What else do you collect?

[Balticfox]

Originally Posted by Exhibitman

Balticfox: The Scott PC is Wendell Scott, basically the Jackie Robinson of NASCAR.

I'm more swayed by his ride than by his personal details. Hopefully he did that Torino GT proud!

Originally Posted by Exhibitman

I also like to collect drivers who have successfully raced across different circuits, like F1, NASCAR, and Indy. Andretti, Foyt, Montoya, etc.

Richard Petty really stepped outside the box when he defected from NASCAR to drag racing for the 1965 season:

The Year Richard Petty Went Drag Racing - Hot Rod

But how about from another part of the entertainment industry to auto racing?

[oldjudge]

Cone seashells. Cones are a type of carnivorous snail. For collectors of Judaica, that's Cone, not Cohen.

[Exhibitman]

Yeah, Marty Robbins. Paul Newman and Steve McQueen raced too.

The King is a favorite collecting subject; he's still around and signing TTM via his museum. His true RC is the 1962 PC:



But most consider the 1972 STP card instead:



I've got it covered either way.

Drivers amaze me, especially today. Fastest I've ever had a car to is about 110; I cannot imagine 200+ mph. The reaction times these guys have, gotta be like jungle cats.

[Balticfox]

Originally Posted by Exhibitman

The King is a favorite collecting subject....

So in October 1973 my father bought us (actually me since I was the one with a driver's licence) a family car. It was a red 1973 Dodge Charger.

I quickly learned that Richard Petty drove a Dodge Charger superficially like my own on the NASCAR Winston Cup Grand National circuit and I became a wild-eyed drooling fan of Richard Petty. Here is Petty side-by-side with the Mercury Montego of David Pearson who at the time was his foremost rival:



Coincidentally our next door neighbour George Beardshaw (still alive at the age of 101 and now a Knight of the French Legion of Honour for participating in the D-Day Invasion) had a 1973 Mercury Montego and our two cars were parked less than a meter apart in our shared driveway!

Here's a writeup on George Beardshaw:

George Beardshaw - Queen's Own Rifles

[Tomi]

Just love these press photos from the original show.

[Exhibitman]

Love the OG Trek pics. Got any with the press releases attached?

[jsfriedm]

I haven't added to this collection recently, but I have a collection of old coins, particularly a lot of 18th and 19th century European silver (Hapsburg, Hohenzollern, Romanov, Ottoman, etc.), collected while spending time in Eastern Europe (back in 2003 you could get a nice silver imperial Russian ruble for $5 in Kyiv).

[Tomi]

Originally Posted by Exhibitman

Love the OG Trek pics. Got any with the press releases attached?

Unfortunately only one has it.

[Exhibitman]

Originally Posted by Balticfox

I'm more swayed by his ride than by his personal details. Hopefully he did that Torino GT proud!

From the NASCAR HOF:

Scott wasn't the first African-American to compete in NASCAR's premier division, but he was the first to be a full-time competitor.

He served three years in the U.S. Army during World War II where he honed his mechanical skills in the motor pool. Scott started racing in 1947 and experienced immediate success behind the wheel. He won over 100 races in the next decade at local area tracks.

Scott made his first start in NASCAR’s premier series on March 4, 1961 at Piedmont Interstate Fairgrounds in Spartanburg, S.C. He made 23 starts that season, posting five top-five finishes. On Dec. 1, 1963 at Speedway Park in Jacksonville, Fla., Scott became the first African American to win a NASCAR premier series event. Scott won the 100-mile feature race after starting 15th.

Over the next 13 years, Scott would make 495 starts, which ranks 32nd on the all-time list. In his distinguished career, Scott accumulated 20 top-five finishes including eight of them in the same season he won his first career race, 1964. Scott also posted 147 top-10 finishes, more than 25 percent of the races he entered.