Background is necessary here. Many people know me well enough to have been to the farm and have seen the issue that I have across the street. A large, over stocked, unsafe pole barn chock full ilof things my Father in Law hoards. I have laid claim to a couple items but for the most part it's a burial ground for perceived good ideas.
On top of that situation my own life has been hectic leaving me with an unfinished C4 LS swap (I am trying 30mins a day though), a filthy garage and a Forester race car that is in the way.
I got a call last night that I need to have the car hauler ready for Saturday AM. Apparently he accidentally purchased a non running 2000 Corvette that "probably has a bad carburetor"...
Seriously can not wait to see what I have inherited.
11GTCS
SuperDork
10/6/23 10:03 a.m.
In reply to QuasiMofo (John Brown) :
Wait, 2000 and carburetor? In a Corvette?
In reply to 11GTCS :
Yeah, there is no carburetor. I will have a garage full of non running Vettes this winter I am quite certain.
wae
PowerDork
10/6/23 10:09 a.m.
In reply to QuasiMofo (John Brown) :
But.. if there IS a carburetor it will most certainly be bad.
The best fix for faulty fuel injection is a carb swap. I'm in for pictures!
In reply to Gearheadotaku (Forum Supporter) :
I've got a complete standalone ACES system at the ready for my car if it's that bad 
what number am i for the MGA?
In reply to AngryCorvair (Forum Supporter) :
2 behind Pete Gossett.
Tom1200
PowerDork
10/6/23 12:10 p.m.
Run away......................my Hoarder pal would call me to assist him in dragging home more stuff. About 10 years ago I started refusing to enable him.
I'm trying to think of a way to write something along the lines of "you need to start establishing boundaries if these sorts of events are not enjoyable to you". I guess I just did? Also in for pics.
He just has to look at it until it's inheriting time and then free LS1!
QuasiMofo (John Brown) said:
In reply to AngryCorvair (Forum Supporter) :
2 behind Pete Gossett.
i mean this in the best way possible: berkeley Pete Gossett. make me number one.
;-)
In reply to AngryCorvair (Forum Supporter) :
At this rate Pete's getting a C4.
stroker
PowerDork
10/6/23 2:16 p.m.
Does he have any more unmarried daughters?
In reply to Tom1200 :
He's mobile, has a F350 and a 40 foot car hauler, he calls me because he wants to share with me. He will buy this stuff no matter what. I have access to a dozen generators because of him. I prefer that he doesn't get hurt, so I enable.
In reply to pres589 (djronnebaum) :
See previous post
Opti
SuperDork
10/6/23 2:23 p.m.
I hope you show up and its been converted to a single plane and carb
Opti said:
I hope you show up and its been converted to a single plane and carb
IF that is the case, I will 100% swap my LS1 intake and ACES Fuel system setup on to it, then use the carb setup for the C4!
"I say we take off and nuke the site from orbit. It's the only way to be sure."
My uncle left my cousins two 40' boats in a marina with large monthly slip fees, a dozen or so cars (mostly El Caminos and Chevelles), multiple tons of LS6/7 parts along with the usual house full of crap. It took them a couple years to sell it all off, probably at cents to the dollars he paid for it all, because they didn't know what most of it was.
IMHO you need to have a chat with him and tell him he has a problem. Maybe he should start selling now so you don't wind up in a multi year hell cleaning up his mess.
Opti said:
I hope you show up and its been converted to a single plane and carb
If it has a tunnel ram, I'll buy him a steak dinner.
QuasiMofo (John Brown) said:
In reply to 11GTCS :
Yeah, there is no carburetor. I will have a garage full of non running Vettes this winter I am quite certain.
It's not winter and I already have this.
JBinMD
New Reader
10/7/23 6:01 p.m.
CAinCA said:
"I say we take off and nuke the site from orbit. It's the only way to be sure."
My uncle left my cousins two 40' boats in a marina with large monthly slip fees, a dozen or so cars (mostly El Caminos and Chevelles), multiple tons of LS6/7 parts along with the usual house full of crap. It took them a couple years to sell it all off, probably at cents to the dollars he paid for it all, because they didn't know what most of it was.
IMHO you need to have a chat with him and tell him he has a problem. Maybe he should start selling now so you don't wind up in a multi year hell cleaning up his mess.
Given that many (most?) of us here could accurately described as having hoarder tendencies, I would encourage everyone to use the above post as motivation to start labeling your stockpiles of incredibly valuable spare parts, accessories, and miscellaneous memorabilia (read: junk). Not only so that our spirits don't have to look down and watch as our loved ones sell off a NOS Healey steering rack or unobtainium C2 Corvette parts for scrap value because they didn't know what it was, but also because some of us are getting to an age where we have trouble remembering why we put a seemingly random selection or parts together in a box marked "project for retirement", or where a part on a shelf came from or what it goes to. I'm starting to have those moments now where I will pick up something that I put down a very long time ago and will wonder to myself "what is this, and what is it for?" If I'm lucky it will occur to me a few minutes/hours/days later that it is some bit of arcane mechanical flotsam that went to a car I sold years ago and it goes onto the sell/donate/get-rid-of pile. So do yourselves and your loved ones a favor, buy a bunch of labels/tags with wire or string, get a roll of masking tape, and start to curate the Museum Of YOU!
p.s. And for God's sake please write it in pen, not some faint pencil scratch that fades to illegibility in a few years. Your future self will thank you. 
It may have been 3, nearing 4, yrs since my dad passed, but I know 95% of the crap I got left with including the E36 M3 I didn't know about....
I guess I'm "blessed"? Or is it "cursed"?
