Stuff just appears ??? Does that happen to you?

yup. last month, two sbf starters showed up at the bottom of a box of books that hadn't been open since at least two years before i owned any car with a sbf. both the same brand, unopened. a while back, a brand new benchtop drill press, in box, packing straps still intact. the starters, who knows, probably some garage sale get or something that i forgot about, but i know i never bought that drill press.

 

I think it's all to do with age, there ya go or there I go or there we go, whatever

 

Back in the VW days about twenty years ago, it was a common thing to come home and find some major subassembly in my driveway. Usually the note read something like "you could use this more than I ever could". Got engines that way, a chassis once, even a body. It always helps to be the eccentric 1 marquee car guy in the neighborhood!

 

I have a different problem...Alchemy. My Snap-Off 3/8 long handle ratchet turned into a 16oz ball peen hammer right there in my socket drawer! I had a drawer full of AN-4 bolts turn into a drawer full of used Ford trim clips...in my AN bolt bin! Too many other incidents to mention...

I looked in my hammer drawer, but none of the other hammers had transmogrified into my ratchet...

I thought it would stop when our son moved out, but.....

 

I can't believe this is still alive.

I should probably mention that this has happened to me as long as I can remember. When I was in my twenties I recall one time that a friend needed a carb for his bike. I said come by the shop I think I have an old M-74 Linkert that is a good carb (my friend had a knucklehead). Sure enough there in the shelf where I had put it was a dusty dirty M-74 Linkert. Right next to it there sat a pair of Lake injectors and an intake to bolt them on a knuckle head engine. The lake injectors would not have been a real rare find at the time but an intake???? I didn't even know that anyone made a setup for knuckle heads Lake injectors were real popular with the triumph and sporster crowd.