Restorer32 Posted March 1, 2018 Share Posted March 1, 2018 Your misc nut and bolt bin looks like this...and this...and this. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
autoluke Posted March 1, 2018 Share Posted March 1, 2018 Jeff Right on target..thanks for bringing a smile . As I remember, my dad's tire shop in West York had a much smaller collection of parts, but a lot of old tubes and valves. Phil Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Restorer32 Posted March 1, 2018 Author Share Posted March 1, 2018 Back when you could actually sell junk tubes for money Dad would sent a trailer load to Akron once a year. I remember them being worth .05/lb delivered to Goodrich in Akron. My job was to cut out the brass valve stems. When we had a barrel full we would burn the rubber off them and sell the brass for scrap. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
46 woodie Posted March 1, 2018 Share Posted March 1, 2018 ...when 1992 vehicles are accepted into the AACA. I see car's of this vintage parked in every "assisted living" facility in town. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Xander Wildeisen Posted March 1, 2018 Share Posted March 1, 2018 3 2 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dei Posted March 1, 2018 Share Posted March 1, 2018 [You know you've been playing with old cars a long time when...] The mechanic who I use has been in the trade since he was a kid and worked at his Uncle's gas station / shop. Uncle Frank retired and sold the business to his nephew with all the contents. When I brought the Special over to have the brakes bleed and set up he mentioned he had an adaptor they used to screw into the master cylinder allowing a pressurised tank of brake fluid to assist for a one man bleeding operation. With a bit of scrounging around he produced it and with a quick touch on a wire wheel to clean the threads, away he went bleeding the system. He remembered using it on the local paper delivery Dodge Trucks since Uncle Frank had the maintenance contract back then. Also went there recently to see if he had the fat long stem valves for my rims and came up with five new in a shelf. Not many business around here can do this for you today. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TexRiv_63 Posted March 1, 2018 Share Posted March 1, 2018 My hardware collection is smaller but very similar. I used to keep all the leftover fasteners from cars I stripped and I never throw out any good nut, bolt, screw or washer, not to mention cage nuts, body shims, etc. Most are in about 6 old two-pound coffee cans plus two or three of those plastic pull-out drawer units. I also inherited all my Dad's old fasteners (and tools). For the longest time the only organization of this mess was a separate can for metric stuff but about four years ago I finally separated all the coffee can contents and labeled them so I no longer have to dump out three cans full and sift through to find what I need.... 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joe in Canada Posted March 1, 2018 Share Posted March 1, 2018 (edited) I realized I had to many left over car parts around the barn when my two grandsons age 10 & 11 last spring. When asked if it was ok and if I would help them put together a car from the extra parts I had around. True story and by son just stood there and smiled. Edited March 1, 2018 by Joe in Canada (see edit history) 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wheelmang Posted March 1, 2018 Share Posted March 1, 2018 It's a Scottish heritage thing! We just can't help it. 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
padgett Posted March 1, 2018 Share Posted March 1, 2018 a) am a Scot b ) "You know you've been playing with old cars a long time when..." every time you clean out the garage it's like Christmas, last time I found a transmission. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kgreen Posted March 1, 2018 Share Posted March 1, 2018 (edited) 2 hours ago, Xander Wildeisen said: The OP was talking about indications that you have been in this hobby for a long time. Your example, while funny, isn't true. Your illustration is what can happen overnight. Comment made in keeping with your humor, which I appreciate. Edited March 1, 2018 by kgreen (see edit history) 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
autoluke Posted March 1, 2018 Share Posted March 1, 2018 DEI I plan to build something like this to supply fluid to my 1932 Desoto..actually a long pipe with a threaded end will suffice during the procedure. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Xander Wildeisen Posted March 1, 2018 Share Posted March 1, 2018 Just trying to poke fun at the cost that is involved in the building/restoration on cars. Nothing more, got to keep smiling out here. 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
28 Chrysler Posted March 1, 2018 Share Posted March 1, 2018 I have a collection of hardware like that but sorted into both prewar and post war tubs. The modern stuff is in #10 cans. About every 5 years or so I take it all outside and blow the dust out. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joe in Canada Posted March 1, 2018 Share Posted March 1, 2018 2 hours ago, Xander Wildeisen said: Very true!!! Even being in this Antique car forum is costing me money. Last week I bought a 1912 Ford T touring that a fellow blogger posted in the topic (OK You Old Timers! What were Project Cars like in 1975? and I did thank him and the wife wants to talk to him also. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
victorialynn2 Posted March 1, 2018 Share Posted March 1, 2018 4 hours ago, Restorer32 said: Your misc nut and bolt bin looks like this...and this...and this. This is the stuff my nightmares are filled with. Bins and bins of new parts also. Mostly gone now thanks to @JACK M‘s help finding scrappers and the shop sale. Looks like I get to clear out my Oregon home next, that I have lived in since 1995. Much less accumulation in the garage, although my ex did leave quite a collection of nuts and bolts and assorted stuff from his construction business. ?♀️ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
1912Staver Posted March 1, 2018 Share Posted March 1, 2018 I gave up on lightweight plastic containers like the split one in your post. I now use 20 Litre oil buckets. At work we used a dozen or more a month and most just ended up in the trash. So I wash one out every now and then and take it home. They last for at least 10 years or more before splitting. And the lids snap back on to keep the dust out Greg in Canada Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
J.H.Boland Posted March 1, 2018 Share Posted March 1, 2018 You know you've been playing with old cars a long time when the car/truck/ute you bought new to bring home parts for your latest project is itself now a 40 year old collector car.It qualified for historic vehicle plates while I was still working at the place I bought it.I knew then that it was time to retire ! Photo shows my brand new '78 GMC Caballero. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
coachJC Posted March 1, 2018 Share Posted March 1, 2018 The garage my Dad owns was his dads before him (started late 20, early 30s) and about 20 yrs ago my Dad gave me a box full of nuts & bolts all for Model T's from when my Grandfather ran the Garage. It sure has come in handy as I have 5 Model T's now, and I still have lots of nuts and bolts and other misc parts left over. You can go in the old stock room and there are all kids of hidden gyms from the 40s, 50s and 60s. We came across a brass windshield frame for an 10/11 Model T about 10 yrs ago, Dad who had ran the body shop since the early 70s never even knew it was there. It was something he figures my grandfather stashed away in the 30s. Jeff 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
padgett Posted March 1, 2018 Share Posted March 1, 2018 Heck I can't even remember what I stashed thutty yar ago. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Restorer32 Posted March 1, 2018 Author Share Posted March 1, 2018 What's strange is I can go thru those bins and identify most of the obscure parts. Wheel bolts from an '08 Pullman, high nuts from a '17 Bell, broken accelerator rod from a Packard...ahhhh...memories. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dei Posted March 1, 2018 Share Posted March 1, 2018 5 hours ago, padgett said: every time you clean out the garage it's like Christmas, last time I found a transmission. I resemble that remark... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
trimacar Posted March 1, 2018 Share Posted March 1, 2018 Here's how I find the part I need..........turn up the volume and see if you recognize the sound... February 2018 020.MOV 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paul Dobbin Posted March 1, 2018 Share Posted March 1, 2018 You know you've been playing with old cars a long time when... When you were the youngest guy in the local club when you joined 45 years ago, and you still are! 1 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lump Posted March 2, 2018 Share Posted March 2, 2018 (edited) You know you've been playing with old cars a long time when... ...photos of AACA tours you attended as a child show "modern transportation cars" in the background...the newest of which have been eligible for display at Hershey for about 35 years now! That's my dad, sitting on the milk crate. I was probably standing next to my Mom while she took the photo. Edited March 2, 2018 by lump (see edit history) 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zipdang Posted March 2, 2018 Share Posted March 2, 2018 3 hours ago, trimacar said: Here's how I find the part I need..........turn up the volume and see if you recognize the sound... February 2018 020.MOV AH! In my home growing up, it was the dreaded dishpan. Dad would need a nut, or bolt, or something and we'd be sent to the "dreaded dishpan" to search just like your movie illustrates! The experience has had me more than once make a trip to the hardware store only to find what I needed in my own junk box later -- just didn't want to search! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dave Henderson Posted March 2, 2018 Share Posted March 2, 2018 "You know you've been playing with old cars a long time when"..... you still have the car you bought as a kid in 1951. 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nick8086 Posted March 2, 2018 Share Posted March 2, 2018 When you take on a task like this : Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted March 2, 2018 Share Posted March 2, 2018 The old cars that you now have weren't old when you got them, just everyday drivers. And all of their contemporaries seem to have vanished, making yours a rarity in your area. Common service practices that you learned back in the day are now incredible, nearly fictional, stories when told to younger service techs. Think relining brake shoes, polarizing generators, rebushing distributors, rebuilding fuel pumps, reaming kingpins, rodding out radiators, adjusting voltage regulators, etc. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joe in Canada Posted March 2, 2018 Share Posted March 2, 2018 I hate to say it but the hobby has totally changed around. At one time when I got into this hobby back in the 70s it was young guys driving antique cars. Now today it is antique guys driving younger cars. 3 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paul Dobbin Posted March 2, 2018 Share Posted March 2, 2018 (edited) That's right! When we started touring, there were plenty of pre WWII cars, now many guys bring the newest car allowed. In the beginning the cars were all older than the drivers. Now, almost all the drivers are older than their cars. Edited March 2, 2018 by Paul Dobbin (see edit history) 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted March 2, 2018 Share Posted March 2, 2018 3 hours ago, Paul Dobbin said: ....now many guys bring the newest car allowed. Agreed, it's difficult for me to apply any of the terms like classic, vintage, antique, etc. to any car from the 80's or 90's with plastic bumpers. I hold fast to the idea that if it is new enough for me to have bought since I was old enough to drive, it probably shouldn't qualify. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joe in Canada Posted March 2, 2018 Share Posted March 2, 2018 I was helping at an event and overheard a member saying he was going to sell his old car and buy another one. But the next one had to have an air con and power windows. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
keiser31 Posted March 2, 2018 Share Posted March 2, 2018 (edited) You know you've been playing with old cars a long time when....you remember going through Harrah's FULL collection when you were 15 years old in 1967.... Edited March 2, 2018 by keiser31 (see edit history) 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Byrd Posted March 2, 2018 Share Posted March 2, 2018 I realize how long it's been when I talk about the "common" cars around town when I was young that folks these days have no idea what I mean. And, the folks that ask me who made my Studebaker and Austin... Oh well, I don't recognize the jelly beans that most folks drive today, so I guess we're even. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted March 2, 2018 Share Posted March 2, 2018 I think the realization that I'm a modern day dinosaur comes for me regularly when I go into my local parts store and ask the young girl at the counter for valve cover gaskets/ fuel pump/ valve seals/ intake set/ or any number of other (formerly) common items for a small block Chevrolet, and she gets that "deer in the headlights" look while nervously glancing back and forth from me to her computer screen and says "A small what?" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dandy Dave Posted March 2, 2018 Share Posted March 2, 2018 (edited) ...so many left over bolts, parts, carcasses of derelict stuff left over from rescuing the "good Stuff" that I had to have an auction to down size. ......Ahhhh, the days of putting a coil, points, condenser and charging the magnet on a Magneto. .....Carburetors were made of brass and many had cork floats. .....Most of my fondest friends, those I learned from, and customers are no longer with us. Dandy Dave! Edited March 2, 2018 by Dandy Dave (see edit history) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
auburnseeker Posted March 2, 2018 Share Posted March 2, 2018 You have more replacement parts than your old cars. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paul Dobbin Posted March 2, 2018 Share Posted March 2, 2018 Just now, Dandy Dave said: ...so many left over bolts, Dandy Dave! Dave, we call those optional parts, because there are always leftover parts after any repair. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
1912Staver Posted March 2, 2018 Share Posted March 2, 2018 3 hours ago, GregLaR said: Agreed, it's difficult for me to apply any of the terms like classic, vintage, antique, etc. to any car from the 80's or 90's with plastic bumpers. I hold fast to the idea that if it is new enough for me to have bought since I was old enough to drive, it probably shouldn't qualify. I have a hard time calling a car antique that has any more electrification than a magneto. Greg in Canada 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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