I've got a box load of Car Wars stuff, additional add-on sets, supplements and 'zines, Truck Wars, map sheets, an arena map sheet IIRC. Probably some 40-50 items. This is a game I always liked the idea of, ever since the little plastic box from Steve Jackson came out. But I could never get anyone to play it, and it's overly complicated for what it is (or atleast appears to be).

The stuff weights maybe 4kg. I'm wondering whether there are any things from Car Wars that is worth anything more than the usual $5 or so, or whether I just sell the whole lot as a job lot (in which case I'm cutting out international buyers on grounds of weight).

Again, this stuff seems to have a very limited market and little interest. Either that of eBay's new and improved search tools are FoS. In both cases (Battletech and Car Wars), I suspect the latter is probably the case.

I don't know how to price Car Wars stuff for you either... and had a similar experience as you.. great game that no one wanted to play.

Still, if/when you get around to selling make sure you let me know.

I collect the game, even if I can't play it.

You could build two cars and battle yourself but it would be tough to hide your strategy from yourself.

Zenopus wrote:I ordered it from an ad in DRAGON...it was $1.

That's what I started with too.

top price is definately the catalogue from hell.

the compendium also will fetch OK money and any shrink boxed sets will as well.

the ADQ's vary ... the first four do carry a premium and there seem to be a few rare editions (sorry can't recall).

the chapter books can be quite hard to get hold of if you've any of those.

There might be some games that use the car wars mechanics.  Old games like Tradewars 2000 seemed to implement something very similar.

I liquidated my Car Wars collection in 2008. In addition to things like the Catalog from Hell doing well, a *lot* of the other items did *way* better than I expected:

56 Catalog from Hell
26 Muskogee Mayhem
40 Midville
8.19 Mean Streets
56 CW Expansion 1 2 3 4
47 CW Exp 5 6 9 VG2
20.5 ADQ 1/
21.53 ADQ 2/
2.25 ADQ 3/
2.25 ADQ 4/
13.55 ADQ 5/
5.5 ADQ 6/
16.55 ADQ 7/
16.48 ADQ 8/
49.5 ADQ 9/
51 ADQ 10/
10.55 Sunday Drivers
9 Mini Car Wars
10.5 Road Sections 1
27.25 Road Sections 2
10.5 Road Sections 3
41 CW Compendium (black)
0.99 Boat Wars
5.5 UA 2036 Catalog
5 UA 2038 Catalog
5 UA 2039 Catalog
23 Combat Showcase
0.99 Vehicle Giude 1
1.75 Vehicle Guide 2
31 Vehicle Guide 3
16.18 Convoy
10.74 Best of ADQ
31 Arena Book
3 L'Outrance
28.11 UA 2038 Calendar
0.99 Truck Stop
52 CW Expansion 1 3 5 8
63.11 CW Remaining Lot (lots of bits & pieces, counters, maps, etc.)

Wow!  Those look like fantastic prices - makes me think about selling my collection.

I think there are only 4 comics but 6 TSR books.