Old school BBC tunnel ram

 

'57 Olds hdtp for 600 dollars and a pair of NOS '49 Lincoln tail lights for my '49 Merc. ($125)

Also, found a perfect hood for my '36 Ford roadster but it was not a bargain.

John

 

flea mkt

sbc single carb tunnel ram with carb = $25 bucks

 

tools

I plan on heading out early today to one with my daughter. She likes it


I'm looking for an old bike or tools.

 

What's the best thing we ever found or the best deal we ever got? I am thinking a combination of the two, a treasure at a good price.

Two hit me in the head the second I read your subject title. The first was an NOS '64 Corvette shifter assy I got for $90! OMG I forget the details but it was something like '64-'65 Corvette only, I had a '64 at the time and I couldn't believe it when I saw the guy putting this tattered up GM box into this trunk as he was packing up to go home. I went and looked at it knowing exactly what it was and was willing to pay a lot more, the guy said "It's $100" and then said "But you can have it for $90 so I don't have to take it home" or something like that! What a treasure!

The second one was a pair of Buick Nailhead finned valve covers with the "BUICK" on the side.



I asked how much and he said $20. I handed him a twenty and had a number of people trying to buy them off me for a lot more as I walked around with them. LOL

Probably the absolute best deal was a 1948 Indian Chief horn I got for $30 and sold on eBay the next week for $280.

Brian

 

A couple things - the Performer RPM intake (brand new) that I'm using on my '31. Not super cheap, but it was 1/2 price of Summit. The other was a set of the old wide and deep fin valve covers and really crusty looking but perfect, $15 then sold at a swap meet for $125 after spending an hour or so cleaning them.

 

I went to a Chrysler Show/Swap meet once (96 I think) and walked out with a perfect drivers door and boot for a 69 Dart Hardtop (Valiant here) for $60.

 

Many bargains, as Im usually the guy first in, making the rounds of the non shiny stuff.

One example, was an almost new Magnaflux setup. In original case complete..$35.00:thumbup:

 

Actually I guess I got all the glass for my 37 (including the regulators and wing windows)
and a pair of taillights (including the mounts) plus some other nick nacs

For a couple hundred bucks at the swap meet, kinda forgot about that.

 

I went to the Pomona Swap meet by myself and found a deal to good to pass for a set of heads from a 305. I didn't really think it through... Boy are those heads heavy... Couldn't feel my fingertips for days...

 

LOL, yeah, been there! Started when I was a kid building a mini bike! Bought a 1 horse cast iron Briggs and Stratton for $10 at a flee market and hauled it out of there bare handed. LOL

Brian

 

After buying a Hamilton Beach 3-station milkshake maker (Yes, in the all-time classic green!) and carrying it back to my car I wasn't sure my arms were ever going to work again! (Those li'l puppies are all cast iron and my car was over a mile away!) NOTHING makes a better shake or malt than those old beasts!

Now I take a pull-behind wagon with a 1,000 payload capacity every time I go to a swap meet!

 

A hundred years ago----Pomona Swap Meet

A BBC Man-A-Fre set up $50.00
A Radio Flyer Wagon $5.00 It now has about a thousand miles on it at swap meets.

I still have both.

BB :thumbup::thumbup:

 

This goes under the "Whats the best thing you ever passed up at a swap meet?" category.
Many years back, late 70's I think, I was at a non-automotive swap meet and saw a complete Rochester fuel injection with the correct distributor for $125. I just about jumped out of my socks. Then I noticed it wasn't for a Chevy, it was a Pontiac F.I. so I passed on it. That Pontiac F.I. was even rarer than the Chevy F.I. I still get a dislocated hip kicking myself in the arse for passing that one up....

 

a cold beer on a hot day

 

Always the best buy !!

 

Probably the time I went in with a SB Mopar aluminum high-rise that I had pulled out of a junk pile (free), and traded it for a narrowed 9" Ford housing with axles

 

. Like new Holley 750 doublepumper $75 (only auto part among some household goods)
. New pair LT4 bare aluminum heads $85 (prolly part of engineering display, needed one intake surface milled and some valve guides)
. new bare pair MoTown 220 aluminum heads along with two nice Holley 4 bbls. $600
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