Question for motor collectors (hoarders)... :)

[Y'ernat Al]

Copy that. Bobs not a hoarder despite this subject line. He's a collector and businessman with excess inventory,,,but every day more folks throw the brushed esc's i to the bottom of the tool box and go brushless. The value on a good % of those 3500 is going to continue to sink. I'm looking at it from a business perspective - because its not like he has 1 or even 2 of each..with some humor. He's got a lot of cool stuff!

As his question was aimed at others with motor collections, not other business owners tho, so I'll hush.

[Bob-Stormer]

lately I've been trying to match motors to rollers. that's part of the plan. An rc10 without a motor is like a day without sunshine.

But yea, until I get those all organized, I need to sort the rest, so as to not keep accidentally accumulating the same things. Remember this isn't something that's just happened, it's a solid 30 year effort.

I do thin the herd on occasion as well. As an example, I sold of the last of my MIP rc10 4x4 stuff last week.

Sometimes you have to accumulate 5-6 rough motors to come up with a solid one. THEN, you could sell off the stuff you didn't need. There aren't 3000+ solid gold motors. Maybe 400 are new. Lots of them are very good, probably 1000 of them are "iffy", maybe a 500 that are crap, usually you got them because they came with something else..

I'm not a "new in bag or box" kinda guy. you can't see it, handle it, or show it to people. I don't like Showing somebody a box that you'd just assume they didn't touch, doesn't have the same appeal to me as handing someone a vintage car they can feel and see and flex and experience. Get them involved and into the experience.

[GoMachV]

I know exactly what you mean. Collect enough to build one excellent one and sell off the rest- except I end up using the next best bits for something...and then the third best...and so on. Then I find another set if parts and have to roll it in as well. It's a dangerous road!

[wyldbill]

give Todd Putnam a call and ask him what he uses for his vast motor colllection. probably has the 2nd biggest motor collection now after seeing your "Mountain of Power".

[Bob-Stormer]

I know exactly what you mean. Collect enough to build one excellent one and sell off the rest- except I end up using the next best bits for something...and then the third best...and so on. Then I find another set if parts and have to roll it in as well. It's a dangerous road!

Yea, that's probably how it goes.

[Bormac]

A number of years ago I happened upon a great deal of new old Schumacher stock from an old Aussie importer. Some may remember this. Anywho, when I got to have a look through what was there I was seriously blown away by just how much stuff was there. I filled two large garbage bags full to the brim with lexan buggy bodies, wings and undertrays alone. I ended up with 6 nib kits and a serious tonne of parts. Needless to say my vehicle limped home with this stuff and my journey began here. It took me weeks to work out what I most desired and what could be sold off to recoop the innitial investment.

Although my experience is relatively small in comparison but I have purchased lots like this on a few occassions and each time my head just hurts. Sure it's exciting but it's also a lot of work.

For me, I have felt releived to move the majority of it on and hold on to the stuff that means something to me.

[Coelacanth]

I guess by comparison, it makes me look pretty bad when I received 3 parts cars and a few Ziploc freezer bags of random parts from flipwils11, it took nearly a year just to motivate myself to disassemble everything and inspect the contents of the bags...that's when I saw there was a nearly complete parts collection to build a Turbo Optima Mid SE, and so begat the OptiMutt project. I should've just left those cars & bags alone, I'd be about $150 richer right now.

[naushad]

Exactly the same thing happens to me!

I know exactly what you mean. Collect enough to build one excellent one and sell off the rest- except I end up using the next best bits for something...and then the third best...and so on. Then I find another set if parts and have to roll it in as well. It's a dangerous road!

Yea, that's probably how it goes.

[vintagercaddict]

Holy batman!! That's a lot of motor's! Ever calculate how much you've spent on just motor's alone? This vintage collecting is addicting. However, if there was an emergency where your house caught on fire? What would you grab first?

[GoMachV]

Holy batman!! That's a lot of motor's! Ever calculate how much you've spent on just motor's alone? This vintage collecting is addicting. However, if there was an emergency where your house caught on fire? What would you grab first?

Well, knowing what I learned when MY house burned down last year- I'd grab a phone and call another insurance company quickly Country Financial has done everything in their power to fight us on every aspect of our loss, and still hasn't finished fighting us over stuff that they know they need to pay but still refuse. I am sorry for the rant but anyone out there with Country Insurance, learn from me please. Bunch of crooks. Thank god we had an excellent home
Builder that was patient with getting money from those jerkoffs. I'd recommend Harbro to anyone!

Get this stuff insured and don't trust any insurance company. It won't be covered unless you get specific coverage with declared values. I think the cap on my toys was around $2k. Loss was closer to 10k.