Automotive Hoarding

Javelin wrote:

92CelicaHalfTrac wrote: I think the worst examples that i have are... maybe the 12 sets of injectors i have. Or the 4 complete spare F2T heads? You know... just in case i ever blow one. (I'm reasonably sure it's because i have 4 spares that i will never blow one.)

Didn't work with Ford 2.3T's.

LOL!!!!

When I sold the s/r, I packed the car with spares and goodies I had hoarded for it. It felt good.

I'm also down to one bicycle from three. I sold my road bike last Thursday to a coworker and gave away my single speed to my dad.

2012 is the year to downsize - for me anyway. Feels good.

I have brand new in the box lowering springs for a MKII Supra I haven't owned in 18 years. I keep thinking I might be another one...

My girl says that I am in the early stages of being an automotive hoarder...while the cars are minimal I have parts all the way from my 1st car to my current, which is my 17th I think....

I tell her that its quite likely I will own another one some day when they hit their depreciation bottoms and parts may be hard to come by. I think thats called justification...

Then again I have a door for an OLD Willys Wagon in my garage, which is a vehicle I have never owned and never plan on owning...

when I was 5 yrs old I started hoarding used and abandoned car parts... figuring some day I would build a complete car around that 55 Chevy door handle abandoned in a field

I went to a swap meet last weekend and bought a grille for an Austin Healey Bugeye Sprite. I sold my Bugeye 4 years ago, but it was a screaming deal on the grille.

Bruce

On two separate occasions I have bought a shop/service manual for a car I didn't own at a flea market and then gone out and bought a project car to match the manual.

I knew there was nothing wrong with me.

Add 20+ years of collecting guitars and bikes and you have my house.

I have the original springs from my '78 F150 from after I lifted it in 1991 (and sold in '92) as well as the original front grill surround (it's only slightly dented) and a few other bits I'm keeping for no logical reason.

My g/f, on the other hand, is a neurotic neat freak. So while she does have tons of parts for her cars, all are neatly organized in labeled bins with a computer database that lists what's in each box. When she sold her M3 back in '04, any remaining bits were sold off asap.

I love you Lesley. Please move to FL.

Until I read that, I forgot that the other parts Dak I have, the one stored at a friend's place, has 4 early Boyds rims on it. Three of them are still round too.

I have a '28 Dodge grill shell in the basement (along with a ton of other random Mopar parts). When I bought it at the swap meet my wife asked why. I told her I was going to build a car around it. That was about 8 years ago. Last year I got an engine for this "car" that's comprised of a grill shell and a gauge cluster. Just a few more parts to collect...

I ran across a brand new cam for a car I got rid of in 1984 and some carb parts for a truck that went to the junkyard 15 years ago. Does that count? Not even counting the mass of Opel GT parts I've accumulated and now I'm collecting MG Midget Mk I parts for a soon to be started resto and parts for the Miata that have also accumulated. And an extra set of stock rims for the RX8. Well, maybe it does count.

I've got a complete factory leather interior for a first generation Neon. I can't give it away but I won't throw it out.

Sold my last Neon 5 or 6 years ago. Anybody want it?

I was making room for the Europas last week and tossed out the wrinkled trunk skin of a '62 Tempest I haven't owened in 2-years, and a brake rotor that I have no idea what it came from. I also discovered a supercharger and turbo(both needing rebuilt) that I'd forgotten about.

Then yesterday, while trying to figure out where to put 2 Eurpoas after getting them home, I realized I have a set of wheels & seats from a GTI I haven't owned in 5-years, 4-tires I have no use for, 1-rally wheel, 2-Saab Inca wheels, 2-Honda space-saver spares(plus 2-sets of Miata wheels and the stock Hyundai wheels), and the frame/body/axle from a Harley golf cart.

In 1978 I bought a set of upper A frame bushings for a 69 Mustang and promptly wrecked the car.

Fast forward to 1999 and my brother needed a set so I just reached into the factory box and handed them to him.

The empty box is still on the shelf...it does have a mounting instructions sheet in it though.

I still have all the old lifters, springs and valves from my 5.9.
I think I've found someone to take away that godforsaken engine on my picnic table though...

What this board obviously needs is a sticky thread where people offer to give away parts - Free to a Good Home. I have seen them on a number of other boards.

Just keeping up the enabling!

I have meaningless parts for '65-'66 Mustangs...that I haven't owned since '93. Some SVO parts as well.

Cotton wrote: I have brand new in the box lowering springs for a MKII Supra I haven't owned in 18 years. I keep thinking I might be another one...

These are hard to find. I keep looking for a set to use on my '83 Cressida. Let me know if you ever want to get rid of them.

Rob_Mopar wrote: Until I read that, I forgot that the other parts Dak I have, the one stored at a friend's place,

This is actually a reoccurring dream of mine, that I not only have the cars parked at my house but I own more at other's houses, warehouses, etc. that I have forgotten about. Seriously, at least twice a year I wake up worrying about this...

I allowed myself to store parts, mainly due to "just-in-case" while building a challenge car. Problem is, you just keep accumulating marginally useful parts with each build. When my oversized 2-car garage could barely fit a Miata, it was time to start cleaning out. Not finished yet, but its amazing seeing the total crap I've been saving. A lot has been thrown away, and a some went to the scrapper. I still have two piles in the garage for accumulating more aluminum and more steel scrap.

As far as WTF finds, I found the instrument cluster from a 1985 Toyota Van that I had bought for parts in 2005-06, and scrapped shortly thereafter.

I'm not horrible with it yet, but I am on my way. It was worse when I raced one Saturn and drove a moderately modified one on the street. I lived at home then, my parents loved all the parts everywhere.

Giant Purple Snorklewacker wrote: Someday the heater core out of an E36 I no longer own will be useful for something. Right? RIGHT?

I've got one of those......its just in a bunch of little pieces....

I hoard parts, proof is my garage and barn.....I have a parts car and 3 decent cars out there, one car and the rest of the garage is filled with various sho/bmw parts.....the best is I hoarded valve cover bolts years ago and cornered the market on them for $3 a doz.....they're $7/bolt now.....

Its when you have car parts decorating your wall next to the guns decorating your wall when you have a real problem.

Jay wrote: I like your two rules. Makes perfect sense to me. Last summer I was visiting my parents in Ontario and I realized I was storing R-compounds, rims & assorted parts for several cars that I didn't even own anymore - dating back at least five or six ago.

I buy parts for cars I don't even own yet!

Fortunately, there are neighborhood therapists who are graciously willing to, every now and then, release me from the parts hoard that is clearly holding me hostage.