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Re: Rarest 60's Lego Item?? was Re: Frank's first LEGO train set has been a 111
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Thu, 3 Mar 2005 20:45:47 GMT
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In lugnet.general, David Koudys wrote:
> In lugnet.general, David Koudys wrote:
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> > Dave K
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> As an aside to this particular thread, there's the single most dumbest thing
> ever done by yours truly (in the LEGO sense...)
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> So I put an ad in the paper 20ish years ago--"Wanted-- LEGO, will pick up" so I
> get lots of responses. Spend time driving around after work with 20's in my
> hand, picking up various boxes of used LEGO from folks in the area.
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> I bring the boxes home--some people kept their sets in mildly great conditions,
> but most boxes of pieces were absolutely filthy--cat hair, and really icky
> things that were growing... ugh! Anyway, as a habit, I sort thru and wash the
> recently purchased pieces.
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> The sorting bit is the really dumb part. I've found parts of Barbies (legs,
> arms, whatever), find Hotwheels or Matchbox cars, find Tyco or MegaBloks, and
> other stuff mixed in with the LEGO bricks. Have a trash can near and just chuck
> non-LEGO right into the 'vertical filing system'.
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> When I was sorting the box where I found those old garage baseplates, first I
> remember that the pieces were cleaner and better maintained than most, but mor
> importantly I recall throwing out a few, what I deemed at the time, Hotwheels or
> Matchbox cars.
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> Time goes by, I discover LUGNET, and I find out that TLC produced LEGO sets with
> die-cast metal cars!!!!
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> Oh My Goodness!!! Stupid Dave!! Yeah, pretty much a bonehead move--got the
> bricks and baseplates, but no metal cars to go along with them!
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> Eh, didn't lose sleep over it--but I am more careful these days in my sorting
> process when I purchase used LEGO sets.
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> Dave K
Hey Dave,
Hope this makes you feel better (maybe you didn't throw away Lego cars after
all). The 1:87 Lego cars/trucks are die cast, but they are plastic (Cellulose
Acetate from 1955-63, ABS 1963-70). The only metal part was the wheels and
axles. I have some CA ones that are slightly warped even. So if you threw away
metal cars, they weren't Lego!
Gary Istok
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