well now, each of those cost me about usd 5, really chreap for some of those cars. Like I said, I should be smiling from here to Germany and back, but I'm in fact devastated. You see, this is but the tip of the iceberg of a small 80-car collection a guy brought in to the flea market I regularly attend looking for vintage die-cast. I was walking around and immediately noticed the cars, but as I got closer I COULD NOT BELIEVE MY EYES. row upon row upon row of vintage incredible Sikus, black-wheel Majorettes, Norevs, Auroras, redline Toppers, redline Hot Wheels, Pennys and Lesney/Matchbox, along with some european makers that I have never in my life even heard of, most of them absolutely pristine or near so. It was unreal because the flea market is no high-end deal, but there it was, stretched out upon me.
first thing that jumped on me was the Hot Pink redline so I secured it, along with the Mexico-only Paddy Wagon... but as I examined them more and more it became obvious that this was too good to be true. I let it out: "How much for all of them?" The guy loooked at me in slight disbelief, took out an old cell phone and told me "give me 3,000 pesos (more or less like 250 usd), it's like 3.5 usd for each car. Cheap, dude"
I could not believe my luck. "Put them away -I told him- I'll head to the (what is it? I dont think i've ever used the word in english... well, you know, the machine that gives you money, dammnit... automatic cashier? well you get the idea) to get the money". He smiled and strarted to put them in a plastic bag, haha, and I ran away to get the money. That was my mistake.
On the way, I was thinking about what I had just done. From a quick judgement, I was estimating about usd 1,500 to 2,000 worth of cars in there. TWO-THOUSAND DOLLARS, PEOPLE, IN 80 CARS. Just so you can imagine the kind of stuff that was in there. I got there, took the money out and headed back. It must have been... what? 5 to 7 minutes. When I came back, he told me "dude, some guy got some of them" -"what???!!"
Yeah. Norevs, Auroras, Pennys, redlines, and the freaking Sikus. All gone. the guy that bought them mut have offered him more than what he had told me, and he took the most intresting cars. He certainly knew what he was buying.
I almost fell in my knees crying. It was the chance of a freaking lifetime fellas, I will NEVER EVER EVER see those cars all together again, at those prices, in that condition. It was SO ***CKING FRUSTRATING. I got what you saw up there and left, absolutely devastated. The collection of a lifetime had been in my hands for a minute... the mint Siku VW Bug, the mint Siku Ferrari 250 GTO from the 60s, the black-wheels Maorette Peugeot with two dogs, the Penny Ferrari P4, the Redline King Kuda in plum, the Norev Mercedes Benz C111 with working up-opening door, the minty Topper Custom Ferrari... all gone.
so yeah, what you see here is... erm, the leftovers of one of the most amazing and awesome conglomeration of euro die cast makers I have ever seen. Cars like those are almost UNHEARD OF in Mexico... and they were gonna be mine. Yeah, I grabbed some AWESOME cars, but alas, I look at them and I can't even enjoy them. They make me remember right away what I just lost. It's just horrible.
so yeah, I had one of my best days as a collector, indeed. But I also had the worst, by far.
how was your day?
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also have another black one but i couldn't find it: 
No moneh!!
