How Did The ITG Parts Business Start?? - Iron Trap Podcast 

My wife does that with quilts. Who would have guessed some 90 year old mostly ragged hand sewn quilt from an estate sale might be a gem if you figure out how to market it. Plus the hunt is endless and fun.

This is fantastic! Hearing the story and your adventures is awe inspiring and compelling! This is why we are here! Go Iron Trap, keep moving forward and thank you for allowing us to come along for the joyous, incredible ride!

I started buying & selling automobilia back in the mid-70's, mostly through Hemmings Motor News. When Ebay came along, I jumped into it much more seriously for several years, to support my "Iron Trap" addiction. Like you, I found the adrenalin rush, the thrill of the hunt, was whay motivated me, more than the money. Great to hear about your journey and comparing it to my own. Love the podcasts !

I feel like I just got schooled on how it’s done. Keep doing your thing and I’ll keep watching. You have the perfect balance right now. Turning it into a job would suck.

Cool story! Another gold mine for all VW stuff is Brazil. There is sooooo much stuff there! They love their Volkswagens!

Thank you Matt and Mike for the update on how things are going there in Pennsylvania ! One of those days I need to figure out how to take time to come to Pennsylvania to meet all of you !

Really enjoy your sharing how your business started and your business values. Very revealing. Thanks for sharing a little bit about your family. 😊

LOVE TO RELAX AND WATCH THIS. VERY LAID BACK AND INTERESTING!

I REALLY enjoyed this episode BUNCHES! You two are a great pairing! Your overseas adventures should be put in book form (I'd buy one)! Tonight was very enjoyable! Can't hardly wait for the next one! GO ITG crew!

That was really interesting. I had no idea (very young) Matt was an international hustler of car parts. My only request for the next podcast is Matt repeat the exploration of a randomly-grabbed vintage Hot Rod magazine.

These guys are great. I have emailed several times about parts and they got back to me really quickly. Ron

I am really interested to hear about your concept for the '39 Mercury. The ability to watch that car transform into your vision would be nothing short of amazing. Please include a segment in a future podcast about the custom car scene of the 50's and how you both would see the Mercury as a finished custom. Excited !!!

My father-in-law had a tire dealership and gas station stating in 1919. Throughout his business life he would go to recycle yards and build piles of tires. He would offer a set price for the pile and fill his truck. Taking the used tires he would clean them up and sell them as used tires. During WarII tires were scares but he would find them and he stated to do the same with bicycles. The bicycle business kept him in business during the war.

The good old days of EBay , just had to look been a member since 1998, used all the sniper apps myself

I live 500 miles north of the Canadian border. I was on ebay in 99. It changed my life for building cars. I was selling $40 rear-end center sections for $1100. Buying parts I could not get. I had a US postal space even that i would go down to every 4-6wks. I sold things in American dollars and was buying parts in Canadian. Now I've got so much that I just build and scads of stuff. Time is my value now.

Back around 1959 I had a friend that was working in the auto body shop of a Ford dealership and he was into model A's, He found out from a friend of his who worked in the parts department that they were getting rid of all their old model a parts so he went to the owner and asked if he could buy some of the parts and the owner told him no. So the owner had one of the guys that worked in the shop destroy all the parts and then take them to the dump. It was a shame because there was a lot of new old stock stuff but they would not sell him any of it and they knew he was into Model A's ,we were just young kids then.

Dig these podcasts gents, good vibes. Came to the channel from watching the pagoda build on Eastwood. Currently deployed so they're helping me pass the time. One suggestion with the website; maybe add a sort by filter option? Would help with figuring out what's been added recently.

Love listening to the podcast while I’m working at my gardening business in Melbourne Australia.

ello from germany here. ...nothern germany was always full of US cars and dealers, due to the fact that most of the stuff arrives at Hamburg( germanies biggest overseas harbor)...if you wanted to buy a new harley in the 80s here... you had to go there. There was only 1 harley dealer in whole germany at the time.... Bockhorn is the nearby swapmeet

Now I know how Mike gets so much done at the warehouse. He listens to Kublai Khan when he's there. Nice tshirt Mike!

So cool to hear about the old air cooled stuff, did the same Euro trades in smaller trade with a guy. Same on ebay since March of 1998, early days.

I enjoy your videos of working on cars, but I thought there's no way I'm going to listen to a podcast for an hour and a half. Well I had no idea how you started with VW's and going to Germany. Interesting how it all evolved, I watched the whole thing, very cool.

I joined Ebay in 2001, and i watched their timer and have my bid ready to put in at the last 3 seconds and i love farm auctions i bought a crome model T rad cover for $5 and 4 V8 hub caps for$17 cause nobody wants them the flat heads instead of scraping them sell them to other people at scrap price with knowing its junk and yes only use UPS are USPS cause Fedex is shit heads in southeast missouri i order a rad from Amazon and FedEx took on them the ship it to my old address of 3 years ago that was 110 miles away even though my right address was on the package

The dkw was the grandfather of the Harley "hummer".. 1948-66... My family name is "horch" one of the 4 rings of audi

May be a point of interest to you... Back in the day the outfit I was working for leased the old Patriot News building at 10th & Market Street's in Harrisburg. The interior layout of structural posts and the posts themselves were so identical to your warehouse that I would bet that, at minimum, the same architect, and possibly the same builder, were involved with both buildings. Also, you mentioned the crew chief of Bruce Larson in regard to the Pittsburgh buy. Would that have been Maynard Yingst?

It's an interesting economy, one guy strips and sells all the parts off a car, another guy buys the shell and then hunts down and buys all the parts to put it back together, lol. It's a lot of fun for sure.

Matt lock down the swivel on that chair. - LOL

Great video fella’s! I watch every video you put out. Looking for clues to get my Model A hot rod going. It’s a slow process for an old ass man. Keep up the excellent work and vid’s. Peace!✌️

One I went back to finish. 🤟🏻

Hey guys, enjoyed the video, found it very interesting, thanks for sharing....Ralph

Very cool podcast...had no idea about the VW business... sounds like you had quite a bit of adventure when you were younger... you're quite an entrepreneur... if you have any other cool stories like this I'm sure we would all be interested in hearing them.

great vid

I'm 72 & I bought cars for $20 in the late '60's early 70's for something to drive. Farmers would give them to me, I'd get them running & sell them. Now I hoard them.

2 days ago I found a 29 pro built roadster p/u and its trophies jammed in an old garage covered with house junk, cobwebs and dust since 81 a block from my house. Widow said it got parked because the hydramatic quite reverse. I'm 71, all bays already occupied and don't have much money but its exciting like finding a treasure and just gotta do it. Are we defective?

That was a good episode. 👍👍

Webtv....lot of people had them.

Now that was fun. The pos casts are interesting. When see a video is more than about 45 minutes I think. OMG-Ain’t nobody got time fo dat! Some creators just edit less and go for longer content to increase income. This one was longer but it was interesting in that it tells a story. Anyway-watched it all and had fun. Someday I’ll send you an email on how I came across a guy with a Jeepster for sale and it turned into a Willys NOS parts bonanza. He had some Model A parts as well. I need to cry uncle and just send them to you.

ROCK IT FELLAS ✊🏼⛽️

Call it chit -chat -bang-bang

One of my uncles had a auction that I knew that there was stuff that I wanted ! But the item would end up being added to something else in order to get someone bid more on something ! Sadly the item that I wanted got thrown into the trash bin ! No one was allowed to take anything out of the trash bin ! It made very very angry about it because that item that I wanted was something that I had given him many years ago ! It got to where I quit going to family estate auctions because of it ! I know of many items that not only I wanted but other family members wanted that ended up bought by someone else and thrown away !

Favourite episode yet!

WebTV right?

Dude!!! Your original American picker!!!But Mike is not as cute as Danielle!!!lol!!! Great video!!!✌️

So Matt and Mike if you are not interested in some stuff ! Do you guys pass the information onto someone that you guys know that might be interested in it enough to go look and buy it ?

...coming from a different area of reselling (vinyl before it was called vinyl) and being a stock rotation fiend, can I suggest date stamping all items and having set in concrete valid as stock date..."it's been here a year...out it goes" type of thing....let the numbers make the decisions for you and not your memory or hunch that it will sell eventually....I used to work in a place where they went..."but it might sell next year"...and that just builds a picked over/dead inventory!!...

Do you feel that you are in some way are setting or controlling what the prices are for some parts? ( volume wise)?

Hey Matt, How about an update on the progress that Rons making on your Ardun?

Is it possible to get timestamps in your podcasts? I am sure the whole thing is interesting but there is no way I have time to listen to the whole thing so I need to cherrypick

1965, bought and drove home a 1955 150 Chevrolet 2 dr sedan for $30.00 and rope towed a $50.00 1937 Ford coupe complete let motor and trans. 265 went into the coupe.newer 283 wento the Chevrolet. 2 drivers around $500 +$600. not show quality but who cared

You should call it the trap.

Call the podcast...Iron Trappings

What do your wife's think of this business

you need to wash out Mikes mouth, other wise good content

Today most eastern europeans can speak English....thanks to the Internet