Sports Car Racing, Endurance Car Racing and Brand Specific Car Books. How Many Do You Own? PART TWO.

October 15, 2021

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Gentle reader,

This is the second installment of three regarding CAR books I am selling on to new owners.

I'm 65, retired and am doing what I can to lighten the load on our kids once we are no longer living by selling off various collections.

The previous installment can be read here: The Robb Collections: Sports Car Racing, Endurance Car Racing and Brand Specific Car Books. How Many Do You Own?

The book above, which has incredible photographs of Le Mans racers from all eras is still available on eBay as are several of the other racing books. A link to my items for sale can be found at the very bottom of this page.

That chapter covered RACING books or books about car racing. The following COVERS will show you what I have added recently on eBay:

Can you tell I like Porsches? Sadly, I have only been able to buy one, a 1987 924S, a model I had not previously heard of. It was fun, but since I did not know the service history (frequent timing belt changes on the 2.5 liter Porsche engine are vital) and I found out that late model Camaro Z28s prices were very affordable, I traded it in. The salesman was so happy, he said, "Tonight, I'm driving a Porsche home!"

Written in Italy by an Italian who had unprecedented access to Ferrari's archives, cars and museum. In English.

We grew up riding in our parents VW buses. We drove all over the WEST in them, invariably crossing MOUNTAINS in them in the summer time. Never had a breakdown.

Dad snapped this photo of us as we were about to move from Kansas back to California so that he could begin his Doctoral studies. He was a Presbyterian minister and the seminary hired him to teach so our stay in California was six wonderful years. That's me on the left. middle sister next, older sister then little brother with Mom holding baby sister. 

I started out as a Chevy guy. I had at least seven of them and put a '57 V8 engine and driveline in a 1941 Plymouth Coupe.

I was eighteen or nineteen when my brother shot this photo and experimenting with parting my hair in the middle. I miss that body and that hair. I still wear Adidas.

I built models and raced slot cars as a kid and an adult. Still have a number of HO slot cars and lots of track, but nowhere to put a layout. I only have one model I built left. It is of a 1941 Plymouth Coupe which I, you guessed it, put a 1957 Chevy driveline in. I finished the model but not the real car. Our parents moved up to outside D.C. and I stayed in Richmond in my first apartment. My girlfriend's father let me store the Plymouth in his backyard and I eventually sold it.

Of all the cars in this 1:24th/1:43rd scale collection, ten of them represent cars I have owned. We had the aforementioned Camaro Z28, ours was white with 6-speed manual and T-Tops, the red/black one is a dealer promo. Next to that is an Audi TT, ours was a 2000 quattro with blue inside and out. The unpainted 1975 Monza represents one I bought for $250 with the intention of swapping it's 262 CI (4.3 liter) V8 into the 1975 Vega wagon. That never happened, but I do have that "metallic mint green" Vega dealer promo model there. Bonus points if you know what the quoted line is from. The orange Porsche 924 Turbo (I was wrong this too is a model I built) represents the 924S. The 1964 Impala SS represents my first car, it was not an SS and had a smoky 283 V8 with powerglide 2-speed automatic. To fix that, I bought a 1964 Chevelle Malibu SS convertible (hardtop dealer promo in collection) for $250 and took the 327 V8 engine out, putting it in the Impala. I should have kept the Malibu and fixed it up. I traded my '93 Ford Escort wagon to buy my wife an off-lease Chrysler Sebring JXi convertible. Ours was black, the diecast model is candy apple red and the top IS cloth and folds down and up. What's that, nine models? Oh yes, my current car is a 2005 Volvo V50 T5 Sport with M66 transmission. A wee 1:43rd scale replica of it is third from the right. I LOVE that car!

I am actively photographing and editing more CAR books and will be putting them up on eBay. I also have some other books which are not car related which you can see while there.  

Items for sale by rfcollectin | eBay

Thanks for taking the time to read my article and view my photos. I REALLY appreciate all those who have stepped forward to buy books already. 

Scott

October 15, 2021