Projects How long do you hold onto parts before you finally decide it's time?

Intake is from a 53 Olds 303 and went back in the shed,the rest has been wet from a leaky roof and not worth saving.

 

Hello,

How about 39 years of storage in a backyard garage cross beams? The set of dual pipe scavenger pipes we had custom made at our local muffler shop were used on our 1958 Chevy Impala. We had seen some at the drags and on the street. If they were allowing some people to use them at the drags, it was as close to having open exhausts while racing with a stock bodied car. We had them made to fit the down cut out exhaust tips and caps. The installation was 4 nuts/bolts and two other nuts/bolts on a small tab ½ way back to the rear axle for support.
a pair of dual scavenger pipes running from under the motor past the rear axle.

The scavengers were made with standard exhaust pipes and end caps. They ran the whole length of the Impala and ended up under the rear axle. There they looked like 4 exhaust pipes. For awhile, they were allowed in the trial runs and in the actual classes. But, again, someone that did not have them protested and the ruling was… not factory items from new. So, they began to show up on the cruising scene until the local police had a field day giving tickets for straight through exhausts creating an abundance of noise.

Jnaki

Some of the scavenger versions made V8 motors sound like a crackly sound of a 6 cylinder motor on glass pack mufflers of the wrong size with the sound of backfiring. Then 61 years later, those awful mustangs now have the same loud crackly mufflers and backfiring when cruising.

What happened to those dual scavenger pipes? We held on to those pipes because we put them in the rafters of our backyard garage after that 1959 time period. Cruising around with them for awhile, then the sound wore off as it did nothing for the performance, so like any fad, the were out of the picture in our rafters for 39 years, until we sold our last Long Beach house where we grew up.

The Scavengers pipes from Impala, were hanging in the rafters of the backyard garage when we sold the old house our family lived in from 1953 to 1998. We saw them on our last walk through before selling the house. They were too heavy to get down and we just left them sitting in those old rafters. Surprise…new buyers… They were worth some money, but they were too big and bulky to transport home. For what reason?

https://www.jalopyjournal.com/forum/threads/scavenger-pipes.33004/page-2#post-13296671 scavenger pipes + drawing total

 

I have parts I got in the 60s