Hot Rods Have you ever sold a part thinking you don't need it?

From "Too much on your plate" and "thinning the herd"...
To "Ever sell a part you needed."


Cut it out, Danny.

 

It all makes sense now

 

What's this you say sold. I gave it away!

 

It's my super power, keeping stuff for years, then getting rid of it, one week before I need it.....

 

About 6 years ago I did a major purge ... regretting some of the stuff I tossed. I have managed to use a fair bit of the stuff I kept though, so it's not all bad. It'll soon be time to do another purge though.

 

Wise words.

 

I sold the dash out of my 47 Olds back in the 90's thinking I wanted to go the street rod way. I was going to use a smoothy dash, but have since changed my mind. Thank goodness for the H.A.M.B. classifieds though. I found another dash here and can proceed with my project the right way!

 

yeah, but I never knew that 64 Galaxies would become a desired car.

 

If only we could predict the future.
I've done it, but as I get older I'm less inclined to get rid of things (hind sight gained from selling now hard/expensive parts in the past).
This mentality of course, is how we end up leaving (in most peoples eyes)*****, for our survivors to deal with.

 

sold an S-10 T5 for $50. Wish I had it back.

 

I donated a spare engine and trans to a car club that I was in at the time for a club project,they gave up and sold everything and could have used the engine since the one I was using turned out to be not that great and it had been rebuilt. Never again will I do that.

 

Buy high, sell low. That's my SOP.

 

Rick, ain't you the night owl, such is the case with a overly active mind that never shuts down, I do have too much on my plate. HRP

 

Too much on your plate. I know you do, Danny... and it's not all cars. You'll figure it out. Me too.
A season for everything under heaven.
My dad had 10 children. One day in later years he said... You can never have the perfect house... for years I needed a bigger house and then a bigger house. Then you kids started moving away. All the sudden I needed a smaller house. LOL.

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Boomerangs, they keep coming back, The kids not the parts. HRP

 

Yes I have and that's one of the reasons that im a hoarder today. Better not sell that transmission ive only got six and might need them someday!?

 

I sold two Vintage Race Cars from the 1930's without researching their history, BIG Mistake! Both were quite famous. Bob

 

I had that happen, only I had to buy it back at the guys estate sale.

 

I give more stuff away if someone can use it... right away, hell, I helped a few guys install my free parts.

I did have a TH350 (rebuilt) that was on the back of a 350 out of a wrecked car. Some friend of my brother comes along and needed it, so for $75 it went bye. 6 months later a Chevy wagon comes along that needed a Th350, would have been perfect for it. Ended up with a junkyard unit for $100 that lasted me 8 months.

 

when building my 40 Ford, I was going to go with 1-piece w/shield so I sold the divider post...when the new 1-piece wouldnt fit I decided to go back to the divided orig style. made bob drake $100 richer

 

Sounds like you were thinking about the $800. one piece windshield but didn't buy it, smart move. I friend bought one and broke it trying to install it. Bob

 

Yes I have and now I need that bell housing I sold at the swap meet last month.

 

yes, Olds tri power setup with strombergs.

 

Yep, the best way I've found to find anything is to buy a new one. As soon as you take the new one out of the package, the old one will be right in front of you.

That goes along with the fact I never need anything I have until I get rid of it.

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Funny, I bought one for $50, but it wasn't yours. Sold it for $125 because I didn't think I would use it. Time will tell on that one.

 

Was faced with some big personal issues a few years back and sold off a ten year or more collection of Falcon parts, including a project car that had a ton of V8 conversion parts on it. Didn't realize the buyer was going to cut the project car up until the money was in my hands, or I might not have let it go. Still fighting the same issues but dammit I'm gonna have a project car of some kind even if I have to build it from scratch..... and still have just a few "couldn't let THOSE go" Falcon parts.....

 

Yes sir, I got in a tight fix and needed some money quick and I let my Falcon go, a move I regret to this day.HRP

 

My rediculous situation is I like to collect vintage go fast goodies , cool items like lights and scoops ,valve covers, intakes and rare stuff. My bigger problem is collecting fenders and visors and body parts for stuff that I don't even have. I want a coupe body down the road but have 27 T Tudor so why do I keep nice 56 F 100 fenders and nice 32 Ford front fenders. Sign me confused

 

I've probably sold a thousand parts in the last 60 years. Probably needed half of them later. The others, I wish I had them today, I could re-retire.

 

I only sell stuff I will never use. I was hanging on to a spare cab I had chopped just to test my skills but decided I would never use it so its gone.