[GT40Racer]

If you don't consider your self a collector but you have a bunch of cars that you race - what you call that bunch of cars. Wouldn't it be a 'my collection of race cars' wouldn't any other word you use be a synonym for collection anyway.

I have cars I race - cars I drive but don't race and a few cars that I haven't done either with. I would consider I have several different collections of slot cars. I also have a collection of model trains and some coins I collected from around the world. If you have an interest in something and you gather a group of these 'somethings'  together what other word would you use than collector / collection. We all collect for different reasons. What you do with those somethings is up to you = use them, put them away, display them, buy and sell them etc etc etc........ 

Why do people worry about whether they are perceived as collectors or not? Its a bit like being worried about people thinking you play with toy cars. Who cares if they do - if  they won't socialise with you because of it they aren't worth socialising with

:)