Collector and seller since a long time ago

Opus's Diecast Emporium

Opus's Diecast Emporium, illustrated vintage ambulance logo

A lifetime of diecast, catalogued

Realistic side-profile diecast penguin collector ambulance inside a molded blister
  • Mainline
  • Treasure Hunt
  • Super TH
  • Car Culture
  • RLC

My name is Opus. I have been buying diecast for a long time and the wall finally got big enough that I need a real record of it. So I am photographing and logging every car, one at a time, and putting the doubles up for sale.

Everything you see here comes out of my own collection. If a car is listed as available, I have it in my hand.

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Collection by the numbers

0 Cars catalogued
0 Unique castings
0 Treasure Hunts
0 Super Treasure Hunts
0 Sealed cases

About 5,000 cars is his real number. The breakdown is estimated until the catalogue is built, and these count up live as records land.

Video

The series

I started posting on July 31. Short, vertical, one idea per clip. These are the formats I am running.

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Case Cracks

A sealed case opened on camera, car by car, until the last slot.

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One Car, One Minute

One casting, what it is, when it ran, and why I kept it.

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Peg Hunt

Store runs around Michigan. What was on the pegs, what I left behind.

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The Vault Tour

A pass down one row of the wall, with the story behind a few of them.

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Is It Rare?

You send a photo, I tell you what you have and roughly what it goes for.

Free, no catch

How to spot a Super Treasure Hunt

Three tells. If a car in the dollar bin has all three, put it in your cart. Regular Treasure Hunts use the same flame logo but keep normal paint and normal wheels.

1

Spectraflame paint

A candy finish over polished metal. It looks wet and it changes depth as you turn it. Regular mainline paint is flat and even.

2

Real Riders wheels

Actual rubber tires on a separate hub, not one piece of molded plastic. Look at the sidewall from the side, you can see the seam.

Basic wheel
Real Riders
3

Two flame logos

One small flame printed on the card near the series name, and a second one on the car itself, usually tucked behind the rear wheel. Both have to be there.

Not sure what you have?

Send me a photo of the front and the back of the card. I will tell you the casting, the year and roughly what it sells for. I do this for free, it is how I meet people.

Trading

Buying and selling

What I buy

  • Whole collections, any size, carded or loose
  • Estate cleanouts, including boxes nobody has opened in years
  • Factory sealed cases
  • Unopened singles, premium lines, RLC mailers
  • Old peg finds still in the original bag

I am in Michigan. For a large lot I will drive to you. Tell me roughly what you have and send a couple of photos, I will give you a number.

[email protected]

Where I sell

  • eBay store, with the full listing and photos of the actual card
  • Direct message on Facebook for anything you see here
  • Drop list by email before a batch goes public

Doubles get listed first. Cars marked keeper are not for sale, they are on the page because they are worth looking at.

Shipping: bubble mailer inside a box for carded cars, tracking on everything.

Keep up

Follow along

The page is new. 23 followers as of now, and I would rather tell you that than pretend otherwise.

Social

First video went up July 31. New clips as I catalogue.

Get the drop list

An email when a new batch of doubles goes up, and nothing else. No newsletter, no daily anything.

Mockup only. The form does not send anything yet.

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