How Many Stamps Can I Collect in a Year? 

My first cars in the 1970s had been Renault R4 with 34 HP. They were cheap as used cars, very service friendly and easy to repair. But there was one disadvantage: you could watch them rusting like a TV program ! 😂 Congrats on DAVO USA albums two and three, by the way...👌 Greets from GER, U.

My favorite car was a metallic gold Oldsmobile Cutlass Supreme 442 with a black vinyl top, mag wheels, black leather interior, and rear air shocks that could be automatically pumped up from inside the cab to jack up the back end. It had an 8-track tape deck with the most incredible speakers I have even heard before or since. I bought it used in 1974 for $1800. I got it up to 110 mph on a straight stretch of highway and it was a beast. It really was the coolest car around. That car today, restored, would sell for around $30,000. Unfortunately the car got wrecked by a car full of teenagers speeding through an intersection late one night and T-boning the Cutlass on the passenger side. It was basically totalled. Sign

Bought my first car in 1969 was a 1953 Chevy that I paid $150. Sold it so I could upgrade to a 64 Plymouth Valiant for $400 in 1970. It took me all over the Sierra Mountains of California in pursuit of trout, often sleeping in the car. I was single and would soon join the Air Force.

Enjoy your US journey. Also, find a nice pre-owned Honda or Toyota. The engines last 200,000 plus miles with routine maintenance.

I am currently driving a 2003 Subaru Baja. Last year I found out that the crankshaft was bent. So it was either get an other used car for $12,000 or get a new engine block. I decided on a new block. Bought one used from a supplier I Calgary Alberta, I live in South East British Columbia. The supplier gets the blocks from Japan and have an average of 80,000 kilometers on them. I cost $1,850 Canadian including shipping to my town. Then spend an other $2,000 to install it. It runs great again and plan on keeping it for as long as I can. As to stamps collecting I have decided to focus on stamps issued during World War II. So far I have 70% of the German Stamps from 1933 to mid 1945. I am not using any standard album as those are big bucks. So am creating my own on graph paper and using mounts. What a fun journey. Those Davo albums are very nice, but like you said PRICY.

Looking forward to watching your progress on this.

i BOUGHT A 1965 Ford Galaxy convertible off a friend of mine. He had bought it and his dad told him he couldn't bring it home so I bought it sight unseen. So we went to pick it up some 25 miles away in a rather bad part of town. Well it broke down a couple miles after picking it up luckily near a garage where we left it with a note and phone number. Turned out it ran out of gas because the bottom of the gas tank looked like swiss cheese. It almost doubled what I paid for the car getting a new gas tank. Loved that car didn't last long but it was fun to drive while I had it.

There is a big difference between being a stamp collector and a stamp accumulator. Focus is important.

Congrats on getting those nice used albums! I built a complete 20-volume set of Minkus Supreme albums through 2000 from several incomplete sets sold as box lots by my local dealer... it was the album I wanted as a kid and it's been really fun pulling the album together and putting stamps into it. It will be an album that will offer scope for decades of collecting lol. So one can be "focused" on the world lol

Congratulations for acquiring the new Davo albums! Exciting! I think I also already said here, but I am a beginner collector and I am really going to try and listen and do the advice of focusing! But it is awfully difficult! All stamps are just so interesting. My first car, just after university, was a second-hand Mazda 323 (all these Mazda's called "Mazda tree-to-tree" in the nation's mouth). I just loved her. She once got a new paint job in a colour I chose out: a shade of green-blue. She was very reliable, but at some stage after years of having her (if I remember correctly, about 15 years) it just became too expensive to keep her on the road. Someone who was going to build her up in one of those repurposed racing cars bought her. I guess she got another life. Never saw her again. :)

Good luck in hunting up the stamps, I remember how hard it was to spend the money it takes for things like the 5dollar Coolidge or the White Plains souvenier sheet in mint never hinged.

Clock ticking... Have you achieved your goal for Davo album I?

My first car was a 1970 Monte Carlo green with a dark green top. I bought it used in 1973. I had that car for 30 years but it got to the point where the trunk was rusting out. I named it the Green Tornado. Whenever I would go somewhere and people came in they would say "I know that Bob is here. I saw the Green Tornado outside". I paid $2000 for it so I definitely got my money's worth and I still miss it. I do not know if I ever had any focus. I collect worldwide mint only, up to 1970. There are many things that I had no interest in collecting but I cannot pass up a bargain. For instance the Indonesian Vienna Issues. Scott did not list them for years and my album has no pictures for them but I was at a show and somebody had 50 mint for $5. How could I pass that up? Another example is US postal stationery. I had no interest until someone had a bunch and said that he would sell them to me for 10 cents a piece, so now I am collecting those also.

Hmmm - ‘some’ stamps in volume 2!

depends how far u travel , how much u do auctions online and last and long least how deep ones pockets are.

I have 10 of the hingeless American Heritage albums from Mystic Stamps. So far I have complete two of the ten, with several others only a few stamps away from being done. And my car I currently own? Totally cursed.