Has anyone honestly found anything good in a $1 pile at Hershey. Every time I walked past one, I couldn't help but look. Never saw anything worth the time it took to pick it up let alone a dollar!
Most of what I sold was either $1 or $5. I had taillights...including 39 Ford in my $1 pile. I've also boght some cool stuff in $1 pile...like a vintage volt gauge. I would guess all the good $1 items are gone by Friday. Clark
A chrome naked lady bottle opener, 40 Ford perch bolt and all three tools for one dollar a file, needle nose pliers and 9/16 wrench. When your there all week you'll look at everything.
Last year at Hershey, I paid a dollar for a N.O.S. straight through muffler that's filled with steel shot. It weighs about ten pounds.
Just about all my 2007 Hershey sales were from my $1.00 pile, NOS distributor caps and oil filters, and stuff too costly to sell on eBay. The five milk crates that didn't sell get scraped tomorrow.
Treasure is everywhere...everyone in old car parts knows a lot about some stuff, nothing about other stuff. You will find absurdly cheap Ford goodies in the Maxwell guy's pile, and vice versa...but you must be able to instantly recognize a goody upside down under a pile of rusted crap. If you can really recognoze stuff, you will prosper!
Really cool SW curved glass, large face speedo from the '30's. A '32-'34 oil breather cap, tons of model A spring hangers, misc. Ford brackets and nuts/bolts, a really useful wooden mallet for doing stone/brick work. This doesn't count b/c it was $10 but the guy put it on his $1 pile. A new OEM 11" Ford pressure plate. If I pressed him, he would of done a $1. He asked for $10 so I conceded.
I must have looked at every $1 and free pile in that place. Yes, there was some good stuff but also a lot of JUNK. I didn't buy much this year. Just some spare parts for my soon to be HAMB debuted new ride.....
In the past, I found a lot of Auto-Kit 100 wrenches I collect, this year,not one-but I couldn't go til Saturday. I did find a really neat faceted glass amber lens and some other bits and pieces. In the free piles, I found a set of convex mirrors I can use on my tractor, exactly the right sockets to re-construct a set of headlights, some neat old tools and an Olds 88 long hood ornament with a light in the front. It's fully time for Hershey to stop Sunday blue laws and run a real show. If you work and can only go Saturday, vendors are shutting down at noon, but there's still the car show, which is great. Too bad there can't be both.
It wasn't at Hershey, but I once reached into a 5-gallon bucket of muddy water (it rained really hard the night before the swap meet and the guy was already set up) and pulled out the exact pair of seat belts I needed for a '68 Lemans. Got'em for 50 cents.
not a dollar but was looking over a guy's table and saw some model a dashes, picked one up to look at the other and the guy says "if you will use them take them" i can always do FREE
I picked up a pair of 36-38 headlights with sealed beams for $1 each. The guy had a sign in the back of his truck that everything was $1. It didn't take much digging to find them either. They have a few dents and one bulb is missing. Later in the day I saw a pair in a little better condition for $140. It made my weekend. J.
We set up to guy once that had '$1 dollar each' table with about 50-60 items and a sign on it stating so. When things would get slow during the weekend, he'd toss a five or ten dollar bill on the table and sit something on it...just enough to keep it from blowing away but still VERY visible. He'd then count how many people would look at his stuff and miss or not ask about the deal. When he got a brave buyer to ask about the $5 or $10, he honored the deal and had a good chuckle with the 'lucky customer' and thanked him for paying attention. He would then yell across the aisle to us "47!" meaning how many people looked and walked before taking him up on the deal....the few times he did it was always north of 30 people. He said often someone standing around witnessing the fun...or the 'lucky customer'...would then give his stuff a harder look and find something that he'd make his $4 dollar loss up in folds on the spot....fun guy.
When I get old and creaky, I'm gonna set up a BUYER'S swap meet booth at Hershey...I'll sit there with a tarp spread out on the ground; Little pile of money held down by a rock on a piece of paper marked "1932 windshield frame", another pile on a sign that says "1938 Lincoln trans case", etc. Let the sellers walk...
well, you're close, it's the pump/fuel distributor fer a diesel. btw, i know just enough about diesels to recognize one and that's all! diesel fuel gives me one real mudderfocker of a headache...
My friend bought out a snapper lawn mower plant here .. got tons of stuff He got 36,000 weed eater straps Has sold them for a 1.00 a peice for last 4 or 5 years at one swap meet a year Only has 10,000 left
Last year at Fall Carlisle, I found six new in the box vintage NAPA 216 Chevy rods, converted for insert bearings, on a guy's dollar tarp. Not bad for $6.00.
At Iola I bought a 26-27 T roadster windshield post for a $1 off someone's pile, and a 42-48 Chevy Fleetline fender strip for $1 from another. Got a Chevy Artillery wheel for $1 also, but it wasn't in a $1 pile. I bought an amazing amount of stuff with my $10.50 that I brought with me that day.
oops i was selling new Kevlar gloves and sleeves at my swap space this past weekend for a dollar a pair sold 80 pair or so some one told me they charged him around 10 a pair at his job for em...
not Hershey, but off a $1 blanket at a suburban swap meet in Australia, I spotted 3 door handles and a chrome indicator surround for my 52 Ford Pickup in amongst kitchen drawer handles and allsorts of other crap from about 10 feet away......good scores for sure, but the respect garnered from my more experienced rodding cohorts was PRICELESS!!!!!
The satisfaction of being able to ID stuff is priceless...nothing feels better than walking through a swap after hearing "Yep, it's all gone. Nothing in there but '72 Chevelle parts" from deuce people and emerging with some underpriced kills... Everything you want is out there--it's just in the wrong place, and you have to set that right!
Roosa pump, SCORE. Especially for a buck. Dang, I have GOT to get to the land of real swap meets when they are on.
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