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.