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Mon Feb 04, 2008 2:14 pm

I have been able to finance my vw obsession from buying and selling dead peoples stuff. I seem to find much better merchandise at estate sales.

Joe

Mon Feb 04, 2008 2:19 pm

gr8ful71 wrote: I have been able to finance my vw obsession from buying and selling dead peoples stuff. I seem to find much better merchandise at estate sales.

Joe
most definitely! I scored an old rotary phone, brand new in the box at the Estate Sale of a phone worker. Tools are also a great score at Estate Sales because the uppity furniture and antique buyers often don't look twice at that stuff, and most people don't know what they are looking at.

Mon Feb 04, 2008 4:34 pm

A couple of my antiques and my garage sale tent find $40

I garage sale all summer and flip most of the stuff to support the vw hobbie
But I do collect tin cars ,comics ,skull memrobilia ,tiki( YES insulaters)
old slot cars stuff ETC.I have one room packed full of assorted treasures
It is an addiction

Mon Feb 04, 2008 11:40 pm

Mosparx wrote: Mike Spadafora is on here??? Remember Howie from Crown Jewels Magazine & insulator collecting? I saw your insulator stuff in that pic, then saw your name and went WOW! I never knew you were a VW guy! Looks like you are still collecting "Mud"! I haven't collected in years, but I have all my old glass still. Good to see a familiar face on here! :D

yup I remember you ...
I have been a vw head since the mid 80's ...got my first 21 window in 1989 and never looked back ... another guy, Glen McAdam who is on the samba once in a wile owns it now... He is also an insulator collector, a Dead head and a VW crazy like me...
VW busses are the best vehicles ever invented for insulator hunting trips!!!
I know at least one other guy (Bill Ostrander) who has a 66 Rivera camper . and the now defrocked Ron Suza use to do all of his telegraph glass hunts in Nevada out of a mid 60's double cab...

Wed Feb 06, 2008 10:16 pm

My next door neighbor buys and sells coca-cola memorabilia... he does this for a living, drives across country, constantly looking on ebay... wild how he can support a family on old coke stuff... people love it I guess...

Thu Feb 07, 2008 5:06 am

I collect vintage american pottery, mostly McCoy pottery and have aquired some very rare and non-production pieces.

Thu Feb 07, 2008 6:21 am

gr8ful71 wrote: I have been able to finance my vw obsession from buying and selling dead peoples stuff. I seem to find much better merchandise at estate sales.

Joe

Oh yeah!
You can always find the stuff that they would never put in a garage sale...

Fri Feb 08, 2008 11:37 pm

love garage sales
found this for 2 bucks, it is NGK plugs, one of my favorite scores

and another favorite, for 4 bucks, my 70 westy was missing its, the lady had no idea what it was, I saw it from a block away

Sun Feb 10, 2008 8:14 pm

I worked at an antique and estate auction in Florida for 3 years, I loved it. I learned all kinds of stuff that I have since forgotten and saw some amazing items.

My best auction find was middle and rear seats from a 64 bus in NOS condition for $2

Mon Feb 11, 2008 9:24 pm

I've been helping clean out an old goverment surplus wharehouse that a guy bought back in the day from the goverment. He died and his son(63yrs old) is/was the owner of it, but taxes have forced him to sell it, so I was contacted to get all the VW stuff he had collected over the years out and sell. let me tell you, he has alllllllllllll kindsa stuff in there aswell as a bunch of surplus stuff. I was climbing over a big wood thing coverd by a blanket to get to some stuff & he told me to be gentle with it, so I asked what it was & here it's an old record player that makes records! There is an old wooden drawing desk that still has it handbook in plastic in the top drawer, I'd have to say it's from the 50's-60's, there's furniture buried under stuff & the craziest thing he told me to becareful around was an old wooden chest that is all beat to hell missing about 1/3 of the wood, he tells me it's from the 1800's. I found a bunch of old glass pieces that make something up, wood stools covered with carved leather, it's crazy. The first day I was there I saw an old telephone, it's a desk top phone & I asked him about it & he told me it was from a military office. I asked what he was gonna do with it cause I thought it was cool & he said take it if you like it, so I brought it home, cleaned it up & put it on my end table thinking how cool it would be to use, so I checked it all out the other day, hooked it up & the damn thing works/sounds great, better than any phone I've talked on since the 70's. Last night I did alittle research and found the phone was made by Automatic Electric & produced from the late 30's to the mid 50,s. I think the model is A40 or something like that, but all the images I found that look like it are all missing a lever on the one side that locks the reciever(piece you hold to your head to listen & talk) to the body. Both the wires are straight & covered in material, pretty cool phone, but I forgot how long it takes to dial a # with a rotary dial :roll:

Tue Feb 12, 2008 7:02 am

ahood63rag wrote: love garage sales

and another favorite, for 4 bucks, my 70 westy was missing its, the lady had no idea what it was, I saw it from a block away

That is an awesome score!

Thu Feb 14, 2008 10:43 am

BryanM wrote:
My best auction find was middle and rear seats from a 64 bus in NOS condition for $2

Now THAT is an unbelievable score!

Thu Feb 14, 2008 12:01 pm

I have been collecting Aunt Jemima accessories and such forth since I was 13. here are some of my favorites...

My favorite poster, very hard to find especially in this condition. Also goes great with my Gingham wall paper!

The coveted 9 peice set including Uncle Jemima...

Sun Jun 15, 2008 2:09 am

I collect depression glass, military memorabilia, and clocks.

Sun Jun 15, 2008 4:47 am

When I can find a 25 cent Firestone Tire ashtray at a garage sale and resell it for $27.00 you know I'm hooked!

Sun Jun 15, 2008 5:11 pm

Here is one of my recent finds, a French WW 1 helmet. This was made for trench warfare. It's quite a piece of history. I am keeping my eyes peeled for more.

Sun Jun 15, 2008 6:48 pm

typesoneandtwo wrote: Here is one of my recent finds, a French WW 1 helmet. This was made for trench warfare. It's quite a piece of history. I am keeping my eyes peeled for more.

i saw two helmets today at the Elephant Trunk flea market in West Milford CT. I never know what any of that stuff is worth, sadly :oops: ...

Mon Jun 16, 2008 1:00 pm

Garage sales love me. You name it I have it or I neeed it. :lol: :lol:

Mon Jun 16, 2008 2:49 pm

i dont know about the rest of the states but so cals garage sales have been somewhat lacking the last few times ive gone, does any one else get pissed off after following signs for 10 minuets and finding a pile of shitty cloths and junk that should be thrown away just piled in someones drive way?

Wed Jun 18, 2008 7:50 pm

The last 2 weekends I did really well$$$..I picked up a 1961 HH Scott tube amp/AM/FM reciever with a turntable for $5! 2 weekends ago..And this past weekend a boxfull of late 50's-early60's Barbies in excellent condition w/outfits for $20!!Ive gotten some really good stuff in the past few years,its always fun..My wife and I love going.Its amazing,Ive found that where I live theres alot of people who go to the sales but apparently not looking for the stuff I am 8) Ive shown up at a yard sale at 11-12o'clock and said"Theres probably nothing good left".The last time that happened,I left the yard sale with a NICE 70's Corgi Batmobile and Batboat/trailer for $1!!!!It brought back memories,but unfortunately a few months later it paid for the electric bill :lol: