Hot Rods What’s in this Garage? It’s gonna get scrapped! Flathead Stuff Gauges

All the good stuff would probably fit tight in a full size pickup. What are you waiting for?! Are you a hot rodder or not? Still reading this? Call the guy already. Take a day to sort what you don’t want after you get it home, then either sell it or give it away. At least it won’t go to scrap. You will be money ahead on the gas and time if the only thing you kept was the lathe or one of the multi carb intakes.

 

I’ll take the wd40 and the lathe

 

If it's free and a couple hour drive, I'd be on it like a duck on a junebug.

 

I'd be on the way home already, grinning all the way

 

Great deal, especially if you can cherry pick and not have to clear the place to the walls.
Pic #1:

• Craftsman (?) case on floor, cases on bench. Top one possibly drill set
• Large O/A cart and hoses. Can't see if it has bottles, gauges, torch head
• Possibly tombstone arc welder on rolling cart under the bench
• Definitely a Stewart Warner 160MPH speedo in the T bucket dash. Two gauges on right also look to have SW logos

Bonus if the safe is included and if the lathe has a lot of tooling, etc. Intakes are a winner. You may uncover a few nuggets once you start digging around.

Have a 3 or 4 hour garage sale on a Saturday to sell off the stuff of value you don't want. Bench grinders, vices and jib will all go quick.

If you don't go get it, the property owner will pay a scrapper to do the cleanup.

 

If it's free, rent a box truck with a lift gate and rent a storage unit if you don't have room at home. Bring a friend and a cooler with cold drinks. Bring a bunch of totes so you can organize the contents as you load the truck. Inventory the contents as you clean out the garage. You can move what you don't want to keep on Facebook or have a series of sales at home. Leave the garage broom clean. You might provide a meaningful gift to the donors as well. Have fun.

 

I do swap meets. Deals like this I take it all, keep what I want, the rest goes to the meets “priced to sell.” Anything left after 4 meets is given away or scrapped. (Two meets for heavier stuff.)

 

If it is there for the taking grab it all and sort it out later!

I have had times were everything in a photo looked looked look junk to find once I got to where the parts were there was some good stuff!

When I was about 18 I. had a guy offer me a bunch of flathead stuff I wasn’t going to take it because I knew it was a bunch of iron heads and intakes.

My dad talked me into taking it his words “If you don’t take these parts if he ever has something good he won’t let you know about it.”

Dad went with me to pick the some up and sure enough it was a bunch of stock heads and intakes.

About half way into loading my Ranger (which was about doing a wheel stand from all the weight) the guy called my dad inside, my dad returned with a couple of Stromberg 97s.

As we were leaving dad held them up and said “If you hadn’t come you would have missed out on these.

A couple summers ago one of my members of my vintage stock car club passed, after the “estate” yard sale, I was offered the scrap.

The widow’s family throw many good parts in for scrap brand new in the boxes steel S.B.C rods heim joints etc…

 

I’m a borderline hoarder so I would already be there loading stuff in my pickup. I have a problem…

 

Thanks for all the replies and info all. I have turned the contact info over to another HAMB member, and it will be in good hands.

 

Id just go get the stuff and sort it out later. I had a buddy who moved to Florida and was giving tons of parts and cars away. I came home with two truck loads and trailer loads (18’ car hauler) of parts mainly 49-51 ford NOS and NORS stuff several motors and five 51 Fords (Vicky, 3 coupes and a woody) and two Falcons. Did I have the room or the time to get the stuff……nope but I did anyway and kept most of the parts and a couple of the cars.

The rest of the stuff I invited a bunch of friends and their wives and a few more homies over and gave the rest away to them. It was like a big show and tell with the wives drinking wine and hanging out watching movies while we were out in the backyard giving and swapping parts between us and everyone was tickled. With the exception of a couple of the wives because we were putting parts in their cars to take home but all in all it was fun and I didn’t have to sort the shit all by myself.

 

EXCELLENT way to handle that!

 

Reading this thread brings back memories of when We took a load of aluminum cans Down to the recycling center and I spotted three flathead engines on the magnet of a loader. When I looked at the trailer he was unloading I could not believe my eyes it was loaded down with flathead motors and mostly 33-34 ford fenders hoods of all conditions. After talking to them at the recycling place and pleading with them. That is when I found out that anything that has crossed the scale cannot be recovered under no circumstances. It is their corp policy and they will not break it no matter what the item is. So I got the info from the guy who was hauling the stuff and found out that the guy was a hoarder and old car guy and he had past away suddenly and his family was paying this guy to clean up the place and haul everything away so they could sell the property. Later I bought 3 34 grilles from the hauler some hoods and a bunch of other 33-34 stuff after meeting him out at the property the next day. What is really bad is he told me that the load that i met him on was his 6th full load of old car parts and engines he had already hauled in to the recycling center. So who knows what got throwed away as this guy did not have a clue. And this happened about 8-10 years ago.

 

A sad example of what happens to your "goodies" when you pass on.

 

All of mine , I hope gets to a HAMB member that will take care of ownership and not toss it aside as junk . I have a life time of collecting , means nothing to my kids or step kids .