Projects Largest parts collection in the world....??

This is absolutly amazing!! I wish I lived closer so I could stop by and buy some parts form you! The best part Is that it's fallen into the right hands! It horrible to think of all the parts stashes that have been scrapped out due to family battles or pure ignorance. I am really glad to see you are able to sell the stuff, make a living and keep guys like us on the Hamb able to find real parts to keep the projects movin along!!!!

 

This proves God exists.

 

This is the most incredible find I have seen on here to date, and it's a DOOZY! CONGRATULATIONS, Chris................. un freakin' believable!!!!

 

i'll buy this if you have any

 

Since I'm in no hurry I'll pass my short list of needs to you.

58 Edsel, 1 stock hubcap spinner, 2 hood ornaments, 1 door mirror, 2 sets tail lights
59 Datsun, anything, or anything from the early 60's and older
26 Dodge coupe trunk lid

 

great parts. ... Im looking for a few things:

1958 Oldsmobile Headlight doors (Pair)
1951 Cadillac Front fender trim
1951 Cadillac Rockers
1951 Cadillac Rocker shafts
1951 Cadillac grill pieces

 

I will say, reserves on $1 start amounts stink. An Idea of what your wanting for the part would be great.

 

I was thinkin the exact same thing!

 

Cooolll.........great find. There is a fellow in this area who does that sort
of thing......buys out inventories that someone had accumulated over the
years. Has two buildings full plus more in semi trailers....older to newer stuff
for various makes. He sells on ebay also.

 

I hear ya Chopped50, I hear ya, but the problem is that on a lot of the stuff, I really don't know how much it's actually worth. Here's a perfect example of the case in point.....I had a little chromed pot metal winged badge that was an accessory crank hole cover for a '38 Plymouth. It was NOS, but old and out of the box, had a few small blisters and scratches, but otherwise pretty straight and nice. Well, if you would have come into the shop and picked it off the shelf I woulda said $40 and she's yours........bad idea, it actually sold for over $400 on a no-reserve auction......needless to say, it woke me up a little.

I know I gotta get the hell away from ebay, they are thieves. By the time it's all said and done, we give up damn near 15% straight to ebay and paypal. I know there are better ways to deal on there, I just haven't had time to get it figured out all the way yet.

 

very nice! If you find any old Jap Car Crap let me know

 

...and that he loves HAMBers and hot rods!

Please excuse my ignorance;were the parts mixed makes or focused on one brand? '64 Plymouth parts,'64 Plymouth parts,'64 Plymouth parts...hint,hint. I'm looking for '64 Plymouth parts.

 

Part 3

Mornin'! Coffee? Check. Smokes? Check. Brain Ignition? Hold on a sec......


So we get back from our first I80 & I90 ice rodeo around the middle of December, and I got ebay rockin & rollin. We've been sellin' our vintage auto glass on ebay for quite a few years now so gettin' that rollin' was relatively easy. Now our warehouse is 60' x 100' with about 18' tall ceilings, a cold storage warehouse basically. It's tucked up next to the tracks on a little dead end street in downtown Billings, the perfect location if ya ask me, you gotta know we're there or you'll never see us, and I actually like it that way for now! I put a couple little feeler posts on our local craigslist and my email box and phone were goin nuts and we had people stoppin down and lookin' around! Basically we couldn't get anything done in there because we were always too busy yackin' with people, so we put the kaibosh on that for the time being.

We went back after the 2nd load of parts the first of January, but this time I took the Ford with the farm's new 20' flatbed trailer, and Evan followed with a Dodge Dually we picked up in Ohio on our way back in December, and the 32' car hauler. This time we had good roads on the way over, it was just colder than a polar bears nuts the whole way. Seriously, I think the warmest temperature I saw on the thermometer in the mirror of the Ford was -18 THE WHOLE TRIP! I ain't gonna lie, it was f^*&ing miserable!

So we get to Carmichaels again in SW Pennsylvania and this time we think we're really smart, and we loaded the snot out of the trailers. I mean we packed and crammed and wrapped and boxed for 2 days and I don't think a mouse coulda hid anywhere in the car hauler, and I was stacked 7' high, 8' wide and 20' long with gaylord boxes strapped to the flatbed and a big grey tarp coverin it all. Which, by the time I got to Billings was completely shredded and looked evil in the snowy fog I drove the whole way in!

Evan wanted to pull over somewhere in Indiana or something for the night and I felt like tryin to make it home the 24 hours non stop so I kept on truckin west and he laid up for the night. Well I drove all evening and got to Nebraska and started heading North and that's when the worst friggin blizzard there ever was started hittin! It really started gettin shitty when I turned left there in South Dakota and that's when it started gettin' REEEEAAAL interesting....

It was dark thirty and the snow was comin down sideways, startin to stick to the highway and the temp was dippin down into the upper 20 belows! There were times when it wasn't too bad, but there were times it was gettin sorta scary, so I pulled over somewhere in mid South Dakota at some little bar or eatery or something right beside the interstate and waited for awhile. By this time it's 2 in the morning or something and I'm gettin' tuckered out, so I laid the seat back and dozed off for a half hour or so and then decided I better hit the road again cuz I didn't really wanna sleep in the truck. So I pull back onto the Interstate and proceed into the scariest 3 or 4 hours of my life! Well the snow didn't let up, it got frickin' worse, and I'm not talkin' a little worse, it was unbelievable. By now the road is covered in snow and there are sort of a set of tracks, which I could see sometimes and sometimes I couldn't! I did about 20 miles an hour for what seemed like forever, sometimes all I could see were the reflectors, and everything else was white. Sometimes I couldn't even see the front of the hood, just the reflectors, and I figured if I stayed about 20 feet to the left of them I'd be ok. This went on for HOURS! Then, all of a sudden I could see orange flashing lights above me and a sign blinking EXIT NOW-ROAD CLOSED. I thought "thank God!" and slowed down to a crawl, but couldn't see the off ramp anywhere!!! I honestly think I "felt" my way down the offramp juuuuust as it was starting to get light out!

I pulled into Murdo, South Dakota, got a bite to eat at the truck stop and a room at the super 8 and I went to bed! It snowed all damn day the next day and the road was still closed. Another night in the hotel and by almost noon the next day they had it opened up and plowed, so I made it back to Billings that day.

I forgot to mention about Evan! So when the weather started gettin' crappy on me before I got to South Dakota I was tellin' him about it and he was about a half a day behind me, so he went farther north to Fargo and tried to go across North Dakota and he ran into the same weather, so he got laid up for a couple days too, but he had more sense than I and stopped before it got too bad on him.

When we got back to Billings finally we got the trailers unloaded and that's when it all started to sink in on us how much of this shit there actually is! By the time we unloaded everything the floor of the warehouse was pretty much covered! And the first barn still wasn't empty!

 

I'm speachless and I don't get that way very often.

Congrats guys, this is what dreams are made of....at least dreams in our world.

 

UM, WOW
UM, HOLY SHIT

AND AGAIN WOW!!!

I'm glad you're selling the parts where regular guys can get their hands on them. Unfortunately Ilive to far away from you to visit your warehouse, so I've book marked you on evil bay.

 

my God,it will take ya years to go throug all those parst and list them on e-bay
Good luck..fantastic find!!!!

mench

 

Wow, congratulations. In my opinion you should hire someone to make you a website and then put ads in magazines and stuff. You could have like a Jegs, Summit, Speedway, Goodmark, Brookeville, etc. but for NOS stuff.

 

You, my friend, need an automotive dewey decimal system and some pallet racking!

Wowzers!

 

Web site is in the works, and wait till you see the pictures of what the warehouse looks like after this weekend! It's a complicated deal, lemme tell ya!

 

What you see in these pictures is only 1/3 of the total haul!!! I'll put more pics up of what 2/3 of it looks like here maybe tonight, it'll blow your mind!! AND it's only about 350 bumpers hangin up there. There's at least 1000 more still coming!!

 

will you have the ability to do any shipping and are you going to put everything through Ebay or just price it?

 

That's insane.....

 

We're loaded to the gills with shipping boxes and we're crankin out 20, 30 maybe 40 things a week sometimes! Our goal is to get the heck away from ebay as soon as possible. I've ran into some real wingnuts on ebay and I'm about sick of their fees! They're gettin' upwards of 15% right off the top of our sales, and besides that, I had some dipstick tell me over the phone that he was going to come put a gun down my throat about a week ago. It probably wouldn't have bugged me so bad, but last October my brother had a crazy ass neighbor shoot him in the guts over a $35 fu*%%ing hydraulic hose for one of the tractors out at the farm, killed him. Sorta freaked me out when that dipshit from Iowa said that to me, and I thought, ya know, I don't have to put up with this shit. So that's why I hate ebay, ya just don't know who you're dealin with, and I just wanna sell parts, that's all!

 

Man, there's got to be several hundred thousands worth of parts there!

Any Buick drums (45 fin)?

 

Actually, I'll be real surprised if there's not $1.5M or more worth of parts here.....

 

Chris, you are a lucky SOB. I mean that in a good way. My wife and I met Paul & Martin about 1980. I was looking for a pair of 37 Chevy headlights. I talked to Paul on the phone and he invited me come and help him look for them, he thought he had a couple pair he didn't need.
My wife and I were in 4 buildings that day, found the headlights, but only 2 pair, NOS in GM boxes. Paul didn't want to sell them because he needed 2 pair for the 37 Chevy convertibles he had. One 37 was cut in half at the door jam area so he could get it back to the building in his pickup, other than that it was prefect, and it had a rumble seat. We did buy two prefect rechromed bumpers for our 37 that day.
When we were there he said he had over 50 pre war Cadillac convertibles, we saw at least 20 in various conditions.
Paul & Martin used to sell parts at the Butler, Pa swap meet every year, every time I saw him he would ask if I found headlights for ny 37 Chevy. Really nice guys. Good luck with selling the parts. JJibs

 

i'm crying now, i had hoped i would be the guy that bought all their stuff. oh well, i would have had to buy a bigger building. good luck selling, you'll do well.

 

WOW, Fantastic! And just a bit overwhelming! That looks like an outstanding collection of parts, congratulations on the score, and I'm glad that you're selling them to people that can use them... Sounds like you're off to a great start here with your HAMB connection! Good luck with your website, let us know when you get it up, I'll keep a watch out for it!

EW

 

Chris it's good to see a couple of Glaziers make a nice score