Another Mopar Off My Bucket List - Barracuda Fastback
I spent about 5 hours at the Lincoln swap meet today. Good news and bad news.
The first thing I bought was a transmission jack. It was a nice setup and the guy sold it to me for only 15 bucks. It looked like new and had both hand and foot actuated action on it. After paying him for it I asked him if I could pick it up in a few hours after I did some more looking around. I didn't want to lug it around with me and our truck was a long ways away. He said no problem.
When I came back for it later I couldn't remember who I'd bought it from but knew that it was one of two vendors. They both denied ever having sold it to me and claimed they never had one for sale. I knew one of them was lying but didn't know which one. So I ended up screwed out of the $15. It wasn't a fortune but some people are totally dicks. How could I argue when I wasn't sure which of the two it was?
I did make some good scores that made up for the first disaster. I ran across a guy that had a pair of Hoosier slicks for sale. He didn't have a price on them but just had a small sign taped to them that read "MAKE ME A RIDICULOUS OFFER". He had just retired from racing and they just had a few passes on them. They're 33X16.55X15s. I didn't really need them yet but knew that I could use them when I start working on the funnycar. I hem hawed around and figured I better just pass on them because I'm nowhere ready for them. There isn't much demand around here for tires that big so nobody had given them a serious look. As I started to walk away he asked me if I'd give him 30 bucks for the pair. I guess he REALLY didn't want to take them back home! I was shocked at the price he shot me and I didn't haggle. I figured they were worth close to $700 new.
I also bought 4 new axle straps for $30.
I bought a new replacement chrome air cleaner lid for the 'Lil red for $5. I applied the decal to it already. For some reason the camera flash makes the clear background appear hazy, but it actually looks clear.
One of the things stolen from our farm was my lifetime collection of CARTOONS magazines. I know I'll never spend the type of cash to replace them all. But I found 5 issues for $1 each. I couldn't pass them up.
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I spent about 5 hours at the Lincoln swap meet today. Good news and bad news.
The first thing I bought was a transmission jack. It was a nice setup and the guy sold it to me for only 15 bucks. It looked like new and had both hand and foot actuated action on it. After paying him for it I asked him if I could pick it up in a few hours after I did some more looking around. I didn't want to lug it around with me and our truck was a long ways away. He said no problem.
When I came back for it later I couldn't remember who I'd bought it from but knew that it was one of two vendors. They both denied ever having sold it to me and claimed they never had one for sale. I knew one of them was lying but didn't know which one. So I ended up screwed out of the $15. It wasn't a fortune but some people are totally dicks. How could I argue when I wasn't sure which of the two it was?
I did make some good scores that made up for the first disaster. I ran across a guy that had a pair of Hoosier slicks for sale. He didn't have a price on them but just had a small sign taped to them that read "MAKE ME A RIDICULOUS OFFER". He had just retired from racing and they just had a few passes on them. They're 33X16.55X15s. I didn't really need them yet but knew that I could use them when I start working on the funnycar. I hem hawed around and figured I better just pass on them because I'm nowhere ready for them. There isn't much demand around here for tires that big so nobody had given them a serious look. As I started to walk away he asked me if I'd give him 30 bucks for the pair. I guess he REALLY didn't want to take them back home! I was shocked at the price he shot me and I didn't haggle. I figured they were worth close to $700 new.
I also bought 4 new axle straps for $30.
I bought a new replacement chrome air cleaner lid for the 'Lil red for $5. I applied the decal to it already. For some reason the camera flash makes the clear background appear hazy, but it actually looks clear.
One of the things stolen from our farm was my lifetime collection of CARTOONS magazines. I know I'll never spend the type of cash to replace them all. But I found 5 issues for $1 each. I couldn't pass them up.
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