1937hd45 Posted March 6, 2005 Share Posted March 6, 2005 If "Automobilia" is collectable auto parts, what do you have hanging on your wall that could be the missing part needed in a restoration? I've had a 1932 Ford grill hanging on a nail for well over 42 years now. There is a box of pre 1915 oil gauges that need a display case built. What do you have? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shop Rat Posted March 6, 2005 Share Posted March 6, 2005 A damaged grill from a 1935 or 1936 Auburn boat-tailed speedster is hanging in the garage. Along with an 851 from the grill of a 1935 Auburn boat-tailed speedster. I also have old repros of the "Super Charged" trim that goes on the 35-36 Auburn. I will never be lucky enough to have the whole car, but I have several parts of one. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bob Kinker Posted March 6, 2005 Share Posted March 6, 2005 I have a few hubcaps from 30's Packards and Hudsons. a few V-8 logos from 30's Fords, NOS hood for 46-48 Plymouth, and a few NOS pieces for (body parts) 40's Mopars. Plus a lot of junk that hasn't been identified yet! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
R W Burgess Posted March 6, 2005 Share Posted March 6, 2005 Some good paintings on the wall of period early rods, a glove box door from a 40ish Ford (flamed, bought for $10.00), a picture of me driving my '32 Ford at speed at Charlotte Motor Speedway "under the lights", a nice set of Corvette Alum. Valve Covers (late), and wait, you'll love this...a new set of front leaf springs for my '32 Ford laying under the sofa in my wife's living room waiting to go to the "chrome" shop. <img src="http://www.aaca.org/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/confused.gif" alt="" /> <img src="http://www.aaca.org/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/shocked.gif" alt="" /> She knows about it too! <img src="http://www.aaca.org/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" /> I've got a good wife!!! <img src="http://www.aaca.org/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/cool.gif" alt="" /> Wayne Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Matt Harwood Posted March 6, 2005 Share Posted March 6, 2005 I have a friend who is restoring a 1958 Ford Retractable, and know for certain he needs a spotlight with the built-in rearview mirror. I saw one hanging on the wall at a TGIFriday's in Illinois a few years back. I spoke with the manager and tried to buy it with the promise that I would also send them some similar auto relic to hang in its place.No dice. Grrrrr.They could have made a tidy profit on something that someone really needed. Nobody but I would have known the difference and it wasn't like a 1958 Ford spotlight was such an amazing piece that it was the center of the decor.How many useful parts are hanging in these restaurants as part of their <span style="font-style: italic">"flair?"</span> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DizzyDale Posted March 6, 2005 Share Posted March 6, 2005 Dear Wayne, CHROMING the front spring or any spring is NOT a good idea.Just my 2 cents.diz Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
R W Burgess Posted March 6, 2005 Share Posted March 6, 2005 Dizz, this car probably only weighs 1400pounds. Dangereous?, Well it doesn't have any fenders either, so I may as well stay the course, right? This from a man that spend most of his racing days upsidedown???? Good thread, Bob! I'll give you a star. Can't wait until the rest of the guys shime in! <img src="http://www.aaca.org/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smile.gif" alt="" /> Wayne Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shop Rat Posted March 6, 2005 Share Posted March 6, 2005 Bill said to tell you all that he has a frame from a 1939 Dodge 4-Door. It was a whole car and he stripped it for parts. It makes an interesting yard ornament. (It sits behind a hedge near the garage so it is not a neighborhood eyesore.) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
1937hd45 Posted March 6, 2005 Author Share Posted March 6, 2005 About 25 years ago a friend in Chicago desided to see how many bits and pieces of a 122 Miller race car were scattered among collectors. I had four connecting rods at the time and a blower drive for a 91. A year later he asked if I'd part with these Miller keepsakes, I did and so did all the other guys that had wall hangings. Today there are two totally restored and running Miller race cars. I'm real happy to know my old parts helped make that happen. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DizzyDale Posted March 6, 2005 Share Posted March 6, 2005 Dear Wayne,THAT was a low blow!!!!!!!!!!!!ONLY went on my head twice in 15 years.diz Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
R W Burgess Posted March 6, 2005 Share Posted March 6, 2005 Diz? Diz who? <img src="http://www.aaca.org/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" />Bob, did you put your special mark somewhere on the parts so you could always point and say, "That came from me!!" <img src="http://www.aaca.org/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" /> Wayne Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
1937hd45 Posted March 6, 2005 Author Share Posted March 6, 2005 I only sign and date carpentry repairs or renovations. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Terry Bond Posted March 7, 2005 Share Posted March 7, 2005 Well, as many of you know Ive been collecting "automobilia" for about 30 years and have assembled most of it into a faithful recreation of a circa 1915 auto parts store, complete with old shelves, showcases, counters, even a brass cash-register. Store stock consists of a lot of NOS stuff in original boxes and it's not uncommon during an open house (oops, thats "open garage") for the local clubs to find someone in need of a special radiator cap, or a something that is on display in my old store. I think I've given a lot of stuff away over the years, but its always come back to me in other items that help fill the shelves. So, just like a real store, there is some turn-over. Speaking of wall-hangers, I know a lot of folks collect signs, ads, license plates, etc to hang on the wall but Ive got this great collection of early after-market accessory stop lamps (tail-lamps) and have them all wired up, hanging on the wall. It sure attracts attention! I did have one lamp there that said "Studebaker-Stop" and it ended up going to a studebaker guy who needed it. In it's place is an even better one though-a unique three-panel tail light that says "Right-Left-Stop."Gads-I gotta figure out how to use this new fangled digital camera so I can post some pics!Terry Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shop Rat Posted March 7, 2005 Share Posted March 7, 2005 Our neighbor years ago bought out an old Ford dealership of all it's parts stock when it closed. Sadly, they will never see the light of day until he passes away and his boys have to clean it all out of the storage place he has them in. He has cars and boats sitting in his yard that never move and a nice model A sitting in the garage that has never been driven in the twenty years we have lived here. He is letting a 1966 Alfa Romeo rot into the ground. The guy from Fla. that bought ours tried to buy it back when it was worth something. Now it is just home for snails, grasshoppers and a great crop of weeds. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Twitch Posted March 7, 2005 Share Posted March 7, 2005 OK Matt- sounds like you're going back on your position of restoring $700 Plymouths or not! What, now we're down to lamenting the fact that individual parts not being actively installed in restorations is a bad thing? HAHAHAHAHAHA! Just funning you. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Matt Harwood Posted March 7, 2005 Share Posted March 7, 2005 <div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Quote:</div><div class="ubbcode-body">OK Matt- sounds like you're going back on your position of restoring $700 Plymouths or not! What, now we're down to lamenting the fact that individual parts not being actively installed in restorations is a bad thing? HAHAHAHAHAHA! Just funning you.</div></div>Nah--if there are parts acting as "decor" in a goofy restaurant, and someone can use it and is willing to pay for it, why not? However, had it been a side mirror for a 1968 Plymouth Fury with rusty quarter panels, I would not have been interested. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nick_S Posted March 7, 2005 Share Posted March 7, 2005 haha "flair" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HarryJ Posted March 8, 2005 Share Posted March 8, 2005 1937hd45......I don't have them hanging on the walls; my unknown parts are stacked on shelves in my garage. Over the years I have bought out several auto parts houses of their pre WWII NOS parts. The problem on most of these, they are identified only by a part no. I know they are water pumps, distributor caps, etc; however, because I don't have the parts books I can't tell what they fit. Recently, I bought out a carburetor shop in Atlanta; with it I acquired several thousand carburetors NOS, rebuilt, and cores. These are only identifiable through brass or aluminum tags or cryptic numbers stamped or cast into the surface of the unit. I think a good majority of collectors are sitting on parts others of us would give almost anything to have. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
R W Burgess Posted March 8, 2005 Share Posted March 8, 2005 Hey guys! I'm disappointed this thread hasn't gone further. I was expecting some neat things being hung up that I could use as ideas for myself. <img src="http://www.aaca.org/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/shocked.gif" alt="" />Maybe some are afraid I will sneak by your house and steal the Pierce hub cap "spinner" you just told the world about! <img src="http://www.aaca.org/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/confused.gif" alt="" /> Don't fret. I don't own anything valuable enough to need expensive parts for. <img src="http://www.aaca.org/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/tongue.gif" alt="" /> <img src="http://www.aaca.org/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" /> Wayne Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest imported_jmarsicano Posted March 8, 2005 Share Posted March 8, 2005 Busted Halibrand center sections make nice clock bases. There round with 12 bolt holes. I have an old sprinter frame I am using as a shelf right now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Twitch Posted March 8, 2005 Share Posted March 8, 2005 I've never collected parts for anthing other than the cars I currently had in use. I got an original '73 Z-28 intake manifold and a couple well-used Holly carbs for it and that's about it. Only extra part I got for my Packard is a NOS thermostat and running-when-removed tune up parts. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shop Rat Posted March 8, 2005 Share Posted March 8, 2005 Bill found a radiator cap for an OLD Pontiac, he just is not sure how old, under his mom and dad's house. His dad used to buy cars that people had given up on and fix them and sell them.I have a Model T key that belonged to my paternal grandfather. It is complete with the engraved, very nice key tag that has his name and full address on it that came from the dealership when he bought the car new. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
juddman Posted March 9, 2005 Share Posted March 9, 2005 Great thread...I have a bunch of license plates from cars my dad and grandfather had dating back to 1951. Eventually, I'll collect photos of those cars and frame them next to the plates.I have an entire side panel (the front and rear door surrounds with rockers attached to a rear quarter panel) for a 4 door Fiat 128 hanging up. One day when I have nothing better to do, I'll find a front fender and some doors to go with it, then install and wire up some marker lights. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest my3buicks Posted March 9, 2005 Share Posted March 9, 2005 Probably the neatest automobilia I have sitting around is a Dietrich Badge from a Packard. I lived at Packard Manor in Lake Chautauqua NY for several summers and this came from a bin in the garage. I always wondered what kind of glorious Packards sat in that garage. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stock_steve Posted March 10, 2005 Share Posted March 10, 2005 For us, it would be oddball old VW hub caps that we're able to scrounge cheap at Hershey (the various JCWhitney variations are especially entertaining, to show how they made their caps look like original VW, but often with detail differences), and definitely old license plates too--my wife's been picking them up cheap here and there, again mostly at places like Hershey, and they make a colorful & interesting garage wall adornment. Good thread Bob. How're you enjoying this lovely "nearly-spring" weather here in CT? I was amazed to hear the homebound-commute "horror stories" from so many co-workers yesterday, in light of the weather conditions Tuesday afternoon (as for me, I was "no hero" and booked home early--since I have afternoon kid pick-up responsiblities). Come on SPRING! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DizzyDale Posted March 10, 2005 Share Posted March 10, 2005 Daer Steve,REMINDS me of the hubcaps that use to be available for a Model A.Said FOOL in Ford script istead of Ford.diz Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
R W Burgess Posted March 10, 2005 Share Posted March 10, 2005 Steve mentioned license plates. I've saved every license I've ever gotten with the purchase of old cars. But, this year at Philly, the Museum Auction presented me with the opportunity to actually "buy" an out of state license plate...see attached. I thought this "dustpan" was cool and I ended up "winning", through silent bidding, an Indiana plate too. Bidding was brisk, as I had to go back twice to rebid, but I ended up with the only two there, cool. <img src="http://www.aaca.org/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" /> Wayne Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
R W Burgess Posted March 10, 2005 Share Posted March 10, 2005 Eureka!!!!!!!!!!!! <img src="http://www.aaca.org/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/cool.gif" alt="" /> <img src="http://www.aaca.org/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/cool.gif" alt="" /> <img src="http://www.aaca.org/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" /> <img src="http://www.aaca.org/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" /> Hotdog, I learned something new today! I'll post remarks shortly. Wayne <img src="http://www.aaca.org/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/laugh.gif" alt="" /> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheMoneyPit Posted March 10, 2005 Share Posted March 10, 2005 My wife would say I have TO MUCH on the wall... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
1937hd45 Posted March 10, 2005 Author Share Posted March 10, 2005 Last summer there was an old barn torn down over in New York state, it was "shingled" with license plates. They were consecutively numbered plates, sometime in the 1930's the owner went to the DMV and got all the unissued plates, and put them to use. I took photos and will post them when I find them. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted March 10, 2005 Share Posted March 10, 2005 Everytime I travel to a new for me province, state or country I try to acquire a licence plate to hang on the garage wall. I must have over 50 by now with my latest being from Portugal,Spain and Mexico. I tried to get one in Cuba but couldn't. I usually find a recycling yard to get an old one and while there look for old car parts. I also have many parts from my various old cars which didn't get tossed in the trunk when I said "Bye Bye" like '47 Nash carb and distributer, 66 Corvette front end parts and hubcaps etc.I have many NOS Distributor caps and vacuum advances from an old garage cleanout as well. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
critterpainter Posted March 11, 2005 Share Posted March 11, 2005 Hmmmm lets see... a pair of NOS Appleton spotlites that my dad bought new in 51... a nos clock for a 65 ford (what model I have NO idea) and a couple of piles of "unknowns" from the 30's and 40"s (used and I have no ldea....swap meet fodder some day) Bill Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
R W Burgess Posted March 11, 2005 Share Posted March 11, 2005 Another purchase at the Philly Museum Auction in February. My son ,Mike, didn't notice that the little car had a rumble seat until we got home. A cute little keepsake. Can't wait to get the garage going along with the display cases. The wife says it can't happen too soon. <img src="http://www.aaca.org/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/confused.gif" alt="" /> <img src="http://www.aaca.org/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/shocked.gif" alt="" /> <img src="http://www.aaca.org/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" /> Wayne Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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