I run a landfill for the town I live in and it amazes me what people throw away. This morning a guy came in with a motor and trans from a model a. The motor turns by hand and the trans shifts fine and the clutch moves everything fine. The guy said he was cleaning out his shop and did not need it. It's in the back of my truck now. I will post some pics tonight. Is there a way to date these?
Post the motor No.s and we should be able to find the year of manufacture. The year of install might be different.
I also post on www.67-72chevytrucks.com, and one of the guys on the 60-66 section posted this: http://67-72chevytrucks.com/vboard/showthread.php?t=520401 Whoever sent that car to be s****ped needs to be strung up. Many s****pers out there only care about the s**** value, and not the true collector value. Can you imagine all of the cool stuff getting s****ped that we DON'T hear about?
soonermodela.org has a listing of motor No.s. I couldn't find the No.s you posted . the numbers are on the side of the block on a machined surface, the No.s you gave if of the side of the block could be rebuilders No.s.
Sounds like the mentality my grandfather had about stuff. If he didn't have a use for it it wasn't worth anything and needed to be thrown away. At least you were able to save it to use or for someone else to use. Things like that cause speedsters to happen though.
My in-laws, old German farmers, don't believe anything old is worth anything. The funny thing about them is whenever they pitch anything out that could still be useful to some they smash it so no one can use it. My dad worked for a small very high end suburb of Milwaukee that had a weekly dump site set up on Saturdays. My dad's co-workers would fight over who would work each Saturday so they could pull of the good stuff that the people would pitch out, mostly just because they wanted the latest and greatest and didn't want what wasn't the newest fad. They'd throw out perfectly good high end bikes and electronics. The overtime also made the worthwhile. The guys who worked on the daily garbage pick up would also find all kinds of treasures on their routes. They'd have storage areas on the trucks for the smaller stuff and many times if the item was too large they come back after work with their own trucks to pick it up.
very cool score when I was a kid when we'd go to the dump people would always set out the good stuff, either the people that would drop it off or the dozer operator
My 80 year old friend tells me the story of how he had 6 36 Ford coupes, 2 were 3 windows, and the city was not happy with the "junk" and mom said get rid of them so he cut them up with an axe and took them to the town dump. It was in the early 50's.
This is why I made friends with the local garbage men. One of them brought me a set of brand new Dietz headlights still in the box. I guess someone had p***ed away and the kids cleaned out the garage. Left boxes of stuff out for garbage pick up.
He daid he cleaning up to make room for his 30 A pickup. Has a real nice 29 A roadster he said he is going to sell to fund the A pickup and finish his 37 chevy pickup. He does not keep many parts around.
I can see why people do get sick of looking at old parts and dump them. I have been tripping over a running 31 chevy engine, trans a set of front fenders for a year now. I have no use for the parts and have tried to sell/ then give them away on CL. The only people who wanted the parts are s****pers. The only reason I have kept them is because they are old.
CL is my trash can for stuff I have that I know isn't worth selling but too good to throw out or pay to have hauled away. I've given away a computer monitor that took 15-20 attempts to start, electric tools that work but not too good and just recently a work table I got 10 years ago from a place in my industrial park that had it sitting on the side of the road with a "FREE" sign on it. I usually don't have to wait longer than 15 minutes before I get a response to my posts for free stuff.
good score. my dads buddy moved into a house a few years back and they were clearing out some out buildings, long story short me and my dad walked around the building to see a guy with a backhoe crush a 331 hemi and trans to bits with the claws on the machine. almost cried lol
Back in the mid 1950's, my brothers and I befriended the local garbage truck crew, that just happened to stop at several 7-11's before hitting our street. Regular as clock work they would drop a big bundle of comic books off each month, that were out of date, and the stores would pitch. (YES, I do wish I had some of the now!)
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