So the HAMB Drags are comming up and as per the custom I'm in my stash looking for something to bring to the silent auction. This is not to toot my own horn, and I'm not trying to take up a collection here so don't change the page too quick. So we have some background anyway I'm digging through my stuff and deep in a box of junk I find an old Eelco progressive linkage for a tri-power setup. I'm thinking this is cool because I need to come up with a progressive linkage for a 2x4 I'm setting up and I think I can modify these parts just fine. Then it occures to me I haven't a clue where these parts came from, I don't remember buying them or trading for them. Now you have to realize that this is deep in a box that I have probably been stashing or lugging around for about 40 years? Anyway I said all that to ask this, ever find any really cool parts that you have no clue where they came from? Lets hear about it. What is the coolest thing you have evenr found lurking in your stash of parts?
my brother has a barn full of junk he has no idea where it came from. we're selling at the Hayward Swap in a couple of weeks. he's finding all sorts of junk he didn't know he had.
I tend to do that with new parts. I'll put together an order of parts and try to think of all the stuff I'll be needing in the near future and end up putting it away in a box and forgetting I bought it. 3 years later I'll find it after I've bought it again......
I had a Dart a while back. Not street legal and it had not been driven in a while. After I towed it home I wanted to get some money up before I messed around with it. I checked out what it had and it sat while I searched for parts. I was giving it a tuneup and was going to put on an air filter whenever I noticed that the air cleaner housing was cut to fit a 2 barrel setup. I was about to purchase a 2 barrel setup at the time and did not know it had one already. Lame but kinda funny. I sold some parts a while back and did not the difference between open and closed car Model A parts. I already had the dash rail and cowl posts for an early A roadster. I'm glad I saved it. I'm still learning
my problem is buying stuff, stashing it and never finding it again. like they grow legs or something......
when cleaning uot my grandfathers lrge backyard garage (fell over many years back) My family found cool dome cadilac ligts a monoleaf spring for an old ford of some sort a whole bunch of cool rims (stock wire fords 16" stock 1/2 ton truck rims) numerous mismatched hubcaps and a whole shit load of cool oil cans gas cans and chrome strips and nicknacks. We also sold a 1969 vw bus for 900 Had all origional motor and everything else ) and a 1973 ford f100 for 50 bucks (I was pissed) with a blown up 300 inline six. All of the things other than the cars were totally rusted due to being outside so they all got thrown away some of it would have been saveable. A week later we went through his back house and we found shit loads of cool old magazines from the 50's and 60's but rats had chewed through most of them. If my grandfather had stored all this stuff corredtly we would have hit a friggin gold mine!
Damn Beaner...I wished i had that problem, I really feel for you and I'm willing to relocate your stash and organize it for ya... hehehehehe especially since you don't remember everything you have... I have found some old bike stuff i'd bought years ago but nothing really kewl. Have a safe trip bud
Bout the coolest I found was pulling out an old intake to see what it was. I was young and dumb and got a performer intake for my 350 rather than the "stock" one a few years back. I've been wanting to get rid of the performer so wanted to check what the one I had pulled off to throw the performer on was. Realized when I pulled it out that it was one of the Winters 327 ones and the code on it says its off of one of the 365hp 327's. Bout the coolest find I've had.
If you had said 30 years ago it would almost be believable. The '70s is pretty much a blurrr. Tony a while back I was moving my mom and found an old nut'n'bolt organizer that I had stashed a horders dream of little Harley parts in. a knuck kick peddle dismantled and complete with new rubbers and ball bearings. Break light switches, kill switches, a left hand slide throttle NOS for an Indian, oil pump bushings things like that. I had completely forgotten about all that old stuff. I used to collect everyone's obsolete parts when they went late model (that would be nose cone). My little brother captured it all said I was too crippled up to ride anymore and he wasn't. My problem aside from finding stuff I didn't know I owned, which isn't a problem at all, is I give stuff to people when I think they need it then I don't remember giving it away. A while back I told the raven I was looking for something that would be perfect for whatever and couldn't find it. He tiold me I gave it to someone (I don't recall who he said). Probably wasn't worth much but I remember thinking damn, I shoulda kept that.
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