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Mon Feb 24, 2025 3:15 pm

is it me? or are there more and more big parts lots for sale? Is everyone getting out of the scene? I know there are many of us who are getting older and or have finished our cars and don't have or want other projects, Anyone else notice this? Good time to buy spares for our keepers.

Martin
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Mon Feb 24, 2025 3:58 pm

I sold off all of my spare parts, not building another car and didn't want to wait till I downsize my house.

Mon Feb 24, 2025 7:33 pm

I quit buying up large parts hordes. Most of what you get is a bunch of worthless junk, plus it’s getting harder to sell the stuff off. The older stuff oddly enough is the hardest to sell. Too much work for very little return.

Tue Feb 25, 2025 4:24 am

And yet here I am searching for lower tins to complete a cooling system and finding nothing...

Tue Feb 25, 2025 5:30 am

oprn wrote: And yet here I am searching for lower tins to complete a cooling system and finding nothing...
Good clean DP tins are hard to find.

Tue Feb 25, 2025 10:13 am

Every time I take cooling tins to swap meets I drag them home. They’re not rusty those get tossed immediately but I’m sure as hell not cleaning a piece of tin for five bucks if I’m lucky. I won’t even waste my time taking single port stuff. I had a really nice fuel injected shroud with the velocity ring and doghouse pieces in great shape. I got beat up on 20 bucks, I still have it in a box somewhere. Dual port cases that have never been machined everyone wants to give 40 to 50 bucks.

Tue Feb 25, 2025 12:02 pm

Glenn wrote: Good clean DP tins are hard to find.
Not easy find even here in Arizona. I finally did buy a set to replace the cut-up single port tins I've used on my 1835cc DP engine since 1976. I'll install the DP tins next time engine is out - but hasn't been out in 2 decades....and I'll paint my other tins too then.....

Tue Feb 25, 2025 2:30 pm

The only thing that comes up at swap meets here is fan housings and the two top cylinder tins. The rest have been ash canned years ago by those that do not understand that 28% of the parts does not constitute a functioning cooling system.

Wed Feb 26, 2025 5:39 am

I guess it a blessing in disguise that no one bought mine, I have a 2110 build going on and the a Joe Cali type 4 conversion I’m helping my son build that uses a mix of type 1 and 4 shrouds and tin. But I literally have a bicycle box full of the stuff. I have been buying stuff since 1988 so I may have hoarded a few things. I can’t bring myself to sell any of my cooling flaps for dual ports.

Wed Feb 26, 2025 6:27 am

Good for you! I am a bit of a parts hoarder myself but I neglected to squirrel away near enough of those lower tins, flaps and thermostats. With everyone discarding them I thought we would never run out but we have.

Mon Jun 23, 2025 11:20 am

I see more and more. I don't remember ever refusing a reasonable offer. All these people selling off lots should have been nicer and sold when they had the chance. Good Luck selling all that stuff!

Mon Jun 23, 2025 4:57 pm

Me, I got a shed and attic and some other place full to the brim with parts. I will die before i get to it all. and when i die, it will likely get shitcanned. :cry: :cry:

Tue Jun 24, 2025 6:17 am

You see? That is part of the problem! Those that still have the hard to get parts think they are sitting on a gold mine and those that don't see the need for them think they are worthless and just throw them out! Just because you don't want them does not mean no one else does.

I responded to a Marketplace ad a month ago. Some guy just bought a restored Super Beetle and it came with a lot of spare bits. "I don't have room for all this junk but if there is something here you can use, take it away." I asked him why he wanted them all gone and was not saving any spares. "This is all used stuff, if I need anything in the future I will just buy new."

Oh the innocence of the young and new!!! :roll:

I came away with 3 sets of thermostat flaps, two new tie rods for my sand rail, two good used starters, new in package chromoly flywheel gland nut, a Solex 34 PICT-3, several lower tins and a few other bits and pieces. I left quite a bit behind too!

I am presently putting one of the sets of flaps and two of the lower tins on a Buddies Buggy and he will be taking home a spare carb and starter too for free. Hording these parts, throwing them away or asking a King's ransom for them are all equally useless!

Tue Jun 24, 2025 2:02 pm

I can see stashing parts for what you plan on keeping or for a x model car that you will continue with.
Hoarding piles of stuff for "future projects"? I have enough projects in dealing with a roughly 200 year old house, barn, and sheds, let alone basic maintenance on the fleet to keep it mobile.

Tue Jun 24, 2025 2:08 pm

I personally just enjoy swap meets more than the show itself but I have to at least make my gas money, swap space fee, and a little beer money. I do give a lot of stuff away to friends or if anyone finds me at the shop and needs a few things.