Ahhh, we’re here at “The Late One”; a car boot\h that starts at a much more reasonable time,\h\h
of like midnight, rather than the crack of\h dawn. Right, let’s see what we can find!
A bank of China cutlery set. Woah, look at\h that…… chopsticks and spoons, how fancy.
Alright, it’s been a while\h since we’ve done one of these,\h\h
but long term viewers will know that I\h tend to be drawn to absolutely random,\h\h
but interesting things, and there’s\h certainly a lot to see at this car boot sale.
Not least, these Medieval and Persian warrior\h die casts, that I had a whole bucket load of\h\h
in the early 90s. I think they were a staple\h from every museum gift shop for about a decade.
One thing that you’ll never be lacking at a car\h boot sale is CDs. There’s always about 10 stalls\h\h
selling albums. Your task then is to hop between\h them and find the cheapest, whilst also checking\h\h
that the discs are in good condition. Some good\h stuff here, but I have no real need for CDs.
Woah, some retro Crimbo decorations\h here. Check out this pack of 6 Tree\h\h
Crackers from Sainsbury’s. The forbidden\h cracker, that served as a decoration,\h\h
but you were never allowed to pull. Hard to\h date these, but by the design I reckon late 90s.
There was one guy here just selling Super Glue,\h\h
and giving demonstrations like we\h were at a National Glue Convention.\h\h
Honestly pretty compelling, but I’ll\h stick to my Bostick thanks chap.
Alright, here we are. This mixed stall had a\h lovely PlayStation USB light. Now this thing\h\h
isn’t vintage, it’s from 2021. But it does look\h cool, and for a fiver, could be some nice set\h\h
dressing for the studio. Not sure about the “Never\h Used” note, come on guys. We’ll circle back.
Alright, I’ve got a weird obsession with these\h little books. This one is called Wonders of\h\h
Wildlife, but it contains a load of cards that\h came free with Brooke Bond Tea from 1954 onwards.\h\h
An incredibly British way of collecting.\h There are so many different collections,\h\h
but I’ve amassed numerous ones over the\h years. This book was 50p, so I picked it up.
WOAHHH, Look at this absolute spherical\h reflective globe of a lampshade. The guy\h\h
wanted twenty quid for this. I was very tempted,\h but I really don’t have anywhere to put it,\h\h
other than my tiny semi detached\h house. Yeh, that’s not gonna fly.
AHHH,YES, OLD TOBACCO TINS. My dad used\h to use an Old Holburn tin like this,\h\h
so it’s nostalgic in itself. But I like all these\h designs. Mmmmmm, Tobacco. Actually, no, maybe not.
Right here we are. If you watched my Windows XP\h video, you’ll know that I’m now on a hunt for\h\h
Windows XP era games. Unfortunately all\h they have here is PES 2010, which, yeh,\h\h
I’ll skip thanks. Some slightly more interesting\h XBox 360 games, but nothing worth picking up.
Immediately, I was attracted to this\h stall by the Binatone Pong machine.\h\h
They wanted £8 for it, which if they hadn’t\h scrawled it over the otherwise pristine box\h\h
in felt tip, I may have been tempted, also that\h Michael McIntyre DVD being so close put me off.
They also had this little “VIBES”\h handheld, which was one of those\h\h
all in one NES emulators. Only five quid,\h but I have literally zero use for this.
Look at the absolute state of this iphone case.\h Certainly hardcore, but what an absolute chonker.
Little box of phones her for £2 each. I still\h have a morbid fascination with Windows phones,\h\h
so a Nokia Windows phone was a no brainer\h purchase, especially for that price.
Also, this sleek black Nintendo DSi\h appealed. Mainly because it looked\h\h
absolutely pristine. Guy wanted £40 it,\h which isn’t bad in that condition, but,\h\h
I skipped for now. Although, there is a\h chance I may return. Maybe. Potentially.
Woah, a Gibson Les Paul. Don’t usually\h see such things at a humble car boot sale.
Ahhh, it’s a copy. Guy wanted £300 for\h it, which probably isn’t that bad. Looked,\h\h
and felt pretty well made, had some nice\h fret board action there. But honestly,\h\h
who carries around £300 bucks at\h a car boot sale. Not me today.
After a brief conversation about Rolf Harris, I\h also passed on this Stylophone. Mainly because\h\h
I already have one, but there’s no\h denying how utterly cool they are.
Ahhh, but on the next stall, I spied an IBM PC\h Compatible QuickShot Commander Pad. This is what\h\h
I used for gaming in the 90s. Plugs straight into\h your PC’s soundcard. £2 for that, yep, no brainer.
Ok, look. You might have seen them. I’ve seen\h them now. But at the time, the Command pad was\h\h
all I cared about and I absolutely did not see\h those Windows XP era games just sitting right in\h\h
front of my eyes. We’ve got Pools of Radiance:\h Ruins of Myth Drannor, The Elder Scrolls III,\h\h
Cat Woman, Baldur’s Gate. To name a few. I am as\h upset as you, honestly. But I was drawn in by the
Goodness, do my eyes deceive me, or is\h that a Sega Mega Drive with Sonic the\h\h
Hedgehog atop of a dedicated plinth?? The\h stall had a load of other games and stuff,\h\h
but clearly, I needed a price on\h that splendid item of Sega beauty.
How much is your Mega Drive?\h
Thirty mate! Thirty?\h
Yeah, game itself is worth a tenner. [questionable] hmmmm.\h
You take £25 for it? Not really mate....\h
No? I've been asking £35. £30 is rock bottom.
I made a vague attempt to haggle down to £25,\h\h
but £30 for a Mega Drive with a pad and game\h isn’t at all bad. I know I have several of them,\h\h
but you honestly can never have enough Mega\h Drives, or copies of Sonic the Hedgehog.
It definitely deserved better than to\h be rammed into a blue Happy Shopper bag,\h\h
but that’s the Car Boot lifestyle for you.
Awesome, enjoy! Yeah, I will, thank you!\h
Cheers, take care. Cheers mate.
See, these tea cards get everywhere. History of\h the Motor Car is an absolutely essential one,\h\h
plus there was a Tim Harford book I also wanted,\h\h
so couple of quid for the\h pair, seems like a steal to me.
Ah, now, here’s a stall I’ve seen before. This\h guy is often at car boot sales selling his wares,\h\h
and he often does have some nice wears, BUT,\h he also prices them at nice wear prices. You’ll\h\h
see there’s a PlayStation N64, etc bagged\h up there. You can be sure they’re working,\h\h
but also, priced a little to\h high to convince me of anything.
I’m not a Pokémon collector, but I do find this\h whole world of card collecting pretty fascinating.
Loads of games here, but these are\h all console titles. None of that\h\h
Windows XP goodness that I seek. Time to move on.
Right, now, I do love a good pair of\h speakers, especially ones that pack a\h\h
punch and could look good next to a desktop\h PC. These are actually monitor speakers,\h\h
and I bet they sound absolutely\h glorious. But I wasn’t feeling it,\h\h
and I’m always a bit dubious of electrical\h wares where the plug has been removed.
Woaaaaah, some absolute eighties gold here.\h A Games Workshop Necromunda. If you were\h\h
never drawn in by this artwork,\h then you are from another planet.\h\h
Nearly all Games Workshop stuff looked glorious.\h Cool little cup of skeletons next to it too.
Waddingtons Dinosaurs is a classic. WWF Wrestling\h Challenge is also a classic, although not really\h\h
for the gameplay, and Scalextric Mighty Metro.\h I dunno, there’s something so compelling about\h\h
this box. Probably because it was the cheapest\h Scalextric set for many years, and those primary\h\h
colour Metros going head to head with the\h blurred background. It just looks so intense.
MORE TOBACCO TINS AS WELL. NAICE.
Can you imagine if someone from the\h medieval era came and saw all this\h\h
tat that we’re dealing with now. They’d\h be like, what even is all this stuff??
Like that. What are Biscuits?\h What’s a Wallace & Grommit?
What’s that? Well, I thought it was a genuine\h Famiclone to start with, before realising it’s\h\h
just one of those fake Lego kits. £3 is\h probably what is cost new to be honest.
Now, it was at this point that my camera glasses\h died, and so I fell back onto using my phone\h\h
to capture the last aisle. Including some old\h Safeway boxes, for the Safeway massive out there.
Look at all these Sylvanian Families\h figures. Absolute 80s staple,\h\h
yet these are still popular today. There was a\h massive stand at Hyper Japan earlier this year.
A congregation of old magazines for you there.\h Including a copy of RAZZLE. Goodness me.
More tea card collectors books, but by this\h point, my tea card limit had been reached.
Look at this little collection of Warhammer\h figurines though. I have no use for them,\h\h
but they look cool as heck, especially\h that Chaos knight at the back there.
Now whenever I see a VHS tape, I am\h immediately drawn in. This, however,\h\h
was just an instructional tape\h sold with a DIY set. Feels like\h\h
yesterday when that was just the\h standard situation to be honest.
It’s KING HENRY THE VIII!
Alright, now model railway stuff is interesting,\h\h
but so are these bus stop signs in all\h honesty. But look at that, a Mighty White\h\h
carriage. Remember Mighty White bread. What\h a bread that was. Full of Mighty Goodness.
Ahhh man, this Race & Chase would have\h been the absolute nuts back in the day.\h\h
What’s this late 70s, early 80s. I’m sure it\h doesn’t work any more, but cool none the less.
Oh god, that’s less cool.
So that concluded our whip around The Aylsham\h Late One car boot. But we’re not quite done yet,\h\h
there are other places to move onto….
Our next destination is Sheringham, on the\h Norfolk coast, where they’re currently hosting\h\h
a 1940s weekend, but they also have some\h charity shops and the like worth checking.
Ahhhh yes, people, 1940s clothing, music,\h platforms and of course STEAM TRAINS.
Glorious. This is indeed a 1940s type arrangement.
But, we’re not here just for that, we’re\h here to check out some second hand thrifting\h\h
action. First of which is a book store that\h I believe I’ve visited in a previous espidoe.
This is Peter’s Book shop. I used to come\h here as a small child, either to buy books,\h\h
or sell books. Back then it was a normal\h book shop, but every time I’ve come since,\h\h
more and more and more books have been\h added to the point where, you can’t even\h\h
see the books on shelves, because they’re\h covered up by books in front of the shelves.
It’s an absolute rabbit’s warren,\h containing everything from old PC books,\h\h
to potentially rare comics, children’s\h books, fiction. You know it’s a book shop.
I’m just going to swap to my phone’s ultra wide\h camera so you can get a real feel for the place.
I find it worrying that the sign says\h that 200 books are added every week,\h\h
and that this is only half\h the stock. Absolutely insane.
If there’s a book you want, it’s likely here,\h\h
but the chances of you finding\h it are likely to be quite slim.
Alright, let’s cruise on into town\h and check out some charity shops.
First up we’ve got the British Heart Foundation.
As you might imagine they’ve got some\h 1940s theming going on here. But I’m\h\h
not here for any of that. I also don’t want\h any more books, I’ve had my fill for today.
This is what I’m talking about. A\h spinning rail, filled with glory.
Filled with glory and Mrs. Brown’s Boys.
Ahhhh, what do we have here? Sim\h City 4, that’s era appropriate,\h\h
and only 50p, or 3 for £1. Let me\h see if I can find anything else.
There’s a copy of Caesar III, no wait,\h there are two copies of Caesar III. What\h\h
are the chances of that? Did Sheringham\h have a Caesar III epidemic in the 90s?
It’s basically a Sim City style\h game, set, yes in Roman times,\h\h
however, it’s very much Windows 95 era, and I’m\h sticking to my guns here. So I’ll leave those.
Always worth checking the back of the\h shop as well, not really much here,\h\h
other than one of those fireplace clocks\h that every house in the 80s and 90s had.
Next up, it’s the RSPCA shop. Which for non Brits,\h\h
stands for the Royal Society for the\h Protection of Cruelty to Animals.
There’s really not much going on in here though\h to be honest. A lot of charity shops have started\h\h
leaning to this sparsely populated format. I\h guess it looks nicer, like a “proper” shop,\h\h
but it’s really not what I want from a charity\h shop. I want loads of crap packed tightly in.
Across the road is the Sue Ryder\h shop, and it’s largely the same.
There are more DVDs in here, but\h sadly no games to browse through.
Tell you what though. Worth having\h a quick peek in the arcades.\h\h
Most of these seaside arcades have just\h become filled with 2p pushers and modern\h\h
ticket machines, but you sometimes\h find a classic cabinet tucked away.
I recently went to Mundesley, and they had a load\h of retro machines, which was really nice to see!
Sadly, nothing this time around. I’m sure\h they did last time, but they break down,\h\h
and then they tend to get shipped\h out. Sadly, it’s the way of the world.
By this time it had actually gone 5 o’clock, and\h I’d forgotten that towns tend to close up at 5,\h\h
apparently even when there’s a 1940s\h weekend on with people everywhere,\h\h
so that actually brings our Sheringham\h shopping adventures to a close. Shame as\h\h
there were about 3 other charity\h shops I wanted to check out.
At least there’s a massive wooden\h tank though, so that’s nice.
So then, this is the entirety\h of today’s thrift haul.
We’ve got a few cheaper bits;\h that lovely Command Pad for £2.
Two Nokia phones from very different eras\h for £2 each. I haven’t got a charger on\h\h
hand for this 5110. But I have no\h doubt it’s working. It’s a Nokia.\h\h
The model that really catapulted\h the brand forward in my mind.
A collection of books for a total cost\h of £2.50. This Tim Harford book has the\h\h
stories of everything from Video Games, to\h The Barcode, The iPhone and even The S-Bend.
We’ve got the PlayStation light which\h I went back for, and snapped up for £4.
Then there’s Sim City 4, which cost 50p.
And, you may notice, that Nintendo DS Lite, which\h I haggled down to £35, including the four games,\h\h
so that was rather nice, fully working as you can\h see here, and complete with stylus. Wonderous.
And finally, of course, there’s the Mega\h Drive. It’s not one of the High Definition\h\h
Graphics models, but for £30 with Sonic\h the Hedgehog, I reckon it’s alright.
So a total outlay of £78. Equivalent to around\h $105 USD. Nothing spectacular, but reasonable.
I have noticed of late that some retro stuff has\h started to fall in price. I think we may have\h\h
reached the peak of a particular crest. But you\h know, the really rare stuff will always be rare.
First up, I’m going to test that light out.
Right, let's see if this works...
It fits nicely, in that gap!
But... the lea.... the lea.... what is that?!?
That's tiny.
That's what she said.
Ok, in we go.
That's what he said.
You'll have to bare with me...
Ohhhhhh! Ohhhhhh!
Yeah!
Oh, glorious!
Look at that! What a festival for the eyes!
Woah, so worth £4! Absolute bargain.
Look at that, such a perfect fit\h in my ever expanding backdrop.
Second, let’s see if that\h Mega Drive actually works.
Let's try setting the Mega Drive up\h on the big TV, just like we used to,\h\h
when we were younger. Just plug\h this in to the front for now...\h\h
I NEED THE REMOTE CONTROL! I don't\h know where the remote control is.
Awwwww, yeaaah.
Ohhh, 50Hz. PAL Mode.
We've got a bit of a dodgy\h controller, potentially.
Controller may be dodge.
Ahh, the greatest control pad of all time.
Wheeeeeey... I don't know why I sounded\h like a horse then, but we have action!
[Sonic Sounds]
So there we are. The controller may\h be shagged, but the console works,\h\h
and it looks beautiful on my 37″ Toshiba.
Which brings us to the end\h of this return to thrifting.
I realise that I’ve kinda gone into this\h at the end of the car boot sale season,\h\h
however, this is always plenty of scope.
If you’d like to see more thrifting epsiodes,\h\h
please let me know in the comments. Likewise\h if you’d rather not, let me know that as well.
Until next time, I’ve been Nostalgia Nerd.
Toodleoo!