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15/05/2014 5:35 am
Discussion Topic Thurs: Do you also collect automotive books?
15/05/2014 5:40 am
Yes - car books, car magazines, car literature, car pictures...you name it, I probably got it!
15/05/2014 6:00 am
Yes- mostly vintage classics and racing books
I have about 100 books and growing, lately focusing on racing driver autographed books. My 'holy grail' is the Dave Friedman Cobra Daytona autographed book, which has escalated in value every time one becomes available.
15/05/2014 6:23 am
No. Although I do collect books. Or at least, I still have all of my Mom's original Lone Ranger, Zane Grey, Call of the Wild and an original English edition of Bambi (1928).
15/05/2014 7:17 am
Yes--books, postcards, sales literature, magazines, everything--including over 6000 original car and car-related ads from magazines dating back to the 1900-1910 period. They're all in plastic bags with backing boards, and take up a lot of space on my garage's built-in shelves.
I've got file cabinets of old Car and Driver, Road & Track, Mobilia, SIA, Sports Cars International, Car Collector, Classic Auto Restorer magazines and probably some others I've forgotten about. And all eight published issues of "Classic Automobile Register" which was a nice, glossy expensive magazine from '97-'98 which didn't survive. And the premier and only issue of "Architectural Digest Motoring," from 1999. It didn't make it either.
Geez, is this an addiction or what?
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15/05/2014 7:41 am
Yes, I have a few. I can't say that I've actually read any of them. I've used them for ...
... reference material and enjoyed the photos. I might have approximately 25 or so.
15/05/2014 7:51 am
I have a few. Mostly reference books and photo-journals.
John Merritt
South Lyon, Michigan - USA
15/05/2014 8:14 am
Subscribe to Collectible Automobile since the beginning, plus subscribe to all of the Hemmings magazines.
15/05/2014 10:42 am
I did many years ago but just have a few now.
15/05/2014 10:52 am
I did for many years. Collectible Automobles was one of my favs.
Don't have the room to keep them and time to read them, but still have some make-specific books.
BUT have kept the D4C Newsletters from issue #7. We will be heading to issue #100 soon with some great articles and musings from some old and new timers. Join the D4C now to get yours.
15/05/2014 11:44 am
Yes
15/05/2014 12:51 pm
1 or 2
A Corvette book
A Harley - Davidson book
A Police car book
The proverbial hardback boxes found a typical bricks and mortar book store
15/05/2014 12:52 pm
Awwww ... I remember the ... What's Hot and What's Not ... Dear Uncle Roy