Found some parts to sell and a mint headliner for my Supercoupe. But I also set a new personal record by finding $7.21 in change.
Part of me thought "cool, more than paid my entry fee." Another part of me was asking how you lose that much change under the seat and yet you don't have a single coin in the car's actual, functioning, quarter/nickel/dime-sized change holders.
In reply to Will :
Sounds a hell of a lot better than getting drunk and stuffing my face with junk food. Well, better than getting drunk anyway.
I spent most of the day in my garage, which currently doesn't look far removed from a junkyard.
In reply to BoxheadTim :
a junkyard has much cooler stuff than my garage!
sorry, working in the "entertainment" business.. I worked. I work so other people can party
With the government closed and off my day job, I went and worked at my weekend job (at a ski shop), which funds my car hobbies for the most part. But I did dig a couple of M12 1.25 bolts out of a giant bin of old junk in my shed, for the Raider project...
Yeah I did actually. I had to buy a door handle and latch for the wife's escape.
Not NYE, but the day before...if that counts.
First day of 2020 had me mounting and balancing tires on the daily along with an oil change. I had the wrong oil so a road trip ensued with my brother and his wife with lunch involved. "What to eat" discussion has us driving around looking for "unpurchased inventory" or cool cars that are sitting. Back row of an apartment building found a 2003 Focus with a flat tire and expired plates, 2006 Mustang , 2004 Lincoln ...because it has the full frame and dimensions for slapping a truck body on. But a tip made me break my first resolution at 1:30 p.m.. 1991 Mustang hatch, former 50% drag car with lots of parts...for free!
We did manage to get the police auction Aviator running and driving that has its own excess change story. Change in the shift knob and down into the mechanism had jammed stuff so it would not go into park. And discovered a penny in one of the 6 power points caused a blown fuse that made getting a new key impossible.
But I did stay away from the junkyard!
Bruce
When I lived in Chicago area I would always do this as many yards had blowout parts deals on this day but this year I found myself in the garage instead. So not too different in the end haha.
Yup. Got a power mirror switch for my son's Ranger pickup, and scored a 2.3 roller cam and followers off a '93 Mustang. These cams are really popular with SVO and older 2.3 owners to replace the rapidly wearing flat follower cams from the 80's. Also found a remote TFI heatsink module that I need for my SVO racecar.
Does digging thru a junk pile outside of a bike shop looking for a back wheel with salavageable spokes for a 1962 bicycle count.
My birthday is Dec. 30th and just about every year for the past 4 or so, i've saved up a list to go look for on that day since it's the one day a year I know that I can count on getting a days worth of time in the yard. This year it so happened that a different local yard was having a wheelbarrow sale two days before. My wife rocks, so this happened:
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