Surprise to the Maxx!

I got a large package in the mail today, and I was not expecting it. I get mail fairly regularly from the people who sent it to me as part of another hobby, but I wasn't expecting anything now...

but this showed up!

An uncut sheet of 1995 Maxx Series II hobby! WOW! Despite the fact that I've been collecting for 29 years now this is only my second uncut sheet, but this is the first one that is traditionally thought of when it comes to uncut sheets, as the first one I had was all one card. How awesome is this? I couldn't save this one for a Kindness of Strangers post as it came to me from friends I actually know in person.

And if you look close....

it's signed by Terry Labonte! My mom's all-time favorite driver, this is the first auto of Terry in my collection!

Thank you my friends! 

A friend sent me one of my Top 10 most wanted NASCAR cards...and didn't even know it!

Because, of course, I've never actually put my Top 10 Most wanted NASCAR cards list to paper (or keyboard), I've kept it solely in my head.

So, it led to a pleasant surprise several days ago when I was the recipient of a Random Act of Kindness from a fellow Trading Card Database member, who sent me more than 75 NASCAR cards I needed, all from 1994 and 1995.

One of them happened to be this one, from 1994 VIP, of Wendell Scott, which ranked #7 on my Top 10 Most Wanted NASCAR cards! He didn't know that of course.

This was the last Wendell Scott card issued until 2010. I've written about Wendell Scott before, click his name in the "tags" at the bottom of the post to read my previous posts about him.

It gets better- of the cards he sent me, I was able to complete 1994 VIP, which makes it my first completion of 2015! It came almost a year to the day of my first completion of 2014. (That is actually a year ago today according to my records. I would go on to complete 19 more sets in 2014, it was a good year for cards)

He also sent me all of these--

Included in that group is my very first card of Charles Hardy, who only got a handful of cards issued in 1995 and 1996 while he was Bill Elliott's co-owner.

I was looking at these while I watched the Xfinity race (it's going to take me a while before I get used to that- I still call it the Busch series most of the time) and later on we saw a first time winner who was not a Cup driver- can't beat that!
1994 is my favorite year for NASCAR cards, and this is the most I've gotten from that season since 2010. 2/21/15 was a good day.

Thanks for reading, and thanks to Mark for the cards!