Model A hoarder

You are all saving these parts from the elements for future generations so I say "keep on Hoardin" (my apologies to the 70's!). Rusty
 
I rent another building. (eureka, the house is full!) Does that count? I DO NOT have a problem. I do not think I am keeping good stuff out of circulation, as I sometimes provide stuff for restorations and stock A's, but no sheet metal for rodders. Anybody have a problem with that? :confused:
 
It's not really Hoarding!

I prefer to call it maintaining "inventory" instead of Hoarding. I know for sure that there are one or two parts in "inventory" that I really need. I just don't know what they are right now. Or if I can even find them! That is half the fun.

I sold off a couple of trailer loads of nice A & T parts way too cheap about 10 years ago because of a health problem that made me think my future in wrenching was over. My health got better and my memory is too good to ever forget the sell-off. :o

My motto: What's one man's junk is.... something I might be interested in!
 
Man Huckster. I don't care what they call it; hoarding, OCD. What you have is true unobstructed focus! I vote you for pres. Amazing!
 
MikeK said:
I rent another building. (eureka, the house is full!) Does that count? I DO NOT have a problem. I do not think I am keeping good stuff out of circulation, as I sometimes provide stuff for restorations and stock A's, but no sheet metal for rodders. Anybody have a problem with that? :confused:
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No problem with that at all. I wouldn't sell some parts/cars to guys if I knew they were going to rod them. some stuff is to nice and deserves to be on a restoration. I also wouldn't take a clean car and ruin it by making it a hot rod. I have seen a lot of guys buy a stock model A, take off the body, sell the rest, and build a hot rod. It makes me sick. That's why I started with this....something someone else already ruined.

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druids62 said:
Man Huckster. I don't care what they call it; hoarding, OCD. What you have is true unobstructed focus! I vote you for pres. Amazing!
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Well i have to admit that my dad is the one who aquired this collection of old treasures bofore he passed away.
but it is a very nice collection.
 
Hitchhiker said:
I wouldn't sell some parts/cars to guys if I knew they were going to rod them. some stuff is to nice and deserves to be on a restoration. I also wouldn't take a clean car and ruin it by making it a hot rod. I have seen a lot of guys buy a stock model A, take off the body, sell the rest, and build a hot rod. It makes me sick. That's why I started with this....something someone else already ruined.
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Most hot rodders "hot rod" cars that most of the uppity restorers would thumb their noses at.. very rarely would they ever buy a perfectly good A and break it down. Rarely.
The stereotype you portray is what drives off the young guys from restoring.
 
magnet, What stereotype?

Hitchhiker isn't alone in his observation about stock A's getting chopped up. So do you belong to MARC or MAFCA? Do you belong to a local chapter? THOUSANDS of us have seen the resto-labor of deceased club members sold off to hot rod guys. Yea, there are some guys who like and appreciate both, but the sheer numbers are against those of us who would like our stock iron to stay that way.

As far as stereotypes go, YOU are the one portraying us that way. Your words: Most hot rodders "hot rod" cars that most of the uppity restorers would thumb their noses at.. So according to you "uppity restorer" types only resto perfect barn finds? Rodders are saviors and start with our cast-offs? There's a big site for rodders, the H.A.M.B. According to Ryan, this is NOT H.A.M.B. II. I'm registered over there too, (Different screen name) but I only lurk and use it for the great tech base (and it is!!), not a sounding board to belittle rodders who are of a different mindset.

Your last comment to Hitchhiker- "The stereotype you portray is what drives off the young guys from restoring." is far from accurate.
 
Re: It's not really Hoarding!

Cool Hand Lurker said:
I prefer to call it maintaining "inventory" instead of Hoarding. I know for sure that there are one or two parts in "inventory" that I really need. I just don't know what they are right now. Or if I can even find them! That is half the fun.

I sold off a couple of trailer loads of nice A & T parts way too cheap about 10 years ago because of a health problem that made me think my future in wrenching was over. My health got better and my memory is too good to ever forget the sell-off. :o

My motto: What's one man's junk is.... something I might be interested in!
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I have to agree with your approach regarding this subject.
 
I must say that I love you guys. You make me look good and I must show some of these to my wife as I try and talk her into more parts.
 
I have lots of stuff. Mostly metal, mostly car-related, but a lot of other stuff as well.

I call it, collectively, the archive.

I used to get a lot of static about it from one particular family member (not my wife). One day the generator bracket on her 1965 Volvo broke. She asked me if I could fix it, but instead I found--in the archive--a generator bracket from another mid '60s Volvo. After that I was a collector instead of a junkman.

Joe
 
You nailed it! I learned the same lesson when I got rid of a VW rabbit. I tossed a perfectly good drive axle because it was just junk lying around. A year later The rabbit convertible my wife was driving needed, you guessed it, a new drive axle, DOH! So I neatly keep my stuff about, but there is ALWAYS something that can be used, perhaps not even for its original application. Maybe it's the McGyver in all of us.......... We're just "Green" ahead of our time, Reduce, Reuse, Recycle.
 
It always happens. You keep something for years that is too good to throw away, then you finally realize that you will never use it and feel OK throwing it in the recycle. You know the rest of the story.

I was given a moped gas tank that I had absolutely no use for and it was lying in the corner for two years. Two weeks ago it went to the recycle. Two days ago a guy from a town 25 miles down the road heard that I had such a gas tank and came calling. He couldn't find one anywhere. Two years, Two weeks, Two days, Too Bad. Lesson learned again!

Man's junk will accumulate to fill the space available.
 
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