2008

NAME
 Stoneman
AGE
 Now 51, but I still have a 20-25 year old mentality and 75 year old joints.
HAIR
 Still have plenty but getting gray and trying to thin some.
EYES
 Blue.
MARITAL STATUS
 Soon to be married and looking forward to it.  No more sleeping alone.
CHILDREN
 Still the same one daughter who is now a school teacher.
SHOE SIZE
 Why?
RESIDENCE
 Good old Tennessee.
STATE OF MIND Same as before.  Childlike and out of it periodically.
OCCUPATION
 Telecommunications and lots of DSL and PC work.
IF I DIDN'T LIVE HERE I'D LIKE TO LIVE
 Someplace warm.
FAVORITE COLOR
 None.
MY TEN FAVORITE HOT WHEELS ARE
 Any of the real muscle cars and classic hot rods.
THE TWO HOT WHEELS I WOULD WANT TO OWN FULL SIZE
 T-Bucket and mayBe a Vette or 57 Chevy.
TWO OTHER HOBBIES I HAVE BESIDES COLLECTING HOT WHEELS
 Still dabble in RC and my soon to be wife.
MY TWO FAVORITE SONGS
 I refuse to answer that due to its complexity.
MY TWO FAVORITE SHOWS
 Also hard, but "My Name is Earl" & "The Office" are great, but then, so is "Two & a Half Men" plus the other 15-30 shows I never miss! Huh, maybe TV is my other hobby.
MY TWO FAVORITE MOVIES
 Oh come on.  How am I supposed to answer that?
MY FAVORITE FOODS
 Italian, Mexican and Seafood.
THE SIZE OF MY COLLECTION
 As of this very minute.....7858 items.
WHAT'S IN MY COLLECTION
 Hot Wheels, Johnny Lightning, Matchbox, Racing Champions, plus a few odds & ends.  But, I'll be culling some of the odds & ends when I pack it all up.
THE NUMBER OF YEARS I'VE COLLECTED
 At least 15-18 years, but who knows anymore?
HOW I CHOOSE WHAT TO ADD TO MY COLLECTION
 I have to like it or it has to have some sentimental value.
WHY I STARTED WORKING AT CB's Trish came crawling to me begging & pleading. That, plus I was bored!
THE GREATEST BENEFIT OF WORKING FOR CB's 
I get $40 an hour & get to work NUDE now!!!
He lies guys.  He doesn't get paid any more than you.
OTHER THAN WORKING FOR CB's MY GREATEST JOY IS  
My soon to be wife & my family. (Man, I'm getting sappy in my old age.)

2000

NAME Stoneman
AGE 44 with 20 year old mentality and 65 year old joints.
HAIR I've got plenty.
EYES Bedroom blue.
WEIGHT 200 plus or minus five or ten pounds.
HEIGHT 6 feet.
MARITAL STATUS Divorced, but consider myself "Happily Attached"
CHILDREN One daughter and a dog.
SHOE SIZE 10 - 10 1/2.
STATE OF RESIDENCE Tennessee
STATE OF MIND Childlike and out of it periodically.
OCCUPATION Bellsouth service tech.
FAVORITE COLOR None.
FAVORITE TV/MOVIE STAR None.
FAVORITE FOOD Pizza, lasagna, spaghetti, hamburgers, and Schwans fish sticks.  Yeah, Iknow, no Hot Wheels promos here.
FAVORITE TV SHOW None, but prefer comedies. Also like X Files & the like.
FAVORITE MOVIE Ditto.
FAVORITE CAR None, but love the classics & muscle cars.
FAVORITE HOT WHEELS CAR Three way tie between Pizza Vette, Ferrari 355 and GM Lean Machine.  (If you believe this I'll sell you a '96 FE VW Bus for $500.00)
FAVORITE MUSIC Anything but rap and classical.  Kid Rock & Beastie's ok, though.
FAVORITE HEROES Mom and Dad.  (They raised a pretty good kid; thanks)
FAVORITE FANTASY Running naked thru Mattel's "Treasure Hunt Back room" screaming like an idiot while skeet shooting GM Lean Machines.    :-)
BEST FRIEND My girlfriend, who I love dearly. I can tell her & trust her with anything.
CELEBRITIES I'D LIKE TO MEET Ted Nugent, Stevie Nicks, Vince Gill, and Patty Loveless.  Tom & Jerry and Ren & Stimpy would be a treat, too!
OTHER HOBBIES BESIDES THE OBVIOUS Radio control car and truck racing, music collection, and collecting other people's belly button lint; working on one HECK of a blanket!
FAVORITE INDOOR ACTIVITY Can't tell, this is a family site.  :-0    Boss Lady STILL won't let me say.    ;-}
SIZE OF DIE CAST COLLECTION Around 4000 plus or minus 2, 5, or a dozen here or there.
WHAT'S IN IT Hot Wheels (duh), Johnny Lightning, Matchbox, and Racing Champions (no NASCAR stuff) + Anything else that catches my interest.
YEARS COLLECTING At least 8 years, maybe 10 or 12.  Who counts? 
COLLECTION REQUIREMENTS I have to like it.  Not necessarily into series and not into wheel/color variations.  Must be affordable (ok, so I DO buy some other stuff, too).  But hey, had to have the Boyd's & the 57' Legends.    Cherry!
WHY I STARTED COLLECTING Had so much $money$ I had to find something to throw it at.  (I've still got that $500 Bus).
GREATEST BENEFIT OF WORKING FOR CB's $25.00 per hour and all the 355's I can carry.  PLUS.....I get to work in my underwear.
 
Why do I collect Hot Wheels? 

Well for starters, the question (to me anyway) should have been "Why do you collect die cast cars". To answer that, I remember as a child, playing for days (literally) in my room. I had a Matchbox road building set and would build roads & bridges and complete "towns". I
had several plastic house models & a variety of other buildings from my fathers train set that he had disassembled (during military transfer) & never put back together. Later one Christmas, Santa brought a Matchbox BP gas/service station, which quickly became my favorite. These layouts would stay for days & I had a ball!  :-) But the time always came when I had to pick it all up & how I hated that. It would take me ALL day long
(had to play some as I picked it up, you know). 

Time went on, I grew up (physically, anyway), & I discovered other things in life.  ;-}  "Know what I mean, Vern?"  Time marched on....... Then, KABLAMM! I'm in Walmart one night with the wife & there they are, Hot Wheels out the B.....  So I think, "I remember these,
except that most of mine had been Matchbox (MB axles were sturdier than HW's in my day; very important when played with). I find a few classics I like (about 10-12) & find the wife to put them in the cart. The rest as they
say "Is history". That was about 8? years ago maybe & I
haven't stopped. I only get what I like & I don't limit myself to one manufacturer. There are a lot of neat cars out there, but some ARE more costly. That's the way it is if you collect as I do. On the plus side, I can usually find
something I don't have when I go looking; I may not buy it, buy "Hey, at least I FOUND something"!  So as I continue to run out of display/storage space, I guess I could say the reason I collect is simple.......I never really grew up & I like my toys. Be young, have fun, and above all, remember to keep it FUN.        STONEMAN

 
  
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