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        https://www.slotforum.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=186863

        Talk about obsessed! Many unopened in the box. Also – race horses, planes, bumper-cars, Shuttles, motorcycles. His collection includes cars from around the world.

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          Combination set – Formula cars; horses; sidecars!

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            I met Bernard back in the pre-internet days, late 80’s, early 90’s, at collector shows.  At the time, he just had a handful of slot cars.  We visited his warehouse/home back then to see his then-current museum quality collection of televisions.  He had warehouse shelving 10 or 12 feet tall, with hundreds of televisions, from experimental German televisions from the 30’s to all manner of  furniture televisions from the 50’s and later, and lots of space-age televisions.  There were more styles and types than I ever knew existed.  He also had a couple of Messerschmidt micro cars.  Soon after we visited, he sold all his televisions and began collecting slot cars, building the fabulous collection shown.  He seemed to be a regular guy with a regular job, but was the most thorough collector I had come across.

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        At 4-years old in Pensacola I repaired my steering linkage on my Ford Pedal-car. Dad later converted this car to a Blue Angel with ailerons and elevators with a working "stick/yoke"; the rudder was controlled by the steering wheel. I like all motorsports - I grew up going to a NASCAR Feeder track with Sportsman and Modified classes, and was lucky to attend drag races in 1970 at Orange County Raceway. My first solder-iron was a Christmas gift at 9yo; I modified T-Jets to be AFX spec before AFX Cars were in local stores. I rebuilt a few tractor & car (SIMCA) engines plus transmissions by 15yo (I still have my ring-compressor and valve spring tool) I am a former mountain and road bike geek & perennial sound engineer. Struggling guitar hobbyist and Amp "tweeker"