Rare Parts In Strange Places - Page 5

carnut4life · #41 05-14-2021, 05:08 PM

Around 2002 my father in-law took me to an old tire shop in Edina, MO to get a tire fixed for one of his tractors on a boring Saturday morning. I had an old Yenko shirt on so the ole boy at the tire shop ask me what I had for old cars. After a few minutes of talking to him he says you better come over to my place and check out these rare heads I have that you might be interested in. I was skeptical I'd find anything interesting in the middle of nowhere but we go over to his garage after he fixes the tire and the guy had a matching set of 1969 L89 aluminum heads and a 840 intake he'd been sitting on for years that had supposedly came off a 69 Corvette. Everything looked to be in great shape and nothing had been welded on so I ended up buying everything he had for a grand. I'd been dreaming of having a set of L89 heads since I saw my first pair at Super Chevy in Indy back in 1987 so I was thrilled to get them. My wife wasn't thrilled when she found out how much I'd spent on parts I had no real use for but she thought I was a genius a couple years later when I sold them on ebay for $1700 after I got tired of moving them around the basement once we started having kids and decided to finish the basement.

**markjohnson** · #42 05-15-2021, 03:26 AM

I can remember late-70’s riding with my father when he suddenly u-turned in pursuit of a raggedy old Rambler station wagon. Turns out it was wearing a dirty set of C1 Corvette hubcaps that were purchased right there in a gas station parking lot. We brought them home and they cleaned up absolutely surprisingly beautiful before finding a home on his Honduras Maroon ‘62 Corvette!

**JKZ27** · #43 05-15-2021, 10:06 AM

I bought a rusty old 66 fastback Mustang around 2002 or so for $1000. It had 428CJ shaker air cleaner assembly sticking through the hood. Even had the chrome trim ring somewhat attached to the hood.

SPEEDYB · #44 05-16-2021, 05:12 AM

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**tom406** · #45 05-16-2021, 05:17 PM

15 or 20 years ago I was driving in South Seattle and rolled up on a really, really ratty 69 Buick Skylark 4dr sedan. Bad colors, bad condition but sporting a real pair of mid-60s 15x6 American "crow's feet" mags on the front. At the light I asked if he wanted to sell, and he said he wanted to sell the car. I really didn't want the car, just the wheels. He was a motorcycle mechanic at the nearby Harley dealer and asked me to follow him there where we could talk. Made a deal to buy the wheels only, but I had to replace the rims so he could keep driving it. It was a good deal but Murphy's law was that generic stock GM steel wheels were everywhere until I actually needed a pair. I finally found a pair out in a friend's backyard that I cleaned up and made work for the swap.

**juliosz** · #46 05-24-2021, 09:38 PM

Was unpacking parts from the 67 Z project I just bought. Lots of parts and cardboard inside the car for the trip home and accidentally came across this as I almost thought it was scrap packing material.