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[ericmccoy75]

Name: Eric McCoy
Location: Pawtucket RI
Who I collect: Newman
Hobbies and interests: Collect almost all sports cards but mostly football and Nascar. Coins from all over the world.
I am 41 years of age. I have 3 great kids. My son Andrew is 21, Daughters Laura 19 and Nicole is 6. I recently became a grandfather. I married for the 2nd time and it is better than my first. Married to Christine who spoils me for the most part and puts up with my habits. lololol
I work in the precious metals field and even produce coins for the U.S. mint. No freebies, but still cool to say that my company makes them.
I have been collecting for many years and enjoy the stories that others tell behind them. Getting my youngest one into collecting as she is learning that these are great ways to learn about the players, drivers and sport. I am looking at going back to school because I can get easily bored and looking for more to learn. Not sure of the field yet, but will be going back in the spring. I am sure I can add more, but this is a great start.

[pa43fan]

well i'll give some info

name: david andrzejewski
age : 40 this past july
married 13 years to lynda
children 4 kyle 19 (first marriage) alex 11, erik and haley 8
occupation: union electrician for 18 years

hobbies: deer and turkey hunting, coaching sports, and of course collecting cards
what i collect: anything i can get my hands on of reed sorenson and ernie irvan

favorites:
food-italian or cajun
sport-baseball team yankees, hockey bruins, football broncos, basketball (i'd rather shoot myself than watch)
movie-tombstone (i'm your huckleberry), also love horror films and deep thrillers
authors-john saul, dan brown, stephen king, dean koontz
music-anything but rap, love queensryche, dio, metallica, live, 3 doors down, kenny chesney and many others

spent the whole summer helping coach my 11 year old alex's all star baseball team to the 9/10 pa state championship where we finished 2nd overall in the state. we were 2md of 498 teams (all stars) that started in pa. it was a summer i will never forget anytime soon.

dave

[StillBig20Fan]

Name - Carl Tilley
Location - Gadsden, AL
Age - 40
Married - to Janet since March 30, 2009. We met October 2008 1st day of culinary school and the rest is history
Kids - 2 from Janet's previous marriage - Kimberly 14, Kristopher 16
Occupation - Line Cook at a fine dining restaurant in Birmingham, AL
Hobbies - Beside collecting Stewart, Robby, and the Onion I work on the occasional NASCAR set and stuff that i like. I also collect some baseball and non-sports. I also read Star Wars books (love Karen Traviss), books by Harry Turtledove and watch alot of TV on DVD - ****'s Kitchen, the Stargate series, Wild Wild West (yes, the one from the 1960's), Supernatural, House, Alias, Criminal Minds, and tons more...I collect KISS related items like the cards/CD's etc

[race crazy]

these are all very interesting reads-good to get to know some of the members better-any member who hasnt posted I encourage you to :)

[GO-6-GO]

Name: Stephen Levorse
Location: Stuttgart, Germany
Age: 44
Occupation: United States NAVY (25yrs)
Married: 20 years to my lovely wife Angi
Children: Storm (16yrs); Dylan (8yrs)

Born at Womack Armmy Hospital FT Bragg, NC (yeah I'm an Army Brat!)
Only time we ever moved from the house we lived in of post was a three year tour to Heidelberg, Germany in 1976-1979. Loved Germany too much that I always said if I can get my family to Germany to live I would move there in a heartbeat. To bad its my last tour in the service as I'm retiring in May 2010 with 26 yrs 7 days.

As a Carolina Boy, my grandfather and father would take us kids to the races from time to time since it wasn;t that far to go. I was a Richard Petty Fan but in 1992 when he retired I picked-up Mark Martin.

I started collecting card in 1994 when the Traks boxes were $11/$12 a box. The first pull was a Jeff Gordon (who) autograph and I was hooked from then on.

I collect Jason Keller cards (ONLY about 7 to go), Beckett Samples (ONLY about 900 to go), Promos and Prototypes

[nadeau01_johnson48]

Bored in my hotel room for about another half hour, so what the heck.....here goes.

Name: Jeremy Sebastian (aka J, Seabass, J-Sab, Sabos, Boss, etc.)

Location: Scenic(!) Erie, PA

Age: 23

Pets: Two cats, Sharpie (all black, I was watching a race and wanted to come up with a more unique name for an all black cat instead of the typical black cat names and saw Kurt Busch's all-black Sharpie paint scheme and BOOM!) & Chesney (orange and white, named after the greatest country music performer, Kenny Chesney, who hails from Tennessee, which of course, the Tennessee colors are Orange/White).

Occupation: Supervisor for Bank of America's Customer Marketing department. Basically when you have a real big problem with your credit card, and the CMR's can't help you, and you're yelling really loud and swearing, I get on the line and make everything better. (Or, you just keep swearing at me and I disconnect the call.)

Other hobbies: Going to as many concerts as humanly possible, golfing, making sure that I go to Cleveland at least once a month for some type of sporting event, and playing whiffleball (yes, it's pretty legit--we have our own league and everything, and it gets real intense).

Life goal: To own/run my own Chipotle. The greatest food ever, and a surefire way to make a good living. I'll get there someday.

About me: Born and raised right outside of Cleveland, Ohio in a little town called Parma Heights. Moved here when I was 11 because my dad got a job offer up here in Erie, and I've been here ever since. I'd like to move back to the Cleveland 'burbs eventually, but right now I won't complain too much about Erie.

I became a NASCAR fan in 1998. One Sunday I was bored, just flipping through the channels and my remote quit working when it stopped on TNN, which as most of you know, used to have the Cup races back then. Fate? I guess...because I was hooked instantly. I initially became a fan of Jeff Gordon, simply because he won that race that weekend, but that quickly changed. In 1999 I saw Jerry Nadeau's Cartoon Network car, and that got me hooked on him. I've been a Nadeau fan ever since. To this day, he's still my number 1 driver, and hopefully someday he'll get back behind a racecar and race again. I still remember exactly where I was/what I was doing back in May 2003 when he wrecked in practice at RIR...watching him get airlifted to a hospital, reading about how he was in a coma for over two weeks, hearing all the reports about how he might never walk again, etc, it really felt like he was a family member. I just couldn't believe that something like that could happen to my favorite driver. I went to the spring Dover race that year, and it was so tough seeing Mike Wallace in Jerry Nadeau's car, seeing all the "Get Well Soon Jerry" decals everywhere. Hopefully someday he'll be back. Jimmie has since taken over the number one driver spot of guys I like. I started liking him way back when he was in the Busch series. That one wreck at Watkins Glen where he lost his brakes going into turn one and slammed into the foam barriers, and then got out of his car, jumped on the roof and celebrated like he just won the race had me hooked. I liked his style, and followed him ever since then.

I've been collecting cards since I can't even remember....my dad always used to build the baseball sets of the '80's and '90's, and I always was right there with him. Racing became my card focal-point around the year 2000, when I was really getting into racing. And racing cards have been my main collection ever since!

That's about it....not much more to me.

[stlmkiiisupra]

Life goal: To own/run my own Chipotle. The greatest food ever, and a surefire way to make a good living. I'll get there someday.

Heard so much about this place and finally getting one local. Look forward to trying it out.


So I guess I'll do one of these too.

Hi folks, I'm Ryan, 28 years old, and I live in the not-so-small-anymore town of Christiansburg, VA. C'burg has blended in with two other towns, Blacksburg and Radford, home of Virginia Tech and Radford University respectively. Busy places to be when the students are here.

I married my wife, April, in August 2006 and soon thereafter got started on the family. Our daughter, Raeleigh, was born on 8/8/07. She is growing up quickly and continues to keep us busy and laughing every day. I am a laid off employee of Volvo Trucks North America, which basically means I'm the housewife and stay at home dad for the time being. At times it can be depressing but I have truly enjoyed spending my entire days with my daughter (she's a daddy's girl ). I would like to return to school but like my first go around ten years ago, I still have no idea what I want to be when I grow up.

I started collecting baseball cards in 1990 but quickly grew tired of the boring sets when a person turned me on to racing cards. I was already a race fan just because I would sometimes watch a race with my dad but I didn't know Nascar cards existed. In 1991 for my 11th birthday, I wanted this diecast car I saw in a toy store so bad. That car was a #30 Revell Pennzoil car. Been a Waltrip fan ever since. For the longest time I collected everything Waltrip that I could get my hands on but the past 9 years or so I have only concentrated on the race used and autos, and TRUE rookies of all drivers. I also pick up an auto, GU, or a few from the drafted Virginia Tech football players every year.

My hobbies rotate in importance since my budget really only allows for one thing at a time. Other things I enjoy are my car (bet you couldn't tell), plinking at the range, photography, and road cycling. Quite honestly I'm thinking of selling off my other hobbies to pay for my cycling habit.

Thanks for reading!

[Rw2fan4ever]

Ill take a trun here

Name-Charles Zandstra
Age-30
Married- 5 years in a few weeks
Children-2 Ava 2 yrs old, Ashley- 6 months
Location- Crown Point, Indiana
Job- Work on my dads farm
Hobbies- Deer hunting, deer hunting, and more deer hunting.sometimes i fish, but mostly deer hunting
Favorite foods- meat, italian, and meat
Least favorite- veggies
Favorite restaurant- Deb and Di's ( have eaten breakfast there 6 times a week for over 10 years, its owned by my aunt, so i get a discount)
Who i collect- Justin Allgaier has been my main focus this year, Started out collecting Rusty Wallace back in 1996 i beleive it was, found a few packs at a family mart or something like that, got myself a 96 collectors choice of Rusty, was my first pull of his, over the years i managed to aquire around 2900-3000 different Rusty cards, many the beckett doesnt have listed. I also managed to get 1 of every one of his 1/24th diecasts from over the years.

Best pulls ive had- First R/U was a rusty 00 UD tired/firesuit #ED/50, first auot was a 2001 press pass signings of Tony Stewart. Didnt pull much of anything until this year, i did manage 2 jeff gordon sig series out of 07 legends, plus had another 1 come out of a box i did for a little contest. Have managed to pull about 3 or 4 1/1 press plates this year, nothing out of this world. Also managed to finally pull my frst 4-wide, a vickers #ED/10 out of showcase.

Thats about all i can think of for now, can always modify later if i think of something interesting

[rgracer48]

OK here is my story:

Name: Randall Garrison (aka Randy)
Age: Old (52)
Married: To Lennie my wife of 27 years today
Childeren: One stepson 32
Pets: 2 small dogs Lucy & Molly
Job: I work in a bakery (Flowers Foods)

Born and raised in California. (now in Arkansas) Starting collecting Nascar in 1995 with Jeff Gordon because he was a California boy. Never made a whole lot of money so kinda gave up on Gordon when his cards got so high priced. In 2000 I picked a new driver to collect, one I could afford. Jimmie Johnson. Another California boy. Now its looking like I need to pick another driver. LOL Have had alot of fun collecting though. Well enough for now. (Wife just got home from having her hair done and I have to take her to dinner for our anniversary)

[GriffeyJr.FAN3]

Name-Paul
Nickname (not here but in the real world)-Walnuts
Age 18
Collects: Kasey Kahne
top 5 drivers
Kasey Kahne
Joey Logano
Dale Earnhardt Jr.
Tony Stewart
Mark Martin
other hobbies include: playing basketball, fishing, shooting, xbox, bowling, parties, paintballing, and other stuff but i cant think of them now.
My career aspiration is to be in federal law enforcement as a DEA agent (Drug Enforcement Administration) which is one of the most dangerous jobs in the world.