This morning, while delivering a bag of diapers to our local transfer station, I couldn't believe my eyes as I approached the giant trash compactor. There is an area off to the side where people often leave large items or things that may be of interest of someone else, rather than dumping them down with the trash. I spotted a pair of well bolstered seats that I figured were out of a mid 80's 'Vette or Fiero or something.
As I got a little closer, I was shocked to find that they were a pair of honest-to-God high end Recaros! They were fully power adjustable and heated. They had to be the top of the line seats in their day. Unfortunately, they were in pretty horrible condition. They were covered with cloth in a late 70's / early 80's shade of tan or butterscotch. The bolsters were worn out, the cloth was stained, torn and mouse-eaten. I checked to see if they had mounting adapters but they had been removed. After a minute or two, I realized that they really weren't worth taking home.
Sometimes, one man's trash really is just trash.
Damn.
Cell phone pic? I've seen...and left...some cool crap at the dump. The guys that work there know me and ask about what computer parts are worth. 
There was a 100-disc CD-ROM server that weighed hundreds of pounds once.
SkinnyG
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6/23/08 10:14 p.m.
Here you go:
I don't see the relevance, though.....
TOZOVR wrote:
VWs prolly?
No...these were not factory installed in anything. These were the absolute top of the line, out-of-the-catalog Recaros.
And, sorry, my phone was home on the charger.
Imagine these in cloth:
http://www.recaro.com/uploads/pics/gruppe_hist_09.jpg
Gotta love that 70's era car phone tech!
I saw the hardtop for a Jeep in the dump recently. Around here, that's baffling. It looked to be in fine condition, nothing obviously wrong. I wasn't in a position to bring it home, now I know it's crushed under a hundred tons of TV dinner boxes.
My neighbor threw out a snowmobile. Not an ancient one either, it had the coil-over front shocks and everything. Went into a dumpster when they sold the house. Yes, I inquiried but it had not run in years and I had neither the time or the inclination to save it.
Keith wrote:
I saw the hardtop for a Jeep in the dump recently. Around here, that's baffling. It looked to be in fine condition, nothing obviously wrong. I wasn't in a position to bring it home, now I know it's crushed under a hundred tons of TV dinner boxes.
Wow! Around here, Jeep hardtops usually go for $500 this time of year, and $1000 in November. That must have been a YJ top. They're a little more plentiful and a little less valuable.
They are much more of a bitch to store than a Miata hardtop.
