anyway, I bought about 15 bags of cars and trucks, and got some good ones. Will post some specific close-up pictures in other posts. Also need ID on a VW bug, can't make out the maker. :unsure: So, here they are. Line to the left are mostly the trader/non-savers, the big pile-up to the right are all the keepers. The most expensive bags were 3.90, down to 1.90. Most had at least 4 vehicles per bag. Pretty happy with THIS collection!

Jerry
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78Gremlin_GT
Jan 19 2014, 05:55 PM
Well, while heading to Lowe's for some project material, I stopped next door to check out the diecast selection at the Thrift store I like. Boy, was that a good/bad idea! :rolleyes: I had my arms FULL staggering up to the cash register, I actually bought a 60 cent tray to hold them while I took them out ( London Tube route on tray, neat, since my company President is British :) ). Anyway, I bought about 15 bags of cars and trucks, and got some good ones. Will post some specific close-up pictures in other posts. Also need ID on a VW bug, can't make out the maker. :unsure: So, here they are. Line to the left are mostly the trader/non-savers, the big pile-up to the right are all the keepers. The most expensive bags were 3.90, down to 1.90. Most had at least 4 vehicles per bag. Pretty happy with THIS collection!

Jerry
Nice catch! My Favorites woulöd be the blue Hot Wheels Ford Bronco and the grey Matchbox Porsche Boxster.

Now experts, who makes this green VW beetle in this pic? :blink:
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After seeing the base...I know. :)

Those are some splendid grabs, but I'm surprised you are parting with the pink 34 Ford!
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Jan 19 2014, 07:21 PM
but I'm surprised you are parting with the pink 34 Ford!
Actually, that one I will probably keep, as I was just quickly sorting them into Keep and Discard piles. I will probably rethink a few of both piles most likely.

Jerry
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SeberHusky
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That is an amazingly awesome score! I can't find nothing at my thrift stores. If it was me, I'd be keeping them all! LOL Love the Nintendo truck!

PS: That yellow Matchbox Mercedes SUV with the "Beach Patrol" on it is a Light & Sound vehicle. Lights up and has a siren when pressed on.

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I think the white van with "Yorktowne Cabinetry" on the side is a promotional model. I'm guessing ADventures as the imprinter as that company is in Winchester, and I think that there is a cabinet factory I saw somewhere in eastern Va. when I went to Williamsburg and Jamestown a few years ago.
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Jan 20 2014, 12:59 AM
If it was me, I'd be keeping them all! LOL Love the Nintendo truck!

PS: That yellow Matchbox Mercedes SUV with the "Beach Patrol" on it is a Light & Sound vehicle. Lights up and has a siren when pressed on.

Well, the supercars / foreign sports cars don't really do much for me, nor do the fantasy/sci-fi machines ( most of them, anyway ). But yeah, it was just so much fun going down the row, picking off bags of diecast ( Ooo! Oooo! Ooo! :wub: :rolleyes: ) I got quite a few keepers. Some thrift stores have gone to this method ( mainly hispanic-run or frequented ), where they bag up items and put a generic price on the whole thing. This is one of the few stores that does it so far in quantity. I was shocked at how much I brought home that was vintage stuff. Still, there were probably 70+ rows of hanging hooks, 5 per row, so that's a LOT of diecast I DIDN'T bring home. :wacko: :lol: Good thing, or my bank account would be dwindling faster than Obama's popularity ratings! ;)

PS. THanks for the heads-up on that Beach patrol, I will look at it today at work, as the majority of the cars are in back of my HHR right now. It can join my Ice Cream truck. :)
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cody6268
Jan 20 2014, 07:04 AM
I think the white van with "Yorktowne Cabinetry" on the side is a promotional model. I'm guessing ADventures as the imprinter as that company is in Winchester, and I think that there is a cabinet factory I saw somewhere in eastern Va. when I went to Williamsburg and Jamestown a few years ago.
I was thinking that one was probably a promo issue too...and with a name like Yorktowne cabinetry I figured it might be from around that part of Virginia.
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Nice find Jerry! I think Cody is right about the Yorktowne van being a promo of some sort. I'm in the cabinet business and use to contract work from this company in the late 80's early 90s, back in those days I believe they were owned by a different parent company than they are now, and I believe their cabinet manufacturing plants were in Pennsylvania then, though I'm not sure the models age, but they had warehouses in other places like Tampa Florida where I worked out of at the time. I know it's a keeper for you now, but if you're ever thinking of parting with it someday, I might be interested.... :wave:
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