GRM New Years Game 2022 (ooh ooh)

And most importantly:

First thing my boy said when he saw it was "Thats it Daddy, that's what we should paint the car!"

I now own three 240Zs, of varying sizes.

Huge thanks to Preach!

In reply to birdmayne :

Ring gear is probably a 2.73 from an AMC 20 rear. Many Jeeps have rolled through my shop in the last 22 years.

Mine or my friends. Thank everything anyone thinks is holy, I am back into sports cars.

It's a box!  Thanks to a real screen name, no sleuthing necessary to figure that part out

I like the humor under the flap

First layer, tasty baked goods (thank you!!!) and lots of stuff packed in.  I lived in Charlotte about 20 years ago and don't have an NC plate so I'll add this one to the collection

Some ancient plumbing parts with a K-Mart label.  This makes me oddly nostalgic.  I have so much stuff like this still from my Dad's stash that I inherited.  I appreciated this more than my giver was likely expecting.

A generous collection of rando.  The hemostat was another connection - my Dad was a physician so we always had these in the tool box.  I will regift so someone else can learn the usefulness of this tool.  The floaty keychain will be used with our boat.  The BMW lug nuts was good stalking.  One well used wrench - hopefully there is a good story behind it.

A socket set that I don't have so those are getting added to the toolbox for sure.  Gloves, a big square head screw with anchor (?), and two cents to contribute on the forums LOL.  The gray box will be revealed later

Spark plugs, a new and broken VW window crank, and a set of LED lights for my truck (excellent level stalking).  Hitting send and going to go install these!

Some poultry drinking nipples for your chickens (or turkeys, geese and ducks per the label).  Funniest part of this one is that SWMBO has a dear friend with a working farm - I confirmed she uses these (same brand even), so they are off to good use!  Who woulda thought?

Finally, from the gray box a set of vintage dark safety goggles

Thanks, Brett!  Great box.  We enjoyed the unboxing and the tasty goodies!

glueguy (Forum Supporter) said:

It's a box! ...

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Some poultry drinking nipples for your chickens (or turkeys, geese and ducks per the label).  Funniest part of this one is that SWMBO has a dear friend with a working farm - I confirmed she uses these (same brand even), so they are off to good use!  Who woulda thought?

 

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I'm pretty sure those poultry waterer's are a re-gift that originated from my junk stash.

LOL.

First, I have to issue a warning.  DO NOT play Tetris with DarkMonohue.  You will lose.  This package was filled so tightly I don't think he could have fit a pencil in it.

So many amazing things!  Tools, matchbox of my old Bonneville, a license plate, bearings, belts, books, a temp gauge, a projector beam headlight... Good gracious, what a haul.

Thanks, dude!  Brilliant.

And I tried figuring out what this one is... to no avail.  Care to let the cat out of the bag?

Mine is packed and ready to go out tomorrow!  Apologies to the recipient.  Had to buzz out of town for my parents.  IT'S COMING.  YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED.

Curtis73 (Forum Supporter) said:

First, I have to issue a warning.  DO NOT play Tetris with Dorkmonobrow.  You will lose.  This package was filled so tightly I don't think he could have fit a pencil in it.

So many amazing things!  Tools, matchbox of my old Bonneville, a license plate, bearings, belts, books, a temp gauge, a projector beam headlight... Good gracious, what a haul.

Thanks, dude!  Brilliant.

And I tried figuring out what this one is... to no avail.  Care to let the cat out of the bag?

Thanks!  I only stumbled onto the game last month, so I didn't have much time to prepare and wasn't sure how badly this was going to bomb.  Funny, I was thinking as I taped this up, surely there's something else we could stuff in there...something better...

The wire harness goes with the projector headlight and its high-beam mate.  They're all from a Lotus Elise, if I remember correctly.  It came through a shop I was working at many years ago and I got the pleasure of replacing a few parts, but not of driving it. I salvaged the lights and the harness from a broken headlamp assembly just in case.  Apparently this is the case.

What else, let me think... 

• There's a 3/8" speed handle that came from my boss's dad's friend's estate, so clearly an heirloom piece. 
• A magnetic key holder in case you actually need one of those, and it's NIB if you'd rather make a killing on eBay. 
• Possibly the world's cheesiest "metal" gas and brake pedal dressup covers for impressing the girls at the Tastee Freeze (and I think there are some uninspiring Toyota nameplates in the poke with them, but can't remember.  Certainly no jerky.)
• A Chilton's Pontiac Tempest and GTO manual I picked up on closeout in an Icelandic bookstore in 1992 so I'd have something to read in English.
• A Beetle Owner's Survival Manual that, for the life of me, I cannot remember purchasing, or why I would have.  
• A pocket-size sharpening stone, perfect for losing in the messiest junk drawer in your toolbox.
• To sharpen with the stone, an already perilously sharp (and I ain't kidding, these things are scalpels) Victorinox Classic SD pocketknife attached to a Miller Welding sheetmetal thickness checker.
• A genuine Washington State license plate from an '86 MR2 I bought and sold a long time ago.
• A Federal Mogul tapered roller bearing, purchased for the pinion on a Salisbury type MGB rear diff, but fits all kinds of stuff I don't plan on owning any time soon.
• An unidentified aluminum plate or bracket that came in a box of miscellaneous CJ5 stuff, and two V-belts for the same  V8 CJ5.  Choose your own adventure here.
• A slightly playworn Hot Wheels of a '65 or '66 Pontiac Bonneville, and I'm sorry there weren't more, but this is quite literally the only HW I could find that was even remotely relevant to the Curtis73 Automotive Experience.
• A box of cotter pins I bought from HF because I didn't remember having purchased the very same box a few weeks prior.
• A roll of heat shrink with the same backstory.
• The new-in-box VDO oil temperature gauge I couldn't resist buying at the secondhand shop.
• A power window motor for a Porsche 996, I think, that rolls up and down, but doesn't do the let-me-roll-this-down-a-little-first dance when you pull the door handle.
• A mystery handle on a piece of mystery aluminum.

And in the blue parts bin box:

• A timing belt idler/tensioner for "Toyota", likely the much-maligned 3VZ-E used in 1980s and 90s pickups and 4Runners.
• Most of a very cheap line flaring tool, but no dies, because why would I have the dies?
• Oddball baby rod ends from, gosh, I don't remember, maybe a hood prop rod or shifter cable or something.  Probably from the Elise, so I can't just throw them away.
• A pair of muffler clamps in the ever-popular 2-3/4" size.  I don't know either, man... but there they are.
• All the glass fuses I had sitting around and won't likely use, because even Jeep had gone to ATO blade fuses by the time they built my J-20.
• A tiny baggie with ten or so little tiny carabiners that I like to use for keyring knives and other things that you'd use a carabiner on if only you had one small enough.  Exactly the kind of handy garbage I can't resist buying in bulk.
• Clutch alignment tools that nobody has ever really needed or will ever need again, ostensibly suitable for amateur "medical examinations" at your own considerable risk, but look, I'm not your doctor, we all make our own decisions here.
• An assortment of oxygen sensor bungs, suitable for holding most major brands of sensors or for use with a slingshot against that damn orange cat that won't quit crapping in the pea patch, or peeing in the rhubarb, or whatever it's doing, it's not my cat and I'll be damned if I'm gonna let it ruin another harvest.

Curtis73 had the unfortunate luck of being my Guinea pig this year and was very gracious about receiving an artfully curated box of uselessness.  Thanks, Curtis!  Now that I have seen what some others have done, I will try to be a little better prepared for next year's round.

Now where did I put that damn Lillian Vernon catalog...?

In reply to glueguy (Forum Supporter) :

Glad you liked the box! For me seeing the pictures of the unboxing is always just as much fun as packing it up.

I snagged my line on the wrench while fishing in the Intracoastal near Bald Head island*. It's a common size for some boat drain plugs, so somebody probably knocked it overboard- hopefully *after* they had put their drain plug in.

As per ancient tradition, several things were re-gifts,  including the poultry nipples and the old plumbing hardware. Glad they hit the right person this year!

I forget if the big square head screw is from when I was working on the deck or if it came to me in a box and was a re-gift. I suspect it may be from the deck work.

The LED lights are from when I had a 1999 Silverado.  I've held onto them waiting for the day I saw somebody that also had a compatible vehicle in the GRM Game. I'm fairly sure the orange bulbs also fit the GMT800 series.

I agree that hemostats are a must-have item. I try to keep a set everywhere they may come in handy. I'm not sure if those are stainless or just plated. 

The goggles were issued with sun and clear lenses, so there should be a clear lens in the box, too, unless I scavenged it out at some point in time over the decades. The goggles fit over some prescription glasses, and with the clear lens in, make great eye protection if you're working under a car and are likely to get schmutz falling towards your peepers. I got a hookup on some lab quality goggles, so I don't think that set got worn. They've been sitting in a cabinet for a long while and fit in the box pretty well, so off they went! 

*On an outgoing tide, this area usually has some good fishing. It's got moving sandbars and stuff, so some boaters don't like getting in close, but it's no problem in a kayak.

Hmmmmm....

I sent out my box and tracking shows it arrived on 12/30 yet its not been shared with the group.

The box I sent last year never got shared either. (Saw a legacy item get passed along, so they did get it)

Guess I need to send more interesting stuff?

In reply to Gearheadotaku (Forum Supporter) :

I would share yours (hugs and shiznit)

In reply to Gearheadotaku (Forum Supporter) :

Maybe share this with Bill?  Sharing the box is mandatory.

Still waiting on my box.
:sigh:

In reply to Gearheadotaku (Forum Supporter) :

What area of the country did you send to?

In reply to Gearheadotaku (Forum Supporter) :

Um yeah, that’s dirty pool.  No open your box until you ship yours and share the opening of a received box with the class.  Dems the rulz!   Still waiting on mine to arrive, my recipient got theirs on 1/4 and shared. 

Gearheadotaku (Forum Supporter) said:

Hmmmmm....

I sent out my box and tracking shows it arrived on 12/30 yet its not been shared with the group.

The box I sent last year never got shared either. (Saw a legacy item get passed along, so they did get it)

Guess I need to send more interesting stuff?

Mine shows delivered on 1/5 and haven't seen anything posted yet. 

Mine was delivered on 1/9 to Columbia, MO. Haven't seen it posted yet. 

AWSX1686 (Forum Supporter) said:

Mine was delivered on 1/9 to Columbia, MO. Haven't seen it posted yet. 

Ditto. Maybe the crap I sent was offensive.

In reply to slefain :

God i would hope so!

1kris06 said:

golfduke said:

Mine shipped out yesterday, en route to an unknown-to-me user in the Midwest, and should arrive on Friday. 

 

I apologize in advance for the potential for broken glass, but the reward was worth the risk in my humble opinion. 

 

If you're in MN, open carefully.  Haha. 

 

The glass survived, the beer...not so much (1 is currently chilling in the fridge)

Contents of the wonderful remaining box:

beer flight glass

bag of scrub? pads

mechanics gloves

zip ties (who doesn't need more)

container of fiberglass resin and hardner

a plug of some sort

a Husky branded collar?

Jaguar hot wheels hauler

BMW and Z24 badging

stubby screwdriver

tin worm repair kit

chain

lots of ear plugs

unknown clamping device

used oil filter

fishing lures and the remanants of an arm cast

trim tool

needle nose pliers

impact screw driver set

set of sockets with the 10mm already pre-missing

 

Ah damn, sorry!  I was really hoping the cans would survive, but alas... Hopeyou enjoyed it! 

A box has arrived from Virginia, more to come soon!

So we've got a stealthy participant here, so far I have no clue who my benefactor is...

Let's do this!

Top layer had lots of stickahs!

Next, a cell phone case, some cables, a cool Matchbox Greyhound bus, mini pool game and an Amazon "Dash" device.

A large bag of lug nuts, tire gauge, a brand new 7/8 combination wrench, walkie talkie microphone, socket organizers, a nice locking hitch pin that will be going in my bag of tricks in the tow vehicle, a key ring, small box with a bunch of machine screws that look like they been of military origin and a September 1957 date on the box.   Also, the blue thing with the holes is some type of gauge block, maybe for small diameter splined shafts?  

Continuing onwards;

A tow strap, this will also go in the two vehicle bag of tricks. A Stroud safety cord, size 44 Dickies jump suit (good chance they'll fit me) and a very carefully packaged can inside a beer stein!

This wicked awesome necklace...does this clash with the overalls? 

LiPo batteries and a charger

More on that mystery can and the stein

I'll brave up and report back on the contents of the can!

Thanks to my mystery benefactor from Virginia, well done!  I'll confess I looked up the address and will report that we have a true dyed in the wool GRM'er here; street view came up with a tow pig hooked up to a trailer with a legit race car on it parked on the street in front.  Spinning doritos may (or may not) be involved.     Thanks again, this made a gray snowy Monday a lot more fun.

According to the tracking info, US customs has released my package and it's en route to the recipient... hopefully everything's still in the box :D

i suck.  box is packed, i just haven't made it to the post office yet.  :-(

AngryCorvair (Forum Supporter) said:

i suck.  box is packed, i just haven't made it to the post office yet.  :-(

AC: I'm not done yet.

Computer: User account verified. 

In reply to barefootcyborg5000 :

too funny, and too accurate, to make me mad.