He has since reduced that to a mere 3,000 by concentrating on sports and luxury cars. He gets the brochures from area dealerships and by calling information numbers provided by carmakers. I have a routine. I go in by the parts department, and if anyone asks me, I tell them I collect brochures. Shoaf trades American brochures for European literature with a man in Switzerland.
Every year there is a different catalogue that is colorful and fun to look at.
In some instances, the brochures are so good you can almost smell the interiors. There is also a market for these things that is getting bigger and bigger. I know places in Brookline and Syracuse that sell automobile brochures. The coin market, on the other hand, is dead. There is no new blood.