Sets I had none of on August 9th, 2010. What do I have now?

 I was doing some cleaning and found a hand written note that I wrote on August 9th, 2010 listing which major NASCAR sets I had none of at that time. Fifteen years later that has changed significantly, partially since I bought at least one card from each set on COMC, but also because that was before I was established on the Database and NUTS. 

So let's see how things have changed since then...

1996 KnightQuest is listed first on the list for some reason I no longer remember. 

It didn't take me long to get any cards from that set. My records show I got cards 9 cards on August 28th, 2010 and got the remaining cards from the set on January 30th 2016, when I also got 11 inserts/parallels from the set. Both times they came from other collectors. 

1993 Maxx Premier Series is a 300 card set, the largest set I was missing. I bought the complete set on Ebay and it arrived to me on January 11th, 2007.

1996 Maxx Premier Series is not as much of a success story as the first two sets. I have only one card from the set, an insert that I bought on COMC if I remember correctly. I still have none of the base cards from the set. The one insert I have I got on December 12th, 2016.

2008 Press Pass Legends is also pretty low in my collection. I have 8 total cards, 1 base card, 4 parallels and three inserts. The base card, which I got on Ebay, arrived to me on April 5th, 2015. I believe all the other cards I picked up via COMC. 

2009 Press Pass Showcase was the first stupid expensive set in NASCAR history, where the box was around $400 for 8 cards if I remember correctly. I currently have 3 cards from the set, two base and one parallel. My records show that I got the parallel on December 12th, 2009, and I know for sure I got that on the NUTS forum as a gift. I made a mistake when I wrote this paper chart.

2010 Showcase is funny because I wrote this chart on 8/9/10, and I got my first card from the set on 9/8/10! As of today, I have one base card, two parallels and one inset. I don't remember where I got the base card but I'm pretty sure the other three came from COMC. 

2010 Element is a fun set because it's one of the very few NASCAR sets to utilize old school brown cardboard. I now have 93 total cards from the set, 68 of them base. I got my first on August 20th, 2010, just 11 days after I wrote this chart. I don't remember where I got that card but I have a feeling I may have made a post about the sets I'm missing on NUTS and one of the people on there sent me one. 

1996 Wheels High Gear is crossed off because it doesn't exist. I had assumed it had and that I was just missing some. But I was wrong, it was never made. They didn't make it in 1997 either so I don't remember if I remembered that, if I thought I had it, or I discovered it right away after writing 1996 and that's when I crossed out 96. I don't remember at this point. 

So all those sets (that actually exist) are now present in my collection, with two of them complete. 

There are two sets I currently don't have represented in my collection:

• 2024 National Treasures
• 2024 Panini Prizm

I actually saw Prizm for sale at the Norwich, NY Wal-Mart a couple weeks ago but didn't want to spend the money on it. I am not a fan of the Prizm technology and I was going to a diecast store the next day, and I wanted the most money available for that as possible. So I didn't get any Prizm. After realizing it's one of only two sets I'm missing during the writing of this post I kind of regret not getting it. 

National Treasures is one of those insanely super high priced sets. For example, here it is on DA Card World...10 cards for $325, on sale from the usual $400. I will realistically never get to experience opening a box/pack of this brand ever. I will never know the thrill and excitement of being surprised with what I get. I'll never get a chance to truly get to collect this set, but I will probably end up buying something from it on the secondary market some day. It's not anywhere near as fun as actually collecting the cards yourself, but that's life. 

July 2025 New People Added

 I can't believe I forgot to type this post up at the start of the month. I went in to make a different post and realized it wasn't there. I don't expect anyone to care but I am doing this to track my collection growth, not because anyone else cares. 

38 new people which is a lot. I got some of the IndyCar cards locally, and I mail ordered a box of N G-League cards, which gave me pretty much all of the NBA guys. I hit the local card show for the second time this year (another post I need to write...) which gave me the hockey people. 

I didn't scan anyone new in the month. I scanned only 6 cards in all of July, 5 of which were shown in my last post about the Chinese NBA cards.