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My Trading Card Collection

I have been collecting cards as long as I can recall...I got this crazy idea to scan them all... The main section will be NASCAR cards. While not the largest part of my collection, it is my favorite. See the subfolders for NBA and non-sports like DC Comics, Star Wars, etc. I should add that I have not seen some of these cards for nearly two decades so I don't expect this to be complete anytime soon. It's an on-going project. It will be a fun adventure to see what is in each box as I dig them out of long-term storage. Each scan has to be edited three ways and labeled so it's also not a quick process. And there is the constant problem of dust on the scanner and the standard card pages I use to scan them in! They are like magnets for dust...

 
Automotive trading cards- Not NASCAR
Street cars, drag racing, Indy, F1, Monster Trucks
albums: 9
 
NBA Basketball
From 1996-2006 I collected NBA basketball cards like there was no tomorrow. The bulk of my collection is from the 1986-87 revival until 2005-2006.

Eventually I grew disallusioned with the sport and with the hobby and also, perhaps most importantly, ran out of money for it.

I prided myself on having at least one example of every major set ever issued, though that ends at 05-06 I think-maybe 04-05.

I was also printed in Beckett about 10 times as well. If you go through the issues and find a letter from Billy Kingsley...that's me. I've been out of the hobby for so long I don't recall what issues or the topics of my LOC were about, except one, which was asking if the card companies washed the jerseys and other Game used items. The answer was no, by the way.
albums: 34
 
Other - Everything else
AKA, non-sports. I have some oddball stuff (trading cards of tools? really?) but the majority of cards in this section will be comic book related. And the ratio should be about 90% DC if my 15 year od memory is correct. There will also be Marvel, Star Wars, TV show based, and the catch-all of "others"...which is where the tools will end up.
albums: 18
All photos are scans of cards in my personal collection. Not for trade. Email for tradelist.
 
NASCAR Trading Cards-My Complete Collection

I have been collecting NASCAR cards on and off since 1993, unfortunatly more off then on. I decided in April 2009 that I would scan my ENTIRE collection, and the scanning started on 4/26/09. Previously I had scanned the autographed, race used and serially numbered cards only.

This system will not be flawless- For instance 1996 Upper Deck Virtual Velocity will be after all Upper Deck Road to the Cup cards, 1996 Maxx Over the Wall will be after Maxx Made in America cards, etc. Also, to appear in number order, the cards have to have a three digit code. For instance in a set that has 120 cards, card #1 will have to be listed as card #001, card number 67 will have to be labeled #067. For sets that are 99 cards or less, only a two digit code will be needed.

For Press Pass products, I am not going to re-type Press Pass for all of them. Example: Press Pass Eclipse becomes just Eclipse, Press Pass Stealth becomes just Stealth, etc. The same holds true for Wheels. Wheels American Thunder becomes American Thunder, Wheels High Gear becomes High Gear. This is mainly done for space constrains as Fotki does not allow a very long title. For Upper Deck Road to the Cup and Upper Deck Victory Lane, they will read as UD Road to the Cup and UD Victory Lane.

Hit scan #1000 on 7/25/09, #2000 on 8/19/09, #3000 on 9/26/09, #4000 on 11/19/09, #5000 on 11/23/09, #6000 on 11/26/09, #7000 on 2/1/10, #8000 on 7/1/10, #9000 on 7/11/10, halfway AND 10,000 on 7/18/10, #11000 on 7/21/10, 12000 on 8/1/10, 13000 on 8/3/10, 14000 on 8/12/10, 15000 on 8/15/10, 16000 on 8/26/10, 17000 on 8/28/10, 18000 and 19000 on 9/2/10, reached 19,658 (The end!) on 9/3/10. There is one small box of cards that has gone missing so the collection is not yet complete, but...until I find them....this is it!
Hit 20000 with new additions on 10/7/10

Album was created 2 years 10 months ago and modified 17 days ago
All photos are scans of cards in my personal collection. Not for trade. Email for tradelist.
 
Autographed NASCAR trading cards

These are NOT for sale!

Album was created 3 years 8 months ago and modified 4 months ago
All photos are scans of cards in my personal collection. Not for trade. Email for tradelist.
 
Race Used NASCAR trading cards

These are NOT for sale

Album was created 3 years 8 months ago and modified 2 months ago
All photos are scans of cards in my personal collection. Not for trade. Email for tradelist.
 
Numbered NASCAR Trading Cards

These are NOT for sale!

Album was created 3 years 8 months ago and modified 2 months ago
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Die Cast Cards

Cards that came with die cast cars.

Album was created 2 years 6 months ago and modified 17 days ago
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How I scanned my entire collection

A look behind the scenes!

Photos #1-19 have full labels describing the process in detail

Album was created 1 year 5 months ago and modified 1 year 5 months ago
All cards are my own creations, and each is the only one in existance. Not for trade or sale under any circumstances!
 
My Own Creations

Don't laugh....but, back in the mid 1990s, I decided to make my own cards using posterboard and markers. I made quite a few of them, but I didn't concern myself with such things as proper spelling, staying in the lines or anything near even cuts along the edges.

I even made at least one paralell!

The time was mostly 1995, but some were, I think, 1994 as well.

Each card was a one off. I did number them but I put two different numbers on most of them, and I don't remember which one was the card number and which one was something else. I also didn't number them in order of making them, they were just numbered randomly, like you get when you open a pack.

The only criteria for getting a card appears to have been, there must have been a 1/64 car of theirs in my collection.

I was about 10 or 11 when I made these, depending on the time of the year (I have no idea when)

Album was created 1 year 7 months ago and modified 1 year 7 months ago
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My Top 10 Favorite Sets

Read the captions to see my reasons!

Album was created 2 years 3 months ago and modified 2 years 3 months ago
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NASCAR Trading Cards-generic shots
Album was created 6 years 6 months ago and modified 4 months ago
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NASCAR trading card boxes

Boxes that NASCAR cards came in!

Album was created 7 years 5 months ago and modified 2 years 1 month ago