What is the craziest price you've been told for a minor part?

I'm talking lenses, gaskets, buttons etc etc.

Now I know the tail light lens on a 66 electra is big, but 875 dollars for a NOS is kinda far out. Maybe I'm just that new to this world.

 

I paid 100 bucks for a hood orniment fom a 42 mercury that was in O.K shape

 

50's Caddy stock generator adj. bracket (crusty) - 100 bucks
727 TorqueFlite dipstick tube and dipstick (crusty) - 100 bucks.

bought neither.

 

90 bucks for a 63 lincoln transmission filter.

 

$140 for the vent window rubber for my '49 Ford is pretty nuts if you ask me....

 

$400 for the drivers side grill surround, $100 per tooth, on a 53 chevy buried in mud at a scrapper

 

i was asked $150 for a power steering pump from a 88 ranger, i can buy a whole truck for that, i still have my money.

 

I saw a headlight glass in an antique store that suited my old 38, cool a spare! How much could they want for it?
$240.
And it was chipped, they still have it.
Doc.

 

I watched a pair of small dash lights (supposedly VINTAGE, but not really) sell on Ebay for $425. I can still, TODAY, pick up a catalog and order the exact same thing brand new for $18 each.

 

Printed circuit board that controls the tail lights on my BMW 750il....

You better sit down for this one.....

$1621.00

Not much bigger than a credit card

36 month warranty, and it went out at 38 months.

Other than that, it was a fantastic car..... Actually I wish I still had the money to afford a $1621 part on a $70,000 car.... *sigh*... The good old days, back when I had $$$$ to burn.

 

.....and in situations like that, they will usually let it rot away before letting it go for a reasonable price.

 

Friggin BMW, worlds WORST engineered car! They are such a crock, to take th door panel of one at a panel shop I worked at we had to get a tech in from BMW and he had to send away to Germany for the specialized tool to do it. A FUCKING DOOR PANEL!

 

At the Carlisle spring swap, I was quoted $350 for an NOS grill for a '63 Rambler Classic. The whole running/driving car was less than that. There can't be too many people looking for that piece.

 

$95 each for Studebaker tie rod ends, needed all 6, and 25 bucks each for adjusting sleeves. That did include S/H and tax though.

I found a much cheaper way!

http://www.jalopyjournal.com/forum/showthread.php?t=296737

 

Chrome hood pieces for the leading edge of the hood on the new 57 pontiacI bought. It came with a solid one with bad chrome. Found a guys parting out a 4 dr - he wants $800 for that one piece of chrome.

"Super-rare canada only piece of chrome" that I will "never find anywhere else" and he was "doing me a favour because he can get $1500 for the rusty hood with that piece on it".

I am just going to get the one that came with it rechromed for $150. Maybe the one on the $250 parts car I am getting is better.

 

$1300 for a battery cable on a Chrysler Concorde. Yeah it's a newer car but when your longtime mechanic buddy says "HOW MUCH??" you know something's up.

 

not HAMB friendly, but my son drives an 86 300zx. Replacing the PW motor is $850 from Nissan (but a little searching will yield one for <$50 from a private party)

BTW, this is the same motor that autoloc (and others) sell in their PW kits, but they're just different enough to not work

 

i paid $5 for a mint aluminum corvair steering box at a flea market, i thought that was crazy. the guy was asking $7 but i beat him down to $5.

 

Damn, should of asked if he had any other "junk" laying around.

 

Try owning a '32...insanity is the norm. NOTHING shocks me any more.
Oh, yes, Toyota still does...every red light on the dash means that something the size of my thumb with a wire sticking out needs to be replaced for $700...old Ford parts prices are not ridiculous at all when you start looking at late model parts over the dealer counter.

 

LOL, oh yea, the famous Chrysler positive battery cable. The cable is part of the wiring harness.

My ex-wife got the battery stolen out of her Dodge Caravan, and the insurance company totaled it!!!!

She bought it back from them, and her boyfriend just spliced on a new cable. They gave her a check for $1600............. She only paid $1000 for the van when she originally bought it used.

 

I just saw a under the dash ARC Sears record player, sell on Ebay, for over 500.00

 

L.A. Roadster Show last fathers day, A nice set of 1932 Ford 25 louver hood side panels (no tops just side panels) $4800. I think they were sold later on in the day. Not to me.

 

An exhaust shop told me they could order me 3 1/2 to 2 1/2 header collector reducers for 165 bux

 

one time i ripped the rearend yoke in half on a 65 rambler
blaser auto wanted $400 for one ended up getting one from some rambler nut i met
that had one lying in his back yard for $40

 

Last year at the spring Carlisle i was looking for a bellhousing for my SBC. I waited until Sunday to buy one. I saw one sitting right next to some guys tent covered in grease and dirt and asked him how much he wanted for it and he said $350.00. I looked at him and started laughing in his face. I walked two spots down and a guy had the same exact bellhousing sitting there for $40 and i talked him down to $25 on it. I walked back past the guy that said that he wanted $350 for his and he asked me how much i paid for the one i had bought and i said i could have bought 14 of there for what you want for that one and laughed at him again.

 

Saw a decent set of 25 vents sides go for $5,900 and change on eBay
I have turned down 5 grand for this pair ... a couple of times

 

I paid $2000 for a Morris Minor, after I dug in to it a bit I discovered it was more rust than steel. I can only blame myself.

 

$125.00 for the glovebox lock in the wifes 56 t-bird.

 

You don't really think that was crazy, do you?