Just a small sample of my die cast cars I have collected thru the year's. Figured other people in the group have a few car's on a shelf . Yes I know that some of them are Lumina's but I bet that one guy might looking at them regardless. This one's for you Dean

 

Yeah, I got a few too. Now I wish I didn't, I was always an avid collector after I met the real Dale and cherished all the stuff I got, sometimes it was an obsession to keep up with the latest diecast that was going to be released.
This is a Cabinet my son and I built to resemble the carts at the Races it features glass shelves and glass sliding doors.
In February of 2001 I was needless to say heartbroken and many times I would get a call about the stuff I collected to see if I would sell something. Couldn't bring myself to do it.
Some of the cheapest things I owned were selling on ebay for thousands of dollars, a fellow who owned a collectables store called and referred me to an ebay listing that began at 9.95 it was a pit scene diecast in 1/43rd scale. I have 2 of them I paid 9.95 and they were bid up to over $2k and sold for that amount. I still have mine now they are not even getting a bid. A couple of times I thought I would try and list them, but the tears got in the way, and I lost focus.
The jacket shown here has a real strange story, that I will share in another post.

 

I would bet too say that the "Oreo" coat is quite a prize. Would enjoy reading the story I did manage to get a 1/64 Oreo car and remember the the prices on ebay but like yourself couldn't do it. Great display that you and your son created.

 

Some place I have a photo of a lady in a wheel chair, who met Dale at Talladega raceway.
Anyway she had him sign a jacket of hers.
She was handicapped and lost both legs from the knees down.
I was asked if I would go see her because she was a big DE fan.
I spent some time with her & her family, I also wrote to Talladega raceway to see if she could meet up with Dale there prior to a race, her dream came true.

After the Feb. 2001 incident she called me and wanted to know if I would sell her the DE jacket I owned that I wore in a TV appearance.

I was reluctant but she bought me the one that is in this cabinet. So I signed the Jacket and traded with her, she had both of them framed in glass and hanging on the wall in her home.

So one evening I am in the Man cave and watching TV and it was really chilly down there.
So I am on the Hunt for a jacket and I had just put this one on the Mannequin about a week ago.
I took it off the mannequin & put it on and nearly froze I was twice as cold as I had been.
I put it back on the display and the next day finished the glass enclosure and it has been in there since.

It was a freaky kind of chill too! to weird. The only time that has ever happened in my man cave.
I went an got a Hooded sweat shirt and thru it in the dryer to warm it up and put that on.

 

Guessing that your act of kindness was rewarded. I'm sure your buddy was just giving you a nudge or trying to "Rattle your cage "

 

Could be, sent a chill up my spine for sure. Here is a shot of the real Man Cave. Really like the Crager SS mag I found years ago, and the Dukes Battle Flag is just to make my Daughter mad. Lol
there is a new Pool table cloth that I need to install on the Bar stool, and I am a Texaco petro-liana fan too.

 

Nice, I like seeing what people collect. Here's 'some' of my die cast collection (you can tell who my favorite drivers are). There's also 2 of my roughly 250 license plates in there - a MI 1947 and MI 1924. I have all the original boxes for all my 1:24 cars and those alone are a challenge to find space to store. A lot of my 1:64 scale cars aren't displayed because most are still in the original packaging and they take up a lot of space to display that way.

 

Very nice display's you both have, I tried to set up my garage as a man cave but obviously not a good idea if you work a lot on cars as I found out, Everything got dirty as my car's show the dust got on anything that wasn't covered . Spent hour's cleaning most of my plastic models I put in the garage but keep a few out there, wasn't really sure how to clean the gold plated ones without scratching . I ended up storing most of the collection until I get more display cases. Thanks for sharing .

 

Well Mrs Bickerson recommends the Swiffer duster for all her collection so I use that also, she is never wrong for sure.