Must Watch Iron Trap garage video
- Thread starter Wick
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mhsprecher
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Here is the link. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gOWzchPIJqo
Hopefully the contents will be offered to the public. I know of several similar collections where the owner is too old to remember what and where the pieces are. Worst still the owner is too attached to the pile and won't sell anything. Sad because in a lot of cases the stuff simply goes to the local scrapper.
Face reality, there is a joy in collecting and another satisfaction passing needed pieces go to someone who needs them to finish a project.
My $.02, jb
Face reality, there is a joy in collecting and another satisfaction passing needed pieces go to someone who needs them to finish a project.
My $.02, jb
Big hammer
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Reminds me of a gentleman that I would buy parts from 50+ years ago. He would buy obsolete parts from dealerships pennies on the dollar ! To buy something from him I would sit on his porch and BS with him , after an hour he would ask what I needed and then we would pick the parts. One day a well dressed man pulled up and asked him about a 57 chevy dash , the old man said that he didn’t know of the dash, later we were after a water pump kit for my A , the old man stopped and pointed at the new 57 chevy dash and laughed. Well the moral of the story it wasn’t the money or the parts the old man just wanted some good company and conversation , stop and smell the coffee
mhsprecher
Well-known member
As Wick says, these guys have a business, so they are all about passing the parts along to those who need them. It's more than a job for them, it's a passion.
rich40701
Senior Member
Big hammer, I use to buy wood from a gentleman who was the same way. His son had a sawmill and he had a kiln on his property that he dried all the wood in. He always had beautiful quarter sawn oak at a great deal but you had to sit and chat first so not good to show up in a hurry because it wasn't going to happen. I just watched Iron Trap Garage and would love to just drive my A to somewhere like that and switch out all my repo parts with original!
ModelA29
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I've only been into the Model A for a little under 2 years. So far I've seen 3 collections of parts get reshuffled to new owners. That is just within my limited circle. As the hobby ages most of the newsletters seem carry an article of an old time member passing and a date for the parts sale.
Synchro909
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WOW, Just Wow! I heard those guys say at one stage that people in California don't know how good they have it. I have said several times here that none of you guys know how good you have it. I doubt there are that many Model A parts laying around in the whole of this country.
I won't sleep well tonight!
I won't sleep well tonight!
rackops
Senior Member
All in context, all in context...I dream of making it to Australia to find the parts that _I_ need for my car!
(I've seriously thought about going to Nationals in September, but work gets in the way.) 
rackops
Senior Member
I corresponded with the grandkids who had the lot and they were basing their prices on eBay asking prices. I was able to get a handful of multidisk clutch packs from them, though the prices weren't a bargain ($30 each for rusty reproduction 3X sparkplugs? No thanks...)
The biggest "bargain" (my opinion) was an original terminal box with cover for $15. It wasn't in the greatest shape, but it would have cleaned up nicely. Sadly, they simply tossed it in the box with the multidisk clutch packs...with no packing material. Needless to say, by the time it arrived, it was in shards.
I'm glad Iron Trap was able to pull a bunch of the stuff from them, because their ability to sell and ship wasn't getting them too far.
Below are photos of some of their prices and the "upon arrival" photo of the terminal box.
The biggest "bargain" (my opinion) was an original terminal box with cover for $15. It wasn't in the greatest shape, but it would have cleaned up nicely. Sadly, they simply tossed it in the box with the multidisk clutch packs...with no packing material. Needless to say, by the time it arrived, it was in shards.
I'm glad Iron Trap was able to pull a bunch of the stuff from them, because their ability to sell and ship wasn't getting them too far.
Below are photos of some of their prices and the "upon arrival" photo of the terminal box.
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spdway1
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If you watch the movie closely, it is overwhelming. But in reality (discussing this with a guy who was there last summer trying to buy the collection that was listed on Marketplace for $300,000) there were not many "rare" parts, primarily a large collection of Model A parts that are easy to find. Most of that collection came from Paiges when they closed up.
