Most extreme lengths to get memorabilia

[80sChav]

Re: Most extreme lengths to get memorabilia

It's like an adventure, Getting up at the crack of dawn with your mates to go to somewhere you've never been before and hopefully leaving with treasure! It's almost like a rush! I'll have to get some photos up here once I figure out how to re-size them!

I tried this one at my Local car Boot Sale, going at 6am a few week's before Xmas in the "terrible believe" it was like people had said 2/4 years since .... that trhey'd said it was buzzing. The only lucky thing was a Zip-up Hoody and not much more as i'd no sleep the Saturday Night-Sunday Morning. I really hoped to find some ace bargains of many a description, but it was a right sorry mess (our Car Boot/Sunday Market claims to open at 5/6am), but even by 7am and most other Sunday 7am's, it was torrid in the extreme ...

I was even sat there watching the moonlit morning sky with a Coffee at 5: 30am it was so terrible sadly. It'l be a good while before I attempt that one again I think, at suh an early our so extreme) anyway.

[Llamarama]

Re: Most extreme lengths to get memorabilia

I guess I'm lucky that the local weekly one where I live begins at 1pm, ust after sunday dinner! Take the rough with the smooth and you do get the odd bargains, I once went 6 months before getting anything good!

[80sChav]

Re: Most extreme lengths to get memorabilia

I guess I'm lucky that the local weekly one where I live begins at 1pm, ust after sunday dinner! Take the rough with the smooth and you do get the odd bargains, I once went 6 months before getting anything good!

Any are worth going to - as long as you can hunt for the bargains io'm always quite hgappy! Wew should have a thread about these sorts of places and bargains at Car Boots etc I think. That'd be well great.

[Llamarama]

Re: Most extreme lengths to get memorabilia

A Car Boot thread? Sounds like a good idea to me! Showing off stuff like the old sweet wrapper thread that was going a while back?

[80sChav]

Re: Most extreme lengths to get memorabilia

A Car Boot thread? Sounds like a good idea to me! Showing off stuff like the old sweet wrapper thread that was going a while back?

Could be like this yeah? Though i'm no good at uploading pix!

[Llamarama]

Re: Most extreme lengths to get memorabilia

Hopefully, I've never uploaded a photo to a forum before. If people want, I'll stick some pics of retro gear up once I've played with my camera for a bit. If anyone else feels like showing off, feel free to start!

[onthebusesfan]

Re: Most extreme lengths to get memorabilia

I Went To A carboot Yesterday i picked up a couple of records which some are in good nick

[CitizenKeyne]

Re: Most extreme lengths to get memorabilia

You should try the carboot sale at the Milton Keynes Bowl is mahusive !!! Went sunday and after 3 hours had still not managed to walk around half of it ... I imagine the weather plays a large part in the attendance but hey worth a go !

[Paulos]

Re: Most extreme lengths to get memorabilia

I remember a few yrs back i got a lord of the rings computer game for the spectrum when i was doing a bit of work for someone.
It has two cassettes a game i'd wanted for a long time and to say i was happy was an understatement,you see i collect both lord of the rings and computer consoles.
so its in both collections.

A mate of mine gave me the computer discs to the lord of the ring online game, which he thought I'd like and he didn't want. I have no interest in it and it's been in my office for months. Last week I went to clean out my office and the game/box is in a black bin liner as I really need to declutter (Don't think my wife has thrown it out yet). If you want it PM me, if you send me a stamped addressed envelope I'll bung it in there if you want!

[80sChav]

Re: Most extreme lengths to get memorabilia

You should try the carboot sale at the Milton Keynes Bowl is mahusive !!! Went sunday and after 3 hours had still not managed to walk around half of it ... I imagine the weather plays a large part in the attendance but hey worth a go !

It soiunds excelent. I would travel far for certain thing's but not for a Car Boot (as Milton Keynes is about 3/4 hours from me - at least byu car anyway). Though I have heard of Coach Companys doing trip's to Car Boots and Markets Car Boot. If that was the case i'd go on one no hesiations - i'd probably need a wallet consisting of about £200 but why not!

[darren]

Re: Most extreme lengths to get memorabilia

But if you knew the carboot had something you badly wanted you would go i bet even if it is 3 to 4 hrs away mate.
sometimes to get memorabilia you have to travel far it depends how badly you want it mate.

It soiunds excelent. I would travel far for certain thing's but not for a Car Boot (as Milton Keynes is about 3/4 hours from me - at least byu car anyway). Though I have heard of Coach Companys doing trip's to Car Boots and Markets Car Boot. If that was the case i'd go on one no hesiations - i'd probably need a wallet consisting of about £200 but why not!

[HG]

Re: Most extreme lengths to get memorabilia

But if you knew the car boot had something you badly wanted you would go i bet even if it is 3 to 4 hrs away mate.

How would you know a car boot had something you wanted before you went?

[scotchmist]

Re: Most extreme lengths to get memorabilia

Got the train from Paddington, London, back in 2005, to Cheltenham to collect a 1986 Rover SD1 Vanden Plas V8 3500 that I'd won on ebay for about 800 pounds. Hit 115mph on the motorway back to London, happy days!! I sold her a year later but I still own an SD1. Lovely old 80's jallopies!

[Richard1978]

Re: Most extreme lengths to get memorabilia

At one time me & my Dad would drive around car boot sales on Sundays on the off-chance there would be some decent records or CD's on sale.

[80sChav]

Re: Most extreme lengths to get memorabilia

I guess i'll try any way once to find my memorabilia once or may-be more - if it worked ok the first time. It is not memorabilia but I collect old Football Magazines plus new ones and could recall a specific shop in Blackpool from going their year's since and recalling the massive choice he had and I even went to the extremes of finding the Newsagents Phone Number but finding a way their on Public Transport was just a no-go at time - even if it meant Bus-Train-Bus etc.

This ambition will be there though until it is possible as I love thing's that are nostolga (though they probably are not, par one or two) I am sure they might be, but this is just an extreme i'll go to. Though until I acn get there i'm very satisfied with a marvelous shop i've found in Manchester that sells loads nostalga wise in terms of Sports Book's, Records, CD's etc and other numerous items. Manchester is slightly easier at the moment for me to visit than Blackpool, but sure as it is not easy to visit time-wise I will defenitly be keeping this thought in my mind until the times are right to visit the shop again.