every now and again i would slap together a "cleaner", which was someone's roller that i could put a few of my parts on to flip at the spring swap meet. wasn't always the best street and strip car, but there was typically enough go-fast parts on it someone could take it the next step further.
@@daddysbrokegarage it sure is more fun to find a deal than to find out the part doesn't fit and that you have to do two other jobs to complete this one and it still won't #@$@#$@ing start :)
I had a '69 Cadillac that had a rear window leak and the entire interior rusted out. I advertised some parts on marketplace, but they weren't selling. Finally a guy drove three hours from Dallas for a handful of parts. I filled the bed of his truck with everything I could get rid of. I wanted it out of my shop, but I couldn't stand to see such beautifully manufactured parts go to waste.
Good on you, unfortunately there's less and less of your kind around and everyone, especially people selling Mopar parts seem to see $$$ dancing in their heads.
I stripped a 69 chrysler 300 4 door that some idiot junked in the auto wreckers. Car was mint. Engine and trans was gone of course but I couldn't let all those unatainum parts go to waste. Funny thing is I, to this day, still have never owned a 69 300 but I have a complete interior, front clip and rear bumper for one.
i did this not even on the hotrod side of things, thanks to where you taught this in the past. I basically replaced an engine for free because I bought the replace ment with a transmission, then sold the transmission for the what I paid for the whole
for my 69 GTO i found a $425 4 door 1971 LeMans. the gas station garage who had it delivered it for free the next week when they had a rig headed out my way. plucked the 400/THM400/10 bolt LSD rear, took out the T3 headlights, pulled out the dashboard and gave it free to a guy who just wanted the front windshield (like i was going to risk him breaking it in my yard). If he was smart he parted it out more, but i sold the dash for $400 and had a $25 drivetrain to hotrod. playing with cars CAN be affordable so long as you own property and tools :) but seriously, it's a case of working smart not hard like everything else in life.
I'm lucky my wife doesn't know about all the junk parts I've hoarded over the the last 25 years we've been married! The ten vehicles in the yard is a different story
When I was riding motorcycles many years ago with mechanical breaks, I adjusted it so no matter how hard I break the wheel would blearily still turn. This had saved me a few bad times. Even in the rain drive like you are on ice. Getting older means a longer healing process,lol. Please be careful, but enjoy the ride. I’m only 76 and still ride.
That's wild. So you invented true anti lock brakes. Sounds scary to me, but i live in the mountains where it's easy to run off a cliff even with good brakes.
I had a kitted 70cc Kymco Cobra. Went to work one evening and the road was flooded/very very wet. Didn't think about it really much, but it was February and I should've. Got off work at 330am and got to this road. Nothing in the slightest of being 17 degrees made me any wiser.... I hit the 1/4 mile of icy winter wonderland at 60 mph. You ever seen the movie gone with the wind. Neither have I....
Funny how things change. Guys used to run a roll of fuel line through a bucket and stuff it full of ice to cool the fuel down before a pass. Anything to get more power. Now you'd be lucky to find a kid that can even set up a carburetor ! Guys like you are keeping hot rods alive !
LOL that's still a common practice among some people old and new skool! You got to try it for yourself to know if it works. welcome to the channel you got a lot of catching up to do you lucky bastard!
@@rustybritches6747 really? Good to hear. I can't remember the last time I saw a "cool can" on a car. Although I don't go to car shows much any more. In Canada it's kind of a dieing thing now
If you're going to run nitrous you're better off renting and filling a mother tank and setting up your own fill station there's multiple ways of doing it pretty cheap and easily you'll save money in the long run! Just like your big CO2 argon or helium tanks except you can transfer from your mother tank to your smaller bottles you just need a way to weigh it which can be done with a cheap digital scale also heating and cooling the bottles to help with transfer can be done with ice water and cheap electric heating pads!
So true UTG and things I dedicate my life to... right down to how & why I bought my house (it's zoned for this stuff as well). Everything has value, you just have to see the value in what others over-look. Right down to saving as many nuts & bolts as possible. This week I set up my lift and had to run to town to get 10 grade 8 bolts to finish it up..... it was over $20 for just nuts and bolts. This stuff adds up quick, and I lost an hour and a half of daylight doing it. It pays to save.... for sure!
The problems with doing this are: 1) Space. You need a ton of space to stockpile parts. 2) Organization. It is very easy to forget what you have or, you know you have it and you can't find it because it's in one of 50 boxes.
I hear what your saying about buying bulk and things you might not need at the moment but probably will down the road. Its a double edged sword though. My father would buy crap a yard sales auctions and estate sales. Its great to have a ton of random parts/stuff on hand but that random stuff builds up and starts to get in your way also. Every few years he would have to load up his trailer and take everything to a fle market auction becuse he had so much crap he couldn't work in the shop lol
there's a classic sign, "i don't fear death, i fear my wife selling everything for what i told her i paid for it" but seriously, if you pack rat, do your fam a favor and list what it's worth and what website to sell it on. i just had an old friend croak and i wasn't made aware until i went by his place and saw the dumpster...he had a trucking company, i would have LOVED to gone thru it. Before that i went thru an estate sale of an old small engine repair biz. one of those tucked back from a city street, you didn't know it was there unless you knew it, a cinderblock building with one big room divided up by shelving. the son was looking to sell--anything you laid hands on was $1. had i the space, i would have loaded up on chainsaw engine and lawnmower engine parts and hit the swap meet the following week to sell at three times the price.
Instead of an update or a story time, show your viewers you working on your cars. Hope you got something out of that, see ya tomorrow or not.. may just unsubscribe
Glad you didn’t get hurt too bad on the bike. I agree with you on accumulating good deals in bunches but when you said it I heard a quarter million wives all in unison yell “Noooooo”!
I build hot rods and custom cars for a living. I save take off parts, extra wiring, and stuff people just want to get rid of. Building street rods is a good way to get traditional hot rod parts. When I wire cars I save all the extra wiring and parts that don't get used. I can usually do the 4th car by only getting a new fuse panel. Jim Ford Highway 101 Rod and Custom
6:24 That's exactly the thing, you gotta look for the value in a sale ad. Sure you need a $300 thing and you see an ad for that thing for $200, you go get it. But if you also see an ad for the thing for $200 in a pile of other things, you DEFINITELY go get that. Goes the same for tools. This is why I haven't bought a lot of new tools lately, I've instead been buying whole toolboxes and lots of tools for a pittance at garage sales and estate auctions. I still have a pile of little 20 inch Craftsman tool boxes in my shop that I haven't even opened yet to go through as I'm waiting on another decent paycheck to get a roller bottom chest for the decent $30 top chest I started using. Then I can pick up some drawer liner to sort and organize what I already have, add to it from the auction wins, and see what's left over. I might keep a couple of those 20 inch boxes for mobile tools, and then pile the other stuff I don't want in the others and give it away. It's going to be useful to someone else if not me, and I need the space for new stuff eventually. Some guy with a family who finally got out of renting and bought a house is going to need those tools I won't be using on a car anyway.
i have to comment on this ... how correct you are when you said "you don't know when you need something and it is on the shelf" I just got an engine back from a shop after being tanked. no work other than a good cleaning. after checking it over on the stand it dawned on me that the frost plugs were not placed back into the holes. so i phoned the parts store to inquire to get 6 1-1/2 in plugs. nope nothing in stock nor anything coming in the next while. HUH?? I remembered a bunch of stuff i had bought second hand and placed away for "in case i need" and sure enough after searching it, there was a new box of plugs/kit there. cheers tony you never know when ....
I like to look around while picking up something, and going to estate sales for old car guys. The biggest challenge is organizing all the crap so you can find it.
You may find luck with a subaru 2.5L wrx or sti piston c.2006-ish Known for ringland failure, more often than not you have hosers that 'tune' these engines expecting WRC goodness but no attention paid to longevity or reliability. North of the border, Subarus are super common. Cheers from Canada 🇨🇦
I have a couple very low mileage pistons with broken lands because (I think) the builder didn't gap the rings correctly if that will help on the video you mentioned.
Aside from the mech cam 273 and induction, cam and exhaust I transfered from engine to engine and the massive sway bar. I had my torsion bar tuning. I'd dead drop the front without aligning the wheels. Depending on roads and speeds camber would be between 3 and 8 degrees. Yes I went thru a set of stock sized polyglass radials every 10 to 14 days on the front. But I had boxes of doorman left and right wheel studs and nuts. Sounds like a ricochet when a nut and stud peals off at 65 mph in a full 110 drift..... before drift.
Everyone says i’m crazy to hold onto random hardware and brackets I find. Let me tell you, the number of times it kept work going in the middle of the night when the stores are closed is not countable
In the mid 80s minimum wage was $3.75 and college degree in drafting drawing industrial machine blue prints in CAD paid $7.50 an hour. What was a poor hot rodder to do? I was buying 70s cars all day long for $200 each. Nothing special but mostly 2 doors. After keeping what I wanted and selling nose, doors, deck lids, interior, motor, trans, scrapping rest I'd make $800 a car. Easily buying the hot rod stuff I wanted and couldn't afford even working 2 jobs.
while i don't recommend having a stranger come to your house (and falling and suing you the property owner) i do love going to someone's house to buy...and looking around. I scored a free corvette 4 speed from a guy cleaning out his garage and selling me a $50 EFI setup. another one gave me his fan shroud he was just going to toss because he was sick of waiting for flakes to show up to buy it while picking up his $25 ford 302 block. someone else gave me a pertronix kit for $1 while buying his $25 snow blower as he was moving to FL that weekend. I got an Olds 455 for $150 and because the kid couldn't bother to be there for the sale, his old man offered me the cam--an Engle unit--and the heavy cast iron intake--an $800 442 unit from 1972--for free so he wouldn't have to toss it out. Two months ago i nabbed a chevy 400 with a spare cast iron intake--turned out to be a late corvette unit--for free. I've cleaned out garages of the big stuff sellers wanted to get rid of or buyers wanted to get out of the way, and to pay me back was allowed to take coffee cans full of fasteners--this was before the pandemic shortage woke us all up--and a soak in a 50/50 brine of vinegar and salt for a month and they were good to go. Always bring extra cash when roadtripping off to buy something--once i passed an indoor flea market and on the way back scored a Chris Craft dashboard for $80 with all the gauges. it really helps to show up being a nice, friendly person--i've snuck deals out from other sellers who showed up ready to prove what level of d--k they were to the seller.
I have a "A" body 8 3/4 that will soon be up for sale. Posi big bearings, three set of gears. 4.56, 4.88, and 5.13. plus 11" brake drums. It was under a mud race truck. Both axles are twisted. I now run a Quick change. in one car and a 8 1/4 in the other.
TONY! , How about listing an address to send you these small good usable old vintage parts ,that I have no need for? Some of us have to De-clutter due to age. This all comes free, Maybe you can cover shipping? YOU'LL be surprised what people would send you because you have a likable personality. Give a shout out of what you need, and get ready to build a parts department.
You have too many projects going on. I do too. You work on them and get some things accomplished, but there comes a point where you get overwhelmed. That's where I'm at now. I have downsized and now I need to get rid of stuff accumulated over 45 years of working on cars. Now I'm 15 years older than you and I'm slowing down a bit. Still banging away in the garage, but no more big projects. You'll find out when the time comes.
Buying the parts used to be a guarantee that the project went forward. Somehow it doesn't work anymore. On the plus side, I've got a set of side pipes, oil cooler, 3/8" braided stainless hose, AN fittings, tachometer, pressure guages, etc. all new, waiting for a project.
Great insight into the value of building an inventory of materials. It's like how artists stock their supplies - they don't go out and buy each color of paint as they need them while painting something. And here's the kicker: the artist's painting won't break down and leave them immobile until they can find the exact obscure paint in the hue they need in the moment. People often think, "If I need X, I'll get it at the parts store," just assuming they'll actually have X in stock - or even sell it at all! There's more and more stuff that parts stores just don't offer anymore, and that's only gonna get worse. CYA and keep your personal inventory as stocked as you can while still keeping it manageable.
So how long before UTG develops the equivalent of M5 Industry's iconic wall of boxes? Because that's the corollary to the scrounge/barter way of the gearhead monk. You can't use it or trade it if you can't find it and few things are more frustrating than having to go out and buy something you already have but can't find. The worse part about clutter is you can't find the stuff you need even as you are tripping over it. At the same time you don't want to spend all of your time organizing parts. Throwing them in a box with a big label is a nice compromise assuming you have place for the box. The difference between hoarding and inventory is organization.
You should have took that trim off first..... Either way you probably going to have to replace that trim unless you can clean it up now. Get all that mud off of it.... Also my old man was a body man. I miss him dearly. The things he could do with a wrecked car bring it back to factory specifications by hand. I'm talking. It looked like it rolled off the showroom for all the body lines and everything he could do by hand and it would look amazing, especially old trucks. He had those body lines down. He could do it with his eyes closed
How to become a hot-rod-hoarder 101. Absolutely love it. My shop is filled with random parts and bits. I quite literally need something from it all on a weekly basis. Saved quite a few of my buddies in tight spots too.
I live the parts hoard ,scrounger l went buy a rearend $100 as l was ready to leave he said you interested in other parts l said sure what do you have, l got for a 1970 350 long block standard aftermarket sbc hei wires and bbc pr aluminum finned valve covers and a bucket of bolts brackets hardware $50,he just wanted it out of his garage sense l said ill buy it all he said a $100 for everything rear end motor parts love it always ask if they have other parts !
It's about time you got back to mechanics instead of trying to plug in another channel or trying to make a comedy skid I watch your channel because it was straight forward but lately it has become Uncle Tony's Plug garage always trying to divert your viewers to other channels then you won't clear up the mission impossible fiasco which I refuse to watch it's been farmed out to 3 channels already.
I bought a brand new nitrous system that had been installed but never used, with all the extras the guy threw in with the system I got over $1000 worth of parts, even a full 10 lb bottle, all for $400. Good deals are out there, gotta keep your eyes peeled.
I've been trying to find parts for my Oldsmobile motors om marketplace. Unfortunately they're just not a popular enough engine and I'm in such a remote area they're very few and far between.
I think you are not familiar with your audience. 99.9% of them are working out of a home garage or no garage. No room to store needless shit and if they do pile it up high, the amount of time it would take them to find shit they think they have, they could have just gone and bought and installed it. You have a shop. Plenty of storage. THe shop is your job. Plenty of time to hunt marketplace and organize your spare parts. If a backyard mechanic did that, he would end up waisting 1000's of dollars on shit he will never use. And the few scraps he may use over twenty years do not justify the junk piles in the limited space he has. Now for the few that are going to make a hobby out of building several cars, maybe. But no. Most people will just end up looking like hoarders.
I have no shop and never had one just a shed and at one time had 5 engines 4 transmissions a rear end and multiple sets of seats not to mention parts. Know what all is there where it's at. My friends also know if they needed a part for a Ford there was a good chance I had. Sounds like your mad because you don't want to do the leg work just want a checkbook car. Which is fine but some of us can't afford the hobby without scrounging up deals and parts.
When I was younger and had more time than money, I'd buy piles of stuff like this or fish it out of the dumpster. I'd sort it out and have a keep pile and a sell pile. I had a nice amount of extra money from selling off the odd bits. I'd also go to all the local gas stations and ask for any bad V-8 engines they were junking. Take them apart and sell off or scrap the parts.
Lol thats funny cause I needed a 400 for my 67 ford found a 79 frame running motor c6 9 inch rear end got a 78 awhile back minus a motor also with a dana 60 those 2 rear ends alone I cam double money invested plus the front ends cab spare c6 using the 9 inch for a drag car dana 60 for my 48 pontiac
The trick to putting stuff "on the shelf" is being organized enough that years later when you need an item, you remember which shelf on which you put it. For some people, their "shelf" is a big pile of junk on the floor in the corner of the shop (or sometimes many piles in many locations). Then the time savings goes out the window trying to find the item you know you have "somewhere".
Tony what are you doing ! First its DD speed shop stole your watch then you seal pegs leg, Then you pick on our flag we cant help that it looks like a beer label. Now your going after Chad. These are some of our crown jewels. If you want to go after some one Go after that prancing prince in Ottawa
Give Peg back his leg! Do you know how hard it is to get a new leg in Canada? He has to go out to the bush in -30 to find a piece of wood and we don’t have hickory so he has to use fir, all that sap. Give it back!!
U T. Sounds like the voice in my head as he explains why I should buy bulk deals of parts "just in case" I may use some of it, and in fact, may one day really need one of those pieces. So I would be a fool not to buy while I can.
There’s a tipping point wherein you amass so much stuff that you can’t find what you need, but you know that you have it. That’s when I just buy new. 😂
Tony, if I don't buy things I don't need then I wouldn't have cool cars and a big shop to work in. I *WANT* the cool cars, because life is too short to drive boring crapboxes.
