The first & last time I let a neighbor talk me into putting things out in my yard for a community wide Saturday yard sale, I had some decent ****on-up dress shirts (on hangars) marked for 25-cents each. A guy who didn't look anywhere near des***ute, offers me a dime each for the shirts he gathered up. I paused, gave him that look like 'SERIOUSLY?' then said they are priced as marked. He tossed them on a table and walked away. I'd rather give them to charity or use them for rags than waste my time on some guy's ego to get talked down from 25-cents to a dime. Gotta56forme/Scott
Yea I'm sure you won from that. That will get the money your looking for so he could see what it was really worth. Boy, I bet you came out on top.
The big money was made from s****. You would know this if you ever worked in a junk yard. Cars and parts were more of an annoyance than anything. Besides not my yard, not my rules!
My alarm just rang at 3:30 in the morning so we can drive across town for the Lincoln swap. Rolling in the gate at 4 AM has got to be some kind of crazy.
This happened last Fall. As I pull into my swap space a guy I know but don't really like came waddling up and asked about a pair of bucket seats. Asks what they are from. I say GM. Want's to know the price. Tell him $1000 bucks. He hands me the cash and starts laughing and tells me I'm a idiot for selling a pair of 1st gen Camaro seats for a grand. See why I don't care for the guy? I just smile and stuff the money in my pocket. He leaves the seats to pick up later and waddles off. Comes back later with a buddy to get the seats and is all smiles, calls me a fool again and shows his pal the big bargain he bought. Buddy looks at them and says "Those ain't Camaro. Look like full size Pontiac." Buyer gets white faced,looks at me and says you lied to me. I reply nope, they are GM. Never said what body style and you never asked. Now the guy is asking for his money back. Nope...all sales are final. His buddy is laughing at him and he's pretty mad but they each threw a seat over a shoulder and left.
Not swap meet, but.. I was riding my Harley down the highway and spotted three old Ford Rear ends setting out near the road, where they were smashing out a salvage yard! They had a sign , $10 a piece. Well I saw that one of those rear ends looked different than the other two! So I spin around and take a look and buy a Columbia rear end for $10. I told the guy to hold it right there ! I raced home and go my truck! I was so excited, I forgot about buying the other two rear ends! This was some thirty plus years ago. I don’t play with cars old enough to use this rear end, but I did know about them! So it just set on my 1937 ton and a half truck! Fast forward to a few years back, I see a pair of exhaust manifolds I think I need for my avatar car, in Illinios! So to finance them I have to sell my Columbia! So I do. Then I buy my C-5 long tubes! Bones
I love going to swap meets when building a car as I have a long list with me and find lots of parts. When I was building my '63 Falcon Futura g***er I had a list of 16 parts I was looking for. I crossed of 14 of the items and that was like hitting the swap meet jackpot! At another swap meet here one April a buddy and I were walking around, and got near the end when I suddenly remembered I was supposed to be looking for a grille for my OT '69 Suburban! I told him how I'd screwed up and probably missed one by not looking! He asked me what it looked like and as I'm standing there trying to describe it I looked at the leg of a canopy I was standing beside and tied to the leg was a 1969 Chev truck grille! I told him "it looks just like that!" I asked who owned the part and a guy raised his hand. Asked the price and he said, "How's $10?" Couldn't get my money out quick enough. Glad I didn't look for one earlier or I'd have paid too much! Another swap meet story. Walking around a swap meet and occasionally see boxes marked "Free Parts". So I see a box and I start picking out all sorts of NOS radiator caps, gas caps, and parts. Then I realized I had my arms full and still good stuff in the box! So I picked the whole box up and thanked the guy at the space. Turned to leave and some guy says, "You're taking the whole box?" to which I replied, "Well it does say free, not just take one".
Going into Turlock winter meet one year, after waiting to park, pay at the gate we get in and I need to get rid of my coffee. Finally get into the men's room and hear in the back ground, "God damn, a half an hour to park in the mud. Another half an hour to pay to get in, and now another half an hour to go piss!' Just after the rant comes a voice from inside a stall, "Oh yeah, wait until it takes you half an hour to Take a piss".
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